Joshua Saunders

this is mind-blowing... google maps rendered like a video game.. control light, clouds, and locations with three.js

for any NotebookLM users, looks like they've done an interesting new feature, called Cinematic Video Overviews - blog.google/innovation-and…

Mexican net artist Canek Zapata presents a glitch-art video synchronized to experimental audio titled ‘Música Música,’ January 2026.

RIP Sly Dunbar. Without doubt, one of the greatest reggae drummers of all time.

An interesting AI experiment here - "TimeCapsuleLLM: trained only on historical data from 1800-1875 to reduce modern bias" github.com/haykgrigo3/Tim…

For anyone into skateboarding 🛹 - this is interesting. A "phygital" device that you put on your deck. "Skate Sensor connects to your phone through the Skategrounds app, which runs in the background logging every flip trick." skategrounds.tech

a LANDR survey/study - the current state of how musicians are using AI

Warner Music Group and Stability AI Join Forces To Build The Next Generation Of Responsible AI Tools For Music Creation stability.ai/news/warner-mu…

Entries are open for the 30th Annual Webby Awards! As a Webby Awards Judge, I'm taking part in honouring the best of the Internet. Enter your digital work before the Early Entry Deadline on Oct 24 at webbyawards.com!

This Friday, 8 August is the LAST CHANCE to enter @thelovieawards! As a Lovie Judge, I'm pleased to take part in recognising European Internet excellence. Get your work in before 11:59pm on the Extended Entry Deadline this Friday, 8 August at lovieawards.com.

A great article here from my friends at the awesome games production company, Juego Studio, about GaaS, or Games-As-A-Service juegostudio.com/blog/game-as-a…

Interesting - Shopify have decided to stop using the term UX in their job titles. An approach that others will do as well, I would say. uxdesign.cc/just-a-designe…

As a Webbys Judge, congrats to all of the Winners from the Webby Awards! Follow #Webbys to watch the best moments from the 29th Annual Webby Awards at 5:30pm ET. You can see a full list of Webby and People’s Voice winners at webbyawards.com/winners.

The speed of shipped apps using Voice AI continues to impress - such as this one. Add podpod.me before a URL and Podpod turns articles into podcast episodes, which are read and riffed on by two 'AI hosts'

For anyone in Los Angeles who is into comics art - my brother Ben Saunders exhibition about Jack Kirby is on at The Skirball, from May 1st. Link here: skirball.org/museum/jack-ki…

RIP J Saul Kane 🕊️ - the producer behind Depth Charge. A great artist, proto trip hop originator, with very much his own style. thequietus.com/news/remember-…

So, in the AR world, I guess this news is as big as it gets. That is: Meta is shutting down Spark, in January 2025, meaning - goodbye third party branded Filters on Meta platforms... 👋 spark.meta.com/blog/meta-spar…

RIP Bill Viola. A great video artist, quite 'classical' in a way. The show at the Royal Academy a few years ago was excellent. youtube.com/watch?v=gkIMBV…

An example of #volumetric music artist performance, using Scenez in Vision Pro. (I've been looking into custom spatial audio for music avatars in AR, but don't have a Vision Pro, so been testing on a Quest 3) twitter.com/mr_nobody963/s…

Currently in #Adelaide, Australia - a very nice place. Went to the fringe yesterday, which was good, but had my mind very much blown by 🦇 THOUSANDS of Grey-Headed Flying-Fox #bats that flew overhead. 🦇instagram.com/p/C4jjHiUNoO7/…