Hearthleaving

[sus]

He is realizing his potential.

 

[Murphy]

Snatched by the DarkEn snatch squads

 

[luka]

Yeah, that's him with his grandmother.

Betye Saar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Betye Saar: the brilliant artist who reversed and radicalised racist stereotypes

In the 1970s, her art was so influential that Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women’s movement. At 95, Saar is still creating work - and it is as arresting as ever

www.theguardian.com

 

[Clinamenic]

She just had another exhibit this last week I think and sold out, watercolor portraits of old mammy dolls and figurines from what my mom tells me, but I haven’t seen any yet.

 

[catalog]

do you think she would prefer the pinhead memes or the GANs

 

[Clinamenic]

GANs definitely.

 

[sus]

Encyclopedia of Dissensus with full color photographs

 

[sus]

Over two decades, I'm sure this board has contributed enough memes to the larger cultural water supply it'd be worth documenting

 

[Clinamenic]

Especially now that we have a meme praxis that draws from a bountiful supply of inside references.

 

[catalog]

"meme praxis"

There is a whiff of the dialectical about those juxtapositions

 

[Clinamenic]

But its also grounded in "lad banter" in a way that rids it of congenital pretentiousness.

 

[Clinamenic]

@catalog are you doing the manual console interaction with GANs or is there a more user-friendly interface? I can try running some of my grandmother's work into it.

 

[Clinamenic]

And turn the clips into NFTs.

 

[Clinamenic]

"meme praxis"

There is a whiff of the dialectical about those juxtapositions

Yeah the dialectic here would be lad banter contra theory.

 

[Clinamenic]

And their sublation unto dankness.

 

[Clinamenic]

@148 I.Q. Magical Thinker do you have a recommended NFT minting platform?

 

[catalog]

@catalog are you doing the manual console interaction with GANs or is there a more user-friendly interface? I can try running some of my grandmother's work into it.

I use this workbook

Google Colaboratory

colab.research.google.com

Cos it produces videos and can work with image prompts as well as text.

It's in Spanish but you should be able to figure it out.

I would stick to low pixel sizes to get quicker results.

If you buy the colab Pro subscription (=£10 per month) it goes 4 or 5 times faster so if you eg run 750 iterations, it might take 15 mins. But it times out if you leave it idle, you have to check in on it (they charge like £40 a month if you want no holds barred).

If you are struggling, send me the image and prompt. Or I can explain it over a zoom or something.

 

[Clinamenic]

I am struggling, but I'm also not sure if I wanna do just text, or if I should input images. I doubt putting "betye saar" in as a text prompt would result in her style, as I doubt the training set includes images with her name as a tag, so maybe I should opt for image input.

 

[Clinamenic]

Maybe I can put in a set of photos taken from one of her exhibits, just so the resulting output will be aesthetically consistent.

 

[yyaldrin]

She just had another exhibit this last week I think and sold out, watercolor portraits of old mammy dolls and figurines from what my mom tells me, but I haven’t seen any yet.

there's a picture of it in the guardian article right? the last one? is your mom also an artist?