Flickr motifs/cliches

i hope to collect here
various motifs
that recur in flickr pix

one purpose
is to formalise a tagset

another
to stimulate creativity




fog-steam-smoke

outoffocus-bokeh

jumping-midair

backlit-silhouette

litfrombelow

thrufence-thruscreen-thruveil-thrucloth

thruhole

inmirror

armslengthselfportrait

overhead-groundlevel-shootingup

offcenter-tophalf-bottomhalf

tilted

lyingdown

squatting

underwater-wet

intree

detritus

makeaface-fakesmile-showtongue

strikeapose

handgesture-thefinger-peacesign

shakinghead-wildhair-hairinface-veronicalake

eyecloseup

mask

paintedskin-writingonskin

props: cigarette




kooky cliches

colored wigs/hair

eyemakeup

striped kneesocks [20,000]

asymmetrical (face)




color cliches

sunset

flowers

feathers





shock cliches

nudity

weapons

suicidal

symbols: satanic-nazi-death

blood-wounds-deadanimals

bodyslime





from website photo cliches:

StatueGroping
SeeNoEvil
LynndieEngland
ImKingOfTheWorld
JawsAtUniversal
SnortingCocaCola
FalsePhallus
KarateKidPose

also: perspectivegiant

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Language molecules

whether they're dna or not
there have to be molecules in the brain
that embody specific words

so someday a visualisation
will be able to sort the whole thesaurus
into specific brain regions

down to the level of specific molecules

so life events
are continually
verbalised
at the molecular level

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The geometry of ego

1st dimension: every human (in a line)

2nd dimension: the same (at 90 degrees)

at the intersections
the relationships of human to human

A's relationships to B, C, D...
B's to A, C, D...

 |
D| * *
C| * *
B| *
A| *
 +-----------
 A B C D

3rd dimension: every human again

with the intersections
their relations to others' relationships

A's relationship to
B's relationship to A

with ego blindness dominating here

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AI in the comix?

most science fiction
punts the hard questions of AI
by assuming that robots achieve
consciousness
in one fell swoop
without intermediate stages

but the premise of 'robot wisdom'
is that the intermediate steps
must progress from mathematics
thru literature
to psychology

along which path
we'll achieve
universal human/scientific wisdom

not least the ability
to cuss in math

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Movie semantics (Zoolander)

[draft]

i'm preparing to do some experiments
in google's new app engine

the 1st very simple: the 'portaliser'
(portaliZer was taken)
will massage a set of favorite links
into a simple page-layout

but the 2nd is much more ambitious
trying to add time-sequencing
to IMDb movie keywords/tags

eg 'Zoolander'

IMDb: main, summary

keywords/tags: Secret Agent, 2000s, Catch Phrase, Multiple Cameos, Spy, Spy Spoof, Frat Pack, Car Chase, Assassination, Brainwashing, Cameo Appearance, Conspiracy, Fame, Fashion Model, Fashion Show, Fashion, Orgy, Stupidity, Exploding Gas Station, Exploitation, Obesity, Sequel, Vanity, Saturday Night Live, Dwarf, Dwarves, Based On Sketch Comedy, Child Labor, Blackface, Bulimia, Catwalk, Erection, Femme Fatale, Malaysia, Masseuse, Reporter, Time Magazine, Directed By Star, Break Dance, Male Model, Character Name In Title


IMDb ontology experiment: [2005] (Modalities, Dramatic themes, Family themes, Sports, Animals, Music and comedy, Historical period, Crime-related, War-related, Horror and scifi, Sex, Animation)

Blake's psychedelic semantic web

not just
in
every grain of sand

but in every field
of every database

(even the simplest:

name address age gender title
etc)

we
must
see
the whole potential universe

ie
all those simple fieldobjects'
real-or-potential
relationships
with all other fields/objects

naturally ordered
most-important first (a

literary

criterion
you must then
(now) begin
to spend the whole rest
of your life
studying)

as if
every field has an extra
asterisk p.s.

where anomalies are noted

(how certain is the value?
why or why not?
when and why did it last change?
etc)

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Wisest of the wise

[this is the first
and hopefully the
least
articulate and
most
controversial
of a projected series]

any semantic web first needs
a mental model of all possible semantic webs
(and this mental model must include
a mental model of all possible
mental models)

say

mentally model each 'object'
(including mental objects)
as a named point
of known or unknown duration
(some objects
more important than others
from the perspective of any given mind)

with lines between points
modeling relationships between objects

relationships changing in time

relationships mentally modeled
by related mental objects

relations affecting
and affected by
(more or less strongly)
related relationships with other objects

(all mental models of relationships
necessarily related to the mental models
of all related objects
and of their relationships)


and mental models differ in depth
in wisdom
some shallow some deep

deep or shallow
in many different ways

different wisdoms
characteristic of the deep or shallow
people who hold them

but mental models of semantic webs
and mental models of mental models
must be deep by every definition

constructed atop a distillation
of all wisdoms
(art philosophy religion
politics economics history
fiction poetry humor
psychology philology anthropology sociobiology
criticism design logic math)
only by the wisest of the wise

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NewYorker cartoon semantics

[keyword search]

(desert) island w/prisoner, alien, Death, Death, golfer, cannibal, couple, fishbowl, restaurant, restaurant,

prisoner w/island,

alien w/island,

bar

Death

golfer

cannibal

couple

evolution

Crayolacube combinatorics

starting
from the worldtree

and its
individual lifelines

isolate any
line segment
and flatten its spatial dimensions
down to just x
(with time as y)



paint this segment
using any convenient mapping
(eg the crayolacube
red-evil blue-sad
yellow-sick or -enslaved)



classify your segment by
start-color
and end-color



ignoring intermediate values
(here greyed)

notice the formal analogy
with the i ching's 64 hexgrams
permuting eight trigrams



each colorchange
within any segment
must have
causes

some expected
some unexpected



now
isolate any pair of segments
that start and end
at the same times

and classify this pair
by its two start colors
and its two end colors
(8^4 = 4096, too slow to render)



#1 of 64



sometimes the colorchange
in one segment
will help cause the colorchange
in the other segment

via
a strong or weak
linkage

strong

weak

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