Jay-Z: not amused.
A mere sample of the potential of deep fake audio – a minor digital polish away from indistinguishable replication. In each case, the voices are entirely computer generated by Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture developed by Google.
Copyright infringement? Jay-Z’s record company thought so.
Follow the Vocal Synthesis Subreddit here.
(Pic: Kevork S. Djansezian/Getty Images)
Parisian photographer François Vogel’s experiments with slit-scan photography and After Effects time-displacement, applied to his Abyssinian cat – whose jellyfish manifestation will fuel your nightmares later.
More here.
The menace of invisible cars. Unnerving visual trickery by Dontao Sansone (even he of yesterday’s ‘Concatenation’) in which one of the cars in a series of crashes has been digitally removed.
A very pleasing video extension of Xavi Bou’s ‘Ortnitorgraphies’ project, wherein the wheeling, swerving paths of starling murmurations are tracked by motion analysing software. Music by Kristina Dutton.
Previously: Longbirds Are Long
The Royal Ocean Film Society traces the popularity, resurgence and ultimate demise of 3D film from the late 20s to its first peak in the 1950s and equally short lived revival in the first decades of the 21st century.
Previously: The Tao Of Saul Bass
An experimental short by Turkish artist Muryat Sayginer using deepfake algorithms to present a scrolling gallery of famous faces.
An Industrial Light And Magic featurette showing how ‘The Mandalorian’ is filmed – not against green screen or on location but inside a digitally projected environment – developed in collaboration with Epic Games – that moves in sync with the camera.
An impressive deepfake ‘recasting’ of Back To The Future with Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in the roles of Marty and Doc Brown by Ezyryderx47.
A rather excellent rotary mobile made by scientist/engineer Justine Haupt as a “statement against a world of touchscreens, hyperconnectivity, and complacency with big brother watchdogs.” Sez she:
it’s not just a show-and-tell piece… My intent is to use it as my primary phone. It fits in a pocket.; It’s reasonably compact; calling the people I most often call is faster than with my old phone, and the battery lasts almost 24 hours.
She’s open sourced the technical details on her website so you can build your own if you’re that way inclined.
The nice chaps from Electronics Fantasticos! rig barcode scanners to a synthesiser programmed to turn patterns into sound and let rip on test cards (and their referee shirts).
