Year: 2020
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2020: In Hindsight
A round-up of 52 weekly round-ups.
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The week that was
An artist visiting NYC from Budapest posed as a Hungarian billionaire in order to visit luxury apartments in Manhattan, take photos, and publish a coffee table photo book. The president of Chile was fined the equivalent of $3,500 for breaking protocol because he took off his mask to pose for a selfie on the beach.…
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Getting into the mood
Details about the how and why on the original YouTube post.
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The week that was
A man visiting Taiwan was fined over $3,500 for leaving his hotel room and breaking his quarantine for 8 seconds. Nearly 50 children were exposed to Covid-19 when Santa and Ms. Claus tested positive following a tree-lighting event and photo op in Georgia. Bored rescue workers in central China equipped their rescue drone with a…
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Snow in NYC
Big storm coming thru Wednesday night into Thursday. They’re saying anywhere from 8-10″ in NYC. If only my boots & mittens weren’t in a container somewhere between here and San Francisco. . .
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The week that was
Scientists at the MIT have created a plane which flies without propellers or jet engines. Electrons are removed from the air in front of the wing and added behind it, the flow of ions over the wing creating lift. It’s basically what powered the TiE (twin ion engines) in Star Wars. A man posing as…
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The week that was
From Sarah Fuller to the Monolith
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Nike Japan
Nike’s latest campaign starts a conversation about racism in Japan
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Machined Art
The combination of technology and art has fascinates me. But when you add machine learning into the mix, I have yet to see anything other than those freakish nightmare visions spit out by DeepDream a couple years back. ML x ART is a human-curated site showcasing “creative machine learning experiments.” Calling them experiments is more…