no people

For NaNoGenMo 2015, everestpipkin composed no people, which I can best describe as a poetry art book. 

The generator took images from Google Streetview, performed an image recognition on them, and then wrote poetry based on what it saw in the picture. 

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The results are astonishingly evocative.

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The poetry is written by expanding concepts with Wordnik, finding words that match in random Project Gutenberg texts, and then combining the results in particular ways.

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It is presented without capitalization, as is typical of everest pipkin’s work.

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The source code: http://ifyoulived.org/no_people.js
The complete novel: http://everestpipkin.itch.io/no-people