S02L04 / images, patterns & despair

📝 ideas -> The Steep Cost of Capture / Examining the alarming-but-quiet capture of academic AI research by Big-Tech / A paper by @mer__edith

🤖 AI -> ruDALL-E / A Russian text-to-image model that generates images from text / gallery / demo / code

⚡️ creativity -> Visualizing music with voxels / an interaction experiment by Eugene Krivoruchko

It's alive! 🔊👂 pic.twitter.com/6Os6SGBkws

— Eugene Krivoruchko (@crookookoo) November 22, 2021

🔧 tools -> Multi-Scale Truchet Patterns / article + code by @cncarlson

🧠 art -> Embroidery, crochet and felt work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores / Elin Thomas

👁 beauty -> A visual multimedia exhibition addressing the concept of beauty - the book / S&W

… and an accompanying Kurzgesagt video on beauty

🌍 places -> Mirny / 40k people live on the rim of an open pit diamond mine, in the Siberian region of eastern Russia / Gallery

👩‍🎤 people: -> Cécile Dormeau / for creating beautiful honest illustrations and for sharing her experience of "creative-block"

🎧 soundtrack -> The Books / A Cold Freezin' Night