I have been a little fixated on Google's DeepDream output.

Images

Original

Run through DeepDream a few times

Other Artists Approach to Video

Some people have been trying to make a video filter out of it, but the results have been disappointing. When you process every frame through Deepdream, the results change slightly from frame to frame, and it looks kind of like static. 

My Solution

Instead of running every frame through, I used Morpheus to make the tweens. Morpheus kind of sucks because you can't adjust the curves, or have overlapping timing on the points.

This is my best one.

lavender 2 from Jonny2Thumbs on Vimeo.

I have been wondering if my natural talents are more akin to creative problem solving than narrative creativity...

Links
https://deepdream.in/
https://dreamscopeapp.com/
https://github.com/graphific/DeepDreamVideo

https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/3cawxb/what_are_deepdream_images_how_do_i_make_my_own/

Earthbound

Earthbound is a kids video game with "adult material" slipped in.
http://www.popmatters.com/post/191793-earthbound-as-childrens-literature/

Charlotte's Web

I read Charlotte's Web for the first time in 30 years. It was beautiful and tragic.
I watched the movie from 2006; I expected the tone to be adapted for the contemporary mainstream audience, but it was true to the book. A lot of the CGI + live action techniques are very well done.

More on the 2012 Cornel Exhibition on the "Dark Side" of children's literature
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/rabbithole/index.html

E.B. White. “Death of a Pig.” Manuscript (page 1) of an essay forThe Atlantic, circa 1947.

Many readers suspect that the event described in this essay - the illness and death of a pig White was raising for slaughter, and the ironic attachment to it that he developed as he tried to nurse it back to health - provided an inspiration for Charlotte’s Web. Although White denied any direct connection, he did cite his conflicting feelings on the general practice of raising livestock to be “murdered by their benefactors” as a possible catalyst:

“ I have kept several pigs, starting them in the spring as weanlings and carrying trays to them all through the summer and fall. The relationship bothered me. Day by day I became better acquainted with my pig, and he with me, and the fact that the whole adventure pointed toward an eventual piece of double-dealing on my part lent an eerie quality to the thing. . . Anyway, the theme of Charlotte’s Web is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect ” (“Pigs, and Spiders,” McClurg’s Book News, January 1953).