Monday, November 11, 2024

Caravaggio's David and Goliath

 






Most of my AI video confections are me half being led around by what the technology can conjure on its own. I have ideas of my own, but the results pull me this way and that. If I try to impose my will I usually end up in a losing battle with the technology, a technology that can be mercurial, imperious, and blindingly idiotic. But sometimes I start out, develop an idea of my own, and am actually able (not without struggle) to make it into something bigger than I thought possible.

So it is with this 50 second music video interpretation of the great Caravaggio's painting of David and Goliath coming to life. The mere trick of the painting coming to life is the initial small thing, more messily done than I would have liked, but being able to develop it into its own study of the aftermath David's beheading was a surprising accomplishment for me.



As ever, click through the picture to watch and listen.
















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