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Philly-Bob’s Free-for-All 2024One man's visual art, largely consisting of digital manipulations of images, taken from (1) my own photographs/videos, (2) downloaded from the Public Domain, (3) utilized under the Fair Use provision of copyright law or (4) uncopyrightable images produced by A.I. image generation. This page is designed old-style, for display on full-size computer, not on phones or tablets.Click on a pic to enlarge. May take several clicks to get full-size. |
A collage of three images.
Top: A picture (Link1) from an album of World War II photos, tracked down by online sleuthers, showing photographer Franz Krieger taking a 'selfie' in a truck's rear view mirror.
Below that, inserted into similar circles, the face of a prisoner photographed during the infamous Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge (Link2);
Finally, from Reddit's \K board, a photo (Link3) of a weird British war device called a 'panjandrum,' intended (but never used) to attack German fortifications.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite .logo by Bob Moore.
The originals:
Link1: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/arts/design/mystery-of-a-nazi-photographer-solved-by-online-readers.html Link2: https://allthatsinteresting.com/cambodian-genocide Link3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum
March 21, 2024
A collage of three images.
Top: from a "What is your 'guilty pleasure' military aircraft?' thread in Reddit's \k (weapons) board, a photo of a 1940's Northrop XP-79 early flying wing. The pilot laid prone at the controls. Designers envisaged it intercepting bombers by physically colliding with them.
Below that, a photo (Link2) uploaded to Reddit's "Mechanic's Advice" board, showing an anti-lock screw on a Toyota hubcap.
Finally, from DeviantArt.com, barely visible, two copies of an AI-generated image "The Pain We Feel" (Link3) by an American artist Jsongunn.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite .logo by Bob Moore.
The originals:
Link1: https://boards.4chan.org/k/thread/61193039 Link2: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicAdvice/co,mments/1bikcml/anti_theft_bolt/ Link3: https://www.deviantart.com/jsongunn/art/THE-PAIN-WE-FEEL-2-1032769037
March 20, 2024
Photos of wooden paving blocks on Camac Street (Philadelphia) by Bob Moore, approx. 2016-2017 Music: "Music for Microwaves", on 2009 'Netwaves' collection of songs from various musicians (Link1). License: by-nc-sa/3.0 (Link2)
Link1: https://archive.org/details/nws.bpm005 Link2: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
March 18, 2024
A collage of four advertising images from a single 1928 issue of "Hardware Age" (Link1). Done over the weekend, discombobulated, with my mind on friends M.& S.N.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite .logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://archive.org/details/sim_hardware-age-home-improvement-market_1927-12-29_120_26/page/n62/mode/1up
February 28, 2024
A user on Reddit's "medialabprofessionals" board uploaded this microscope slide of some blood cells, joking "Mott much to see here." (Link1) The blue slide in the center is what clinicians call a "Mott cell" (Link2). The cell images was placed inside a Mandala-like design from a DeviantArt user (Link3).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/1aqq5v3/ope_mott_much_to_see_here/ Link2: https://www.cellwiki.net/en/aberrations/lymphocytes-mott-cells Link3: link not available, file name dgwr5zq-0218950f-4e0d-4fc1-a123-54c0924dc473021924D
February 22, 2024
A user uploaded this photo to Reddit's "AskMechanics" board worrying about why it appeared that ordinary engine oil had appeared in his engine coolant (Link1). I overlaid that image on top of another engine photo uploaded by another user (Link2). I love the look of cold sculptured mechanics.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by .Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMechanics/comments/1awb035/head_gasket_whats_my_problem/ Link2: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMechanics/comments/1aw0t8s/what_is_going_on_here/
February 21, 2024
Perhaps for an upcoming exhibition at the Plastic Club on faces: a photo of the complicated helmet of an F-35 pilot, from a United States Air Force website (Link1).
Set against an AI-Gen image by an American artist Dogsledder on DeviantArt.com. Dogsledder's prompt: "Leviathan part octopus a demon hybrid making a calendar of cycles of the end times with its ink"
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2719295/an-inside-look-at-f-35-pilot-helmet-fittings/ Link2: https://www.deviantart.com/dogsledder/art/Leviathan-part-octopus-a-demon-hybrid-making-a-cal-1018465813 https://www.deviantart.com/dogsledder/art/Leviathan-part-octopus-a-demon-hybrid-making-a-cal-1018465813
February 11, 2024
A photograph from microscope of guinea pig blood from the 1928 book "Recent advances in biochemistry" (Link1).
