AMATEUR FLESH: ITALLHAPPENSATONCEOur amateur recommendation today takes us by the hand back to
the early days of the Internet. Back to a time when photos took forever to load, digital cameras were only just starting to make an appearance, and nobody zoomed in on an image to check whether it was perfectly in focus.
Back then,
quality was the least of our concerns. Mainly because we had no idea how far all of this would eventually go. We didn't know how many megapixels were coming, there was no 4K, no HDR, and we certainly never imagined that one day we'd be able to see every last pore on someone's skin from a screen we carry around in our pocket.
So we were perfectly happy with much less. A photo could be slightly blurry, badly lit, or look like it had been taken with a camera found inside a cereal box.
What mattered was the intention. And if the intention was good, our imagination was more than capable of filling in the missing megapixels.
And there's definitely something about today's protagonist that brings back a little of that spirit. Her material has that
genuine amateur charm, far removed from perfectly lit productions, carefully planned shots, and videos that look like they were filmed by a twenty-person crew. Here it's basically a phone, a camera, a desire to show off, and not much else. Just like the old days.
Although there's something else she seems to enjoy almost as much as getting in front of the camera:
reading the reactions she gets from the other side of the screen.
Some of her posts make it pretty clear that she enjoys going through the comments and, when you think about it, that's hardly surprising. We all like hearing nice things about ourselves. And depending on what you've just posted, maybe
things that aren't quite so nice but are considerably more interesting.
Because uploading a photo is one thing. Finding out what went through someone's head when they saw it is another. What they liked, where their eyes lingered the longest and, above all,
what they'd be willing to do if, instead of looking at her through a screen, she was standing right in front of them.
I guess that's part of the game too. She shows, you watch, some of you leave comments, and then she comes back to see
just how far everyone's imagination has wandered.
And judging by the photos and videos coming up next, I have a feeling
she's going to have plenty of reading to catch up on today.
# See photos and videos
BAMBI THE DESTROYERBambi the Destroyer begins like any '80s fantasy movie pulled straight from the video store: a young woman accidentally travels through a vortex and lands in another dimension filled with strange creatures and dangerous monsters that seem to have spent their entire lives waiting for her to arrive.
From that moment on, our voluptuous heroine swaps her '80s clothes for a skimpy warrior outfit, learns how to swing a sword, and eventually becomes a kind of
female Conan, making her way through a fantasy world packed with mutants and that wonderful lack of self-consciousness that defined classic B-movies.
The series consists of
12 episodes lasting barely one or two minutes each. The story limps along, the narrative keeps tripping over itself, and the plot logic decided to travel through another vortex and never come back. But honestly, none of that really matters. The most interesting thing isn't what the series tells us, but
how it was created.
The images, characters, settings, dialogue, voices, music, and movement were all generated by combining different artificial intelligence systems. There are obviously many hours of work behind it, but the entire project was created by a single person giving instructions, selecting results, and fitting all the different pieces together.
And that's where it's worth stopping for a moment. Barely a decade ago, producing something like this would have required actors, cameras, costumes, sets, technicians, musicians, visual effects specialists, and several months of work. Today, one person can sit in front of a computer and request it using lines of text.
Not design it, model it, animate it, and program it from scratch: simply ask for it.
The result is still far from perfect. Some shots don't fit together, movements look strange, and continuity wanders in and out of the story whenever it feels like it. But there are also swords, monsters, impossible landscapes, and a flesh-baring '80s warrior traveling through another universe. And all of it came out of a computer after someone figured out how to explain exactly what they wanted.
Bambi the Destroyer may not be the future of cinema or a cult classic, but it offers a small glimpse of how this new era could begin.
Below, you can watch all 12 episodes and visit the creator's Instagram account to follow the project.
# Watch videos
Grandpa is blown away.