Between the popularity of the Lensa AI portraits and ChatGPT, I’ve been thinking a lot about these tools, their ethics and how they might impact human creativity. I find solace in the take that generative AI can make us *more* creative; the first piece suggests how. I’ve also got a cluster of "White Lotus" stories. I’m a huge fan, and I know I’m not alone. Creator Mike White’s chat with Terry Gross this week was delightful, and I loved seeing the show’s excellent costumes get some credit too.
Chatting with an AI about ideas lets you explore angles, approaches, and—most importantly—weirdness that you might never have thought of on your own. What is really exciting about this week’s advances in AI is that I think that generative AI is good enough, right now, to make you much more …
The company said that AI-generated images “can’t be described as exact replicas of any particular artwork.” For many online, Lensa AI is a cheap, accessible profile picture generator. But in digital art circles, the popularity of artificial intelligence-generated art has raised major privacy and …
My journey to the school for spies starts in the half-light of a waking city. I do not know where I am going and have only been instructed to meet my contact at a central London landmark. We travel by car, boat and train to a place where officers of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, the …
The Supreme Court ruling made men more interested in how they can prevent unwanted pregnancies. That’s where ‘the Nutcracker’ comes in. JOPLIN, Mo. — Inside a black trailer vinyl-wrapped with illustrations of cartoon sperm, the faint smell of burning flesh fills the enclosure. Here, in this …
Mike White, creator of HBO's pandemic hit comedy-drama series The White Lotus, has, in his own words, been "making stuff for a long time." The writer, producer, director and actor got his start in the late 1990s. Early in his career, he wrote episodes of the TV series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's …
Alex Bovaird, the costume designer for The White Lotus, is one of the best working on television today. I still think about that blue and white striped polo that Shane (Jake Lacy) wore in the opening scene of the first season. You see the polo, the way it’s just a little too snug and maybe looks like …
Much has changed since the “golden age” of air travel—but the debate around “dressing up” remains. “I remember when passengers dressed up for …
It’s been 13 long years since Avatar—or any other film directed by James Cameron—debuted on the big screen. Hollywood has transformed since then: In 2009, Blockbuster hadn’t even declared bankruptcy yet. Since then, Disney has acquired 20th Century Fox, the studio that financed the first Avatar …
It’s one of the most widely shared marketing campaigns globally. Here, we speak to the design team behind the visual identity to understand what it …
It's still much easier than dealing with the needles from a real tree. What artificial Christmas trees lack in fresh evergreen scent, they make up for …
