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CATEGORY: LANDMARK BUILDINGS
If these walls could talk. Enough has been written about—and, perhaps, more written within—the Chelsea to satisfy history hounds the world over. Indeed, it is the hotel’s uniquely rich past which has made it iconic. Yet, those who know it do not define it by its historical significance, but, instead, by its ever-evolving, unmistakable otherness. Solid and sumptuous, eccentric yet beautiful, the Chelsea is a world unto itself: a decadent palace of peculiarity. Click though this short interactive story if you prefer images to loads of words. / Via WSJ
CATEGORY: SUSATINABILITY
Instead of sewing or knitting, scientists at the startup Simplifyber are fundamentally rethinking how clothing and shoes are made. To make their products, the team pours liquid cellulose into a single 3D printed mold. What comes out is a fully completed shirt or sneaker. The final products are biodegradable, and the whole process reduces waste / Via FastCo
CATEGORY: THAT WORK LIFE
This should be obvious, but somehow it is not: The existence of an office is the central premise of office work, and nothing—not even a pandemic—will make it go away. The hybrid work model is doomed. / Via The Atlantic
CATEGORY: A.I. DESIGN
I saw this coming months ago while exploring text to artistic output tools like Midjourney. I “designed” fictional album covers, book cover designs, and explored how automatic art could create ads for brands. Cosmopolitan just used Dalle-E 2 to generate its latest AI designed cover. The group, composed of editors from Cosmopolitan, members of artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI, and a digital artist—Karen X. Cheng, the first “real-world” person granted access to the computer system they’re all using—are working together, with this system, to try to create the world’s first magazine cover designed by artificial intelligence. / Via Cosmo
CATEGORY: EVERYDAY LIFE
Everything is on display in the summer. City life is bare. Shirts fade into translucence, revealing bare, sun-flushed bodies streaked with sweat-beads. Summer is the most sensual season, and it is my favorite season — although I question the sanity of any melanin-deficient person who makes such a claim. Even the hot air caresses before it smothers you in its embrace. Life on Display / Via Gen Yeet
CATEGORY: INTERNET LIFE
Big Tech has every click, every purchase, every “like” — going back at least a decade — cataloged and replicated across sprawling data centers the size of suburban shopping malls. Your digital history isn’t just for posterity, it’s for sale. And it’s valuable, fueling artificially intelligent systems used by groups such as political consulting firms to predict interests and behavior. It’s a highly lucrative bottom line: Google and Facebook, two companies that sell AI ad-targeting technology to the highest bidder, are valued at over a trillion dollars combined. You gotta learn how to prevent the Internet from tracking you. / Via Gear Patrol
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY
Here’s one downside of the remote-work era. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported a rise of complaints about people who are applying for tech job positions using deep-faked videos and voice manipulators. Gone are the days of hooking up peeps with “fake” reccos, and overly gracious reference calls. This is getting deep. / Via Design Taxi
CATEGORY: FASHION
Sometime around 20 years ago, I decided that sneakers are the new tie and I never looked back. Gentlemen are not fully fitted until they properly and though-fully accessorize their look. This recent flick from the G7 summit kinda makes this two decade old ideal real with a heavy co-sign. / Via BoF
CATEGORY: REAL LIFE
Many have been intrigued by the lore surrounding Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, who served Fifth Dynasty pharaoh King Niuserre as manicurists and “royal confidants,” according to hieroglyphics on their tomb. Built in 2400 BCE in their honor, the tomb is one of the largest and most intricately decorated in the Saqqara necropolis, and the incredible preservation of its contents has also established an argument that these two, interred together in an embrace, are the oldest documented gay couple in history (though they both still claim to turn 35 every year). / Via Hyperallergic
CATEGORY: PUBLICATIONS
If you did not already know, I am a huge skeptic of the NFT culture. To me it seems like a tech-bros entry point into a digital art movement I have been a pert of and hold dear to my heart for over 20 years. But sometimes, good things can happen in some bad places.
Born out of the Harlem Renaissance in 1920s New York City, zine creation is synonymous with a variety of subcultures, art movements and literature through the decades. For the unfamiliar, a zine in the broadest sense is a self published work of writing, art, photography, comics or mixture of all the previous and usually are made by creators mainstream publications tend to reject or vice versa. With it’s roots in freedom of expression and play, individual autonomy, local community support and underground communication, zines are finding a new vital place in the community on the Tezos blockchain by highlighting artists and writers globally from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. / Via NFTCulture