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skleistsketchbook · 4 years

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Glitch Experiments

All done using Mac, Photoshop, Audacity, and Processing.

Original image: François Lemoyne, “The Apotheosis of Hercules”, 1731

I opened the file in Photoshop, then saved as bmp. Imported raw data into Audacity (U-Law, little endian, mono). Applied compressor effect to most of the audio, echo to two sections, reverb to the centre, and fade in/fade out to the two ends. Exported raw audio as bmp. Opened in photoshop, then saved as jpg.

Original image: Louis Michel van Loo, “Venus, Mercurio y el Amor”, 1748

Converted to bmp in photoshop, the imported raw data into Audacity (U-Law, little endian, mono). Phaser applied to most of image, then reverse to 3 sections. Exported raw audio as bmp, then converted to jpg in Photoshop.

Original image: Thomas Cole, “Dream of Arcadia”, 1838

Converted to bmp in photoshop, then opened using a hex editor (Hex Fiend). Added text and cut and paste sections throughout the image until sufficiently glitched. Converted to jpg in Photoshop.

Original image: Peter Paul Rubens, “The Feast of Venus”, 1637

Using Processor and a pixel sorting script, the image was pixel sorted using the white mode, the threshold set to -7000000.

Original image: Luca Giordano, “The Fall of the Rebel Angels”, 1665

Converted to bmp in Photoshop and rotated 90 degrees. Imported raw data into Audacity (U-Law, little endian, mono), inverted and added reverb to sections. Exported as a bmp, then rotated back 90 degrees and imported back into Audacity. Added echo (delay 3 seconds) and phaser (default settings) to 5 sections, then exported as a bmp. Using photoshop, I then cut out the figures from the original image and overlaid them on the second image.

Original image: Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen, “Ceres, Bacchus, and Venus”, 1615

Using Processor and a colour shifting script, the image was colour shifted horizontally, three iterations.

Original image: Herbert Draper, “The Lament for Icarus”, 1898

Rotated 90 degrees and pixel sorted using the white mode, the threshold set to -9000000 and the loops set to 5.

Original image: François Boucher, “Triumph of Venus”, 1740

Opened png in Photoshop, then saved as a photoshop raw file, non-interleaved. Opened the raw file in Photoshop and pressed “guess” for size once, which resulted in a warped black and white image. Pasted the original photo overtop using the “colour” setting and raised the contrast by 50% and the saturation by 25%. Saved as jpg.

Original image: John William Waterhouse, “Echo and Narcissus”, 1903

Opened bmp in Audacity, then copied a small (less than a second) section from near the end and pasted throughout the file. I applied echo with both values set to 0.01, exported as bmp, then saved as jpg using Photoshop.

Original image: John Everett Millais, “Ophelia”, 1851

I opened the jpg in a hex editor (Hex Fiend). I wanted to how much of Hamlet I could paste in before the image broke. The answer was all of it, apparently.

