I‘ve long been obsessed with the bizarrely over-the-top cover art for 1950s men’s “adventure” magazines, in which muscular, often shirtless men face off against an assortment of unlikely animal enemies — from armies of “giant turtles” to squads of flying squirrels. (You can find an assortment of notable covers here.)
More recently, I’ve become obsessed with Google’s Deep Dream software, which can turn any picture you toss at it into a creepy acid nightmare filled with strange Dogslug creatures and a strange surplus of eyes.
And now that I’ve found a handy web interface for the Deep Dream software, I decided to combine these two obsessions into one. The results were, well, interesting.Â
@ falconer:
Aaah, OK, don’t know that much about the history of the blog. l meant in this thread. That’s where my mind went as soon as I saw the post title.
You could isolate the Tribble he wears and run that as a separate image, and then combine the results in GIMP or Photoshop as layers.
Yeah like maybe women don’t like it when you’re done and rolled over within two minutes.
The penultimate pic in my post (blue background) started out as the original “weasels ripped my flesh” magazine cover Zappa was referencing, though the “weasels ripped my flesh” cover line in the lower right corner is blurred out.
I improved a pic of a friend’s cats!
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/9ZVGu86dRf
This might be my magnum opus.
http://i.imgur.com/BiXoaPI.jpg
Star-Eye Night.
SFHC: *slow clap*
SFHC: I love it! One of my very favorite Van Goghs, made even more awesome.
A photo of Chickaloon, Alaska. Transformed into to a bunch of dogs–maybe a dog-centipede at the bottom of the pic? The top I think is pretty cool, with the cloud transformed.
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/577jEFpTSP
Alaska now has dragons.
That’s clearly a luck dragon in the clouds.
http://kaiju.wdfiles.com/local–files/wiki:falkor/falkor_1984_01.jpg
@Pandapool: Dragons are actually our “State Bird,” not the ptarmigan. Well…that’s not true, but I wish it was.
@Katz: Ooh, I love luck dragons. I’ve wished I could have one of my very own since I was 8 years old, when I first saw that movie.
now that deep dream has become an internet hit, i’m kind of curious about how google might go about further developing/promoting these kind of projects, basically because i don’t think horrifying abominations fit well aesthetically in google’s brand of wholesome technophilia.
i mean, i know there’s actual science at work there and stuff, and this is probably only a gimmicky side-effect, but hey, watching google trying to avoid the “Google, The Company That Probably Manages Your Emails, Summons Creatures From Before Time Itself” headlines fucking with their brand identity should be somewhat amusing.
It’s Man-Bear-Pigs all the way…
@A.A. Wils: Heh, believe it or not, I first heard of Falcor & Sebastian from “Robot Chicken”, of all shows! =p
A.A. Wils? Alaskan Fistbump! I now know of at least four of us among the commentariat. 🙂
Although, everybody knows our state bird is the mosquiter. They grow to the size of eagles, doncha know?
Evidence for the disbelievers.