Brett Whiteley's Matches

 Art Gallery of NSW

Filmed 19 Aug 2012 from 10th floor, 45 Macleay St, Party (sic) Point. Of course there's a big council truck of one sort or another, if not more, trawling along the narrow lane right below the flat, just for added noise!  

The original video, as is from the camera:

Put though upscale and anime modelling engine, it's cute but very artificial. I certainly want to sharpen it up but using anime means getting that pixie dust effect and choosing to take in on board. Y/N?? ✅❌❓

 

This is starting to look fine

 

I think this is a massively interesting result. Now, where is the original . . . o here (no AI/processing whatsoever, straight scan of paper and ink artwork) 

 

Look at the DeepDream one, you know the machine would never do my signature, does a big indecisive scrub. Hilarious. In light of what it does do, I completely forgive it. This time.

Moonrise, Sunset

This DeepDream composite is a composite of 2 of my recent photos of a moonrise over-styled in the colours of a sunset. The program has done a very classy, understated dice and slice of the valley below as well. Deceptively simple.

Moonlight over my horizon

 Moon rising around 5:42 AEST, 12 June 2025, looking sou'east.

Moonlight over my south east horizon, a very generous slice of heaven indeed. 

Upscaled to 8K this time, nothing less, and rendered with the Real Smooth model instead of the usual Anime model to see what the diff is. 

A great big wodge of closely re-iterated patterns based on and around a great big re-interpretation of the original photo, with the ever so subtle wobble of the render  bias, makes the end result of some of these time consuming transformations somewhat worth it. We're going LARGE without going off source as best we can. Could be cropped, too lazy at present.

 

Somewhere in North Africa

Here are enduring marks of an ancient structure. 

A coastal depot or magazine, as the primary sources may call it, a military storage site for arms. An ancient stockade, a waypoint for wild animals and slaves captured farther south in the interior of Africa, bound for the households and circuses of Rome and Byzantium.

Earth built up on the eastern side indicates the deep tracks of the main entrance. A lot of work happened here so there must have been a lot of traffic. 

  Something even more intriguing to the north near Bardiyah here!! 

Be great to know what era these are from. Could be originally Egyptian being so close to the Egypt/Libya border. Could well have been a sporting arena as much as anything else. Within the Roman Empire in 500AD.