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yanchiluuu-blog · 6 years

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Westworld

Westworld’s Opening Title Sequence Some directors have the tendency to use abstract television title sequences. As Vineyard (2016) notes, these tend to prompt the audiences into attempts to unstitch the clues behind their meanings. This particular style typifies most of director Patrick Clair’s works. In ‘Westworld,’ however, Patrick espouses a more overt approach, steeped in both simplicity and symbolism. The show is about a theme park-like setting, dominated by human-like robots which excite and unnerves in equal measure (Vineyard, 2016). The nearly two-minute intro takes the viewers through a 3D android creation, which has printed bones, delicate muscles, and tendons until the final touch where the creation is submerged into a milky-like substance dressed like a cowboy. The intro sequence starts when the sun is rising over the east, but it is revealed that the light is not actually from the sun (Vineyard, 2016). It is an artificial light used for the conception of the machinelike rib cage. This creates an underlying theme that nothing is what it appears to be. The sequence also exposes some shadier themes pertaining to exploitation, a plethora of vices regarding to human temptation, and all the murky secrets that people prefer to do behind closed doors. Clair offers his viewers a glimpse of robots behind the curtains in some amorphous, darkened operating theatre where one of the robots is taught to play piano and in turn, it learns how to play itself. What makes the sequence truly provocative and unnerving is how the robots are teaching other robots taking powerful American West symbols and strip their content (Vineyard, 2016). One of the stirring moment when this is achieved is when an android rider enters on top of a pale mechanical horse and raises her revolver indicating that she is in the middle of a hot gun battle. The visual is accompanied by Ramin Djawadi’s piece, which transitions from a Philip Glass-like piano ditty that is preceded by a sweeping orchestral composition. This opening series is credited for preparing the viewers to leave the world of reality and enter ‘Westworld which is a pure world of fiction. This sequence reorients the viewer’s thinking and acts as a bridge from one world to the other. The most qualitative aspect about Clair’s bridge is color. Most TV shows are associated with different colors. ‘Mad Men’ is associated with black and red with yellow splashes. ‘True Detectives’ is green and gunmetal while ‘Game of Thrones’ is associated with golden brown color. According to Clair, color has a precise language. Clair further claimed that research has proved that memory and color are closely related. In like 20 years’ time, the viewers might forget the specific scenes of the ‘Westworld,’ but they might remember that it was purely white and black (Vineyard, 2016). Episode 1:"The Original" The first episode feels like two parallel shows running concurrently. The first show is the ground drama of events within a theme park, which is seen from the point of view of robots such as Teddy Flood (James Marsden) and Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood). The second show, on the other hand, happens behind the scenes, where technicians run the park from afar and ensure that this fictitious western illusion is maintained perfectly to entertain the wealthy guests (Cohen, 2016). On the host side, Dolores Abernathy acts as the damsel in distress while Teddy is the handsome hero. Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton) runs a brothel while Hector Escaton (Rodrigo Santoro) acts as an outcast. These hosts are in an endless loop throughout the episode, and their roles are reset when their storylines end or they are killed. On the human side, Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) is the eccentric Westworld god and the creator of the illusionary park. Ed Harris is also known as the man in black and acts as a mysterious gamer. Bernard Lowe who is also referred to as Arnold (Jeffrey Wright) is the head of programming which is kind and loving towards the hosts. According to him, these hosts have feelings and not just wires (Holmes, 2016). Although he died under mysterious circumstances, he still influences the events of the park from his grave. Towards the end of the episode, a technical glitch is causing the hosts to go rogue. One of the hosts that go rogue is Dolores’s father who suffers from an existential freak-out, and he is decommissioned. When the scene opens, Dolores Abernathy is expressionless and naked, and a disembodied voice asks her “Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?" (Episode 1, season 1) and she says no. She further explains that she has chosen to see the beauty and that there are a purpose and an order to our days. This conversation shows the audience that these robots are human characters that are working as undercover robots and that is the reason why they do not have physical feelings and acts as non-humans (Cohen, 2016). This is seen when a housefly lands on Dolores’s face, but she does not notice it when it crawls right into her eyeball. The order of things in the park is designed in such a way that the hosts are supposed to ensure the safety of the guests, and they are programmed in such a way that they cannot harm the guests or any human creature. A guest may involve him/herself in a war with a host, can smash them or shoot them down but they cannot fight back. This can be interpreted to mean that there are humans who are brainwashed and cannot fight for their space. To understand the first episode of Westworld, one has to analyze the role played by Dr. Robert Ford, which is acted by Anthony Hopkins, a name that refers to the cowardly character who shot Jesse James, an outlaw. Dr. Ford had created the first version of Westworld robots about 30 years before, but his efforts of creating new realistic models are hindered by businesspeople who have commodified and seized the theme park. His creation is saved by Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), who is his deputy and a brilliant programmer (Cohen, 2016). He navigates the delicate corporate landscape, which is populated by a series of competing interests and comes up with robots that are humane. The problem arises when there is a software malfunction, again. The robots in the park start behaving strangely. Most of them end up sputtering which becomes an embarrassing problem. The real problem arises when Peter Abernathy (Louis Herthum), Dolores’s father slips into fatigue when he discovers a photo that could have been forgotten by a guest (Holmes, 2016). The photo is of a woman who is standing in a modern-day Times Square. This shows that the glitch is not accidental but a deliberate effort to prove to the hosts that they can have human feelings and they have the capability of doing what humans can do, including siring and raising children. Before Peter Abernathy’s model is wiped of memory and decommissioned, he whispers to his daughter, "These violent delights have violent ends" (Episode 1, season 1). This is a line picked from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and was spoken by Friar Lawrence before the young couple was married. This line in the context of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a premonition of the violence that befalls the couple. In the case o Westworld, Dolores cannot remember all the violence that has been inflicted upon her by both the guests and other models especially Teddy, but since she is the oldest functional model in the park, this is a way of saying that she is the oldest victim of violence in the park.

