While working as an AI Engineer, torn between what is fair, and what is not. This piece is a just me, thinking out loud, about the inevitable :
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#AI#Humanity#substack#article
I took this photo four years ago, standing right in front of it at the MoMA in New York, and nothing had prepared me for the real thing.
Seeing The Starry Night in person is still one of the most magical things art has ever done to me...
What a screen can never show you is the paint itself: Van Gogh squeezed it straight from the tube onto the canvas, building the sky in thick, raised ridges you can practically feel, so the stars and swirls stand up off the surface and catch the light as you walk by.
It's not just a picture of the night sky, it's a physical storm of paint, and standing before it, everything seems to move.
He made it in 1889, from the barred window of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, during one of the darkest moments of his life. He wrote to his brother Theo that the night was "more alive and more richly colored than the day," and once you have seen it with your own eyes, you understand exactly what he meant...
Cinema in Motion: A History of Film.
A two-minute journey through over a century of film history, inspired by the climax of Damien Chazelle’s 'Babylon'.
Yellow Van Gogh
"I want to paint with the most intense yellow there is."
Vincent confessed to his brother that he used yellow as an antidepressant.
Fighting sadness with color. Yellow was energy and life.
We were warned. Four months ago top Himalayan experts reported the rate of ice loss doubling since 2000, with glaciers shrinking by fifth since 1990. “This isn’t a distant problem”they said. “It’s happening in real time”. They predicted “catastrophe”.
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Van Gogh vs. Gauguin
They spent 9 weeks together.
They painted side by side.
Same scenes. Completely different result.
Here are some of their best “duels" 🧵
1. Night Café, Arles
NEPAL, WE FEEL YOUR PAIN
India & particularly Ladakh understands the pain of being at the forefront of #ClimateChange.
We have experienced this in Leh in 2010. Unfortunately many more places will experience this in future if we do not change our ways.
People in the mountains suffer for no fault of theirs as people in big cities continue to live as if there's no tomorrow.
There perhaps is NO TOMORROW...
Please live simply in big cities, so we in mountains may simply live.
#ILiveSimply