Saturday, April 22, 2023
Rob Lyon
Ephemera, Mark Powell
Happy Earth Day!
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Friday, April 21, 2023
Fractured, David Popa
After a decade of living in Finland, David Popa has established a fruitful creative collaboration that would be impossible in his native New York City.
The artist frequently works on land and sea, particularly the fractured ice floes of the Baltic, to render large-scale portraits and figurative murals that draw connections between the ephemerality of human life and the environment. Whether depicting his wife or newborn child in intimate renderings, he highlights the inevitability of change as time passes, seasons transition, and the climate warms.
Crossing the lines
With borders as its theme, the 11th edition of Kyoto’s citywide festival explores a range of issues including grief, dementia, discrimination and migration with artists from as far afield as Ivory Coast and Hackney.
Man allegedly shoots girl, six, and her parents after ball rolls into his backyard
A six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting.
The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, the news outlet WSOC-TV reported.
Online court records show Singletary was arrested Thursday afternoon near Tampa.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
It continued a recent spate of shootings across the US that are alleged to involve property owners who fired at young people who approached them either by mistake or for an innocent reason.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
I Can’t Hear the Birds, Fabiola Ferrero
Here you can see a selection of the winning images in the global and regional categories from this year’s World Press Photo contest.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
A.I. Is Coming to Your Fortune
One of the many joys of eating Chinese food in the United States is breaking open a perfectly crispy, slightly sweet cookie and reading the clever message printed on the tiny slip of paper inside.
Now, some of those fortunes are being penned by artificial intelligence, reports the Wall Street Journal’s Angus Loten.
Fortune cookies did not originate in China—the tradition likely evolved from wafers eaten in ancient Japan, per the Museum of Food and Drink—but, despite this mismatch, they’ve become a beloved accompaniment to meals from Chinese restaurants in America. New York-based OpenFortune, which produces and distributes branded fortune cookies to more than 47,000 restaurants, recently began using ChatGPT to come up with its phrases.
New Zealand cat-killing competition for children axed after backlash
Organisers of an annual hunt were criticised after they announced a new category for children to hunt feral cats, which are a pest in New Zealand.
Youngsters were told to not kill pets, but they were otherwise encouraged to kill as many feral cats as possible for a prize of NZ$250 (£124; $155).
The event drew immediate condemnation from animal welfare groups.
On Tuesday, the New Zealand's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it was relieved the "children's category which involved shooting feral cats" would not go ahead.
A representative argued that children, along with adults, would not be able to differentiate between
"a feral, stray or frightened domesticated cat", according to AFP news agency.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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