“Could Richard Spencer getting punched in the face be the new default sample material for image and video processing demonstrations? Only time will tell.”
– American artist
Sam Lavigne, on his bid to make a clip of smug white supremacist Richard Spencer
getting slugged (after the 2017 Trump Inauguration) a default in video processing tests. Contemplating how
Lena Forsén became a standard test image in computer vision contexts, Lavigne muses over using the Spencer clip for demos because it has “colour, motion, a human face, and embraces rather than shies away from the element of pleasure.”