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

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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

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🕹️ 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

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🎧 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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