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Here you go - just in time for Christmas shopping - the Breaking Bad 'Crystal Ship' for your 6-8 year olds!
691 pcs Bus Car Building Blocks Creative House Van Building Bricks Kit Model Rv Desktop Building Bricks Assembly Building Kit Halloween Thanksgiving Day Christmas Gift - Toys & Games - Temu

Apple previews a new Final Cut Camera mobile app and announces updates for Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro, including Live Multicam, external projects on iPad, more (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151005

Apple introduces version 2.0 of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad
Apple has updated Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro with new features like support for live, 4-camera recording in Final Cut and new AI-driven effects and instruments in Logic Pro.

A more broad question, both for creators and people who watch/listen:
What infrastructure, teams, etc. do large content creators have, in order to support them doing the work? Editors, producers, community management, tech support, ?
#Creative #Content

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17781 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

A Value-Oriented Investigation of Photoshop's Generative Fill
The creative industry is both concerned and enthusiastic about how generative AI will reshape creativity. How might these tools interact with the workflow values of creative artists? In this paper, we adopt a value-sensitive design framework to examine how generative AI, particularly Photoshop's Generative Fill (GF), helps or hinders creative professionals' values. We obtained 566 unique posts about GF from online forums for creative professionals who use Photoshop in their current work practic…

I couldn't resist and just give it a try and print the pano-version from our walk I wrote about here:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2024/a-walk-to-an-unforeseen-beauty-in-the-backcountry/
Yes - looks fine to me! matt pape…

A Walk to an Unforeseen Beauty in the Backcountry
Explore the serendipitous discovery of picturesque backcountry scenes during a leisurely walk. Unplanned encounters with a charming church, vibrant spring landscapes, and gravel paths revealed unexpected compositions.

Birth of “Sympathy for the Devil”
https://www.didiermary.fr/birth-of-sympathy-for-the-devil/
Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One or 1 1 by the film director and distributed under that title in Europe) is a 1968 film shot mostly in c…

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones & Godard
Creative Process seen through the lens of Jean-Luc Godard filming the Rolling Stones' work in studio for "Sympathy for the Devil"

Does the upper white triangle intentionally have rounded upper corners or has somebody been creative?
(ICE 76 has been standing still for a while which is how I found myself staring at this sign.)
(Apparently a Vorsignaltafel = Distant signal board , see https://en.wikipe…

Interesting paper, for those of us calibrating the threat from Large Language models https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53303-w

The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks - Scientific Reports
The emergence of publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) large language models such as ChatGPT has given rise to global conversations on the implications of AI capabilities. Emergent research on AI has challenged the assumption that creative potential is a uniquely human trait thus, there seems to be a disconnect between human perception versus what AI is objectively capable of creating. Here, we aimed to assess the creative potential of humans in comparison to AI. In the present study…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16159 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Designing Child-Centric AI Learning Environments: Insights from LLM-Enhanced Creative Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that is very helpful in nurturing students' creativity, but it requires significant time and energy from both students and teachers. Large language models (LLMs) have been proven to assist in creative tasks, yet much controversy exists regarding their role in fostering creativity. This paper explores the potential of LLMs in PBL settings, with a special focus on fostering creativity. We began with an exploratory study involving 12 middle s…

Birth of “Sympathy for the Devil”
https://www.didiermary.fr/birth-of-sympathy-for-the-devil/
Sympathy for the Devil (originally titled One Plus One or 1 1 by the film director and distributed under that title in Europe) is a 1968 film shot mostly in c…

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones & Godard
Creative Process seen through the lens of Jean-Luc Godard filming the Rolling Stones' work in studio for "Sympathy for the Devil"