In the crosshairs

[JTyre]

Entering this thread brings you to a place of highly concentrated mutual abuse disguised as great imagination.

I inaugurate this thread with an image of Rolf a few days after his facial Brazilian and a few minutes after dragging a branch of thorns deeply across his face. The image is a photograph processed by the Deep Dream Generator*

John

*DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev which uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like hallucinogenic appearance in the deliberately over-processed images. Try it out at https://deepdreamgenerator.com/.

[JTyre]

And here’s Rolf’s old avatar ...

[JTyre]

... followed by his new (barefaced) avatar ...

[JTyre]

... and me quite enjoying myself.

[Rolf]

Cool effects, Johnny Tyre. Yes, I missed my protective hairs this morning. It's colder too; I felt like my face was chapping on Friday. I should have shaved it off in one piece—then I could stick it back on with tape for rides.

Oh, and I found a snap from your post-doc years in the lab, John. Who knew you used to be a ginger, before your head turned into a giant scab...

[JTyre]

Knowing that you have my photo album things are looking a lot beaker.

[Alan]

The deep dream generator might be dredging up things it shouldn't

[JTyre]

This may be going deeper into Alan’s psyche than we really want to go.

[Alan]

Artfully-rendered duo on a stormy ride....

[JTyre]

Very cool Alan, I hope Fozzy notices that.

[Fozzy]

Very Van Gogh!!