{"id":30366,"date":"2016-08-04T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30366"},"modified":"2016-08-04T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:32:01","slug":"making-baseball-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30366","title":{"rendered":"Making Baseball Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I noticed friends on Facebook and Twitter posting some very interesting images.  They were often profile pictures, but they weren&#8217;t photographs.  Not exactly, anyway.  They had the look of paintings in different artistic styles.  They were using an iOS app called <a href=\"http:\/\/prisma-ai.com\/\">Prisma<\/a>, and as an Android user I was a bit jealous.  My friends were doing cool things with photos, and I wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the Prisma app was released last week for Android, and two nights ago I downloaded it to my phone.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t have many photos on my phone to play with as, at the beginning of July, I&#8217;d cleared my photos off my phone and archived them on my desktop.  What I had at hand was mainly baseball photos.<\/p>\n<p>My first effort, then, was a photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30328\">the Baltimore Redbirds\/Herndon Braves playoff game<\/a> from early last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/73d48c6133d2d70c95fe8e9fb30fe14fresNet9_n1.jpg\" alt=\"73d48c6133d2d70c95fe8e9fb30fe14fresNet9_n1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure, right now, which filter I used.  I liked the effect, though.  It looks like a cracked canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found a picture of Carbon Leaf from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30297\">the Annapolis Irish Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/8676e10c1f47f5f6f7a0a55a125df8b1resNet8_1.jpg\" alt=\"8676e10c1f47f5f6f7a0a55a125df8b1resNet8_1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That turned out really nice, though what appears to be a face at the lower left hand corner, which is nothing of the sort (it was a guitar stand), is kinda creepy.  The effect was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>And then I tried a picture from the Baltimore Orioles game I attended last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/291f9b3a643d67efb0f4c0fc74779015resNet9_n3.jpg\" alt=\"291f9b3a643d67efb0f4c0fc74779015resNet9_n3\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know which player is.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went far back in my phone, to a Harrisburg Senators\/Akron Rubberducks game in early July.<\/p>\n<p>This is the original image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160709_180232-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"20160709_180232\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-30357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tried a couple of different filters.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30366 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?attachment_id=30364'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bc99e5bdfaf031d0d9e39092712ad693resNet9_n1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?attachment_id=30363'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bc99e5bdfaf031d0d9e39092712ad693resNet7_5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>These weren&#8217;t bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>Then, at random, I tried a filter called &#8220;Udnie,&#8221; inspired by Francis Picabia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/francis-picabia\/udnie-young-american-girl-1913\">Udnie, Young American Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And this was the result.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bc99e5bdfaf031d0d9e39092712ad693resNet7_4.jpg\" alt=\"bc99e5bdfaf031d0d9e39092712ad693resNet7_4\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow,&#8221; I said.  Wow.<\/p>\n<p>It was <i>exactly<\/i> what I wanted, and I didn&#8217;t even <i>know<\/i> what I wanted.  I was hoping to create something that looked vintage, something that evoked a Jazz Age baseball scene, something that would look perfect as the dust jacket of a book of baseball tales.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I have such a book.  I was speaking metaphorically.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s exactly what I got.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve cropped the resulting image so I can have it printed out, frame it, and hang it in my apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I noticed friends on Facebook and Twitter posting some very interesting images. They were often profile pictures, but they weren&#8217;t photographs. Not exactly, anyway. They had the look of paintings in different artistic styles. They were using an iOS app called Prisma, and as an Android user I was a bit jealous. My<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30366\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Making Baseball Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4491,4490,575,4458,22,4489],"class_list":["post-30366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-akron-rubberducks","tag-android","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore-redbirds","tag-harrisburg-senators","tag-prisma","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}