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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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.
An animated ode to Stephen Hawking about our ‘cosmic belonging’ and the meaning of home by Marie Howe.
Uncanny Cat
atParisian photographer François Vogel’s experiments with slit-scan photography and After Effects time-displacement, applied to his Abyssinian cat – whose jellyfish manifestation will fuel your nightmares later.
More here.
Dolphins swimming through bioluminescent algae off the coast of Newport, California, filmed by photographer Patrick Coyne who described the experience as ‘one of the most magical nights of my life”.
He also captured some bioluminescent waves crashing onto the beach.
Animator Steve Cutts revisits his excellent 2012 short (watch that here) to reflect the times we live in now.
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A chemical reaction filmed in a single shot at microscopic close range over an area of 8mm² by Roman Hill – a reminder of how similar the universe can appear on vastly different scales.