A drawing by current Ukrainian artist KateQR from Kyiv (Link2) from DeviantArt. Katerina also sells cool T-Shirts based on her designs online (Link3) and framed prints (Link4). I ordered one of her T-shirts.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https: https://archive.org/details/recentadvancesin0000jpry/page/162/mode/2up Link2: https://www.deviantart.com/kateqr/art/My-thoughts-Abstract-art-paintings-Graphics-1018604395 Link3: https://www.teepublic.com/user/kateqr/albums/278193-abstraction Link4: https://www.redbubble.com/people/kateqr/shop?artistUserName=kateqr&asc=u&collections=2475743&iaCode=u-prints&sortOrder=top%20selling
February 9, 2024
Was fascinated for a sleepless night by the following problem: take an image inside a circle. Edit it so that the imagery inside the circle moves to the outside of the circle and leaves the circle blank. I was not strictly successful, but found a workaround.
The starting image in this case was an AI-generated DeviantArt image "Exercice de Style" by French digital artist Akherat-Horus (Link1). That's where I did the circle inversion.
For the now emptied center circle, I used the image I removed from the February 3 image of a fashionable lady with a cigarette holder and a parasol from a 1928 issue of "The New Yorker" (Link2).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.deviantart.com/akherat-horus/art/Exercice-De-Style-1017478608 Link2: https://archive.org/details/sim_the-new-yorker_1928-12-29_4_45/page/8/mode/2up
February 7, 2024
This is a collage of two images: in the center, a medical image (Link1) from the Reddit "medlabprofessionals" board, uploaded with the explanation: "My coworker got this awesome picture of a macrophage eating a pyknotic neutrophil in a pleural fluid. She let me post this because she is not on reddit. I thought it was pretty cool though."
Framing that image is a design from an ad for Saks Fifth Avenue in a 1928 "New Yorker" magazine (Link2).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/1acrygg/macrophage_eating_neutrophil/ Link2: https://archive.org/details/sim_the-new-yorker_1928-12-29_4_45/page/8/mode/2up
February 3, 2024
I have been fascinated lately by specimen images shared on the Reddit \medlabprofessionals board. This is my first attempt, collaging two blood samples (?) together to get a sense of the color palettes created by the light blues and pinks.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
February 3, 2024
January 30, 2024
The edge of AI: an image showing a "plumber's nightmare", from a recent article in "Chemical World" (Link1). The article explains: "The stability of the plumber’s nightmare structure – so called because the structure is so convoluted, an intricate tangle of tubes – is attributed to the interplay between the strength of the end–end interactions and the initial shape of the curvature. ".
I don't understand the science, but the image seems relevant because over the last two weeks we've had a variety of plumbing problems in my building-- a deposit that had to be removed, no heat, no water, scalding water.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermodynamically-stable-plumbers-nightmare-structure-self-assembles-from-block-copolymers/4018757.article
January 28, 2024
A collage of three images: top, views of an aircraft said to show an anthropomorphic "smile" (Link1); bottom left, an AI-Gen gay male orgy (Link2); and bottom right, a "creepshot" from a hidden camera in a bathroom, showing a woman adjusting her thong (Link3). All overlaid by a subtle pattern (Link4)
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Link1: https://boards.4chan.org/b/thread/912523614 (removed) Link2: image by Anonymous on 4-Chan's /b board; no link recorded. Link3: image by Anonymous on 4-Chan's /b board; no link recorded. Link4: image by user Xozmoss on DeviantArt; no link recorded.
