Common thread📷 Pedro Martinelli (Transamazónica, 1998)#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #naturallight #contemporaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #noir #portrait
Silhouettes📷 Elliott Erwitt (Museum in Athens, Greece, 1963)#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #naturallight #contemporaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #noir #portrait
By Regina Sienra on January 2, 2025
Each extraordinary piece looks like it has an invisible square frame around it. Absolutely beautiful!
For years, artist Jon Foreman has spotlighted the organic shapes found in nature. In his breathtaking land art, Foreman takes colorful beach rocks, molded by thousands of years by the seaside, and creates geometric patterns with them. Although he has created countless circular, swirling shapes, Foreman recently decided to experiment with more rigid compositions, laying the rocks within invisible square frames. By doing this, it’s as if the artist marries the natural with the manmade, creating optical illusions in the process.
The shapes of these pieces don’t take away from the mesmerizing effect that has long defined Foreman’s pieces. If anything, it challenges the artist to make the pieces equally eye-catching within a limited, defined space—something he achieves with flying colors. One of his works sees him assorting rocks of five different shades by size, creating a pattern that evokes TV static. In another arrangement, Foreman seems to have created a window to a moonlit night sky with dark blue and grey rocks, dotted by white pebbles that double as stars. […]
More: Land Artist Arranges Stunning Square Compositions w/ Found Rocks
Continuity#blueskyartshow #runningwater #photography
Welcome to a very special, limited-time only episode of Off Script, where two of the world’s most compelling cultural voices – musical pioneer, visual artist, and activist Brian Eno and award-winning actor, author, and comedian Stephen Fry – come together to unpack the profound transformation AI is bringing to our world.
Fry and Eno joined us at Pioneer, Intercom’s first-ever AI customer service summit, where they explored AI’s vast potential while interrogating its implications. These two legends have seen multiple technological upheavals up close, as participants and first-hand observers, and they share a unique perspective on how this latest wave of tech disruption might reshape our creative and social landscapes.
What emerges, through a blend of hilarious anecdotes and profound insights, is a nuanced examination of AI that’s both optimistic and cautiously critical. While celebrating AI’s ability to transform everything from customer service to creative expression, they remind us of important lessons learned from the era of the internet, smartphones, and social media.
Key takeaways:
1. Our current AI systems are just a glimpse of what’s to come. The technology’s potential is so vast that today’s capabilities will seem primitive very soon.
2. The real challenge isn’t sparking AI’s creativity, but rather getting it to transcend mediocrity. Since AI naturally gravitates toward the most probable outputs, creating something truly interesting requires carefully crafted prompts that force it away from the obvious.
3. We need to slow down the adoption of technology to better understand its societal impact. Just as early social media promised connection but enabled division, AI needs proper frameworks and transparency to avoid similar pitfalls.
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Writing Doom is a fiction short film about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI).
Grand Prize Winner – Future of Life Institute’s Superintelligence Imagined Contest
https://futureoflife.org/project/supe…
A writing team are given the task of making Artificial Superintelligence the ‘bad guy’ for the next season of their TV show. With the help of a newcomer to the team (a Machine Learning PhD), they must figure out how and why an ASI might function as an antagonist – and the threat it might pose to humanity.
To find out more about AI:
https://futureoflife.org/resource/int…
Written & directed by Suzy Shepherd https://suzyshepherd.co.uk
Cast:
Max – Adam Lloyd-James
Jerry – Mike Kelson
Gail – Amantha Edmead
Anders – Aleksander Varadian
Mimi – Imogen Westwood Flood
Producer – Esmee Cook
Crew:
Director of Photography – Richard Allen
Gaffer – Wil Thong
First assistant camera – Jamie Evans
Sound recordist – David Head
Make up – Holly-Rose Tomlinson
Runner – Sebastien Fletcher-Biddle
Editor – Suzy Shepherd
Scientific Advisors:
Samuel F. Brown
Isaac Dunn
With thanks to Eliezer Yudkowsky, whose words, arguments, and explanations I drew upon heavily while writing the script.
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Memes. Aesthetics. Geocities. And… cults? I went on a journey through the early days of the internet- and it was chaotic. Looking at everything from Frutiger Aero to Y2K Aesthetics, the 90s to the 2000s, the 2010s to today, I tried to find out if things really were “better” or if it was all just… nostalgia.
Instagram: / extramintyy
Discord: / discord
Outro by Blustar: / blustarinc
Beats by YOGA: / user-62803443
CONTENT
0:00 Intro
0:45 The Birth of the Internet
3:18 Worlds(.com) Creepiest Website?
5:49 The Internet In the 2000s
9:10 Scene
9:49 Club Penguin…?
12:02 The 2010s
15:55 Y2K Aesthetics
18:30 The Death of the Internet?
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