South China Morning Post Wednesday December 11, 2024
Photofairs organizer Creo has scrapped plans for a Hong Kong version of the contemporary art fair for photography in March 2025, citing logistical issues. In June, London-based Creo cancelled a Photofairs event scheduled to take place in New York in 2024. The Hong Kong iteration of the art fair was announced shortly afterward and was seen as a vote of confidence in the city’s art market despite a recent slump, notes the South China Morning Post. When the Hong Kong fair was announced, Creo said it had yet to receive any funding from the Hong Kong government’s Mega Arts and Cultural Events Fund.
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The Atlantic Wednesday December 11, 2024
Drive far enough into Texas from the Louisiana border, and you’ll see the ground dry, the earth crumble into dust. And that, says photographer Bryan Schutmaat, is where the American West begins. Schutmaat has long been fascinated by the West; as he toured with punk bands in his teens and early 20s, he felt himself drawn to the region and its open space, notes The Atlantic. His new book, Sons of the Living, documents a decade’s worth of more recent journeys through the region and features the hitchhikers and “road dogs” he met along the way.
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engadget Wednesday December 11, 2024
Following an early preview at the start of this year, OpenAI has made its long-awaited Sora video generation model ready for public use. If you're a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscriber in the US or "most other countries" where the chatbot is available, you can begin experimenting with it, notes Engadget—and, adds Mashable, many people have been, with “wild” results. The version that has been released, called Sora Turbo, is more powerful and significantly faster than the product OpenAI showed off in February, though OpenAI cautions the new model “often generates unrealistic physics and struggles with complex actions over long durations.”
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David Schonauer Wednesday December 11, 2024
Alyssa Sheil shops online for a living. But it's not all for the pleasure of acquisition. Her Amazon purchases essentially serve as a set for Sheil's online content: A social media influencer, she
shares her finds with her 430,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram. But now she is embroiled in a legal battle with another influencer who has sued Sheil, claiming she copied her … Read the full Story >>
