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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Game Change

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:55 pm

"The nightingale tells his fairy tale" — Song lyric, "Stardust"

Michael Gambon, Celebrated
British Actor, Dies at 82

NYT > Obituaries by Benedict Nightingale /
 September 28, 2023 at 08:06AM

The actor’s family said he had died peacefully
after a bout of pneumonia.


M. S. Swaminathan, Scientist Who Helped
Conquer Famine in India, Dies at 98

NYT > Obituaries by Keith Schneider / 
September 28, 2023 at 04:57AM

The drama game

BBC.com on Gambon:

"… in 2005, he finally achieved his ambition to play Falstaff
in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 at the National Theatre."

The art game

“ ’A babbled of green fields
— Shakespeare on the death of Falstaff

Art relevant to the pair  of obituaries above —

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Raphael+Table.

"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"

— Wislawa Szymborska

Game-Changer?

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:33 am

"Through a combination of captivating visuals
and concise storytelling, we aimed to present
the platform as a game-changer…."

This is not a description of yesterday's Meta
developers conference, but rather prose by
Marcela Nowak in 2022. Miss Nowak is a
talented visual artist, but perhaps not as adept
at promotion as the Meta team, who introduced
yesterday the new "AI Studio" concept.  This 
suggested the creation of a more modest and
less artificial approach to intelligence —

artfield.studio.

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