I call this one Four Legged Stool. It’s a slight variation in the design theme I’ve been enjoying lately. Instead of using sheet metal for the top I started with a solid chinch of metal and gradually hammered and squished it down and drew it out to the size it is now. It’s so much more lovely than plane sheet metal! And takes a lot more time and effort to make too… I’d love to do bigger pieces the same way, but I need a bigger forge and a bigger hammer… 🤔 . . #forged #handmade #blacksmith #art #design #craft #metalwork #bronze #steel #iron #brazing #riveted #industrialdesign #furnituredesign #texture #color #object #fire #productdesign #productphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CeHGce3JHCl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
🐓BOOK REVIEW : The Do-Over - Lynn Painter (Simon Pulse)
Emilie Hornby dreams about having the perfect Valentine’s day. Everything is ready and checked. She found the perfect gift and hope today will be the day where I love you will be exchanged. As a matter of fact, nothing goes as planned. And the young woman finds herself stuck in a time loop where Valentine’s Day happens again and again.
For Emilie, it is a nightmare. For the reader, it is the opportunity to discover the heroine in different facets. It is a very enjoyable story. Super quick read. I really enjoyed it. Family, friendship and love are at the heart of the story. Even if the concept of the same day repeating itself again, and again, and again isn’t new (I am thinking about the movie Groundhog Day for exemple), Lynn Painter created a fresh and sensitive story, with a pinch of humor and a supernatural twist.
It is possible that things will not get better
than they are now, or have been known to be.
It is possible that we are past the middle now.
It is possible that we have crossed the great water
without knowing it, and stand now on the other side.
Yes: I think that we have crossed it. Now
we are being given tickets, and they are not
tickets to the show we had been thinking of,
but to a different show, clearly inferior.
Check again: it is our own name on the envelope.
The tickets are to that other show.
It is possible that we will walk out of the darkened hall
without waiting for the last act: people do.
Some people do. But it is probable
that we will stay seated in our narrow seats
all through the tedious denouement
to the unsurprising end- riveted, as it were;
spellbound by our own imperfect lives
because they are lives,
and because they are ours.
Escape from The Institute of Dr. Moreau (Riveted RPG)
Article in The Strand
In a startling turn of events, reports have emerged about a group of exceptionally gifted rats escaping from the Institute for the Study of Living Animals and Neuronal Development. The incident, which occurred earlier this week, has left many in the scientific community concerned about the implications of such a development.
Dr. Moreau, the head of the Institute, has refuted…
Reader, it has happened already. Less than a month after it debuted, the Black Mirror episode Joan Is Awful has already become the unlikely figurehead of the strike.
It's the story of a woman who, at the end of each day, realises with horror that her actions have been folded into a Dropout-style biographical drama, where all her bad traits and regrettable decisions are played out onscreen by Salma Hayek. Except, as the episode goes along, we learn that it isn’t Hayek at all; it’s an AI-generated likeness of Hayek, commissioned by unethical executives working for a monolithic streaming platform.
It couldn’t be more timely. A sticking point of the Sag-Aftra strike is the potential that AI could soon render all screen actors obsolete. Chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland laid bare the AMPTP’s so-called “groundbreaking AI proposal,” which holds the potential to wipe out an entire pathway to breaking into the industry, as well as a reliable source of income for many. The reported proposal hinged on the ability for background actors to be “scanned, get paid for one day’s pay” and for that company to “own that scan of their image, their likeness, and to be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation.”
It’s a similar line to the one currently taken by the striking WGA writers. Eventually, they claim, technology will advance enough to make an AI-generated script that is indistinguishable from one created by a human. These scripts would be cheap and instant, and – even though they’re essentially composite jobs, made by scraping existing scripts – they would immediately put an entire profession out of work.
fellas, we're really in it (a black mirror episode) now