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poliphiloThe first movie that's totally AI can't be far away. Maybe it's already happened and I missed the notification.
Someone will type (for example) three hour crime drama in the style of Howard Hawks, starring Clark Gable and Natalie Portman- and AI will do the rest.
I'd watch it. Or maybe not the whole thing. Maybe just clips.
Groaning withal.
I was looking, this morning, at portraits of long dead famous people colourised and animated by computer magic. Julius Caesar (surely one of the nastiest characters of whom we have record) was scary. Clyde Barrow- just a lost little boy- was poignant. Someone asked how come Clyde turned out to be such a villain and I replied "Poverty, neglect, abuse- all the usual things." As a lot of commentators noticed, all the long-dead famous people had Hollywood teeth- which is silly. One of the reasons no-one grinned in portraits before the 20th century is because everyone had such beat-up teeth. Reanimated Tchaikovsky has a lovely smile; real life Tchaikovsky, said another commentator, had several front teeth missing.
We make the past in our image. Bashar says this is literally true. Time is an illusion. There is only the present moment- and as we change ourselves in the eternal present so we change not only our future but also our history. I can't quite get my head round this, but I'm willing to take it on trust.
It wasn't always so but these days I like having my mind stretched...
Like pizza dough.
As humankind becomes kinder and wiser so Tchaikovsky will get his teeth back, Clyde Barrow will leave his guns at home when he goes shopping and Julius Caesar will be the sweetest nicest guy...
Someone will type (for example) three hour crime drama in the style of Howard Hawks, starring Clark Gable and Natalie Portman- and AI will do the rest.
I'd watch it. Or maybe not the whole thing. Maybe just clips.
Groaning withal.
I was looking, this morning, at portraits of long dead famous people colourised and animated by computer magic. Julius Caesar (surely one of the nastiest characters of whom we have record) was scary. Clyde Barrow- just a lost little boy- was poignant. Someone asked how come Clyde turned out to be such a villain and I replied "Poverty, neglect, abuse- all the usual things." As a lot of commentators noticed, all the long-dead famous people had Hollywood teeth- which is silly. One of the reasons no-one grinned in portraits before the 20th century is because everyone had such beat-up teeth. Reanimated Tchaikovsky has a lovely smile; real life Tchaikovsky, said another commentator, had several front teeth missing.
We make the past in our image. Bashar says this is literally true. Time is an illusion. There is only the present moment- and as we change ourselves in the eternal present so we change not only our future but also our history. I can't quite get my head round this, but I'm willing to take it on trust.
It wasn't always so but these days I like having my mind stretched...
Like pizza dough.
As humankind becomes kinder and wiser so Tchaikovsky will get his teeth back, Clyde Barrow will leave his guns at home when he goes shopping and Julius Caesar will be the sweetest nicest guy...
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Date: 2023-02-16 10:04 am (UTC)Some friends on here do art using it and the results can still be mighty silly and require a shedload of editing.
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Date: 2023-02-16 11:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-16 11:15 am (UTC)Coincidentally, I have just been reading about George Washington, who had a complete set of dentures. Apparently in the eighteenth century if you were lucky enough to have your own teeth, you could sell them for a price. If you owned slaves (as Washington did), you could apparently buy teeth from them at a knock-down price.
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Date: 2023-02-16 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-16 12:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-16 01:22 pm (UTC)"In 1784... Washington paid several 'Negroes' 122 shillings for nine teeth (about a third the going rate). That's all we know. Were the 'Negroes' enslaved? Probably. Were the teeth used for transplants? Probably. The French dentist Jean Pierre Le Moyer... was a guest at Mount Vernon that spring. This suggests that Washington gathered a group of his enslaved workers and had at least one of their teeth, maybe all nine of them, inserted in his jaws...
Whatever relief the procedure provided Washington proved temporary... Washington was equipped with a full set of dentures made not out of wood but out of a combination of human and animal teeth, plus some carved hippopotamus ivory, set in two spring-loaded jaws of lead." - Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George, 2021.