Leaping Luke Skywalker puppet; AI posts politicians using their phones while on livestreams; Pitch black description of Los Angeles

All too easy...and blurry! A small Luke Skywalker puppet performed the jumping escape from the Carbon Freezing Pit in The Empire Strikes Back.#StarWars #BehindTheScenes #PracticalEffects #LukeSkywalker #Bespin #CloudCity pic.twitter.com/hKm0wSydVF

— TomSpinaDesigns (@TomSpinaDesigns) July 5, 2021

🔥NEW PROJECT🔥
'The Flemish Scrollers' is software automatically tagging distracted Belgian politician when they use their phone on the daily livestreams. This with the help of AI. Results are posted on Twitter @FlemishScroller and IG TheFlemishScrollershttps://t.co/9Hg0Qz8TnJ pic.twitter.com/kwzcn2DjfB

— Dries Depoorter (@driesdepoorter) July 5, 2021

I wrote this a couple years ago, about Independence Day, the now-quarter-century-old Roland Emmerich film. https://t.co/IxShuFySPu

The Getty Center did not become the monument of such aspiration. Even when the whole mountain around it ignited, it seemed less real than aliens. pic.twitter.com/Qcb13G5rRF

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) July 5, 2021

Perfectly in tune with @geoffmanaugh’s timeless classic take on LA: https://t.co/97qnaa2Djk

— Greg Borenstein (@atduskgreg) July 5, 2021

Trigger has two shorts: The Elder and The Twins (inspired by Luke and Leia) pic.twitter.com/hTUF9txWgw

— sleemo (@sleemo) July 3, 2021

Adding "by Tim Burton" to "a herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside" got CLIP+VQGAN to generate this very cool looking image. Not sure what happened to the sheep though. pic.twitter.com/rz4JVlZwIG

— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) July 2, 2021