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net.art generator

Kattullus — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:57:29 -0800

net.art generator [via William Gibson] The art is created through a Google image search and some automatic image manipulation. For examples, go here.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:11:30 -0800

The best part of this is the ideas it will generate on how to do it much, much better.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:26:45 -0800

heh.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:47:27 -0800

Automatic Art (click to start)

By: geos

geos — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:35:22 -0800

mathowie it appears to have porn-filter....(now how did i figure that out)

By: geos

geos — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:37:35 -0800

actually, i like the auto-generate linking but here is the static i liked: mathowie

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:51:39 -0800

This one's really good. Why do I think 3 images would be better than 2 or 4?

By: suckerpunch

suckerpunch — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:52:27 -0800

Hmm. "Orgone accumulator" turned out decent. I think I could play with this for hours.

By: sushiwiththejury

sushiwiththejury — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:15:00 -0800

reminds me of this axme of mine.

By: craniac

craniac — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:27:06 -0800

I'm totally papering my door window with these today.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:28:21 -0800

Now I can make all the not-very-good book covers from the 90s I want!

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:14:06 -0800

Quick, someone throw all those worst band names from the other day in this thing!

By: misha

misha — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:11:22 -0800

cortex matt jessamyn pb

By: misha

misha — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:12:41 -0800

Ooh! This one's good: DTMFA

By: christopherious

christopherious — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:30:45 -0800

The Crusades Through the Eyes of a Little Primate (Words selected: golden section chief engineer fnord. Wasn't sure how to link to page hosting the image).

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:50:49 -0800

Words selected: golden section chief engineer fnord. This image makes me feel uneasy and fearful, but I'm not sure why.

By: sonic meat machine

sonic meat machine — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:02:10 -0800

Existentialism turned out pretty well.

By: phidelity

phidelity — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:12:06 -0800

All it's missing is a few lensflares, horrible fonts with glowing stroked beveled dropshadows. Everything I saw looked like JeffK designed it Dreamlines does the same thing much better

By: jeremias

jeremias — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:56:19 -0800

Using action words that you know have many examples seems to work like: smiling biceps

By: liza

liza — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:08:47 -0800

oooooh! oooooh! i get to show-off on this one. this is almost a rip off of two of my husband's works : Riot http://www.potatoland.org/riot/ and Shredder http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/ with a little bit of this http://www.potatoland.org/feed/ If you don't know these pieces, https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Mark+Napier you don't know net art https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art http://www.whitney.org/arport/resources/netartexhibitions.shtml :)

By: sonic meat machine

sonic meat machine — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:21:01 -0800

Maybe I just don't get "net art"--not being avant garde enough--but, ah, that looks distinctly like you just grab random HTML tags out of the pages and then print them at random places. I... don't see it. :S

By: blacklite

blacklite — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:28:40 -0800

oooh, aahhh, I mixed up random images, I'm a hardcore artist