Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:
How Much Money Do Broadway Actors Make?
Playbill: If you’ve ever wondered how much your favorite Broadway artists earn for the work they do, you’re in luck. Thanks to public standard union contracts, we know what the base salary is for Broadway performers, stage managers, and musicians.Rage Against the Rube Goldberg Machine
momentmag.com: A little red toy car hits a domino, causing a clickety-clack cascade that eventually tugs a string, which releases a ball that rolls down a chute and hits another ball, which rolls across the floor and into a box… Even if you’ve never heard the term “Rube Goldberg machine,” you’ve probably seen lots of them throughout your life without knowing what they’re called. Think of the classic mid-century board game Mousetrap, the Acme Corporation contraptions that Wile E. Coyote built to try to catch the Road Runner, or the epic paint-splattering video the rock band OK Go made to promote its single “This Too Shall Pass.” Odes to Rube Goldberg machines are everywhere.Adobe made an AI image generator
The Verge: Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” today called Adobe Firefly and releasing the first two tools that take advantage of them. One of the tools works like DALL-E or Midjourney, allowing users to type in a prompt and have an image created in return. The other generates stylized text, kind of like an AI-powered WordArt.The Complexities and Costs of Our Plastic Addiction
Architect Magazine: Does anyone else remember a 1997 “Plastics Make It Possible” commercial? In a 30-second TV spot, a series of tweens narrate various ways that plastics are helpful: A child on rollerblades notes that plastics in his kneepads saved his patella; a kid who looks vaguely like Jonathan Taylor Thomas is stoked that plastic keeps his soda safe. Another child floats through the air holding a bright orange plastic bag. It ends with a little girl thanking plastics for saving her police–officer dad’s life with a bullet-proof vest. Sort of a dark turn, but you get it. Plastics, they make it possible.Happy songs: these are the musical elements that make us feel good
theconversation.com: Music has a unique power to affect the way people feel and many people use music to enhance or change their mood, channel emotions and for psychological support.
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