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Ah the foot. A much maligned extremity that deserves our respect. Really. We owe so much to feet and sadly this only becomes apparent, like with so many things, when we lose them. Or, ironically, when we lose our arms and must rely more on the low born foot in navigating a world as envisioned… Continue reading Feats of Feet
Bread and Circus Mueller's testimony having ended without a knockout, the judges are now calling the fight. The little caesars - Pizza Pizza! - responding to the hoi polloi in their districts have already thumbed their vote. What's changed? So we've given the opposing voice, the one chanting live amid louder screams of die or… Continue reading We are a wretched blight.
Amou Haji; image not mine and may be subject to copyright. I recently pulled my Leica M9 out for an image making excursion only to find its sensor "expired". Nothing unusual had happened between its last actuation and its purple death. It just died, as, it turns out, have others like it. Purple Death This… Continue reading Delicate and Dear
Louis XIV and his ilk have given way to Rich the Kid and his as the trend-setting patrons of the art of sartorial fashion. Is this a revolution or just the natural progression from haute couture to pret-a-porter? The economics haven’t changed. Ermine is now a pair of rare Jordans - still a scarcity proposition… Continue reading The Taste Makers
This is the artist but not the art, though it is. So AI is advancing at a frighteningly rapid pace (and that's the stuff we know about) and well-intentioned companies like DeepMind have created AI that is capable of teaching itself chess within the short span of 4 hours to then go on and annihilate… Continue reading Art from Data
Stock market investors (typically hedge funds) who have the resources to acquire targeted satellite imagery (parking lots) and the analysts or the AI to crunch that data are using it to predict slumps in earnings and short the stocks of big-box retailers ahead of their quarterly earnings announcements. I've noticed that news of this practice… Continue reading Counting Cars
With all the miserable headlines these days it just seemed as though things couldn't get any worse and we were bound to start making our way out of the trough. Then this happened.
This is the sort of thing that makes me feel like I was Made in China for a developing market. This is her “secret”. No, it’s not DNA.
One would think that the minds creating corporate logos are possessed of a minimum standard of vision and imagination such that the depicted creations would not reach the client let alone garner its approval. One would clearly be wrong as demonstrated by MEGAFUCKS, a/k/a MEGAFLICKS and the rest of these lewd logos. How repressed was… Continue reading Impossible Oversights
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