[elcapitan]

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation", "Art is what gets lost in machine learning".

I think it's interesting that it's possible to create basically filters from existing images, but then applying those filters to large amounts of images (like in this movie) quickly loses the novelty effect and is just as boring as any photoshop or gimp filter became in the 90s after seeing it 3 times.

When I look at Picassos actual pictures, I am astonished and amazed with every new one I get to see. With these pictures, I get more and more bored with every additional image.

[jtr1]

One of the most striking things missing is Picasso's play on perspective. Often his paintings would look at the subject though multiple points of view at the same time. Or he would break apart shapes, reorient them, and put them back together to get at some underlying idea.

Watching Dave jog along the perimeter of Discovery One in perfect perspective sort of undermines the whole effect. Even though the images are painted over with Picasso-like textures, colors, and shapes, it doesn't really _look_ like the real thing. That said, even if I think it falls short of capturing exactly what makes a Picasso a Picasso, I still think it's pretty cool.