Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 5:42 pm
Not the type of activity I was expecting, but I'll take it. For those not aware, they posted this today:
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Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:57 pm
Did they AI upscaled the video ?
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:34 pm
Great, more of the same old same. Give us some new shit already.
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:43 pm
Well that's a pretty lame attitude. You're not entitled to anything and they surely don't owe you anything.Cyclosa wrote:Great, more of the same old same. Give us some new shit already.
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:47 pm
why does it play the trans canada highway promo video at the end
does that mean anything whats the point of playing that video
it's not even the full invocation video they edited out the last 10 seconds
fuck this why would they include the invocation video but trim it out WHY
does that mean anything whats the point of playing that video
it's not even the full invocation video they edited out the last 10 seconds
fuck this why would they include the invocation video but trim it out WHY
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:55 pm
is it me, or is it something different about it?
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:07 pm
Uugh
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:21 pm
They upscaled it. Same bs as the Daft Punk video. I hope this is just Warp record doing some shit and Hexagon Sun has nothing to do with this, cuz otherwise yikes.Onyxia wrote:is it me, or is it something different about it?
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:44 pm
This is why I dislike sending one of the last posts on the previous page. New peeps feeling frustrated, here please;
Orbited insanitarium wrote:Re; the reupload of Dayvan Cowboy, before anyone is angry at the rather naff AI upscale of it, I would say HOLD YOUR HORSES!!! to think how BoC have used AI before, like on the "I Feel Good" video using wombo.ai, and that case of a photo of Mike Sandison on instagram from a while back which had been heavily processed with AI. (The common non-obsessed BoC fan might not know about this so I understand any complaints)
So yeah they have used it before, and you might think at surface level that this is a poor show and you might be disappointed, like many in the comments of the video are, but I think this is some commentary, possibly on the broader use of AI to upscale SD media that has significant value to an audience. Daft Punk's Interstellar 5555 just got re-released in cinema's and there was upset as to how it was upscaled for the occasion. BoC's use could go a little deeper towards speaking on that.
Boards of Canada whether you like it or not, they dabble with Artificial Intelligence.
Now, it's nice to see it! Uploaded for the 100,000 subscriber milestone o'er on youtube. "Invocation" (the little video at the end that was on Japanese Trans Canada Highway CD copies, has been added)
Orbited insanitarium wrote:Well.... correction, the comments aren't mostly about AI, it's just the lovable nutters elsewhere (discord wink wink), that have that as the current talking point.
I do like how the AI made some shots really bad but while bad, also in a kind of surreal, trippy way, I'm talking more about the latter half of the video than the first.
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:22 pm
There's a short snippet of P.C. at the very end..... ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh
And at 5:41 there's a timestamp watermark which says
And at 5:41 there's a timestamp watermark which says
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:41 pm
Update: as pointed out by a few different folks on Discord, this isn't anything new. Sad!
Instagram upload from 20w ago:
"Invocation" from forever ago:
Instagram upload from 20w ago:
"Invocation" from forever ago:
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:11 pm
Damn, I was hoping there would be some hidden message there 
But since they've posted it, maybe its their way of saying "new release is underway"?
But since they've posted it, maybe its their way of saying "new release is underway"?
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 1:06 am
The Campfire Headphase turns 20 next year.
Dang.
Dang.
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 5:54 am
Fuckin' unreal, isn't it?rodox_head wrote:The Campfire Headphase turns 20 next year.
Dang.
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 8:28 am
Unrelated but fresh:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/enduring-m ... ic-window/
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/enduring-m ... ic-window/
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 3:02 pm
Im thinking about numerology of this, since they have added edited invocation, and it totals at 6:00. Original track on CD is 5:00. Could it be a hint that a new album is not due to in 2025, but 2026? I know thats a far out theory, but Im trying to make something out of it, anything XDD
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:45 am
This could change as there’s still some way to go in 2024 but… can it be that they’re playing tricks with this very graph? Since the recent YouTube video upload, the bars of the 3 most recent years are all multiples of ten, which looks rather funny.Alvin wrote:According to the timeline on https://bocpages.org/wiki/Timeline unless there is a spurt of activity soon, there will have been less social media activity on the official accounts this year than each of the years from 2020-2023 (which had been trending upward). If this activity were a stock we appear to be in a bear market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effectThe Hawthorne effect is a type of human behavior reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 4:59 pm
Thats an interesting observation! It mimicks quantum mechanics in a way too, where observation of a particle affects the way it behaves. They could very much so be aware of what we are doing/thinking, and they are responding. But is that necessairly a trick, or maybe a way of saying "hey guys, its meaningless what we are doing here"?
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 8:59 pm
Yeah, could be. That’s one way of looking at it. If they are indeed manipulating the graph it does sort of highlight the absurdity of cultish fans looking for patterns, while playing into it too.cabal rose tv wrote:But is that necessairly a trick, or maybe a way of saying "hey guys, it’s meaningless what we are doing here"?
Re: GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 9:48 pm
Thank you, thought I was going nuts on the upscale.
As far as AI use goes this is one of the more benign ones but that said it does look distracting and janky, I'm sure it's possible to do better than that if they're going to do it at all
But like why bother in the first place?
As far as AI use goes this is one of the more benign ones but that said it does look distracting and janky, I'm sure it's possible to do better than that if they're going to do it at all
But like why bother in the first place?