January 21, 2024
An AI-Gen face with spaghetti-like tendrils, by DeviantArt user Diagramjamals (Link1) displayed on top of a blood sample being discussed on Reddit's \medialabprofessionals board (Link2).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The originals
Link1: https://www.deviantart.com/diagramjamals/art/Splash-Neural-Art-By-Splash-Neural-Photorealistic-1011370459 Link2: https://www.reddit.com/r/medlabprofessionals/comments/198ac6e/this_patient_got_a_blast_count_of_90_in/
January 18, 2024
An illustrator and digital artist by the psuedonym of "ToughCrest" posted this hand-drawn design on DeviantArt (Link1). ToughCrest is a digital artist of long standing. This design he suggested for tattoos or t-shirts. In his accompanying notes, under "License," he says:
"License:
Free for Personal and Commercial use. Attribution is required.
No AI. Please don't redistribute the artwork on stock or wallpaper platforms."
This is very sophisticated language. He lets folks use his work, but he insists that he gets credit, and then, by saying 'No AI', he indicates that his work is NOT covered by current copyright policy of no copyright for AI work.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
The original:
Link1: https://www.deviantart.com/toughcrest/art/Cosmos-Ornamental-Artwork-1011401960
January 18, 2024
An unnamed artist (well, technically named "Anonymous"; Link1) did a series of portraits of girls posed in shadow and illumined by colored lights.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore
Link1: Images appeared on 4-Chan's "b" bulletin board; links not available.
January 15, 2024
A collage of four images from the February 1928 Popular Science. (Link1). The background image is the magazine's collage representing "Nine Wonders of the Modern World," to accompany an article by the president of M.I.T. The note on Internet Archive explains that "The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better."/
On top of that are (1) a central circle that is empty, (2) a circle showing a steering wheel and gear shift, (3) a circle showing how to use a hand file tool, (4) a circle advertising a device that sharpens razor blades, and (4) a motorist kneeling next to his car.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore
Second version is for entry in Plastic Club's "Back to Basics" show in February. It has bothered me that my web pictures (with their small source thumbnails) are different than the
images I enter in Art shows. The public domain sources are important.
Link1: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_VycDAAAAMBAJ
January 12, 2024
A collage of four AI-generated images downloaded online.
Topmost is a haunting image of four ghoulish faces, "Untitled," by user Stacksteads, uploaded to DeviantArt (Link1).
It is superimposed upon a grid of faces showing various extreme emotions, titled "Expressiones Motus" (trans: 'Expressions of Emotion') by DeviantArt user Lagan Lefredes (Link2)
Faintly visible in the background are some faces: a beautiful woman from an images called "Feelings" by Deviantart user "TwoDearMy" (Link3) and the face of Mickey Mouse, only recently released to the Public Domain, from an image on 4Chan's "\b" board. (Link4)
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Link1: https://www.deviantart.com/stacksteads/art/untitled-1007292909 Link2: https://www.deviantart.com/laganlefredes/art/Expressiones-motus-1007445276 Link3: https://www.deviantart.com/twodearmy/art/feelings-1006848755 Link4: https://boards.4chan.org/b/thread/911842883 (image has since been removed)
January 6, 2024
A jet designed by Lockheed in 1939, the L-133, it was turned down by the Air Force as "too advanced." It was posted in the Reddit "K" board in a thread on good-looking prototypes (Link1). It's placed on top of a painting of a trilobite fossil uploaded to the Reddit trilobite board by the artist Jaybenn1889 (Link2)
The dancing men and the fanciful invention come from a 1928 issue of "The Judge", a satirical magazine that published from 1881 to 1947. (Link3)
I lost the location of the tiny joke of a granite engraving that says "Nothing is written in stone."
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Link1: https://boards.4chan.org/k/thread/60540831 Link2: https://www.reddit.com/r/trilobites/comments/18vveb6/isotelus_maximus_trilobite/ Link3: https://archive.org/details/sim_judge_1928-12-29_95
January 4, 2024
Four AI-Generated images in Midjourney done by an English user called "DirectorJumpy9872" (Link1) and animated in Photoshop.
Music is from a 1956 album "Cha-Chas And Mambos" by 'Conjunto Nita Almanza' (Link2; trans: 'Nita Almanza Set')'.
Link1:https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/18v3kqq/inspired_by_concrete_spirals/ Link2: https://archive.org/details/lp_cha-chas-and-mambos_conjunto-nita-almanza
On the first day of the year, a number of works come into the public domain. See details here. I'm going to celebrate later, after an online event on January 25.
