“Watches, Tales, and Gear” is a roundup of our favourite content material, watch or in any other case, from across the web. Right here, we help different creators, discover fascinating content material that evokes us, and put a highlight on causes we consider in. Oh, and any gear we occur to be digging on this week. We love gear.
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“The Clock” Involves MoMA
Many people right here at Worn & Wound are fairly huge film followers, so we spend an inordinate period of time serious about the way in which watches and movie intersect (we also have a podcast devoted to the subject). However that connection between two of our favourite topics has hardly ever been made so specific as with “The Clock,” a piece by Christian Marclay that debuted in 2010 and has been some extent of fascination for us for years. “The Clock” is a 24 hour montage of movie and tv clips depicting clocks and different references to time, a brand new clip for actually each minute of the day. It’s each an enchanting examination of the way in which time is introduced on movie, and, successfully, a working clock unto itself. You possibly can see “The Clock” for your self at MoMA via February 17. Extra info may be discovered right here.
The Esterbrook x Accutron Astronaut Estie
We find it irresistible when our associates do one thing cool collectively! As watch nerds, we’re clearly huge followers of Accutron and all of the unimaginable historical past of technical innovation they bring about to the desk, and many people on the workforce have come to develop a deep appreciation for Esterbrook pens as nicely, notably the enduring “Estie” fountain pens. Each manufacturers share a protracted, proud, and distinctly American historical past, they usually’ve teamed up earlier than, normally with a deal with the enduring inexperienced typically related to Accutron. Their newest collaborative pen, although, is maybe our favourite. Crafted from black and charcoal SEM ebonite, the design is supposed to evoke the vacancy and thriller of house. It’s accessible now via Esterbrook’s web site.
Open AI Releases Sora
Bear in mind again in 2022 when for a quick second we had been all a little bit obsessive about the DALL·E Mini AI picture generator? Effectively, that AI tech now feels about as primitive as a slide rule bezel at a time when utilizing AI assistants like ChatGPT has change into commonplace. The newest from Open AI makes it as clear as ever that this expertise is just not going away, and it seems to be getting higher by orders of magnitude on a surprisingly quick scale. Sora, lengthy anticipated and simply launched to the general public, is a brand new text-to-video AI mannequin that produces brief clips primarily based on textual content primarily based directions. It’s pretty costly in the meanwhile, and the clips are considerably restricted in size, however it’s a must to count on that it’s solely a matter of time earlier than a platform like this turns into as commonplace as ChatGPT.
