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Public urinal on legs?
dude I want to punt these things so fuckin hard im actually jealous im not their right now.
If you take the time to actually read the article/watch the video, the dogs are constantly taking pictures in styles of their person, and shit them out onto the floor lol.
I do not condone the abuse of animals, but I will make an exception with this. Time to put some mutts to sleep via percussive maintenance.
Lol, Beeple.
Surveillance/RoboCop dogs.
Only one response to that:
One, that's nightmare fuel. Two, more weird art like this please.
They need to be fucking.
Or 69'ing.
They can refuel each other by docking or something. It'll be like that robot thats constantly sweeping the oil into itself and when it stops, it dies.
I thought it died some years back.
Robot dog centepeding.
They can refuel each other by docking or something.
That's a funny way to spell dicking.
Fun fact: the term docking can refer to one person putting the head of their penis inside of the foreskin of another person.
I guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 for this particular factoid.
Yeah, I also feel kind of conflicted about this.
Absolute nightmare fuel.
Me if I saw one IRL
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So a crypto bro douche is being a douche again? How a propos.
I feel sorry for the car or truck that runs them over, poor vehicle.
I realize there are amazing artists with great sculpting skills. But these faces do look like they were made from real face moulds.
Which makes me wonder.
- Musk and Zuck agreed to have a mould of their face.
- Only these two fools could afford these robot dogs.
- Musk already developed remote robot tech.
Conclusion. They both are behind the stunt.
There was a tesla humanoid robot a while back with musks face.
Dude. It's likely them running these robots. Remotely.
Cause they can't go out in public. Cause of the angry mobs.
Using AI to create a 3D mold from a few photos?
Yeah the 3d ai is no where at that level.
Only way to make a good 3d model is 3d scan. You can do that with a regular camera or a fancy scanner. The real work (compiling images) is done on the software.
Still requires person to agree. It takes at minimum 100 photos to get a good model.
But even with a 3d model, you'd have to make a 3d print. Resin would be most accurate. Not filament.
Printed to scale.
Then turn that into a mould. Because you can't use resin moulds.
Then make a support shell mould. Which you would need to make even if mould was made directly from face but it's way easier to do it from a real face. Plus you get fine lines and pores. If you have a really high resolution silicone.
Then also someone skilled, painted it and hand added hair. Each strand is manually added. You can buy hair patches but it looks directly added. Like how it's done on high end doll heads. (But most cheap toy dolls use machines that add clumps at a time. Not single hair. or sew the hair on.)
These must have been incredibly expensive to produce.
Well, expensive for you or me.
Maybe 5k for a head. Assuming a few heads were made. That's what I would guess knowing the labor and materials involved.
If only one head. Maybe more. Since mould making process is expensive.
$6k or 7k maybe? Also more because of the NDA.
Assuming that musk or zuck are the ones commissioning these.
Have you seen Beeple's other work?
would be great in a video game. sniper rifle
The artist is clearly a fan of the billionaires comparing them with Picasso and Warhol.
He was a the biggest winner out of NFTs that I know of.
not necessarily
Beeple commented that “in the past, our worldview was shaped by artists” such as Picasso and Warhol. “But increasingly, our view of the world is being shaped by tech billionaires,” he continued. “Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk control very powerful algorithms that shape what we see and what we don’t see.”
they don't have to shape it in a good way to shape our contemporary records
whereas picasso shaped the world in awe and warhol in consumerism, zuckerberg literally does it into consumerism
So they picked a dog shape? why not a turd shapes.
We like dogs.
because they shit pictures that they take. A turd can't shit another turd.
turds do not have any form to distort
we also like picasso