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I use ai art as a tool to help me make new ideas to draw

Absolutely brilliant overview of contemporary vs. historical aspects of the work ethic or what I refer to as the Absurdity of the Purposeful Life.

If we consider "Everyday the Same Dream" as a metaphor for life, the lack of a clear "win" condition in the game could be seen as a reflection of life's ambiguity and the absence of a single, universally agreed-upon definition of success. In such a context, what does one do to navigate life with similar constraints: 1. **Embrace Uncertainty**: Life is inherently unpredictable. Instead of resisting the unknown, embracing uncertainty can help us stay flexible and open to opportunities as they arise. 2. **Find Personal Meaning**: Just as the game encourages players to create their own narrative, finding personal meaning and purpose in life can give us a sense of direction. This could be through personal passions, relationships, or contributing to society in a meaningful way. 3. **Practice Mindfulness**: The game's repetitive nature can be compared to daily routines that sometimes make life feel monotonous. Michael Meade (or was it James Hillman) referred to “frozen ritual “ vs. “Fluid Ritual.” Practicing mindfulness can help us stay present and find value in the seemingly mundane aspects of life. What is the nature of living an extraordinarily ordinary life-one filled with moments of awe betwixt and between the ongoing strife and struggles of existence. 5. **Personal Growth**: Even when there's no clear "win" condition, life provides opportunities for personal growth and development. Embrace challenges and continually strive to learn and improve. And at all times, do what you can to extract yourself from therat race. Remember what Lily Tomlin once said: “the thing about the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”

Very good conversation...very good...nice one to you both.

This is the first in a series of interviews I'm planning exploring some of the challenges we're facing in the modern world. Leave a comment with your thoughts and don't forget to subscribe for future videos.

" A thriller may have us on the edge of our seats. A Sorrentino film confronts us with why we are seated to begin with"... that´s a nice line.

That was one hell of a depressing series 'Tales from the Loop'.

thanks for sharing. i watched this film when i was 15 and had no clue about the story the director want to tell. searching on youtube 11 years later

In all but name, theres something timeless about what one can grasp of this, a nostalgia for the sublime, a past once lost and rediscovered and a rejection of contemporary materialistic trappings masquerading as the vogue and progress in all her seductive albeit reductive forms

Kitchener and queen Victoris, totally ruthless. It was a demographic disaster for a young nation. And all for gold and diamonds.

I'd like to thank you for this great exposition. It gave me ideas to rework a scene in my book. Much appreciation.

This art, and books by Jeff Vandermeer and JG Ballard, capture the feeling of the slow apocalypse of the 20th and 21st centuries.

I just discovered this. It is very intriguing. I look forward to experiencing more of this man's creativity.

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One little correction, the books are set in the late 80s and 90s. Tales from the loop is set in the late 80s and Things from the Flood and Electric State are set in the 90s. In the 1950s technology that was way ahead of its time was developed from a huge particle accelerator called The Loop and has in the 80s become abandoned because it was causing disruptions to reality and distorting space and time, too many bizarre things were happening - so it slowly became redundant. The world in which it is set in the 80s hasn't collapsed its the 80s as we know it except that in the past in the 50s,60s and 70s there was a massive increase in technology which has now been abandoned so kind of like our world with a slightly different history where mostly only a few advances remain everything else has been abandoned, left to decay, or people have salvaged it and use some of it for heavy industry and industrial transport still, most exist only as scrap and memory.

Sono italiana e vi consiglio un film :"il divo". Se vi è piaciuto Toni Servillo.

You make the point as to why Stalenhags work is so accessible: life goes on.

A very interesting and thought provoking take on such a popular game. The issues are well known about the addictive nature of Fortnite, especially with younger children. When does a game change from 'Good fun' to 'Bad' because of its additive nature? I believe in everything in moderation. Gaming which is an important part of kids socializing now, needs to be balanced with sports and other hobbies in the 'real' world.

Very smart thoughts! I lived in LA pursuing a music career in the music industry. And I recognize so many things in the movie that in the industry… I decided to leave LA. I wasn’t feeling good about it. Like everything and everyone wanted to show something, prove a point, be someone who they were not. I am now enjoying my simple life in the country side and still doing music 🥰 and next year I’ll release my album and it all comes from the heart and experiences with God in the little things

The Great Beauty- I am very moved by this film. Imo it acutely reveals the consequences of a spiritual void that cannot be consoled. That inherent cosmic nostalgia for something missing, that is remembered only partially and cannot be recovered by new lovers, objects of beauty, money, worldly success in any shape or form, if in fact "it" ever really existed! Because it is made with such achingly beautiful vignettes it is of course more poignant.

About the male gaze, I'm left confused exactly what the critics want. It's written by a man, his alter ego/the protagonist is a male, and he is also a person with desires, wants and needs, and not a feminist concept. Of course his highly subjective experience navigating love and lust, is going to be that of a flesh and blood hetero male! What do they expect?! It's also usually written in 1st person... As far as the one-dimensional female characters... well firsr of all, unless you can be more than one person, all ppl around you are going to be somewhat 1 dimensional bc you experience them through your projections and preconceived notions about them. If a love interest acts unpredictible, which a lot of Murakami's love interests do just like ppl we try to get to know IRL, then of course that woman is going to have a mystery to her. It doesn't mean Murakami sucks at writing women, it means bc he usually writes from the perspective of the male protagonist, his alter ego, of course it's going to show women from the "male gaze". Should we bash "Portrait of A Woman" on account of the 'female gaze'? It's like ppl who criticize him don't comprehend perspective.. It's truly weird.

