CURSED HEIDI or, generative nightmarish bemusement
Farm animals watching a film with effortless transitions to Tiki-bearing screaming rabble (or was it the other way 'round)? All that and more in Patrick Karpiczenko's profoundly disturbing AI-generated CURSED HEIDI trailer, sourced from this excellent Daily Beast piece, "AI Won't Just Replace TV and Movie Writers--It Will Make Pop Culture a Nightmare":
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If it works, an amazing breakthrough: Driving cancer cells to commit suicide | The Economist
Mysterious Labyrinth Found Hidden Under a Church in Mexico | Science Alert
Ohio's pretty accurate, at least in my neck of the sticks: I Asked AI What Europeans Think Americans From Every Single State Look Like… | Buzzfeed
In which I learned the phase "ice cream zombie" and became determined to work it into something: Aichi woman arrested for stealing ice cream from a delivery truck because it was too hot | SoraNews 24
Take (more of) my money, Criterion: FREAKS / THE UNKNOWN / THE MYSTIC: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers out in October | Criterion Collection
Dream house = found: Solar-Powered Off-Grid Treehouse Perfectly Combines Nature, Sustainability + Luxury | Yanko Design
Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836) | The Public Domain Review
Please let this happen: Anchor Brewing workers trying to save 127-year-old San Francisco institution | Washington Post
The collision of this with vantablack will cause the destruction of timespace, certainly: Scientists Have Developed the Whitest White Paint Ever Made—So Reflective It Can Cool Surfaces | artnet
couch in an envelope
From Space 10, a reimagining of the couch via AI:
Truly cool and nifty and fascinating – but can it withstand dogchildren?
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Very cool; if they follow the pace and restraint of the original (and utterly brilliant) film, this should make a fantastic series: Eddie Redmayne To Lead ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Series For Peacock & Sky | Deadline
Beethoven’s DNA decoded from locks of hair saved by his fans | WaPo
Off to a good start: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | The Guardian
Recently picked up an issue of the original at an antique mall. Count me in on this: Gold Key Comics is back with Boris Karloff’s Gold Key Mysteries | The Beat
"This deck was drawn by artist, designer and architect Boris Kobe (1905--1981) in 1945 while at the Allach concentration lager, a sub-camp of Dachau in a suburb of Munich... After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his architectural career and created no other known artistic works related to his time in the camps." The Daily Heller: Cards From Hell | PRINT Magazine
Mesmerized: Meticulous Flat Lays of Vintage Toys and Miniatures Celebrate the History of Play and Design | Colossal
This needs to be canon: Horrific Mario Manga Shows 1-UP Mushroom Growing Out Of Plumber | Kotaku
And a hearty 🖕 to you too, Funko: Funko Lays Off Most of Mondo Staff, Poster Business in Limbo | The Wrap
egomaniacal AI slime
Via Print Mag, a piece worth reading on the current Lensa phenomenon:
“or take a quick dip in the lava”
SUPER MARIO BROS reimagined in Unreal Engine with Chris Pratt. AI voiceover is genius.