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🥽 Second Life is back | 🧑🌾 A Banksy work demolished
Clayton Hester
March 17, 2023
- launch of the Vanguard 1
- Banksy's latest barn-based artwork is destroyed
- hands-on: Midjourney may be fixing AI art's biggest problem
- Second Life is born again, this time as an app
On This Day in the History of Innovation
On March 17, 1964, the Vanguard 1 launched.
Births
1849 – Charles F. Brush, American businessman and philanthropist, co-invented the Arc lamp
1856 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter
1867 – Patrice Contamine de Latour, Spanish poet
1894 – Paul Green, American playwright and academic
1916 – Ray Ellington, English drummer and bandleader
1919 - Nat King Cole, singer and pianist
Art
Although the artist shared little information about the work, its title suggests a commentary on the Iron Curtain.While it was initially unclear if Banksy was complicit in the demolition, it was later revealed that the landowner of Blacksole Farm ordered the destruction as part of plans to build 67 homes. After the news broke, builders sifted through the rubble and found one section of plywood showing most of the stenciled figure survived. As is typical with Banksy's street art, the destruction of Morning Is Broken highlights the ephemeral nature of the art form.
Artificial Intelligence
🤖 A few weeks ago, I thought I'd try Fiverr, that marketplace of freelance work.
I thought I'd try my hand at a few different ghost writing opportunities.I did have one outlier service though, and that was an experiment with AI.Returning to Fiverr for the first time in a while, they are heavily marketing AI-based client work as part of the services available.
My experiment was this: what if I got a business going where I corrected the infamous problem of fingers in excess that has been prevalent in AI art?
This gained a better impression count than any other of my services.
But I'm glad I didn't build my Fiverr business all around this service.
Because today is a man-on-the-moon moment (if we're being hyperbolic) in the world of AI.
We're marking a point in the evolution of AI from which there's no turning back.
What constitutes this era?
The tell-tale signs of AI art might soon be vanishing.
And that is a huge moment for AI (not being hyperbolic).
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Virtual Reality
🎥Second Life is returning.
Now, it's a mobile app.
More than two decades after the initial launch, the day-and-age of Second Life dawns anew in our virtual reality age with a mobile app.
Before the Metaverse began to enter the corporate-public lexicon, Second Life brought the real world into the virtual realm.
There was a project by the program's creator, Linden Lab, for a followup app called Sansar that was ultimately sold off.
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