“I used to listen to your podcast”:

I get it.

It’s fine. I take no offense. In fact, that’s part of the magic of podcasts! There’s an ebb and flow to them.

“AI is good at making scary images. Even if the prompt lacks all hints of horror kitsch, you need to get ready to see or feel something disturbing when you look at AI images. It’s like a spell. Part of the scariness comes from the cancer-like pattern that reproduces the same ornament without considering its meaning and consequence.”

- AI Art is The New Stock Image

Source: @technicallymims on threads.net

Hundreds of people arm themselves with vegetables in Piornal, Spain, each year to pelt an evil figure of legend.

Turnips at the ready: Jarramplas festival

“A set can tell us what a character cannot. There is no screen time for lengthy exposition about every detail that is Gwen Stacy, but through Set Decoration we can get hints of the events and details of her life that shaped her.”

From Patrick O’Keefe‘s dive into production design. 

It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player with all-analog features

“Life is a never-ending succession of NFL teams adding ping pong tables w/stories about how they’re finally coming together as a family and enjoying each other’s company, and NFL teams removing ping pong tables w/stories about how they’re finally taking football seriously.”

- Dan Steinberg