Tag: pop culture

• “Fake Famous” and the Tedium of Influencer Culture

  February 28, 2021

  These people have come to L.A., he explains, not to break from the hustle of everyday life, by relaxing and “taking in the sparkle of Tinseltown.” Rather, they are there… more ›

• ‘Record companies have me on a dartboard’: the man making millions buying classic hits

  February 27, 2021

  Merck Mercuriadis had a good Christmas. On Christmas Day, the No 1 song in the UK was LadBaby’s Don’t Stop Me Eatin’, a novelty cover version of Journey’s 1981 soft-rock… more ›

• Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok

  February 27, 2021

  Three days ago, a TikTok account going by @deeptomcruise began posting video clips of the Hollywood actor Tom Cruise doing everything from golfing, to tripping and telling a joke in… more ›

• Year on TikTok: Music 2020

  February 22, 2021

  Music is TikTok’s universal language, each song representing a flourishing web of emotions, in-jokes, and dances. As the spaces where people normally enjoy music were impacted by the pandemic, TikTok… more ›

• How TikTok is changing the music industry

  February 22, 2021

  For a music industry hobbled by a year of shuttered festivals, silent clubs, and canceled recording sessions—an industry that had generally been financially imperiled and uncertain since the invention of Napster—this… more ›

• ‘The future of the art market’: Christie’s to become first major auction house to sell a standalone NFT work of art

  February 21, 2021

  Are NFTs a fad or do they represent the future of the art market? That is the question Christie’s appears to be testing later this month when it becomes the… more ›

• ‘Conspirituality’

  February 16, 2021

  The last few weeks, we’ve seen some conspiracy theories blooming out of the anxiety of the lockdown. https://julesevans.medium.com/conspirituality-the-overlap-between-the-new-age-and-conspiracy-beliefs-c0305eb92185 more ›

• How a Shadow Army of Ghost Kitchens Took Over America’s Restaurants

  February 14, 2021

  The rise of ghost kitchens and digital restaurants — also known as digital kitchens, cloud kitchens, and virtual restaurants, depending on how deep inside restaurant industry parlance you venture —… more ›

• Taiwan is a civilization

  February 14, 2021

  In my experience, Americans tend to have more awareness of some countries than others. Consider the rich countries of East Asia. The American mental image of Japan, though inaccurate in… more ›

• January 28, 2021 / Synthetic Venice Sunset

  February 12, 2021

  Unique, AI-Generated 30-Second MP4 Video Trained by 1519 high resolution tif images taken over prior days at same spot during same time, and generated by StyleganGAN model. https://foundation.app/seth/january-28-2021-synthetic-venice-sunset-220 more ›