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3 months ago

On ABC TV's The Art Of, artist Lindy Lee explains how aging enriches her art

ABC

In 2024, artist Lindy Lee delivered her biggest project to date: the Ouroboros, a $14 million commission marking the 40th anniversary of the National Gallery of Australia. More than 400 people worked on the Ouroboros in the Brisbane foundry of Urban Art Projects, Lee's longtime collaborators who helped her execute her ambitious vision for the commission, Australia's most expensive to …

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11 months, 1 week ago

AI is making mincemeat out of art (not to mention intellectual property)

LA Times

Ed Ruscha appeared on a list of artists whose work may have been used to train Midjourney. “Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism,” that complaint states, in order to “ create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.” There are other lawsuits, and Los Angeles Times tech columnist Brian …

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1 year, 2 months ago

‘Loki’ Season 2 review: A fun ride through space and time

The Hindu

Season 1 of Lokiended with Sylvie, a female variant of Loki, killing He Who Remains, which resulted in the Sacred Timeline going berserk with an infinite number of branches and realities. Loki - Season 2 Creator: Michael Waldron Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sasha Lane, Jack Veal, DeObia Oparei, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Should you buy a walking pad?

Slate

This is an installment of Good Fit, a column about exercise. On the days she works from home, Avogadro says she starts her morning by walking for an hour or two, then after sitting through lunch, she’ll usually walk through her 3 p.m. slump for, as she puts it, “that last push of the day.” She gets these steps in …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Can we untangle our humanity from the artificial intelligence ouroboros?

Salon

Every generative AI tool, from ChatGPT to Midjourney, is linked in the same unfortunate way. It's rich, then, that the answer to whether any particular version of generative AI is sophisticated enough now depends on whether it can produce something uniquely human, like poetry and art. With all the fumbling haste of AI's emergence, it's easy to laugh and deride …

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1 year, 6 months ago

‘Succession’ series finale review: An Ouroboros-ian farewell to Television’s Roy-alty

The Hindu

It all came down to a few weeks spread over ten episodes to determine the future of Logan Roy’s most prized possession: Waystar Royco. Succession season 4 episode 10 Creator: Jesse Armstrong Cast: Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Braun, Peter Friedman, J. Smith-Cameron, Alan Ruck Runtime: 90 minutes Storyline: Ahead of the final board …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Why Watching ‘Succession’ Is Especially Chilling Right Now

Huff Post

Kendall Roy talks to a video made to look like a hologram version of his late father Logan on stage during a product launch presentation on Sunday night's episode of HBO's "Succession." It must be nice to be able to make such costly decisions on a whim, like during the “Succession” Season 3 finale, when Logan explains he’s pursuing a …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Fitness Goals: In 2023, weight loss and even health aren’t the most important things about exercise.

Slate

This is the first installment of Good Fit, a column about exercise. Scientists have known for decades that working out isn’t a good way to lose weight, and yet, the same demand comes every January: time to make a plan for diet and exercise, to lose weight. You ought to take lessons from an astronaut’s workout routines because, researchers explain, …

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3 years ago

No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think

Salon

Imagine this reviewer sitting across from you, stretching out her hand to offer the either-or choice that ensnared the imaginations of millions over the past 22 years. What can be said is that the film is more successful in some of its aims than others, and feels more essential than 2003's one-two punch of "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Review: Listless ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ fails to reanimate fun of the original

LA Times

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s arguable whether franchise filmmaking is inherently a bad thing, but “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” certainly makes a case for those who proclaim the irredeemable soullessness of the model. Arriving in theaters five years after filmmaker Paul Feig delivered a female version of “Ghostbusters” that some fans of this …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Fava beans, anyone? Growing steaks from human cells not 'technically' cannibalism, makers say

Daily Mail

It's time to break out the fava beans and a nice Chianti, Clarice! While one could culture meat from cells taken by a self-administered cheek swab, the team instead used research cells from the American Tissue Culture Collection. The makers of a 'DIY meal kit' for growing steaks cultured from human cell samples have offered the reassurance that the concept …

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