Six-cornered worlds

"...I suppose you could say that an artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world." - Natsume Sōseki, 草枕, trans. Alan Turney

[waldesstille]

Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田 博 (1876 - 1950) - Night in Kyoto 1935 

[archatlas]

Taj Mahal Siroj Ho’janazarov

[oldpaintings]

Blue Peacock by Jessie Arms Botke (American, 1883–1971)

[wabisabimind]

yorozuyanoyuki

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

old books

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

19th century books and reading glasses..

[yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Republican, Monongahela, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1938

[six-cornered-worlds]

This is depressingly accurate.

[artist-mucha]

Morning Awakening, 1899, Alphonse Mucha

Medium: lithography

[thebeautifulwordlist]

Sweven

Noun

[swev-uhn]

1. Dream; vision.

Origin: From Old English swefn (sleep, dream, vision).

“[The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.” - The Arabian Nights (translated by Richard Francis Burton); 1885.

[six-cornered-worlds]

Aha, now I can guess what the “svefn” in “Svefn-g-englar” (Sigur Rós) means.

[loumargi]

Edward Burne-Jones (British Pre-Raphaelite artist, 1833–1898) Love-Among-the-Ruins

[six-cornered-worlds]

I saw this painting (and many of Burne-Jones’s other works) last weekend and am still slightly blissed out by the experience.

[sixpenceee]

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[art-woonz]

Oil Painting and Hyperrealism Art By Marco Grassi

For more: artwoonz.com

[starswaterairdirt]

The Cloud Ships on a Windy Night, 1891

St. Nicholas Vol. 18: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks

[yesterdaysprint]

Buffalo Evening News, New York, November 4, 1895

[six-cornered-worlds]

Perhaps that’s the reason why smiles on photographs do tend to have that cheesy/fixed/unreal look - like flowers, they are evanescent.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Old leather bound books

[vintageeveryday]

The industrial cutaways of Frank Soltesz: Amazing cross sections of modern life from the mid-20th century.

[aiweirdness]

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE MINE”.

I collected all the genuine heart messages I could find, and then gave them to a learning algorithm called a neural network. Given a set of data, a neural network will learn the patterns that let it imitate the original data - although its imitation is sometimes imperfect. The candy heart messages it produced… well, you be the judge.

The neural net did produce some that would pass for - and arguably improve upon - the standard messages.

DEAR ME MY MY LOVE BOT CUTE KISS MY BEAR LOVE BUN

Others were in the same spirit, but perhaps not quite as effective.

YOU A LOVE AM GOOD YOU ARE BABE ME MY <3 YOU ARE IT HEART ME SWEET PEAR COOL CUD FANCY MY HERO

Others were, um, strange. I don’t know what they mean, but some of them might work on me.

ALL HOVER OOG LOVE TEAM BEAR TIME HUG PIN A FACE YOU’RE ME SWOOL MAT BOG LOVE I HONKER HOW COT BEAR WIG FANG BE A GOOL TWEET UP BAT WIRLY OOT I WANDER TIME STAR

These will probably not be one of the standard messages anytime soon.

STANK LOVE SWEAT POO LOVE 2000 HOGSYEA HOLE HOW U HOT YOU ARE BOA CHERT FACE LICK SWEAT PEAR LOO GIN YOU A GOO LOOK BIG YOU ARE BAG U HACK

There was yet another category of message, a category you might be able to predict given the prevalence of four-letter words in the original dataset. The neural network thought of some nice new four-letter words to use. Unfortunately, some of those words already had other meanings. Let’s just say that the overall effect was surprisingly suggestive. Fill out the form here and I’ll send them to you.

Also, if you need more love help from the neural network, check out the pick up lines it wrote.

Heart pictures made using https://cryptogram.com/hearts/

UPDATE: MORE HEARTS!

[six-cornered-worlds]

Will you be my wirly oot and give me a time hug?