Issue #32: Patagonia World, Life After Lifestyle, Aphex Twin Software, Surveillance Art, AI Movies, Apreggi, Boltbolt, Polycam, Mura Masa, Sudan Archives, & Orion Sun
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October 2, 2022
📰 News
🌎 Founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, gives away his company to a world trust
👛 Life after lifestyle and the rising era of cultural belief brands
🔊 Aphex Twin released a free "sample mashing" app that turns audio files from your computer into sample blocks you can use for projects
👀 Social media + CC cameras = surveillance art
😅 Pulp Fiction NFTs didn’t go so well
🌵 CPFM collabs with McDonald’s on the Happy Meal
🧿 Bruce Willis sold the rights of his image to a deepfake company
🔄 LVMH is still looking for Virgil’s successor
🌱 Vinyls made from bioplastics is changing media waste
🖼 Artists spawn project to protect artists’ work from AI image generators
🤖 Elon revealed a way less sexy humanoid robot at Tesla’s AI event
🎈 Quasar Khanh and inflatable design
🌚 How streaming stars pay the price of online fame
🎰 DHS investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’
🎮 Gaming Luminaries of 2022
🚔 China to regulate ‘digital humans’ in the Metaverse
👾 Video games get their own exhibition at the MoMA
🏹 We live in a world designed by fiction
🧠 The AI Unbundling by Stratechery
🛠 The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance
🍿 Movies made all by AI
🕹️ Projects
SRGN Academy - Learn to customize shoes
Olfactive Stéréophonique - A fragrance diffuser for audiophiles
Symbol - All-in-one vinyl and audio storage
Daft Punk Cafe - One more time
Later Cam - Turn your phone into an old-school disposable camera
Alpaca - Integrate Stable Diffusion into Photoshop
TourBox - A controller for creators
Arpeggi - Make music in web3
Boltbolt - Slick physical speakers meets NFT
Polycam - LiDAR scanning and photogrammetry made easy.
Transparent - Transparent audio equipment
Superfuture - Beautifully designed city guides
🎧 Music
Mura Masa, Erika de Casier - e-motions
Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
Orion Sun - dirty dancer
Montell Fish - i destroy myself for you.
Wesley Joseph - COLD SUMMER
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