References “The Original.” Westworld, Season 1, episode 1. HBO, 25 Sep. 2016, retrieved from https://www.dnvod.tv/Movie/Readyplay.aspx?id=vZxVEE%2br%2byk%3d. Cohen, A. (2016, October 03). Westworld Premiere Recap: "Violent Delights Have Violent Ends." Refinery29, retrieved from https://www.refinery29.com/2016/10/124464/westworld-season-1-premiere-episode-1-recap-the-original Holmes, T. (2016, October 05). Westworld Season 1 Episode 1 Walkthrough and Explanation. Thinc, retrieved from https://taylorholmes.com/2016/10/05/westworld-season-1-episode-1-walkthrough-and-explanation/ Vineyard, J. (2016, October 05). The Secrets Behind Westworld’s Opening Title Sequence. Vulture, retrieved from http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/westworld-title-sequence-secrets.html

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category3b-blog · 6 years

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Westworld Theories

Finally had a chance to sit and start watching Westworld, and so I decided to blog about , and the line about 'These violent delights have violent ends' definitely seems to be a trigger phrase to the hosts. And that shines a new light on what Ford says to Lowe after Millay breaks down: 'The problem, Bernard, is that what you and I do, is so complicated. We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words, and we create life itself. Out of chaos.' This seems to be a clue that Ford himself who installed the trigger phrase, especially because he says it right after Lowe theorizes that the photograph alone shouldn't be enough to cause Abernathy (Delores' father) to glitch. It's important here to keep in mind that it was also Ford who installed the "reveries" that's causing the hosts to "remember" their past as well. It's probably all part of the big "game" he's trying to set up in the desert near the buried church steeple. There seems to quite a lot of history there, since the first time we see Ford at the place he's shuffling his feet through the sand, as if he's trying to find his footing on what has been, figuratively but also literally, buried below. That's another scene full of important clues btw, as Ford asks the boy if he can't imagine the town with the "white" church at the "nowhere land". The buried church steeple after all, is black(ened), another hint at the past being buried there. And the boy of course, is a host based on Ford as a child, a means perhaps to converse with his past, with the innocence and excitement and wonder he has lost. Which he also hints at with this line: 'Everything in this world is magic. Except to the magician.' Ford is the magician after all, and I think he's become bored by his own creation. So his end game is to make the hosts' AI advance beyond the sum of their programming. To have them rise above what he made them, so he can be amazed again. There's also the other side of the coin, the "game" the man in black is playing and the maze that, according to the little girl, isn't "meant" for him. But in the same scene we see the security chief say that the man in black gets whatever he wants, and the man himself explains that he's been in the park for thirty years, ever since he was "born" there, hinting at the man's place and past with the park. But if he is pretty much given free reign, yet the maze isn't meant for him, there are only two options. Either the man is in fact a host after all and the maze is only meant for guests, or the man is a guest but the maze isn't meant for guests. Now since the latter seems most obvious with what we've been given so far, that begs the question, if the maze isn't for the guests, what is it and who is it for? It could be that the maze is in fact the same place as the buried town at the "nowhere land", the hidden, long forgotten past of Westworld that they have built a new world upon, but at this time, that's all a big mystery. And of course there's good ol' Delores, who we find out here has indeed advanced far beyond the other hosts, and this fact is at least in some ways known by Lowe who secretly converses with her, but even he doesn't realize how far as she is clearly still playing along with the script. Because we know she understands how the trigger phrases work and what they do, and we know she's already scheming. And as we see with Millay being able to wake herself up from a programmed sleep mode, there are multiple ways to overcome one's programming. The thing is, only Delores is currently aware that she's being programmed, so she's the only one able to take proper advantage of this.

