the observatory

With the writer's strike going full steam ahead, we can see how the union going head to head with major studios to ensure the creatives safety and benefits are regulated and taken well off. With AI rapidly descending, Deep Fakes flew higher than the Uncanny Valley - soon the actors will be replaced, their images will be subjected to various manipulations by the paying studios.     Film studios no doubt will find ways to cut every corner to maximize their investments, they couldn't care to answer to paying audience but reporting to their board members, they are more concern with profits and loss. But that's Hollywood, where film are financed and engineered by the private sectors.  Come to our Bolehland, where our "creative" industries funded by tax payers money. Without fail, the govt will inject fund yearly and "producers" and "directors" and "production" companies to come begging to produce garbage.  Honestly speaking with a populati...

 

Case studies on opportunistic capitalism social anthropology. A) Open a factory, then hire the workers, pay them cheaply and you get the products.   B) Go to poor villages, hire them to weave a mat so you can sell them as an artwork, dont forget to pepper it with some abstract repetitive patterns in it ( to make it look exotic ) so you can highlight subjective issues such as colonialism and identity issues.    Exhibit it. people will try to familiarize their struggles by sipping champagne, while biting off snacks prepared by chef of the day, yes the catalogues are heavy, glossy and binded beautifully.  oh the struggles....the pity and empathy   No matter what it is - the poor will continue to be poor and subjected to various exploitation and representations.  

Selena Gomez posted on Twitter, showcasing her in a blue-beaded dress at fashion’s biggest night but the problem is, she wasn’t actually there . The photos were created through artificial intelligence (AI), building a false narrative of her presence at the event. Time, Presence and Space.  A term used by Walter Benjamin in his influential 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin argued that 'even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: Its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.  You simply need to be present.  If AI created the best looking supermodel, it still cant super seed a real breathing, living Kate Moss. ‘Godfather’ of AI, Geoffrey Hinton resigned from his position at Google in an effort to be able to freely speak out on the dangers of artificial intelligence, including its ability to create false imagery and text that can easily fool regular fo...

goodness, its been quite awhile since i update this blog. Been busy updating, listing, cleaning all the lego MOC pieces for my upcoming exhibit ( the title, venue and dates will be announced soon ), the problem about lego is, once you touch it, you will spend hours tinkering or updating new ( simpler builts ) to achieve the desired form.  MOC means My Own Creation.    i build everything old school which requires lots of drawings and reference of actual models. I dont know how people can design it virtually. Holding unto something is different than staring on the screen. Less is more and truth to be told that the hardest one to achieve is getting the form as little bricks as much as possible. Size also matters as at times after you are satisfied with it, you tend to leave it collecting dust. So much of my bigger playset dismantled to give way to the newer builds.  Anyway......enough talking. here are couple of photos of my new additional builds. Since im a sci-fi...

  In 1968, Stanley Kubrick showed us a menacing side of an awakened machine HAL9000.  In 2013, Spike Jonze explored loneliness and how we put our trust issue unto an AI ( doesnt help when he casted Scarlett Johansson ), her smooth welcoming voice gave comfort to struggling Joaquin. Now with Chat GPT rising aggressively, i guess ( no doubt ) soon people will fall in love and trust their GPT, smart android and machine. we already have people got married with their bolsters and fictional characters.   https://www.escapistmagazine.com/korean-otaku-marries-anime-body-pillow/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2022/04/25/lifestyle/akihiko-kondo-fictional-character-relationships/   AI dont steal money like those systemic scammers.  Plus AI is more reliable and trustworthy than any elected politicians we have out there.

at times, you simply have to step back, reflect and simply take a decision. Its just way too bad when an organization built and designed to serve the deserving poor, not forgetting that it's ( funded ) by people's money is handled miserably.  Its a huge responsibility when you are running an entity fueled by public trust and money.  When the operation and direction trying to prove more than it's worth, they are now in a bloody ambitious mess ( not forgetting that costs of running it turning bigger coupled with hiring and employment of the right talents ). What is the need to open more state chapters when when you dont serve your main objectives. Is there a steady list of justifications for these?  Its very annoying when "people" simply don't know how and practice the concept of simplicity. Sure again, people will say that its established for almost 10 - 15 years ago, mind you - but being older doesnt mean anything.  You simply have to earn it. The organizati...