The Antilog: ANTILOG

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ANTILOG_01Sep18a

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14:18 2018-09-01

- A short while ago, I began playing with something that is called "neural style transfer"; That is, you take a "content image" and a "style image" and you transpose the style of the style image onto the content of the content image;
- The process is a little more complicated than that, but today there are apps that exist that do this for you;
- The problem is the same problem we always face in artistic creation, namely the problem of finding elegant solutions to "aesthetic problems"; That is to say, the apps don't do all the work for you, they only do some of the heavy lifting; The rest is for you to do, with your own hard-won artistry;

- Ste-Anne street, located in the Old Village of St-Hilaire, where I live, is one of my favorite subjects for a landscape; At all times of the day, in every season around the year, this angle, looking UP Ste-Anne street, the view is always splendid; It married itself naturally with the techniques of neural style transfer;

- This is also on Ste-Anne Street, a little further down, looking up; Here we see the Mont-Saint-Hilaire mountain at a time of day called "L'Heure mauve" or "The Purple Hour"; The namesake should be obvious, i.e. the mountain is of a distinct violet hue;

- This view is on St-Henri street looking towards the river; It happens to be a few steps away from my apartment; Again, the view here is always amazing, especially when the sun is setting, as it hits the houses on the right at just the right angle, and the light is of a yellowish hue;

- A visual artist can't really go without making self-portraits; Here I was able to give the photo a nice pastel-hued look & feel;

- Another self-portrait, except here I am playing with the Pointillist style;

- This is a view from the St-Hilaire side of the Richelieu River (in the "Old Village"); These are buildings found to the left of the Church of Beloeil;

- The bridge between St-Hilaire and Beloeil is beautiful at any time of day and at any time throughout the year; It lends itself well to neural style transfers;

- Here we have the Presbytery by the Church of St-Hilaire; I gave it a "rustic" look just to put the historical architecture in prominence;

- So far, this has been my most popular neural style transfer, the Church of Beloeil seen from the Old Village of St-Hilaire, across the Richelieu River;

- The Church of St-Hilaire, in the Old Village, seen from the back, on St-Hyppolite Street; This is one of my favorite "angles" of the architecture of the site of the Church of St-Hilaire; Paul-Émile Borduas, a famous Québécois painter and public intellectual, once made a painting of the same location from a similar angle; This is a "hat tip" to him; The house he was born in happens to be on my street, St-Henri Street in the Old Village, which I am told was once a commercial center in the parish of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, of which this is the origial parish Church;

- A bushel of lemons taken at a market in Montreal, near the Lafontaine Park, in Mont Royal;

- Another "rustic" look & feel, this time of a small barn near my apartment;

- Yet another view from Ste-Anne Street in the Old Village of St-Hilaire; As stated above, this particular view is beautiful all year round, at any time of day;

- There is a marina on the Beloeil side of the Richelieu River; Here we see the Mont-Saint-Hilaire mountain which is always visually delicious;

- Another view of the Jordi Bonet Bridge, between the towns of Beloeil and St-Hilaire;

- The Manoir Rouville-Campbell is closer to the town of Otterburn Park; It's a special location in the history of Quebec, a real historic building which was once the "Manor-House" in colonial times;

- Last but not least, a view of the Church of Beloeil at sunset; The sun sets behind the Church, giving it a darkened feel, with the full palette of the "Daylight Series" visible in the sky above;

The Antilog

Saturday, September 1, 2018

ANTILOG_01Sep18a

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