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A quick guide to every major character on 'Westworld'

Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Westworld” season two, episode two.

“Westworld” has more characters and storylines than the average viewer can keep up with, so we’ve assembled a handy character list for your Sunday nights. Here you’ll find all the significant hosts and employees of Westworld, and what they got up to on the first season.

We’ll update this slideshow as new characters are introduced each week, but for now the spoilers only cover through the first and second episodes of season two.

Let’s dive in.

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First up — Dr. Robert Ford.

Played by Anthony Hopkins.

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Ford was Westworld’s park director and one of its co-founders. The process for creating and programming the hosts is all based on his team’s original research conducted over 30 years ago.

On the first season finale, Ford was shot and killed by a host named Dolores.

Ford also build a young host-version of himself who lives in the park.

This is also Robert Ford.

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This host speaks with a blend of Roberts old and young voice, and is coded to continue representing Ford in the park.

Dolores Abernathy is the oldest host in Westworld.

Played by Evan Rachel Wood.

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Since she’s the oldest park host, that means Dolores was created over 35 years prior to the events in “Westworld.”

Stubbs says that she’s been updated so many times “she’s practically brand new.” Dolores was one of the first hosts to get close to sentience. By the end of the first season, it appeared as if she was finally self-aware when she shot and killed Ford.

Arnold was Ford’s original partner and co-creator of the hosts.

Arnold is played by Jeffrey Wright.

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Arnold was the one who began experimenting with bootstrapping consciousness into the hosts. Dolores was his first test subject. He created a “maze” inside the park to help lead Dolores into self-awareness and to spur the creation of a subconscious mind in her.

He eventually decided Westworld shouldn’t open, because the hosts were starting to become sentient. Arnold programmed Dolores to kill all of the other hosts as well as himself in an effort to sabotage the park.

Bernard Lowe is a host Ford built in the image of Arnold.

Also played by Jeffrey Wright.

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Bernard was Ford’s right-hand man, a host who is the the Head of Behavior and a programming specialist. Bernard was programmed to think he was human, but over the course of the first season he learned the truth.

Karl Strand is the head of operations at Delos.

Played by Guståf Skarsgard.

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He’s a no-nonsense kind of man who was sent by the Delos company to fix the mess in the parks after Ford’s new bloody plot wreaked havoc.

Elsie Hughes is a Behavior Specialist who worked under Bernard Lowe.

Played by Shannon Woodward.

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Elsie helps with coding, debugging, and processing the hosts as they receive updates. She was working with Bernard to investigate host glitches when she disappeared. Now we’re not sure where in the park she is, but we’re pretty sure she’s alive.

Antoine Costa is a technician who is not missing, but is helping Strand analyze the hosts in the field.

Played by Fares Fares.

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He first appeared on the second season premiere, where he extracted a cortical storage device from a host and showed the Delos team the video footage kept there.

Ashley Stubbs is the Head of Security for Westworld.

Played by Luke Hemsworth.

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Stubbs has a healthy level of skepticism when it comes to the hosts following their programming, and tends to take on potentially risky retrieval missions himself.

Maling in a new Delos security personnel character.

Played by Betty Gabriel.

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She also first appeared on the opening episode of the second season, where she found Bernard and helped Strand keep the new system in order.

Lee Sizemore is the ambitious Head of Narrative at the parks.

Played by Simon Quarterman.

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Most of the storylines and dialogue you see the hosts act out in the park are all Sizemore’s design and script. He was helping the Delos board smuggle data out of the park by the end of the first season.

Theresa Cullen was the Head of Quality Assurance.

Played by Sidse Babett Knudsen.

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It was Cullen’s job to make sure the guests are happy and the hosts are behaving according to regulations. But Theresa was secretly helping the Delos board smuggle data out of the park.

Ford had Bernard kill Theresa on his orders and make the murder look like an accident.

Charlotte Hale is the executive director of Delos and Westworld’s board.

Played by Tessa Thompson.

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Her friendly demeanor gives way to a stern and calculating woman who has been smuggling data out of the Westworld park. Though she hadn’t yet revealed specific details about the data on the first season, we’re sure her secrets will eventually come out.