Yeah i think id totally fall in love with this kind of movies ❤ real...

As a Belgian I can say I look more to the Anglo Saxon world for beauty, not Germany. Just look at the state of that country

Would love to see Sorrentino take on the life of Caravaggio as this reminds me of this highly occulted chiaroscuro master aetist of light and shadow

Well said, I find Postman's words strangely comforting in this day and age, because it feels like going back to that time as he gives his ideas. Following his suggestions for study curriculum in the book "technopoly" have improved my life by giving it a new sense of novelty and purpose.

Mate, good video, but it is not a bridge it is an aqueduct

be born again and live forever Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. great movie and review.......we know life and truth is a person.......Jesus Christ our savior

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this is fantastic, is there a link to the written essay itself?

Amusing Ourselves to Death has only become more and more relevant as time goes on. I often think of this work by Postman and explain it to any who will listen. If you are a fan of Amusing Ourselvs to Death i'd like to recommend a book called "Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology" by Eric Brende

As a technologist, this is probably THE problem to work towards currently and also the least recognized. The Computer whose nature Postman didn't fully understand is a dynamic medium which is currently molded like an amplified television, but it can also become a medium that surpasses even print in augmenting human intellect and cause very positive social change. That is the problem statement for us, to mould it into such a medium. Bret Victor is someone to check out. And the work done by the ARPA-PARC community in the 1960s.

Of the many, many reasons that The Last Airbender still stands as a timeless story, I think this is very high on the list. It's a deeply compassionate world designed around the spiritual teachings that Aang himself learned throughout the show: respect for all living things. The Lord of the Rings is another beautiful example of this in modern myth. Every "villain" in the story is given a chance for redemption, whether or not they take it (at least in the original book). To see Frodo offer a hand to Saruman after all of the atrocities that the objectively evil wizard committed is powerful-- much more powerful than watching the good guys dish out what the bad guys deserve. It's the same feeling that I got while watching Luke Skywalker lay down his weapon to break the cycle of violence versus Rey harnessing the power of the Jedi to eradicate the Sith. It seems to me that the more difficult, more delicate choice matters more. Anyway, I know I'm late to this, but I just discovered your channel after you recently subscribed to mine, haha. Thanks, by the way! This was a really thoughtful exploration.

This video is criminally under viewed

I recently saw a video of Bondi Beach, and a man was arrested for unsavoury speech just because he said fuck you to the police I was so shocked, coming from a country that allows freedom of expression

Her country can’t cook. Went around the world for spices but only use salt and pepper

1:42 - The books actually set in the 80's with the sequel, Things from the Flood being set in the 90's (I have the tabletop RPG's based on the book which simon himself worked on which goes into more detail about the setting)

You have to have something first, in order to loose it

Ego. Human Ego that drives anything to craziness.

this is beautiful btw. well done. i watch it every now adn then.

The two I love are 1. Does Australia have free speech is in the new citizenship test AND the answer is not NO! OOPS 2. Everyone sites Australia has signed Human Rights treaties etc.. BUT no-one ever reads the fine print down the bottom that states Australia only abides by these treaties etc within the boundaries of The Australian Constitution!!!! Ergo NO FREE SPEECH!!!! Ooops sorry The High Court does agree that we have an IMPLIED right to "political communication" unless of course you're a public servant, work for a charity etc etc etc

Nothing is real

Amusing Ourselves to Death is one of the core books I always go back to

"Artificial Intelligence" is an idiot. There is no understanding of what a "dog" is, just some weighted variables in images tagged with the keyword "dog." It's not intelligence in any workable sense, it's just a keyword swarm attached to a data cloud. It's like a blind idiot shouting a name every time it's prodded with a stick. There's no thought there, just reaction. There's no intelligence there, just a blind process drawing images when prodded with keywords. This isn't "art." It can't be. If an AI is trained on only its own output, it will generate noise. Nothing more, nothing less. Just random gibberish that means nothing, forever and ever. A human given no input will generate childish imagery at first, but refine it over time to something artistic. "AI" is an idiot generation machine, producing only copies of what it has been given, unable to produce anything original or even interesting. Until an AI can describe a dog and argue what is or is not a dog, it cannot be intelligent. It's just an idiot shouting "DOG" when you ask it to draw a dog.

While I don't disagree, I've yet to encounter a single definition for "Art"

This is misleading, due to ignorance or purposefully. There is a huge difference between images generated ONLY through text, and artwork assisted with AI. Both use AI, but the method varies greatly. This is causing confusion and hypes up AI to a level that it will never be able to achieve, because applied arts is problem solving and art is about an experience translated into a medium. Images generated with text is a roll of the dice, and assuming this random element is somewhat a threat is not founded in reality. Be careful. Plus, a quick search here in TH-cam demonstrates that people wanting to make money with AI art is the biggest challenge of all, not because it's AI, but because the business of art itself is a tough one to break into AND sustain in the long term. Every one of those videos have people making less than $30 profit in their experiments. Do your homework.

Have you ever considered the possibility that artists can't directly interact with generative AI because it's still very new??? Before Photoshop, Blender, Maya, etc. universities were still working on particular algorithms to get things to just work, and didn't yet implement user friendly GUIs and tools. Instead of bemoaning the death of art as we know it (because it isn't): you should focus on pushing the need for interactivity/user-input for AI-based tools, which will inevitably happen anyway because prompts can only go so far.

So agree. An A.I. image is no more art than a dog's pawprint.

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Is this essay AI generated?