Ruslan Khasanov Brings Cosmic Phenomena Down to Earth in His Mesmerizing Short Film ‘Space Iris’ — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and Ruslan Khasanov
Space Iris 8K from Rus Khasanov on Vimeo.
2022 Booooooom Photo Awards Winner: Ophe?lie Maurus — from booooooom.com
Adobe supercharges Photoshop with Firefly Generative AI — from blog.adobe.com by Pam Clark
Excerpt:
Starting today, Photoshop subscribers can tap into the magic of Firefly, our family of creative generative AI models, directly in the Photoshop desktop (beta) app – using their own, natural language to prompt Photoshop to create extraordinary images with Generative Fill. These prompts can be used to add content, remove or replace parts of an image and extend the edges of an image. Generative Fill is infused into every selection feature in Photoshop, and we have created a new generative layer type so you can work non-destructively. In addition, Generative Fill is also available as a module within the Firefly beta.
Through Gripping Photos, Ryan Newburn Captures the Depths of Iceland’s Ancient Glacial Caves — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Ryan Newburn
Google I/O 2023: Making AI more helpful for everyone — from by; with thanks to Barsee out at The AI Valley
Editor’s Note: Here is a summary of what we announced at Google I/O 2023. See all the announcements in our collection.
100 things we announced at I/O 2023 — from blog.google by Molly McHugh-Johnson
A lot happened yesterday — here’s a recap.
Google partners with Adobe to bring art generation to Bard — from techcrunch.com by Kyle Wiggers
Excerpt:
Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is getting new generative AI capabilities courtesy of Adobe.
Adobe announced today that Firefly, its recently introduced collection of AI models for generating media content, is coming to Bard alongside Adobe’s free graphic design tool, Adobe Express. Firefly — currently in public beta — will become the “premier generative AI partner” for Bard, Adobe says, powering text-to-image capabilities.
Also relevant/see:
We are teaming up with @Google to add geolocation capabilities in @AdobeAero with Google’s ARCore (@GoogleARVR), enabling creators to seamlessly connect to real-world locations. Learn more here: https://t.co/NF7m8dHBYD pic.twitter.com/GUEh93B2RW
— Adobe Creative Cloud (@creativecloud) May 10, 2023
Google shifts from Cloud to AI
Here is the top threads from the last 12 hours
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— Linus (???) (@LinusEkenstam) May 11, 2023
A Collaborative Photo Project Imagines a World Where Street Artists Have Free Rein — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
Excerpts:
What would artists create if all of the world’s surfaces could become a canvas? Joseph Ford—of Invisible Jumpers fame—responds to this question in a new project called Impossible Street Art. Collaborating with eight artists including Peeta, Levalet, and Victoria Villasana, Ford reimagines the possibilities of public spaces that are otherwise inaccessible due to scale, safety issues, or restrictions.
Three-Dimensional Narratives Spring from Antique Books in Emma Taylor’s Meticulous Paper Sculptures — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes
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Barry Underwood Illuminates Human Presence in the Landscape in Geometric Light Sculptures — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes
Poetry writing about Flint murals allows for ‘creative freedom’ in this high school classroom — from mlive.com by Dylan Goetz (behind paywall)
Excerpt:
It’s a new tradition in the curriculum of the senior-level English class, where teacher Carrie Mattern asks her students to seek out a mural in Flint and write poetry about it.
This year, there was a focus on writing around cultural grief and the process of healing.
It’s become a favorite assignment for the students who’ve worked on the project, who say it allows them to use “creative freedom” in a way that other classes don’t.
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AI and art: how recent court cases are stretching copyright principles — from theartnewspaper.com by Hetty Gleave and Eddie Powell
Two specialists from a leading London law firm analyse the issues raised in recent lawsuits relating to the use of artwork images by tech companies in order to “train” their artificial intelligence tools
Excerpt:
The tension between the opportunities presented by new technology and the need for artists to be able to control the use of their own works and derive revenue from them is all too familiar. Inevitably, cases and/or legislation will draw an artificial line between what is fair and what is not.
