This gives “stock” photography a whole new meaning.
Generated Photos is a team of AI engineers, photographers, make-up artists, re-touch artists, models and a videographer. In their words they are “building technology to create on-demand media”. They’ve just released the 100K Faces project, a bank of 100,000 images of AI-generated people who do not exist.
All images are free, with no copyright or usage limitations.
Spooky? Definitely. The future? We’ve only just begun.
See also: thispersondoesnotexist.com
Website: generated.photos
Playlist On their Bandcamp page Seratones describe themselves as “four musicians highly skilled in the art of rocking your socks off, bringing the house down, and blowing your mind. Our goal is to make your musical experience replenish your faith in the power of Rock & Roll. Cheers to all our fans and friends for believing in the power of music!”
I’ll underscore their goal of replenishing our faith in Rock & Roll. This is three-chord rock played on two guitars, bass and drums. And as Lou Reed said, "if it has more than three chords, it's jazz", and "you can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums".
While this music could have been recorded in 1968, it feels fresh and new, because it is.
They did bring the house down when they played a Tiny Desk Concert.
This summer they released a new album, Power, on New West Records. Long live Rock & Roll.
Image of the week
The image of the week was drawn by Nelson Mandela. It is a rendering of Qunu, Mvezo, the rural village in the Eastern Cape where he spent much of his childhood. “This drawing, made in 2002, was inspired by a mural in his home in Houghton, Johannesburg where a local artist painted scenes from Qunu with its characteristic thatched rondavel homes. Although born in Mvezo, Qunu was Nelson Mandela’s home from a very early age, following his family being forcibly evicted from the arable lands at Mvezo some 35km away.”
The drawing is one of the Homeland series, drawings that are being shown now for the first time to mark what would have been his 100th birthday.
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