🎵 “Mark’s All Male Thanksgiving” from “Elegies” 🎵 William Finn’s “Elegies” is a song cycle composed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. These autobiographical songs memorialize the lives of many of his friends and family members, shedding light on their life stories with optimism, humor, and pathos.
His song “Mark’s All Male Thanksgiving” is a loving tribute to Finn’s quirky, warm memories of attending Thanksgiving gatherings with his community of gay friends. We hear about the foods they shared, as well as descriptions of many of the unique and talented people who attended each year.
Many of these men died of AIDS, their young lives cut too short.
During our commemoration of World AIDS Day at CBST, we share this song whose text appears in our siddur, to recall an entire generation lost to this horrible disease. May we see an end to the suffering caused by HIV/AIDS speedily in our days.
🎵: “Mark’s All Male Thanksgiving” from “Elegies” by William Finn
🗣: CBST’s Cantor Sam Rosen
🎹: CBST Music Director Joyce Rosenzweig
For more wonderful settings, be in community with CBST at Kabbalat Shabbat services, Fridays at 6:30 p.m. ET, livestreaming on CBST’s website at cbst.org/livestream. All are welcome 🌈✨
Photorealistic digital re-aging of faces in video is becoming increasingly common in entertainment and advertising. But the predominant 2D painting workflow often requires frame-by-frame manual work that can take days to accomplish, even by skilled artists. Although research on facial image re-aging has attempted to automate and solve this problem, current techniques are of little practical use as they typically suffer from facial identity loss, poor resolution, and unstable results across subsequent video frames. In this paper, we present the first practical, fully-automatic and production-ready method for re-aging faces in video images. Our first key insight is in addressing the problem of collecting longitudinal training data for learning to re-age faces over extended periods of time, a task that is nearly impossible to accomplish for a large number of real people. We show how such a longitudinal dataset can be constructed by leveraging the current state-of-the-art in facial re-aging that, although failing on real images, does provide photoreal re-aging results on synthetic faces. Our second key insight is then to leverage such synthetic data and formulate facial re-aging as a practical image-to-image translation task that can be performed by training a well-understood U-Net architecture, without the need for more complex network designs. We demonstrate how the simple U-Net, surprisingly, allows us to advance the state of the art for re-aging real faces on video, with unprecedented temporal stability and preservation of facial identity across variable expressions, viewpoints, and lighting conditions. Finally, our new face re-aging network (FRAN) incorporates simple and intuitive mechanisms that provides artists with localized control and creative freedom to direct and fine-tune the re-aging effect, a feature that is largely important in real production pipelines and often overlooked in related research work.
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SCiFi Foods is leading the cell based meat space backed by investors including Coldplay. Watch the video to learn how you can chump down on this new food product.
One of the latest advancements in food tech is targeting ‘flexitarians’ who aim to reduce their meat intake. i24NEWS speaks with the founder and CEO of Mush Foods, Shalom Daniel, about their hybrid meat products made with mycelium.
“We are trying to bring a new approach to the market because as I told you – and as you told me – most of the population are not vegan, and they are not going to be,” he told i24NEWS.
“We as human beings have never in history changed our habits so dramatically – from white to black – only because we want to save the planet or the animals so we think that if we can help people, the flexitarians, who want to reduce their meat consumption but do not go all the way to become a vegan,” he continued.