On Friday I had a ball chatting with Brian McCullough and Chris Messina on the arrival of DALL•E & other generative-imaging tech on the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. The section intro begins at 31:30, with me chiming in at 35:45 & riffing for about 45 minutes. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I […]
Man, I’m not even the first to imagine a tripping-out Content-Aware Phil… …cue the vemödalen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, “Large Scale Image Completion via Co-Modulated Generative Adversarial Networks” (and you thought “Content-Aware Fill” was a mouthful), which you can try out right in your browser, promises next-level abilities to fill in gaps by using GANs that understand […]
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past…” Sitting in my parents’ house, surrounded by my dad’s old college books and mine, I’m struck by a certain melancholy—a mix of memory, gratitude, and loss. As it happens, Margot just told me about Insta Repeat, a feed that catalogs the […]
According to a recent survey, more than 40% of people under 33 prioritize “Instagrammability” when choosing their next holiday spot. Of course, a ton of the results look incredibly similar, perhaps inducing cases of vemödalen (“the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist”). They’re so repetitive, in fact, that Google researchers […]
There’s something happening here/What it is, ain’t exactly clear… But it’s gonna get interesting. Membit is a geolocative photo sharing app that allows pictures to be placed and viewed in the exact location they were captured. When you make a membit, you leave an image in place for other Membit users to find and enjoy. […]
Got a case of vemödalen (“the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist”)? Or perhaps you’ve just wanted a camera that sounds like a Geiger counter while blurting “NEIN” at you in big red letters? Philipp Schmitt’s Camera Restricta concept wants to help. PetaPixel explains, “Camera Restricta introduces new limitations to […]
Remember “vemödalen,” coined to capture the obscure sorrow of feeling like your “unique” photo has actually been taken by innumerable others? Well, get ready to feel it more. Check out this collaboration between University of Washington & Google brainiacs: You can read more details about the project on Wired. [YouTube] [Via]
That’s the fear, anyway. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows coins “vemödalen”: vemödalen – n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and […]