For this week, I explored the Robots Reading Vogue webpage. This page synthesizes a series of Diana Vreeland’s memos from when she was editor-in-chief at Vogue. All of her memos are logged in the book Memos: the Vogue years, 1962-1971.
After processing all the data from the book of Vreeland’s memos, a machine learning device uses Markov Chains to output a message mimicking Vreeland’s writing style. In essence, this website is a predictive text generator that only uses Vreeland’s memos as its dataset.
After generating the text, this webpage pastes the text into a page that appears similar to the original memos. The background is yellowish to create a somewhat aged look, and all the text is slightly imperfect, and has a font like a typewriter. The to, Copy to, and Subject lines are generated similarly to the body of text, and the Date is chosen randomly between 1962 and 1971.
