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The Creative Coach
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The Creative Coach | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Creative Coach Host: Wade Kingsley Category: Education Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, How To First Episode: 2024 Step up your creativity with practical exercises from Creativity Coach…

Dallas Cowboys: Analyst Has 1 Creative Solution to Team’s Offensive Line Dilemma https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_analyst_has_1_creative_solution_to_teams_offensive_line_dilemm…

Gotta be sincere, I am *so* proud that, today, @… celebrates being 7 years old. It feels like our core mission of supporting the open web is more relevant than ever. Millions of devs have built tens of millions of apps, and we're investing in making the Glitch community even more vibrant for years to come. @…

MAP-Elites with Transverse Assessment for Multimodal Problems in Creative Domains
Marvin Zammit, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07182

MAP-Elites with Transverse Assessment for Multimodal Problems in Creative Domains
The recent advances in language-based generative models have paved the way for the orchestration of multiple generators of different artefact types (text, image, audio, etc.) into one system. Presently, many open-source pre-trained models combine text with other modalities, thus enabling shared vector embeddings to be compared across different generators. Within this context we propose a novel approach to handle multimodal creative tasks using Quality Diversity evolution. Our contribution is a …

A profile of Donna Langley, NBCUniversal's chief content officer and studios chairwoman, who has led Universal to creative dominance and commercial supremacy (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/movies/donna-langl…

Donna Langley, Universal Chair, Bet Big on ’Oppenheimer’
Under Donna Langley’s leadership, Universal has managed the rare feat of achieving creative dominance and commercial supremacy at the same time.

Snake Story: Exploring Game Mechanics for Mixed-Initiative Co-creative Storytelling Games
Daijin Yang, Erica Kleinman, Giovanni Maria Troiano, Elina Tochilnikova, Casper Harteveld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07901

Snake Story: Exploring Game Mechanics for Mixed-Initiative Co-creative Storytelling Games
Mixed-initiative co-creative storytelling games have existed for some time as a way to merge storytelling with play. However, modern mixed-initiative co-creative storytelling games predominantly prioritize story creation over gameplay mechanics, which might not resonate with all players. As such, there is untapped potential for creating mixed-initiative games with more complex mechanics in which players can engage with both co-creation and gameplay goals. To explore the potential of more promin…

Google so badly wants to disown "Bard", it is ascribing it to competitors.
Me: What are the names of your top competitor offerings?
Gemini: [1]
Me: Are you sure about # 3?
Gemini: [2, yup it's all on me 🤦‍♂️]
https://gemini.google.com/share/c24cc7

a vintage 1978 interview with larry cuba, my dad's old experimental #animation buddy who designed/animated the targeting computer in the original #StarWars. we once crashed at larry's place & wondered why his abstract sculpture collection looked so familiar before discovering they were piec…

Creative Computer Publishes Interview with the Guy Behind the Death Star Trench Run (1978)
An Interview With Star Wars Animator Larry Cuba

The "creator economy" is a shiny veneer hiding an ugly truth:
it has nothing to do with empowering creators.
It's exploiting them for maximum profit.
Tech has sold us a fairy tale that dedicating yourself to your creative passion can be a viable career path in the modern world.
But they conveniently leave out the part where they ruthlessly exploit those creators to line their pockets.
Take Spotify, for example. They love to tout how they "sup…

It’s an exploiter economy. Not a creator economy. — Joan Westenberg
The creator economy is a shiny veneer hiding an ugly truth: it has nothing to do with empowering creators. It's exploiting them for maximum profit. Tech has sold us a fairy tale that dedicating yourself to your creative passion can be a viable career path in the modern world. But they conveniently

The Creative Relay
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The Creative Relay | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Creative Relay Host: Paul Dunne Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Crafts & Creativity, Podcasts & Audio First Episode: 2017 Welcome to The Creative Relay Podcast.