Brendan Baldwin

Brendan Baldwin

Necrolodeon - "Family Dies"

No, not my family– it's the Keatons. That beloved 1980s family from Columbus, Ohio, whose lives played out in "Family Ties" from 1982 to 1989. I've gone and done something unforgivable to them using machine learning and monstrous image prompts of the Lovecraftian flying-polyp variety

Necrolodeon - "Helmo's Happy Dance"

Tickled far beyond mortal comprehension, Helmo now lives in a liminal space that defies all precepts of reality as we experience it, where he passes the time performing these arcane movements in an effort to move through the dimensional prison that is the apocalyptic Helmo's World.

Necrolodeon - "Number 6"

I was going to add some more sixes to this one, but I think this is demented enough to get the point across. Another experiment using a fork of Disco Diffusion with optical flow warping that actually segfaulted several times, so I rendered the final video locally without that feature.

Necrolodeon - "The Slimening"

This video was discovered by SETI researchers within an analog signal on a faint carrier wave transmitting from the vicinity of a dark mass in the sky near to Proxima Centauri. It has the vague resemblance of children's television programs of the late 90s...

Nemesis

H.P. Lovecraft's "Nemesis" has been one of my favorite poems of all time and after constructing these visuals without actually a plan for their use, the idea dawned on me to read this poem and it just brought them to life with so much more meaning and dread.