Artissima 2025 GALLERIES AND PRIZES   Artissima Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino announces the galleries that will participate in its 32nd edition, directed for the fourth year by Luigi Fassi and organized with the support of the Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo. From Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November 2025 the spaces of the […]

*Ferocious and prolonged attempts to unify building and filming. If “Vision/Language/Action” AI platforms ever become a big part of manufacturing, there will likely be a lot of this going on. https://youtu.be/1sJk_83lLA0?si=cYsOWuyfYFhB-890

I’m so totally in this woman’s corner that I think 3 million people should be watching this. https://youtu.be/dqanmProeGM?si=TiPWPX2rjjRalPj0

*Some specialized pictures and speculations. https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72177720327375872/

*Using Bing/ChatGPT to artificially resurrect imaginary posters from a fantasy story published in 1911. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/sk-studge.html Prompt: Please create an Edwardian, Art Nouveau promotional poster for a British breakfast food named “Filboid Studge.” This sombre poster depicts the Damned in Hell suffering torment from their inability to get at the Filboid Studge, which elegant young fiends […]

*It’s nice to see one of those modern replicas treated in this hands-on fashion. I’ve often wondered if I should own one, just to encourage the trade. The modern replicas cost about as much as a modern Leatherman Arc. *As our Youtuber suggests, this gadget might have been a Roman military tool because (a) the […]

*The Leatherman Arc is probably the best multitool ever designed and made, and it is plenty sturdy, has a sharp knife and relatively easy to clean, but I’d be hard put to prepare food with a Leatherman Arc. It seems peculiar somehow. Would the “Slow Food Movement” approve? I don’t see how.

*What has happened to Nike? Those shoes are overtly silly, and if it’s a publicity stunt, that video has less than two thousand views in a whole year.

*Hey, way to go with the device art, Bingy. *Please create some instructions for a never-before-described physical object that will, if followed, will create that object. In other words, please invent some new thing and tell me how to make it. Bing Copilot: Absolutely —let’s get inventive. Here’s a blueprint for a brand-new, never-before-seen physical […]

“It grew from Mana’s idea of making orchestral music that sounds like it’s written and performed by some alien entity that have never seen nor touched an instrument in its life.” *Who is going to buy and listen to something like this? Welll, that would be me. https://mana1.bandcamp.com/album/anemois-lies