Getty Images is suing Stability in both the USA and the UK for the alleged use of millions of pictures from Getty’s library to train Stable Diffusion. In the USA, Getty is reportedly claiming damages of $2 trillion!
A museum without screens: The Media Museum of Sound and Vision in Hilversum — from inavateonthenet.net
Excerpt:
Re-opened to the public last month after five years of planning and two-and-a-half years of renovations, The Media Museum of Sound and Vision in Hilversum in the Netherlands, is an immersive experience exploring modern media. It’s become a museum that continuously adapts to the actions of its visitors in order to reflect the ever-changing face of media culture.
How we consume media is revealed in five zones in the building: Share, Inform, Sell, Tell and Play. The Media Museum includes more than 50 interactives, with hundreds of hours of AV material and objects from history. The experience uses facial recognition and the user’s own smartphone to make it a personalised museum journey for everyone.
Photo from Mike Bink
From DSC:
Wow! There is some serious AV work and creativity in the Media Museum of Sound and Vision!
What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning? — from cultofpedagogy.com by Jennifer Gonzalez
Excerpt:
One place that was a consistent source of deep learning was what Fine and Mehta referred to as “the periphery,” elective classes like art and robotics and extracurriculars like debate and athletics that are outside of what we consider to be the core academic classes. “Nobody talks very much about what’s going on in those spaces,” Fine says, “and yet they were the places where we saw the richest learning happening.” In these spaces, much of what they call the “grammar” of school is different: Students are there by choice, they have opportunities for apprenticeship and leadership, they can specialize in a subdomain of the field, and there’s usually a real product being produced for an authentic audience.
In the book, the authors used a school theater program as an example of this kind of learning at the periphery.
Artist Spotlight: Minyoung Choi — from booooooom.com
Meet Adobe Firefly. — from adobe.com
Experiment, imagine, and make an infinite range of creations with Firefly, a family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products.
Generative AI made for creators.
With the beta version of the first Firefly model, you can use everyday language to generate extraordinary new content. Looking forward, Firefly has the potential to do much, much more.
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Gen-2: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI — from research.runwayml.com
A multi-modal AI system that can generate novel videos with text, images, or video clips.
No lights. No camera. All action.Realistically and consistently synthesize new videos. Either by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to the structure of a source video (Video to Video). Or, using nothing but words (Text to Video). It’s like filming something new, without filming anything at all.
Explore Breakthroughs in AI, Accelerated Computing, and Beyond at GTC — from nvidia.com
The Conference for the Era of AI and the Metaverse
Addendums on 3/22/23:
Generative AI for Enterprises — from nvidia.com
Custom-built for a new era of innovation and automation.
Excerpt:
Impacting virtually every industry, generative AI unlocks a new frontier of opportunities—for knowledge and creative workers—to solve today’s most important challenges. NVIDIA is powering generative AI through an impressive suite of cloud services, pre-trained foundation models, as well as cutting-edge frameworks, optimized inference engines, and APIs to bring intelligence to your enterprise applications.
NVIDIA AI Foundations is a set of cloud services that advance enterprise-level generative AI and enable customization across use cases in areas such as text (NVIDIA NeMo™), visual content (NVIDIA Picasso), and biology (NVIDIA BioNeMo™). Unleash the full potential with NeMo, Picasso, and BioNeMo cloud services, powered by NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud—the AI supercomputer.
This AR Art App Helps You Paint Giant Murals — from vrscout.com by Kyle Melnick
Here’s another interesting item along the lines of emerging technologies:
AR-Powered Flashcards Offer A Fresh Spin On Learning — from vrscout.com by Kyle Melnick
Excerpt:
Each SmartCard features a special marker that, when scanned with a tablet, unlocks informative virtual content students can interact with using basic hand gestures and buttons. According to its developers, Justin Nappi and Sudiksha Mallick, SmartCards can be especially useful for neurodivergent students, including those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, or dyslexia.
