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Painting With Coffee, The “Gruen Transfer”, and The Mystery Of The Skyrim Fox AI

Your reading material, in my weekly “Linkfest”

Clive Thompson

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A coffee painting by Giulia Bernardelli

It’s Monday. You got through it!

Or perhaps … IT GOT THROUGH YOU?

I’ll leave that one for the philosophers.

For now, it’s time to stop working and chillax with my weekly “Linkfest” — the finest reading I could haul up from the trackless mines of The Internet.

To begin …

1) 🖼️ Painting with coffee

I drink so much coffee that when my doctor asks how many cups do you drink each day? it’s hard to say.

“It’d be easier to answer,” I reply, “if we increment that in pots.”

I was thus thrilled to behold this gallery of paintings done using coffee as the medium, by the Italian artist Giulia Bernardelli. As Fubiz notes …

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life” she writes in her Instagram bio. Indeed, the hot drink has a strong creative potential and it is reversed that she uses it as watercolor. Her works are very detailed and their creation began by chance, one day when the artist unfortunate spilled coffee on her canvas. Instead of…

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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