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[luxury in the 'modern palaeolithic']

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[luxury in the 'modern palaeolithic']

I WONDER WHEN IT'LL HAPPEN, WHEN THE WORLD HAS ENOUGH LUXURY PRODUCTS? Kelly bags stuffed into the gaps of broken windows, glossy mountains of patent Louboutin stilettos and shrink wrapped trainers piled up around the back of buildings. As far-fetched as it seems, consider that even a tin of coke - a most ubiquitous modern day item - would be an inconceivable luxury of manufacture by Cro Magnon man's standards. In that way, I feel inevitable: when every country in the world has accepted declining birth rates and - perhaps thankfully- a slowed down global economy where fewer humans are finding themselves surrounded by a plethora of products in forgotten storage facilities and abandoned apartments, from junk to jewellery, a world full of stuff making for an unwanted inheritance left by a bygone age.

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[after Slop? A Meaningful Proof of Humanity]

[after Slop? A Meaningful Proof of Humanity]

AI IS MORE LIKE A HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIP, ALMOST LIKE RIDING A POORLY TRAINED HORSE. You apply pressure on one side and it may or may not compensate on the other. You think you've fixed a problem and it has quietly broken something else. You approach it expecting the compliance of a tool and find yourself in a negotiation with something that has its own logic, its own tendencies, its own bad days.

An entire century of photographers, videographers, and image makers relentlessly honing skills and buying ever more complex digital cameras has, in a lot of cases, arrived at the same destination LLMs have reached 50 times quicker. When you can no longer tell the difference, the temptation is to conclude that the difference stops mattering. So what now?….

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[creating a 'campaign trail' for Titanium Museum's Accession I~III]

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[creating a 'campaign trail' for Titanium Museum's Accession I~III]

Titanium Museum’s campaign is deliberately odd and obtuse. Our presentation to the public is intentionally unexpected and slightly otherworldly. Not only to avoid the trite campaign lifestyle stories that prevail in the fashion and eyewear industries, but also to laid down a treasure map for a puzzle that draws people into the campaign and on a real world easter egg hunt.

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