#ai city

[setteidreams]

✿ Ai City ┊ 25 sheets ✿

… a 1986 film with character designs by Chuichi Iguchi has been added to Patreon.

[my-imaginary-land]

Cities of dreams

Which one for you ?

[blackeneddeatheye]

今年もよろしくお願いします

^ｏ^

May this 2023 be a good year for everyone, or not so bad as 2022 😅

"Just chill and watch the lights passing by"

[slagduroc]

It's you, Steve. and the downtown lights.

[aifandom]

Artificial Robotic City.

[ai-dream]

[yopbot]

Some cities I generated cause I was trying to make a background for my tablet

[bhaskarlive]

Chandrababu Naidu wants Amaravati to be AI city

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Thursday, directed officials to formulate plans to develop Amaravati as the city of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

He directed the officials to design the Amaravati logo in English with the first letter as A and the last letter as I which immediately strikes the mind as connoting Artificial Intelligence.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[philantrophicanaeugenitaly]

[snowflurried]

Watching Ai City!

I am watching Ai City, which is one of the films on the article in one of my previous posts. I found it's available on YouTube here. Will discuss it below.

I like the style of it! Very 80s! And the music and sound effects are cool, too. I'm a fan of the black cat. The way the introduced the super powers was cool. I don't know what the forehead numbers are, but I guess its like power levels or something, and it makes women naked??? And destroys the fabric of reality???

I don't know how this was animated, but the VCR look of it is so cool. The colour palettes of the shots are so pretty. I think the plot is goofy on purpose, because these characters are crazy. One of the songs is in English, which is weird considering it's the Japanese version. It's also very 80s, of course, reminds me of city pop and Western 80's music mixed together.

I guess it's a thing that some of the characters are named after letters? I don't know. The plot is kinda confusing. I like the character designs! From what I gather, 'headmeters' are the characters that have powers? And they're the ones with the numbers on their foreheads?

This song sounds kind of like Footloose with the instrumentals, and I don't know why, but maybe kind of like Danger Zone, too. It's kind of hard to track who the villain is, because the purple-haired character with the bob is also the villain, along with that blue guy with the trenchcoat and the blue guy with the number on his forehead.

The cat is cunty. He is my favourite character. His little outfit is very cute.

It might be because I have watched this in chunks, but I don't really understand the story that much. I think it's about a guy and his daughter (and they're friends?) and they have to fight against the evil people with the forehead numbers and the people that help them.

The sound design is really good. This movie definitely needs an epilepsy warning with the flashing lights.

[nestedneons]

By novanoxone

[art-is-kayos]

Checking up on his commission

[aifandom]

A House From The Future.

[ai-dream]