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Creatify, an AI video ad platform that reached $9M in ARR just 18 months after launch, raised a $15.5M Series A led by Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo and Kindred (Victor Dey/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91344416/jeffr

Jeffrey Katzenberg bets big on AI video ads with a $15.5 million investment in Creatify
The DreamWorks legend joined Creatify’s board as the fast-growing startup powers a new era of video advertising with AI avatars, real-time testing, and over one million users.

today's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…

The motion of light in water : sex and science fiction writing in the East Village : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
572 p. ; 24 cm

Lew Welch had been a fixture among the best minds of the Beat generation—a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder,
a kindred California spirit whose writing never achieved the same profile.
In 1971, Welch, who had been building a cabin on the San Juan Ridge, on land Ginsberg had left him,
walked away from the property with a .22-caliber revolver
and was never seen again.
“I had great visions but never could bring them together with reality,”…

Alta Folio: ‘I Went Southwest’
Writer Brad Rassler digs into the disappearance and afterlife of Beat poet Lew Welch.