Thom Waite

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Don’t Die: Can Bryan Johnson’s biohacking ‘religion’ help me live forever?

3 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Eccentric millionaire Bryan Johnson says his app will ‘save the human race’ – so, for one whole week, I became an early adopter13 Images A few weeks ago, I saw an X post by the millionaire tech bro Bryan Johnson (AKA the guy who infused his body with his own son’s blood and regularly shares his nighttime erection data with the whole world, as part of his quest to live forever). “Dear humanity, I am building a religion,” it said.
Erika Lust wants to get porn out of the internet and into the real world

3 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

15 Images The exact location of the House of Erika Lust is a closely-guarded secret, up until the very last minute. That’s partly because the venue only transforms into an “avant-garde erotic art” exhibition after hours, playing host to a very different business in the daytime – but the mystery is also part of the fun. “We wanted you to be stepping into something secretive, something unexpected,” Erika Lust tells me ahead of time, in the glamorous lobby of Barcelona’s Casa Fuster hotel.
Erika Lust wants to get porn out of the internet and into the real world

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Thom Waite

1 hour agoIf your instinct after having seen an exhibition is to seek out more of the same, documentaries can be an good place to start. Lee Shulman’s definitive new study of one of Britain’s most celebrated and consistently prolific photographers, I Am Martin Parr, is a great counterpart to Common Sense: …
Gabriel Moses: ‘I wanted to create timeless work from the off’

3 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

4 Images If you knew that your final hour was approaching, how would you spend the time you had left? This is the question that’s been on Gabriel Moses’ mind lately. “I feel like a lot of us live our lives not knowing,” the London-born photographer and filmmaker tells Dazed. “But if you did know, what would your approach be? Maybe that family member you’ve been very distant from, you’d reach out.
Remember when Hayao Miyazaki called AI ‘an insult to life itself’?

4 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Earlier this week, OpenAI (the maker of ChatGPT) introduced a new AI image-generation tool, billed as its most advanced to date. How do you get the public invested in such a tool? You allow them to turn themselves into their own anime avatars, of course – specifically, avatars in the much-beloved style of Studio Ghibli. As a result, social media has been flooded with cute cartoons against gorgeously ‘hand-painted’ backdrops over the last few days.
Is ‘bonding’ with ChatGPT actually making people lonelier?

4 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Since it launched in 2022, ChatGPT has become a significant presence in many people’s lives. Students use it to study and “help out” with their assignments. Others use it to outsource mundane tasks like writing a shopping list or planning their workouts (despite the as-yet-unverified environmental costs). And another significant chunk of the population use it as their personal therapist, sharing intimate details of their lives in return for advice or simply as a tool for guided self-reflection.
No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal attacked by Israeli settlers

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted by masked Israeli settlers and handed over to the Israeli military, according to witness reports. The initial attack is reported to have taken place in the West Bank’s Susya, south of Hebron, where more than a dozen armed settlers surrounded Ballal and began beating him.
First-person films are on the rise - is it a gimmick, or something more?

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Harmony Korine has released the trailer for Baby Invasion, the feature-length follow-up to 2024’s Aggro Dr1ft. The new film revolves around an ultra-realistic video game, featuring a gang of mercenaries with AI-powered baby face avatars who target the rich and powerful.
‘We’ve reached a boiling point’: How do we create a better art world?

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

From elitist galleries to Big Tech’s attention economy, the outlook is bleak for artists and art fans alike – Dazed speaks to Mat Dryhurst, Yancey Strickler, and more to imagine some hopeful alternativesTextThom WaiteIllustrationLouise Grojean What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘Art World’ in 2025? It definitely doesn’t describe everyone who makes art, or buys art, or goes to a gallery. ‘Art World’ suggests a degree of gatekeeping, and maybe that’s ok.
‘I feel very confident’: Meet the man bringing back the woolly mammoth

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Thom Waite

Ben Lamm isn’t a fan of people comparing him to the fictional CEO who brings dinosaurs back to life in Jurassic Park, but it’s an occupational hazard. As the founder of Colossal Biosciences, Lamm is leading groundbreaking research in the field of “de-extinction” – AKA bringing once-extinct animals back to life. His company describes animals like the dodo and Tasmanian tiger (which were wiped from the face of the Earth in the 1600s and early 1900s, respectively) as “lost but not gone forever”.