How small is the SMALLEST SCULPTURE in the world?
• https://www.youtube.com, maxklymenkoHow small is the SMALLEST SCULPTURE in the world?
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Woke Kennedy Center Worker Fired Over Naked Meltdown Video About Trump & Musk
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenTavish Forsyth, a woke leftist and former program director at the Kennedy Center's Opera Institute, was fired after bizarrely stripping down in a 35-minute video posted on YouTube and X, during which he ranted against President Trump's takeover...
The US Copyright Office's new ruling on AI art is here - and it could change everything
• ZDNetDoes using AI make you less of an artist? The US Copyright Office has weighed in on the debate. Its ruling could reshape copyright law as we know it.
Duct-Taped Cheeto Sells For $20k After Banana "Art" Sells For $6.2M USD!!!
• https://banned.video, Press For TruthThis comes just a week after the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun live-streamed himself at The Peninsula Hong Kong hotel eating a banana from an artwork for which he paid US$6.2 million at auction in New York!
Kurt Vonnegut's Lost Board Game Finally Published After 70 Years
• arcleinFans of author Kurt Vonnegut are celebrating his original board game finally being brought to life, after it was lost to the world following his unsuccessful marketing attempt in 1955. And the game turned out to be deep and strategic, while still
Tolkien's Forgotten Masterpiece: The Silmarillion
• arcleinIn the above lines, the author offers an important clue for analysis, highlighting the diffuse religious element that is implicitly present in the fabric of his narratives and -- "especially -- "in their symbolism. Like all great Catholic writers o
Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns is titled "One with a single line"
Donna HancockFor the artist's contemporaries, his method of engraving remained a mystery, and no one has been able to repeat it.
ChatGPT is funnier than humans (and it's no joke for professional writers)
• https://newatlas.com, By Paul McClureWho's funnier, AI or humans? A new study found that we find ChatGPT-generated comedy funnier than, or as funny as, comedy written by humans, including professional writers.
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Mastering Photo Effects for Stunning Visuals
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangFundamentals of Photo Enhancement
Gallery: Our glorious galaxy stars in Milky Way photo competition
• https://newatlas.com, By Michael IrvingThe seventh annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year collection has been released, featuring ever more stunning shots of our home galaxy, contrasted against our home planet. This year's gallery is sure to inspire awe and just a touch of existentia
Deciphering King Charles' Baphomet Portrait
• https://banned.video, Bowne ReportThe world has, for the most part, stopped asking for the current whereabouts of Kate Middleton.
IN HELL? Charles III Unveils Creepy First Oil Portrait of Him as King – And People Are Freaking Ou
• https://www.thegatewaypundit.com, By Paul SerranThey say an image is worth a thousand words. If the image turns out to be an impactful high-end oil painting of one of the world's most influential heads of state, it is probably worth many more words.
Fighting Monsters
• Off-GuardianSo, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn't turn them down.
Is AI Ruining Etsy? Loosening Definition of 'Handmade' Frustrates Artists, Buyers
• https://www.pcmag.com, By Emily DreibelbisTools like Midjourney make it easy to churn out AI images and list them for rock-bottom prices without disclosures, endangering the livelihoods of the real-life artists who struggle to compete.
The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms
• arcleinWhat comes next can't be known - not with so much war and political instability, the rise of autocrats around the world, and the growing plausibility of a second Donald Trump term. Within the roil - or below it - one can hazard, at least, a h
Freedom's Phoenix Flyers...
Donna HancockThese are now being distributed in the Phoenix area, and we have uploaded the PDF files of flyers you can use to make your own and distribute in your area...
Behold Vienna's Brand New, $1.9 Million Public Art Travesty
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenIt's bad enough that Western society is plunging into an abyss, but it's all the more infuriating when our governments are accomplices to the deviants dragging us into it.
BANKING ON IT New 'Banksy' appears in the middle of London...
• The Sun...as fans praise 'amazing detail' of street artwork
Happy Little Money Tree? Bob Ross 'Rookie Card' Painting Goes On Sale For Nearly $10 Million
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThe very first painting from famed painter and television host Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting program has gone on sale for nearly $10 million.
AI-Generated Art Lacks Copyright Protection, D.C. Court Says (1)
• Bloomberg LawArtwork created by artificial intelligence isn't eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship, a Washington, D.C., federal judge decided Friday.
Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com, Brian HandwerkThe art was created long before modern humans inhabited France's Loire Valley
Leonardo D-AI Vinci? Nifty AI tool turns your bad sketches into artwork in seconds...
• https://www.dailymail.co, By LAUREN HAUGHEYLeonardo D-AI Vinci? Nifty AI tool turns your bad sketches into artwork in seconds - and it DOESN'T need the internet
J. R. R. Tolkien Writes & Speaks in Elvish
• arcleinAn Oxford philologist with a special interest in Old Norse, Tolkien had been experimenting with constructed languages since adolescence. But it was The Lord of the Rings that allowed him to engage fully in that pursuit, spurring the creation of such
The sonnet machine
• arcleinThe history of poetry is a history of forms, many of which we learn in school. We learn about the ode, which praises a person or a thing; the elegy, which laments the loss of love or life; the haiku, with its limited syllable counts; the ballad, whic
How John Keats Writes a Poem: A Line-by-Line Breakdown of "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• arcleinKeats uses compulsive-sounding repetition of words like happy and forever to "communicate something about the speaker that runs counter to his words. It reminds me of those times when you hear someone insist on how happy they are, but you know they
"What it would be like to be a quantum object moving through time and space?"
• Daniel R.s Post - LinkedinJulian Voss-Andreae is a quantum physicist-turned-sculptor. His work takes the human body and twists it through the lens of quantum physics. His Quantum Sculptures," based on the question "What it would be like to be a quantum object moving through t
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