{"id":2772,"date":"2015-08-18T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T06:06:52","slug":"social-commentary-a-3d-mountain-range-made-from-kim-kardashians-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/social-commentary-a-3d-mountain-range-made-from-kim-kardashians-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Social commentary: A 3D mountain range made from Kim Kardashian&#8217;s face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHmm, what would French intellectuals devise to comment on &#8216;self-design and the production of sincerity?\u2019\u201d you might just have been asking yourself (or, let\u2019s hope, not). If so, rejoice in knowing that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chatonsky.net\/\">Gregory Chatonsky<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/roam-a-3d-mountain-range-made-from-kim-kardashians-face\">on the case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[He\u2019s] developed a program that pulls tagged Instagram photos of Kim K in real time, and filters them through a software program he made using Unity3d.<\/p>\n<p>The software automatically navigates a generative 3D skin model, created from more than 51,000 pictures of the star. The project looks at the same subject, Kim Kardashian, but is constantly using a different image, creating what the artist describes as a \u201cfascinating difference in the repetition.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;<strong>It is simply an extended skin, everything is on the surface. There is nothing to look behind<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cDiscuss.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/135128777\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Perfect skin II (2015)\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028 [<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/135128777\">Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHmm, what would French intellectuals devise to comment on &#8216;self-design and the production of sincerity?\u2019\u201d you might just have been asking yourself (or, let\u2019s hope, not). If so, rejoice in knowing that\u00a0Gregory Chatonsky is on the case: [He\u2019s] developed a program that pulls tagged Instagram photos of Kim K in real time, and filters them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}