Smart Chess Board With Self-Moving Pieces Lets You Play Against Anyone in the World in Real-Time

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Online gaming has made it possible to play with someone halfway across the world, but it's limited to video games and phone apps. Wouldn't it be amazing if the same principle could be applied to board games with physical pieces? A new smart board called GoChess could be the answer. This interactive, AI-powered chess board could revolutionize one of the greatest games out there.

GoChess was created by Particula, a Tel Aviv-based company that brought to life the GoCube and GoDice. Their previous productsmuch like GoChessblur the line between the physical and the digital. Our team is excited to introduce GoChessthe worlds first truly robotic chess board with AI technology that provides an unprecedented level of realistic gameplay, the team writes on Kickstarter, where they are actively raising funds.

GoChess looks like any other chess board, but the magic lies in the pieces moving on their own. How do the GoChess pieces move? It all comes down to a patent-pending robotic mechanism. Its built-in magnetic sensors track your moves, and then reflect them on your opponent's board. Even before a match begins, GoChess can set a game on its own, or even restore an unfinished duel.

Though it was created by chess masters, GoChess is actually designed for all kinds of players. It is particularly friendly to amateurs or anyone with a desire to perfect their abilities. Should you need any assistance, you can activate the color-coded coaching lights to suggest your next move. We dont hand you the King, youll still need to earn it yourself, writes the company as a disclaimer. There is still strategy involved and they compare this tool to a mentor whispering expert advice.

If your chess opponent is in the same room as you, you can still ve...

Well, this sounds strange

Being asked to pitch in for someone elses IVF treatment?

I cant say Ive ever heard that one before!

But you never know what youre gonna get from Reddits Am I the A**hole? page.

Check out this womans story and see if you think shes out of line for her actions.

AITA Refusing to pitch in money toward my sister-in-laws IVF treatments and telling her and my brother that their future children are not my responsibility?

My brother Reid and sister-in-law Nora have always wanted children. However, they are unable to conceive naturally. Nora had multiple ovarian cysts and eventually needed to have both her ovaries removed as a teenager.

Reid and Nora are in their early thirties and are very urgent about needing to try sooner than never because they say they are approaching an age where IVF success rates start to decline.

Because of Noras past medical issues, I am told that she will need extra care and her round of treatments will be especially expensive; A little over $27,000. Reid and Nora already have $9,000 set aside in savings for IVF treatments.

Theyve raised $1,000 from friends. The rest of the family is pitching in smaller amounts as well. My mother is giving $2,000, Noras sister Lauren is giving $1,000, and her parents are giving $4,000. Which leaves about $10,000 left.

Their insurance will...

Learn How To Turn Summer Flowers Into Pressed Art in This Online Class

One of the many joys of warmer weather is that the flowers are back in bloom. (Finally!) Whether youre cutting them from your garden or picking them up at the farmers market, the colorful beauty of blossoms is always welcome. But how do you enjoy them beyond spring and summer? Flower pressing is one of the best ways to ensure that you enjoy blooms all year long.

This process uses pressurewhether from a book or a flower pressto flatten petals and preserve them. Although it might sound simple, theres a lot to consider as you work to savor your blooms.

If youve never pressed flowers before, where do you even begin? Well, youre in luck. Artist Anna Zakirova shows how to press flowers in her online class Beyond Bouquets: Turning Pressed Flowers Into One-of-a-Kind Art. Zakirova shares everything you need to know about the time-honored craft.

She begins by reviewing the flowers and tools youll need to start pressing. (Chances are you have some of them in your home.) Zakirova then shares her secrets to pressing a variety of blooms, working from flowers that are easier and moving toward roses and other advanced florals. The class concludes with how to incorporate your newly pressed blooms into framable works of art that you can hang on your wall or give as a gift.

Give flower pressing a try when you enroll in Beyond Bouquets: Turning Pressed Flowers Into One-of-a-Kind Art, only on My Modern Met Academy, our e-learning platform.

One of the many joys of warmer weather is that the flowers are back in bloom.

Even though ChatGPT is supposed to be the wave of the future thats coming to change everyones daily life, its apparently not that complicated to create.

Stanford scientists made their own version, called Alpaca GPT, fairly easily, according to a blurb in New Atlas.

