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Can an AI program really write a good movie? Here’s a test

Mar 24, 2023Mar 24, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love The rise of AI programs like ChatGPT has triggered a tidal wave of ethical handwringing, most prominently from within the industries that it threatens to destroy. After all, just because you can get a robot to instantly write code or write contracts or provide customer support for free, should you? Well, the answer from the Writers Guild of America is a qualified yes. This week, the Writers Guild of America proposed that ChatGPT would absolutely be allowed to write scripts in the future, provided that the credit…

Super Mario Bros: The ultimate video game icon

Mar 24, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love Since then, Mario has remained an unmistakeable character across all kinds of incarnations, including a flying tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog, in Super Mario Bros 3, 1988) to a bee (in Super Mario Galaxy, 2007) and a cat (Super Mario 3D World, 2013). His roles have ranged from Dr Mario (for a 1990 puzzle game) to artist/composer (Mario Paint, 1992) and athlete (in racing, football, and tennis games, besides Nintendo/Sega crossover series Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Games). In Super Mario Odyssey (2017), even Mario’s cap took…

The Best Sex Toys for Women Will Make Doing It More Fun For Everyone

Mar 23, 2023Mar 24, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love Pressure-wave toys: These are a newer category of clitorally focused toys, which use rhythmic pulses of air to stimulate the clit hands-free. It’s a sensation that sort of has to be felt to be understood; some people say it feels like great oral sex, while others say it’s more of a sucking or tapping sensation. Insertable vibrators: Internal erogenous zones like the G-spot can enjoy vibration too! An insertable vibrator will have a longer shaft than a clitoral vibe, and may have an upward curve that aims…

Director of Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum Resigns Amid Upheaval in Russia’s Art World

Mar 23, 2023Mar 23, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love The longtime director of Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Marina Loshak, has stepped down from her position. She will be replaced by the director of a state-run architecture museum in Moscow, Elizaveta Likhacheva. Her resignation comes as pressure on Russia’s museum network continues to escalate following the country’s invasion into Ukraine. Loshak, who was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to Moscow in the late 1980s, resigned from the role after a ten-year stint at the state-run museum, which is focused on exhibiting European art.…

The Art World News Roundup, March 2023 | Artsy

Mar 23, 2023Mar 24, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love News in the art world moves quickly, globally, and relentlessly. Here, in the first of a new monthly series, we run down some of the top stories that you might have missed from across the art world over the past month. A number of artists’ works set new auction records in March. Below are the top 20 results. Source link

Encore! – ‘Broken Chord’: South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma on his latest production

Mar 23, 2023Mar 24, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love / Shows / Encore! Issued on: 23/03/2023 – 17:00 12:29 ENCORE! © FRANCE 24 Gregory Maqoma is one of South Africa’s biggest choreographers, with shows that have been performed around the world. His latest production “Broken Chord” is currently showing in Paris. It tells the tragic story of an African choir who travelled to the UK at the end of the 19th century to raise money to build a school. He stopped by FRANCE 24 to tell Marjorie Hache about why the story still resonates today, what drove him…

Elmgreen & Dragset and John Armleder “ROOM SERVICE” at MASSIMODECARLO, Milan — Mousse Magazine and Publishing

Mar 23, 2023Mar 23, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love In this new exhibition, Elmgreen & Dragset and John Armleder treat this historic home as a canvas for experimentation. Their artworks interact with the existing interiors in a way that creates an eerie domestic atmosphere, at one point becoming almost psychedelic. With their use of mundane, readymades, hyperrealism and minimal geometric abstraction, the artists challenge the grand bourgeois setting. With artefacts, sculptures, paintings, and designs, the artists have created several immersive environments where each room tells its own story. The initial inspiration for “ROOM SERVICE” stems from…

The Scandal of Reading 20 | Kaitlyn Schiess on Dorothy L. Sayers’ Zeal of thy House – Christ and Pop Culture

Mar 23, 2023Mar 24, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love Writer, Author, and ThD student Kaitlyn Schiess joins Jessica to talk about their love for Dorothy L. Sayers’ Zeal of Thy House and her works on human flourishing. Topics the duo discuss within Sayers works include how we relate to our vocations with the labels of “Christian” applied to a brand, the dignity of vocation that is not expressly “ministry”, and the value of those who do work in the world that, through their conduct, gives glory to God. Books Referenced: Letters to a Diminished Church by…

Order and Chaos Converge in Yool Kim’s Emotionally Charged Works — Colossal

Mar 23, 2023Mar 23, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love Art #emotions #mixed media #Yool Kim March 23, 2023 Grace Ebert All images © Yool Kim, shared with permission Yool Kim seizes the disarray of our inner emotional landscapes by trapping energetically impassioned characters in her color-blocked works. Contorted bodies, floating heads, and abstractly shaped cut-outs reveal a range of moods and feelings all compacted into the rectangular canvas. Centered on linework and simple shapes the Seoul-based artist scratches into the composition, the mixed-media works feature stylized figures who emphasize play, sadness, and malaise. Where pattern…

Yee I-Lann at A+ Works of Art

Mar 23, 2023Mar 23, 2023 Editor Desk

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Spread the love How much of our perception of the world is shaped by the way we measure it? Is there ever an adequate measurement for affection? These are among the questions one grapples with in Yee I-Lann’s exhibition “Allom! Amatai! Allom!,” one of a series or five concurrent events timed to coincide with the artist’s traveling survey “Borneo Heart.” The gallery show gathers three photomedia essays stemming from Yee’s recent collaborations with Bajau Laut weavers and other Bornean Indigenous communities. The first, “affection”, 2014–21, manifests as a constellation of…