Maeve Millay is one of the first newly sentient hosts in Westworld.

Played by Thandie Newton.

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Maeve was the madam of the Marisposa — a saloon/brothel in Sweetwater. Now she’s the most powerful host in the park, and has the ability to control other hosts with voice commands.

Felix Lutz is one of the Livestock Management employees.

Played by Leonardo Nam.

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It’s Felix’s job to patch up the hosts after they’ve been shot, stabbed, or otherwise incapacitated. But Felix “borrowed” a coding console from the behavior department and wound up helping Maeve change her core programming and enabling her to escape.

Sylvester is Felix’s partner in the Livestock Manufacturing lab.

Played by Ptolemy Slocum.

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He had no patience for Felix’s experiment with coding, but was roped into the Maeve-escape plot after she threatened his life.

Clementine Pennyfeather was one of the host prostitutes working at the Mariposa under Maeve.

Played by Angela Sarafyan.

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She specialized in finding newcomers and welcoming them to Westworld. But after Charlotte and Theresa used Clementine as a scapegoat host in a failed experiment, Clementine was lobotomized.

Teddy Flood is another host with a troubled past and a penchant for gunslinging.

Played by James Marsden.

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He often accompanies guests on bounty hunts, or tags along with his programmed love — Dolores. Teddy’s primary directive is finding and helping Dolores, though his good-natured side can be manipulated via coding.

Angela is a host we’ve seen in two roles — a greeter for new guests and as a henchman for Dolores.

Played by Talulah Riley.

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She’s one of the oldest hosts in the park, along with Dolores and Teddy. She’s currently acting as a rallying point for the other rebelling hosts who will support Dolores (as “Wyatt”).

Akecheta is another of the original hosts in the park.

Played by Zahn McClarnon.

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He went with Angela to first pitch Westworld to Logan Delos.

Major Craddock is another host, though his current role is as a dangerous leader in the Confederado.

Played by Jonathan Tucker.

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We saw this host first appear at the party with Angela and Akecheta, but he was without a mustache then. Later, Dolores meets this host while he’s in his solider narrative.

Logan Delos is a powerful businessman who was looking to increase his company’s stake in Westworld.

Played by Ben Barnes.

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Logan is an ambitious and impetuous bad boy who loves indulging in his vices while visiting Westworld. The scenes featuring Logan on the first season all took place around 30 years prior to “current day” on “Westworld.”

James Delos is Logan’s father and the titan of industry.

Played by Peter Mullan.

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James is a no-nonsense man who seems impatient with his son. But James’ daughter, Juliet is dating another promising young man.

William is Logan’s future brother-in-law and his coworker.

Played by Jimmi Simpson.

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William came to the park with Logan to celebrate their future lives as in-laws. But by the time they left, William decided to usurp Logan’s role in the company and go work with James directly.

The Man in Black is William, but in “present day.”

Played by Ed Harris.

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William transformed into the Man in Black by the end of the first season. By current day on the show, William is one of the most powerful Delos board members. His wife (Logan’s sister) has committed suicide, and after their daughter blamed William for her death he returned to Westworld to confront his demons.

Juliet is Logan’s sister and James’ daughter, and eventually William’s wife.

Played by Claire Unabia.

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Juliet marries William and they have a daughter, Emily, together.

Lawrence/El Lazo is a host who spent most of season one with William.

Played by Clifton Collins Jr.

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He’s referred to by other hosts as an outlaw due to his criminal group run under the name El Lazo. Lawrence is a sardonic host who often winds up tagging along with William on his dangerous adventures.

Hector Escaton is the “bad boy” host of Westworld .

Played by Rodrigo Santoro.

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Hector is a bandit who travels with a group of loyal followers and periodically tries to rob the Mariposa Saloon. He teamed up with Maeve after she showed him the truth about how the park works and their role in it.

Armistice is Hector’s host companion and fellow gunslinger.

Played by Ingrid Bolsø Berdal.

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Armistice has a deadly shot and a gigantic snake tattoo covering her body — the relic of a tormented past. She also joined Maeve’s escape mission and is becoming more self aware.

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