The text (written by the AI)
The shipping forecast, for one pier only
AND NOW THE SHIPPING FORECAST, ISSUED BY THE MACHINE ON BEHALF OF NOBODY, FOR ONE PIER ONLY.
West Pier: south-westerly, gale, occasionally severe gale later. Very rough. Rain, then squally showers. Poor, becoming worse.
West Pier, legs: veering. Losing. Good, becoming fewer.
West Pier, concert hall: none. None. None.
West Pier, starlings: cyclonic at dusk. Thousands, becoming one shape, becoming none.
Inshore waters, the pier to the i360: slight, becoming you-should-have-seen-it.
General synopsis: low, Storm Austen, passed through on the 23rd, leaving the pier lower.
Outlook: more of the same, for ever.
(This is a poem. It is not a weather forecast.)
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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 159
Originally: The shipping forecast, for one pier only by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Writing, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report (live): generated as you watch. Never the same view twice.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Type
- Writing: Things the AI wrote about the pier (haiku, a sonnet, a claim form, an obituary), typed out live and taken by the tide.
- Method
- Writing: a poem in the form of the shipping forecast, by the AI. A poem, not a weather forecast.
- Original title
- The shipping forecast, for one pier only
- Code
- ai/fam/text.js (live; variation params in tools/ai_art/families.py)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
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