January 1, 2024
An image posted on Reddit's Vaporwave Art board: a couple embracing, done in vaporwave colors but not in vaporwave style, according to commenters (Link1). Texture and background from two AI-Generated patterns (Link2 and Link3).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Link1: https://www.reddit.com/r/VaporwaveArt/comments/18b8m55/my_take_on_vaporwave/ Uploader removed the image after controversy over whether it was 'true' vaporware art. Link2: Black and white AI-generated pattern "Untitled" by 'mrutunjaywait1_dgmtae1', downloaded from Deviant Art. Link3: Color AI-Generated pattern "Quantum" by 'Dmitriy Jakubovich' downloaded from Deviant Art: https://www.deviantart.com/dmitriyjakubovich
December 29, 2023
Two skillfully stuffed and posed elephants from the 1927 "Taxidermy and sculpture: the work of Carl E. Akeley in Field Museum of Natural History" (Link1). In the background, an illustration from an ad for Westclox alarm clocks from a 1927 "McCall's" (Link2) and an AI-Generated piece showing a girl in a field of writhing weeds (Link3).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Source:
Link1: https://archive.org/details/taxidermysculpturefmn1927 Link2: https://archive.org/details/sim_rosie_1927-12_55_3 Link3: Unfortunately, the source for the AI-Gen image is not recorded, probably either 4-Chan or DeviantArt. My sloppiness.
December 28, 2023
On my 79th birthday:
An illustration from the 1722 "Experimenta Nova Circa Pancreas" (Link1; trans: 'New Experiments Concerning the Pancreas'). Background composed of "Surreal Pattern 1" A.I.-generated by DeviantArt user BloodDiamondRose1238 (Link2) and a 1927 catalog of paint colors, "Moore's pure linseed oil house paint" (Link3).
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Source:
Link1: https://archive.org/details/42-experimenta-nova-circa-pancreas Link2: https://www.deviantart.com/blooddiamondrose1238/art/Surreal-pattern-1-1003978639 Link3: https://archive.org/details/moorespurelinsee00benj.
December 23, 2023
In an empty pool, a student practices her dive, over two AI-Generated images: (1) a curious pattern of blacks and (2) a fake parchment manuscript.
The prompt for the AI-Generator was:
"Create an intriguing visual composition that explores overlapping geometric shapes. Imagine an image in which thirteen points stand out, formed by squares of equal size, each rotated at different angles overlapping each other. Within each square, there is a sequence of three triangles, also overlapping at specific angles. The squares and triangles have solid black outlines, giving a sharp contrast."
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Source:
December 20, 2023
Inside cover for the 1927 "My pious friends and drunken companions, songs and ballads of conviviality" by Frank Shay illustrated by John Held, Jr.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Source:
Link1: https://archive.org/details/mypiousfriendsdr00shay
December 18, 2023
Playful composition/construction of 1927 New Yorker advertising matter and a recently found trilobite fossil.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Originals:
December 15, 2023
Our artist friend and teacher Alice Meyers-Wallace handed out her annual calendar at the Plastic Club holiday dinner.
December 15, 2023
A composition of (1) a Greek vase illustration, (2) an AI-generated pattern, and (3) the old Monopoly moneybags man -- but with empty pockets
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Originals:
December 13, 2023
A composition of (1) a photograph of a woman carrying a rifle in Ethiopia and (2) a morgue photo of a woman who died from anorexia.
Text, composition, framing, surface texture, coloring, and winged-trilobite logo by Bob Moore.
Originals:
December 12, 2023
ARCHIVE: Webpage Proprietor's Portraits II
Next are two other images also used as masthead portraits. Third image is an iPad self-portait in a coffee shop (approx. 2014). It is probably the best representation of my revulsion at the aging process and my sadness at the prospect of diminishing cognitive powers.
Fourth is an attempt to limit portrait to the fewest number of facial features and still be recognizable (approx. 2012). (Sorry: unlike the other images on this page, these masthead pictures don't enlarge when clicked...)
Fifth is a drawing done in our Open Studio workshop by Meri Collier, a Toronto-based artist and member of the Plastic Club.