Link Dumplin’s 27Feb20

When Warren Ellis blogs about blogging its worth paying attention.
Fraidycat 1.1 is here. It allows you to follow people on sites like Twitter, Instagram, Github and more without an account.
Bill Ratcliffe on Flickr. Damn
Gatsby is another open source, free platform for building websites and apps.
Venkatesh Rao has some characteristically insightful things to say about the the text renaissance in online media.
Artist in the World is an enormous collection of photographs by André Smits showing artists, from behind in their studios. It’s mesmerizing.

The Dub Gathers

There is a subreddit where people are using Google to translate the dialogue of Star Wars movies into Chinese, and then back to a English. Then they are actually dubbing them onto the scenes. The dubbing is pretty well done. Here are a few stills that will show you the comedy genius of this idea.

The Tumblr link mentions something similar for Lord of the Rings which I am now off to find!

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These Lyrics Do Not Exist

These Lyrics Do Not Exist: AI generated lyrics based on a word and a mood that you supply. There are a lot of these “AI-generated-something-or-other” sites popping up these days. I find them to be weirdly fun and menacing at the same time. Here’s another one that was trained on cubist art.