Author Archives: Chompsky
Musician Dan Duboque cranks out a very impressive al fresco slide guitar cover of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’.
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Old Ireland In Colour tweets (yesterday, in fairness):
A religious man (priest, Jedi?) sitting at the entrance to a cell on Skellig Michael (Ahch-To in @StarWars) over 100 years ago. c. 1890-1910. Photo: Thomas H. Mason
(Original source: National Library Of Ireland)
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Behold: an immensely rare 1955 pre-A variant Porsche 356 Speedster – one of only 1,234 such units produced between 1954 and 1955.
The original powertrain has been replaced with the more powerful air-cooled, 1,582cc, overhead-valve, flat-four from the later 356SC but otherwise, the feisty little jellymould – which spent most of its life in Southern California and still wears the state’s vintage black and yellow plates – is presented in ‘as found’ condition.
Price on request.
Earth-toned, melon-twisting throws from Zouassi – tasselled creations that appear to swirl with digital glitches and fractals woven directly into the thread pattern – inspired by the artist’s sizeable Instagram collection of mind-bending recursive shapes.
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Jay-Z: not amused.
A mere sample of the potential of deep fake audio – a minor digital polish away from indistinguishable replication. In each case, the voices are entirely computer generated by Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture developed by Google.
Copyright infringement? Jay-Z’s record company thought so.
Follow the Vocal Synthesis Subreddit here.
(Pic: Kevork S. Djansezian/Getty Images)
Sportscaster Andrew Cotter, keeping his head in the game despite lockdown, commentates over the final stages of a close-fought contest between his two dogs Olive and Mabel to see which one can shame their master most.
Previous fixtures here.