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Every now and then my goth friends insist on taking me out to the goth bar....but seemingly only on the days when I’m wearing a button down and cardigan. Coincidence or not, "Going to the goth club dressed like Mister Rogers” has become a running joke among my group of friends.

#goth #goth bar #mister rogers #writing #funny #cardigan #duhast #rammstein #black

Is it just me, or are fashion ads for men the funniest thing ever?

So lately I ended up with a few subscriptions to mens lifestyle magazines that I got for free, and one thing that I just can’t get over are the fashion ads for men.

Why, you ask?

Lets face it, there are many different ways to “be a man”. Some men are sporty, some men are artsy, some men have blue collar jobs and some men have white collar jobs. Over our lifetimes we develop our own sense of what manhood means to us, and how we express it, and although similar, no two definitions are exactly the same. Now, there often are disagreements: Blue collar men might not think white collar men are real men, and white collar men might not think blue collar men are proper gentlemen. If fashion was marketed to individual demographics I would almost understand without being offended. People are entitled to their opinions, and demographics are what they are.

But instead, what the big fashion houses (YSL, Chanel, LV) do, per my observation, is take every definition of manhood and mix them together with a large wooden spoon until they feel they’re homogeneously mixed, and slap it on a poster with their name and a slogan. So instead of an ad with a cowboy on a western plain riding a horse, you get a guy with a pompadour haircut in a tux, wearing a welding jacket over the tux, while stick welding without gloves or a helmet, with text that says something like:

“For the gentleman that

isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty”

~~Yves Saint Laurent~~

I suppose nothing quite says “Bad Boy” like multiple OSHA violations, and hey, maybe that’s how his hands stay so perfectly hairless. Who am I to judge?

#men #mensfashion #welding #corture #menswear #menstyle #funny #masculinity #yves saint laurent #osha #observations #fashion blog #society

Some of the artists I explain deepstyle art to get the idea that it's a cheaters way out. They look at it as a magic box you can put a picture and a style into, wait a couple hours, and get beautiful, professional quality art sans any kind of skill, practice, or talent. I've even had an artist friend snarkily remark "Oh, so in the future we won't even need artists, we'll just have computers that run code, is that the goal?"

No. No, no, no.

Once you play around with the code, you start to get a sense of what a fickle beast deepsyle is. Put together a source image with the wrong style image and you have as much chance of turning out some unholy abomination (see above) as you do beautiful art. If you screw up, you go back to your computer, punch in a new set, and wait another 8 hours for this one to be done, and hopefully it turns out better. Doing this day after day, night after night for months takes insane amounts of patience, and eventually you notice patterns in how the neural network sees things. Eventually you can look at a picture and go "This would look great with this style!" and the result isn't far off from what you had in mind, or even better.

Being an artist is about being passionate about your craft. I might not use paintbrushes or pens or clay, and I might not have gone to art school, or make a living off my art (not yet, anyway), but I still consider myself an artist all the same. I just choose to do it my own way.

#artists on tumblr #artist #neural networks #haterade #deepstyle #deep learning #digital art #art #artificial intelligence #artwork #sorry for the rant

My favorite part of making neural network art is waking the tightrope line between looking too much like the style and looking too much like the content. Every now and then I can achieve a perfect balance and create something that looks really spectacular.

#neural networks #digital art #art #artists on tumblr #artificial intelligence #artist #peacock

"Grazie"

I always had a strange sense of humor growing up. When I was in elementary school we had a 'diversity week' where we learned about other cultures and languages, and one of the things we learned was how to say 'thank you' in Italian --- Grazie.

Being really young and having only a tenuous grasp on world language/culture, somehow I looked at the word Grazie, and thought it was just a shortened version of the word 'Gratitude' in the same way that 'thanks' is a shortened version of 'thank you'.

So I pictured an entire culture of people who just yelled out the emotions they were feeling as they were feeling them:

"Excuse me sir, I believe you dropped your wallet"

"GRATITUDE"

#funny #observation #memories #italia #actually adhd #memoir

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Tediursa: doo dee doo off ta skool

Ursaring: off to file these FUCKING TAXES

I've been experimenting around with photomosh to create dystopian looking glitch art. Walter Labs is a fake company I made for a school project (Walter is my middle name) and I've thought about making it a sort of personal logo since I am really proud of it.

#cyberpunk #dystopia #corporate #WalterLabs #glitch art #art

F U T U R E

#aesthetic #futurism #neural networks #art #city #lonely #vaporwave

#self portrait #starry night #art #me #neural networks #machine learning

Attention artists, photographers, and all the other awesome people that follow me.

If you want to send me a picture, or a picture and a style, for me to run through my neural network, DM me. After a while I run out of material and start using stock photos (which is kind of boring) so if you have a picture you want deepstyled, send it to me and I'll let my neural network work it's magic.

#requests #digital art #art #neural networks #followers

Here’s the result of the last style-transfer. Neural network art isn’t perfect but I like how this one turned out. It’s fascinating that given no idea of what colors a peacock is, it colored it blue. Probably a coincidence, but still neat.

#art #neural networks #peacock #painting #deepstyle #linux

People who posts about their neural networks don’t typically show how the process works, so I decided to demonstrate the system I have set up. For this picture, I apply the style of the koi painting to the black and white drawing of the peacock. The process is very resource intensive and takes a while to run (this took nearly an hour and a half to render).

#neural networks #art #computer #peacock #painting #deepstyle #ubuntu #linux

I've been experimenting with style-transfers using neural networks this summer, and its created some beautiful pieces. It's amazing to me that we live in an age where computers can just "make" art.

#neural networks #art #milwaukee #beautiful #doggo #college #art deco #linux #digital art #cel shading #bronze #desert

It really bothers me when I see people my age posting about how they’re having an “existential crisis” or feeling “nihilistic” because of being a millenial or because something bad is happening in their life. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt or minimize the fact that life is hard: people struggle from racism, mental illness, unfair societal/generational expectations, or just a bad turn of events. But at the end of the day the burden to make our own lives better falls on us. If life kicks you down, you have to be strong enough to stand back up and push forward despite the pain.

“Nihilism”, at least the kind I see in my peers, is just an excuse for people who don’t want to take control of ownership of their life to whine yet feel smug and superior, as if diving into meaninglessness, hedonism, and angst is some kind of alternative lifestyle or makes them “enlightened”.

Nihilism isn’t enlightenment. Nihilism is a grave you dig yourself because you’re not strong or self confident enough to give your life it’s own meaning, so instead of just doing your own thing, you whine because people don’t approve of you, or you don’t measure up to someone else’s expectations.

Who gives a shit? Do you. Be bold. Seize the day, and for the love of god stop whining about Nihilism. Nietzsche already taught y'all how to fix that, so it’s on you now.