Found via the mystery mind of Mr. E.
And there is more here. The project is free and open source. It’s the automated equivalent of MTV blurring out the t-shirt logos of Real World actors (when the company hasn’t paid for product placement, anyway). Pushing back against the hyperlogoed advertising gestalt of our modern society.
But you know what this will be really, really good for? Imagine a future where we all have, say, wrap-around video goggles or beyond that, retinal/brain implants. Stuff that will filter your vision. Imagine being able to run this software in real time, to fully de-advertise your waking life, to turn back the tide of abused Freudian mass psychology that washes over you constantly, trying to subvert and pervert your instinctual desires to get you to buy useless crap you don’t need to impress people you don’t know. That will incredibly amazing and liberating. Especially since you’ll be able to replace, say, the Starbucks logo with a starfish (either an actual starfish, or starfish in the euphemistic sense [a puckered asshole] depending on your tastes and level of perversion. Just make sure to use a famous one if you’re shooting for euphemism). Replace the Windows logo with a Apple logo from the 80s, for giggles. Replace the Apple logo with Xerox PARC (if you’re one of … those people).
Next step, of course, is combine this idea with facial recognition. A boob on George W. Bush’s face, a starfish on Christian Bale’s face (i’m sure we can all agree on which version)… the list goes on.
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