Issue #31: Cult of A24, Virtual Rap, Crypto Woodstock, DALL-E for Cities, Cultural API, Stolen Art Gallery, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Prompt Economy, Kenny Beats, Destroy Lonely, Jim Legxacy, & Maxo
Issue #31: Cult of A24, Virtual Rap, Crypto Woodstock, DALL-E for Cities, Cultural API, Stolen Art Gallery, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Prompt Economy, Kenny Beats, Destroy Lonely, Jim Legxacy, & Maxo
Stories, projects, & tunes for the modern internet tastemaker
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August 31, 2022
📰 News
🎥 The cult of A24
🎙 Capitol Records dropped a virtual rapper for false blackness
👯♀️ FWB, ‘Crpyto Woodstock’, and building a utopia
📺 A visual study of censorship in China
🍿 How Letterboxd be came the indie films starchild
🥷 Inside the crypto black markets of Argentina
🥣 KAWS collabs with General Mills
🧬 DeepMind’s AlphaFold mapped out nearly every protein on Earth and Transframer can create videos from a single frame
📊 Data dashboard of the largest traditional brands invested into NFTs
📖 How to make a magazine
✨ The workers behind China’s virtual celebrities
⚔️ The story of Loot and Dom Hofmann
🤖 Robots can now imagine themselves
🚮 Trash art scene powered by Tezos
🧠 Courts rule AI can’t patent things and there is ‘no ambiguity’
👀 Can anything stop deepfake porn?
📸 NFTs revolutionizing photography by way of Fellowship
💄 Beauty augmentation vs social media
😀 What happens when algorithms can forge your identity?
🍄 Apparently VR is as good as psychedelics
🛣 Using DALL-E to design better cities
🔞 A study on teens and social media
🎶 House music became the sound of summer
🔫 Inside the world of GTA role-players
🌆 Why do the cities of the future mean starting over?
🏹 How two crypto high school buddies pooft a trillion
🕹️ Projects
Schmooze - Tinder but with memes
Urbanista - Solar powered earbuds
Ferrari F40 - Fastest one on the market
Hollyhock House - Built by Frank Lloyd Wright and UNESCO site reopens
Stolen Art Gallery - A VR museum of stolen art
EQLZ Society - A sneaker accelerator to turn ideas into physical shoes
cookie3 - Cookies in web3
Along - Video collabs and remixing
Qloo - Cultural API
Blacktop Hoops - Multiplayer VR basketball game
Kaedim - Turn 2D into 3D
Promptbase - Buy and sell AI prompts
Lexica - Stable Diffusion prompts
🎧 Music
LOUIE - FULL ALBUM VISUALIZER
Destroy Lonely - NOSTYLIST
070 Shake - Cocoon
MAXO KREAM X TYLER, THE CREATOR - BIG PERSONA
Jim Legxacy - candy reign (!)
Maxo - 48 ft. Pink Siifu
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