Context aware fill for video
Context aware fill is a fascinating and magical technology. It was previously limited to still images, but Adobe ups the bar by making it available for video clips.
What a wild world we live in.
Google Duplex
Google Duplex uses several different AI techniques in order to create a fascinating new capability: a digital assistant that can make reservations for you.
Give it a listen.
It uses a combination of different AI backed techniques: voice synthesis, voice recognition, and natural language processing.
This opens a brave new world in which each of us has a digital assistant that we assign tasks and it takes care of them for us. Including making phone calls. Such capability also has the ability to do frightening manipulation automatically too.
Here’s some more data about how the system works:
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html
More slightly exaggerated Oregon…
After Oregon’s ‘Slightly Exaggerated’ campaign that I wrote about previously, here’s a few more out-takes and additions.
Own a Wagon Queen Family Truckster
Act fast. Barrett-Jackson auctions in Palm Beach will be selling this beauty on Apr 11-13.
Lot #375 – This Ford Station Wagon re-creation is based on the car in the movie “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. It’s powered by a 5.0-liter 8-cylinder engine and an automatic transmission.
And lest you forget the source…
Nikita Diakur’s distored world
Green screening and digitally enhancing scenes with motion tracking and 2D/3D software tools is in just about every mainstream TV show and movie these days. But jumping the uncanny valley has still been elusive (at least to my eyes).
Nikita Daikur’s odd and low-fi way of using these tools is a wild ride. Give them a watch.
Check out his odd techno street party
Or this ‘Ugly Parking lot’
36 days of type
Last year for the month of March, motion design studio Mr. Kaplin released a series of alphabet animations loosely inspired by an object or concept beginning with the featured letter. The project, A Month of Type, was published to the studio’s Instagram, and was also compiled into an alphabetical list of the animations with a soundtrack by BXFTYS.
If you like these inventive type interpretations check out 36 Days of Type, a project that asks designers from across the globe to animate their own letters and numbers throughout April and May.