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THIS WEEK’S “HOT TAKE”
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CATEGORY: FAIR USAGE
Viral image-generating AI tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are powered by massive datasets of images that are scraped from the internet, and if one of those images is of you, there’s no easy way to opt out, even if you never explicitly agreed to have it posted online. / Via Vice
CATEGORY: FASHION
In the early 1990s, fashion shows were still quite a rough and ready business. Things weren’t quite as closely managed as they are these days, especially if you scratched beneath the surface. Jo Jones, now the Observer’s fashion editor, then a student at Central Saint Martins, managed to get access for herself and her fellow student Gavin Bond to go backstage at a Vivienne Westwood show in Paris. Check out this photo essay from the fashion world of the 90s. / Via Guardian
CATEGORY: METAVERSE
Balmain has created a Web3 hub, called Balmain Thread, to bring together its NFT projects on one platform and open access to exclusive products and experiences to members of the community.
The hub was built in partnership with minting platform MintNFT and energy-efficient public blockchain XRP Ledger. It will debut at Wednesday’s Balmain Festival, the third iteration of the brand’s Paris Fashion Week event, to an expected audience of 10,000 at Stade Jean Bouin. Those in attendance will be granted automatic access to the Balmain Thread as an extension of their ticket to the event. / Via Vogue
CATEGORY: HACKS
It’s been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but last week someone sent an Apple News notification from Fast Company containing a nasty racial slur and invitation for a particular sexual act. I will leave it to you to imagine what was said. Via / The Verge
CATEGORY: SNEAKERS
Following out of favor in recent years, NikeLab 21 Mercer in New York City’s SoHo is now set to close next year, according to reports. Serving one of the sportswear giant’s main sneaker boutique locations and a special activation space in the past, the 21 Mercer, which opened in 2008, served as an integral part of sneaker culture in New York.
Not only has Nike been a reoccurring client in my career, but as a fixture of the neighborhood I have become tight with the entire staff. The Lab has served SoHo well. Curious to see who tries to slip into 21 Mercer next. / Via Hypebeast
CATEGORY: GLOBAL NEWS
Interestingly enough Highsnobiety just dropped a similar report to last week’s special edition “Hot Take: Paris”. The editors and staff put together a list of food and shopping pairings for Paris. / Via HighSnob
CATEGORY: SOFTWARE
When Dylan Field started Figma he was only thinking about one thing: making cool design tools. In was 2012, and Field and co-founder Evan Wallace had the idea of building design software for the web browser — making the design process live, interactive, and collaborative — in ways it hadn’t really been in software before.
Following the big Adobe news drop, Dylan Field spoke to the Platformer about the future of the insanely loved tool under the roof of Adobe. / Via Platformer
CATEGORY: SUPPERTIME
Perhaps standing around with a group of naked strangers is its own ice-breaker. With clothes left on the sofas behind us, our group marvelled at how natural it was to leave them there.
Some stepped away to fish a phone from the piled clothing, heading to the heavenly banquet table in an attempt to photograph the candlelit curiosity, mindful not to mistakenly snap any of the other equally unclothed participants that kept appearing in the room. Food in the nude. / Via Art Newspaper
CATEGORY: VIDEO GAMES
A golden comedic combination of terrible music, fart noises, earnestness and absurdity. This is the foundation of the video game Trombone Champ, and it has since gone wildly viral. Now you know. / Via Guardian
CATEGORY: MARKETING
KITH’s Jerry Seinfeld-starring Fall 2022 collection had the internet purring with delight when it was revealed early last month, with reports saying that the unveiling led to the highest traffic ever seen on any KITH campaign
Now, fresh off the back of revealing its second collaboration with BMW, KITH is at it again, this time with Golden Globe-winning actor Ed Norton to spotlight the accompanying apparel and accessories collection. / Via HighSnob
CATEGORY: FAKE FRIENDS
In the of love, there are fakes, and there are fakes. There’s the realization that the flesh-and-blood person you’ve spent time with is inauthentic in some way, the old-fashioned bluffing of the Homo sapiens mating game. And then there are the unnaturally smooth selfies and stilted messages that suggest an AI-generated facsimile of a person. On dating app Hinge, which claims to serve those seeking life-long connections, there appear to be a lot of these. / Via Wired