Message:It's starting to retroactively degrade what came before.
Take "Sci-fi Air Show." It's an art project from 2008 or so. Some talented model makers built incredible replicas and did clever combinations of forced perspective and matching composite work to create a fictional display of old sci-fi ships being toured by regular people.
When it's shared now it's dismissed as "AI slop" instead of meticulous hand crafted art.
https://www.scifiairshow.com/
There's also the Hell's Club series -- quite simply the best film mashups ever created. Plot? In Hell there's a club where fictional characters from all of cinema interact. Since it's Hell and they're being tortured, eventually, everything devolves into carnage. Still, Antonio Da Silva went through a ridiculous amount of footage, cross cut between clips to form a series of vignettes, did a large amount of tedious roto work to isolate elements, combined elements together to create a (nearly) cohesive space, and did ridiculously good color grading to tie everything together. Then he did the same with the soundtrack, patching and layering up multiple songs to create a fitting soundtrack. He did the first versions close to 10 years ago, but as since re-done them at 1080p
There are four videos in the Hell's Club series, 1, 1.5 (a side story happening during 1), 2, and 3. Part 2 is my favorite.
Again, this meticulous, hand crafted, transformative art gets dismissed now as "AI slop." Please, AI slop doesn't have Da Sipva's sense of humor and obvious love for cinema.
https://youtu.be/wfYlTtA7-ks?si=7UQf-5iPXK4No8o1
Sit through the credits to find out who the final survivor is. And to see just how many fiims and music tracks got mashed together.
And, once again, it's getting
Yours,
IronMike
11-Nov-2025