It’s a bit of a tossup.
Artist Diemut Strebe has created an unsettling, fleshy robotic mouth that utters an endless series of AI generated prayer. Unsettling or beautiful? You decide. pic.twitter.com/BwrEKm4NfN
— CNET (@CNET) September 28, 2020
Either way, I don’t want it anywhere near me. Yuck.
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blockquote>Sex toy or religious artifact?
Can’t it be both?
When I visited Lantau Island in (?2002?) they gave me an amazing little box that consists of a 9-volt battery holder and a little on/volume switch. Turn it on and it starts droning an endlessly looping buddhist prayer. It seems to synchronize somehow – if you turn it off for 5 seconds, it resumes 5 seconds into the loop. The thing has been without batteries many times and it still works fine. It also has a headphone jack, so I used to sometimes patch it into my mixing board alongside my MC-505 groovebox and let the groovebox do drum and bass accompaniment. I think it cost me $5. It was a great deal.
So now I am thinking I need to find some facial animation library, and upload some of the audio loop and sync it so I can have a singing 3D badger doing the loop. Lemme go buy a box of incense.
Better than a prayer wheel!
Likely to do well in those red states where the repubs watch the most online porn .
“Praise the lord
and pas the KY Jelly “
Oh no… I just had a horrible thought: If the new Dune adaptation get’s popular, then there will be a porn parody.
Imagine a XXX version of the Gom Jabbar scene. It’s not going to be Paul’s hand that goes into the box.
Akira MacKenzie:
Oh no… I just had a horrible thought: If the new Dune adaptation get’s popular, then there will be a porn parody.
I’d probably buy a copy. Just to support the arts, you know?
I think a musical version has potential, too, especially if it was Gilbert and Sullivan-esque
Could Big Mouth Billy Bass be retrofitted for this purpose?
The robot above already make me think of a fish man, but it’s sad to see its mouth crushed in some kind of metal contraption.
I think I just discovered my kink ❤️
@Marcus Ranum, colour me surprised you have a ‘505.
Is this an early prototype of the electric monk?
As an empiricist I see immediate applications. You train a bunch of these things on various but separate religions, run them for a year, break them for a bit, fix them and check the log files to see which AIs went to heaven – because obviously the praise-singing would resume once the late AI arrives in its respective afterlife. If the file contains nothing but agonised screaming, well, that would be valuable data, too. Now I’d better get cracking on that papal research grant.
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/robotic-mechanical-mouth
A different text would be much more useful:
Can I get one that moans?
To paraphrase Estelle Reiner, “I’ll have what it’s having”.
@5 & @6 so what would the sandworms be in Dune porn?
Gotta say I wouldn’t want to be a participant – sand would get in everywhere.
BTW, does it spit or …?
@myself in #16. Damn, I missed the chance of italicizing my ellipsis. I love the look of full stops italicized in the evening.
Give ’em an orange tint and you got yourself your personal pair of trump lips.
I love it, puts prayer on display as only modern art could without having to spell everything out in long walls of text.
The look is interesting, intriguing, and disturbing all at once!
uncle frogy
Oof. That machine is ugly to me, but I do find the concept interesting – and even the ugliness is part of the art, which makes the ugliness relevant to the analysis, but it certainly doesn’t turn the ugliness into pulchritude.
@timgueguen: I have one fully operational and 2 parts spares. Also a fully operational 303 and a parts spare. I sold the DX7 last year but the grooveboxes… I’ll always have room for those.
Billy Bass meets Fleshlight. Shame on you for making me think of that! :)
But there is something about that head that makes me think it could be the internals of an animatronic Lovecraftian Deep One. What’s with the fin-like cranial ridge?
I guess you could get it to “speak in tongues” by adding a random word generator. That would extend the market a bit…
“Sex toy or religious artifact?” Hmmm…I’m not sure there’s a difference?