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Hi, I'm Åsk, I'm a geeky art director working in advertising and industrial design. Here I share whatever is on my mind and the occasional script.
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The enshittification of everything
More often than not XKCD predicted the future, but he forgot to predict the enshittification of everything.
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It truly is an end of an era : Kesselskramer declares bankruptcy
Long before AI became the 'new tool' to lean on, the skillset of everyone, seemingly in every industry corroded to the point of failure.
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The longing for doing something real.
If you squint at the image of this wrecking ball tearing down an apartment building in Stockholm, you can see a lady painted on the wall. I painted that lady.
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AI's fast turnaround may change political advertising as we know it
We have the politicians we deserve so why not reality TV stars?
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Country of origin displayed as flags on X - a chrome plugin.
Over the weekend, X's head of product Nikita Bier dropped a nuclear bomb - it showed country of origin if a user looked at another users "about" section. The amount of "tradwife", pro-MAGA, pro-Euronationalism etc accounts that turned out to be from India, Saudi, Thailand or Nigeria was staggering.
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Political attack ads have reached new levels of AI absurd
You know how you have to literally show some clients exactly what things will look like? Well, Andrew Cuomo is applying that tactic to all of New York City's voters. With this AI generated ad, he attempts to show the future of NYC.
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Keeping it simple is stupid.
The old logo for Cracker Barrel was created by Nashville designer Bill Holley on a napkin back in 1977. The goal was to create a feeling of nostalgia with an old-timer wearing overalls. It's not Uncle Herschel.
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Welcome to the neet holocaust
"His name will be Valentine" announced Elon Musk on X, introducing his male Grok companion to match the female Ani, "after the protagonist in Stranger in a Strange Land, the Heinlein book where our AI name “Grok” was created."
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The increasingly irrelevant AI internet
For most of my life I've had a habit of taking "beauty shots" of really incredible
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