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Flower Petal Reference

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Amazing Azteca/Incan vibes from a beautiful artist out of Barcelona and Villanova

Artist:@malditojuanito.ttt on insta

Shop:@villanovagallery on insta

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Mural in Dublin, Ireland, in memory of the journalists killed by the IDF in Gaza over the past year

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June 2024 - Marseille - France

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After completing 50 missions "Squawkin Hawk II" is autographed and sent back to the US for retirement and scrapping . 100th Bomb Group. IWM FRE 4124 Roger Freeman photo, 100th BG. #WWII

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Opinion

Since the dawn of time we, people, have always been afraid of new technology. Writing, electricity, computers and many others were predicted to end society.

People worried that subways violated the will of God by getting people closer to hell, and that telephones would let people communicate with the dead. Early elevators were plagued by consumers who felt “elevator sickness” after their rides. And with the advent of the passenger train, people worried that “the unprecedented speeds of railroad travel could send women’s uteruses hurling from their bodies.” Link

Now is AI's turn. In more than 10 years posting here in tumblr as ArchAtlas, I have never received more anonymous hate messages as I have because I featured the work of two AI artists.

Maybe I'm too old, or technology has developed at a crazy pace in my lifetime (I grew up with one b/w tv in the house, one phone connected to the wall, no computers, etc) but its always the same story and as much as technology advances it is still always dependent on us: humans. AI is trying to mimic us, we are not trying to mimic AI. Art will change, like it did after the invention of photography and "good" art was not the one that could more closely resemble its subject anymore.

Negating its existence will not change reality.

Here are three examples of how technology was going to cause the downfall of culture and society:

Invention of Writing

As great a philosopher as he was, Socrates had his moments of idiocy too. He was not big on actually committing ideas to paper, for example, because he thought it would result in peoples’ memories getting worse. In his own words, “This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.” Thank the stars nobody listened to the old coot, because if I had to orally recite every blog post, I’d be crazier than he was. Link

Invention of Photography

Photography was me targely with hostility to begin with. It was seen as taking work from artists and devaluing their work. However some people began to realise that there is more to artistic representation than simple recording of what the camera sees. Link

Invention of Computers

In the early 1980s, the age of the personal computer had arrived and "computerphobia" was suddenly everywhere. Sufferers experienced "a range of resistances, fears, anxieties, and hostilities," according to the 1996 book Women and Computers. "These can take such forms as fear of physically touching the computer or of damaging it and what's inside it, a reluctance to read or talk about computers, feeling threatened by those who do know something about them, feeling that you can be replaced by a machine, become a slave to it, or feeling aggressive towards computers." Link

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Hundreds of freight train cars are seen at Inman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The facility is operated by Norfolk Southern and serves as one of the major freight hubs on its network, which extends for more than 36,000 miles (58,000 km) across the United States.

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Source imagery: Nearmap

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Method Man released his second solo album album Tical 2000: Judgement Day November 17, 1998

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Mägenwil, Switzerland, October 2022

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Frühlingsblumenausstellung “Dresdner Frühling im Palais”, 08. März 2023, Palais im Großen Garten, Dresden.    

Spring flowers exhibition “Dresden Spring at the Palais”, 2nd visit, 08 March 2023, Palais, Great Garden, Dresden, Germany           

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Warm bouquet commish

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Today in Hip Hop History:

dead prez released their debut album Let’s Get Free February 8, 2000