{"id":16523,"date":"2010-07-30T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2010-07-30T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T19:24:34","slug":"the-make-my-photo-good-button-draws-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/the-make-my-photo-good-button-draws-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cMake My Photo Good\u201d button draws closer (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffAndrew Kupresanin&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewkupresanin.com\/projects.html\">Nadia project<\/a> claims that\u00a0&#8220;The camera that thinks, so you don&#8217;t have to.&#8221; \u00a0Instead of showing an image on its viewfinder, the camera leverages\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acquine.alipr.com\/\">ACQUINE<\/a>, the &#8220;Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine,&#8221; in order to display an aesthetic rating<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said previously, developments like this makes\u00a0think of the Robin Williams character in\u00a0<em>Dead Poets Society<\/em> excoriating a textbook that rated poetry along two axes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Excrement! That\u2019s what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We\u2019re not laying pipe! We\u2019re talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? \u201cI like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can\u2019t dance to it!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, as The Online Photographer put it, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/if-you-think-you-need-this-kill.html\">If You Think You Need This, Kill Yourself<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I start wondering whether the art project here is a bit more &#8220;meta&#8221; than it appears: The point is to make photographers flip out&#8211;a sea of\u00a0\ufeff(largely) angry old white guys\u00a0as the medium, unknowingly engaged in mass performance art. If so, touch\u00e9!\u00a0\ufeff[Via\u00a0Tobias Hoellrich]<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPreviously:\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/02\/video_a_computational_model_of_aesthetics.html\">A computational model of aesthetics<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffAndrew Kupresanin&#8217;s\u00a0Nadia project claims that\u00a0&#8220;The camera that thinks, so you don&#8217;t have to.&#8221; \u00a0Instead of showing an image on its viewfinder, the camera leverages\u00a0ACQUINE, the &#8220;Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine,&#8221; in order to display an aesthetic rating As I&#8217;ve said previously, developments like this makes\u00a0think of the Robin Williams character in\u00a0Dead Poets Society excoriating a textbook [&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":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}