The November issue of the American Quaker magazine Friends Journal is dedicated to speculative fiction and sci-fi. If you’re a fan of The Dazzle of Day, read on! Here’s the introductory essay by Quaker SFF writers Annalee Flower Horne and Hilary B. Bis…
Cast down the mighty/send the rich away/fill the hungry/lift the lowly
Ben Wildflower is a Philadelphia-based artist who makes Christian anarchist prints, most famously one of Mary with a raised fist and ringed with words from the Magnificat (artist’s note). In an interview with Killing the Buddha, Wildflower discusses hi…
I have no idea how these cats got wedged into acrylic squares, or why.
Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows. Engineer Matt Ferraro shows how to make transparent acrylic squares with holographic images embedded in them.
CLIP Art
Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene. In recent months there has been a bit of an explosion in the AI generated art scene.
Ever since OpenAI released the weights and code for their CLIP model, various hackers, artists, researchers, and deep learning en…
Let’s Remember Some Guys
Historian and podcaster Patrick Wyman (previously) considers the legacy of Christopher Columbus: “Rather than casting Columbus as either the hero or the villain in an epic story about the emergence of a recognizably modern world, we should understand h…