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
You are having far too much fun with Deep Dream….
I smell a new Twitter heading. <3
And there's no such thing as TOO MUCH FUN with Deep Dream, freemage.
I love how sharp the first few turned out, especially that first one. The last couple look more like heavily-stylized Photoshop filters.
“No! No! H.R. Giger died! All the papers said!”
“His body died. His brain lives on … in the wire!”
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
From a technical standpoint, I’m kinda curious where those “wrinkles” come from.
Sin-happy tourists *are* overrunning Cape Cod.
IT’S ALL TRUE
Holy shit, you found one that takes a few seconds rather than over a week?
*zips away*
The men’s mags of the 50’s, attacked by perceptiveness
@banned
I think they come from paint strokes, maybe?
Someone in the previous Deep Dream thread asked what it’d look like if you took something like the mandelbrot set and put it through. Here’s one!
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/800107
Hmm so a mandelbrot becomes a Dogelbrot?
*zips back*
http://i.imgur.com/sTq4Qex.jpg
Looks like Aperture caused its own resonance cascade.
http://i.imgur.com/qvqqo7s.jpg
Something is wrong with my cat.
http://i.imgur.com/ZG0jIhM.jpg
Angkor What The Fuck.
http://i.imgur.com/2VaEgyb.jpg
Smile Dog or shoggoth?
http://i.imgur.com/Km39zaF.jpg
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dog Park.
Mansbestfriendelbrot?
Boy did I scroll through those quickly! Can’t quite unsee them though.
SFHC’s look much more… exciting than most of the results I’ve gotten.
I’ve not tried to do an image on here before… but I think this sunflower turned out best.
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/811869
Hey, for anyone who has Google Chrome, there’s this app that donates twenty five cents (USD) for every tab you open in your browser to charity.
http://www.tabforacause.org/?c=29
I mean, it’s not much, but it’s still pretty cool, if anyone is interested.
A cool thing about that app is that it has its own bookmark system, where you can change the background color, font color and size of the icon for links.
How long is it taking you guys? Because I uploaded one when you first brought it up and it’s still running.
This Deep Dream pieces remind of several surreal artist’s works, albeit with lots and lots of more eyes. As a comic fan I’m particularly reminded of paintings and single pieces by the brilliant cartoonist Jim Woodring. (I’m a slobbering super fan of his.)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mln0eQZ7qs8/VO4KafgVG6I/AAAAAAAABbE/VlYwThT0N5E/s1600/YOU%2BDRIVE!%2Bsmall.jpg
http://artisttrust.org/files/art/Woodringparables.jpg
http://gfbrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Artists-Eye.jpg
http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Frank-in-Frizland.jpg
I need those paintings in my face constantly.
The shhaaaaaaddddiiiinnngggg, theeeeeeeee liiiiiinnneeesssss, the cooooollloooorrrrrssss, thhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehsdhfskajhfajkhdf
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/820170#
I present for your viewing horror; hell.
Seems a bit heavy on the eyes and dogs and way light on buildings with secret rooms and passages…
The Minions are a nice break from Frozen TBH.