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The researchers at the Center for Research on Foundation Models said they fine-tuned Metas LLaMA 7B large language model and for a fraction of the price.

Their Alpaca AI exhibits many behaviors similar to OpenAIs text-davinci-003, but they spent less than $600 re-creating the entire thing.

Well, $600 and all of the brainpower already amassed at Stanford University.

The models ended up with very similar performance output, but that the Stanf...

Beginning in the late seventeenth century, aristocratic Englishmen or continental Europeans came of age and went on a Grand Tour. Lasting anything from few a months to a few years, such trips were meant directly to expose their young takers to the legacy of the Renaissance and antiquity. Naturally, most Grand Tour itineraries placed the utmost importance on Italy and Greece; some even went to the Holy Land, as satirized by Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad. By the time that book was published in 1869, the Grand Tour was out of high fashion but a couple of decades earlier, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey had preserved many of its destinations with a piece of cutting-edge technology known as the camera.

Girault de Prangey went on his first photographic Grand Tour in 1841, when he was in his late thirties. Having already traveled extensively and received an education in both art and law, he was hardly a callow youth in need of refinement. But he was an aristocrat, the sole inheritor of his family fortune, and thus able to devote his life to his passions: travel, arts, and publishing.

A huge conversation is taking place around (and inside) heterosexual relationships right now, and its centered on the lack of equality when it comes to the physical and mental load of raising the kids and taking care of the house and family.

OP brings it all to light when he asks whether or not hes spending too much time in a bunker designed by his (admittedly crazy) grandfather instead of in the house with his family.

My grandfather was an incredibly talented man who also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and he was convinced that the nuclear apocalypse was going to end the human race at some point, so he built his own bunker and then buried the entrance because he was convinced that both the KGB and the CIA were watching him and wanted to keep the bunker a secret. Yes, he was a crazy man.

My dad inherited his house but never lived there, so when I had my first child in 2018 and got married in 2019, my dad made me an incredibly generous offer for the house. I bought computers that were more expensive than the house.

The bunker became kind of an urban legend, mostly because my old grandpa used to tell a lot of crazy stories, but out of curiosity I went looking for it and found the entrance. THE OLD MAN...

Yes, I think we can all agree that being called the u-word isnt a good thing, but today we fight back!

Because these AskReddit users were nice enough to share the perfect comebacks to being called U-G-L-Y.

Check them out!

Bam!

Its not just about some snappy one liner. You kind of have to have the whole vibe to match it. Some cocky dimwitted prick who says something snarky, can make you look like a complete idiot no matter how cerebral your response.

I dont consider myself to be particularly clever. But one time, some dude made a petty comment to me, in front of his family. So I took a step closer to him, made eye contact, smirked, and said, Thats it? Ive gotten worse insults from better men than you.

Not exactly devastating, but for some reason, that dudes brain went into instant reboot. He just stood there like a dumbs**t, grasping for something to say. Im sure he probably thought of something on the car ride home, though.

Just agree with them.

The fastest way to shut someone down like that is actually to agree.

Just say Yep, I am to everything they say and it usually isnt much because once they realize they arent going to respond the way they want you to, they will huff and puff and then leave.

People say mean s**t...

Note: Today novelist Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men) passed away at the age of 89. Below, were revisiting a favorite post from our archive that focuses on punctuation, a distinctive element of McCarthys writing.

Cormac McCarthy has beenas one 1965 reviewer of his first novel, The Orchard Tree, dubbed hima disciple of William Faulkner. He makes admirable use of Faulknerian traits in his prose, and Id always assumed he inherited his punctuation style from Faulkner as well. But in his very rare 2008 televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, McCarthy cites two other antecedents: James Joyce and forgotten novelist MacKinlay Kantor, whose Andersonville won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955. Joyces influence dominates, and in discussion of punctuation, McCarthy stresses that his minimalist approach works in the interest of maximum clarity. Speaking of Joyce, he says,

James Joyce is a good model for punctuation. He keeps it to an absolute minimum. Theres no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldnt have to punctuate.

So what weird little marks does McCarthy allow, or not, and why? Below is a brief summary of his stated rules for punctuation:

1. Quotation Marks:

McCarthy doesnt use em. In his Oprah interview, he says MacKinlay Kantor was the firs...

I dont think theres a non-smoker in the world who hasnt joked that they just might take up smoking in order to get more breaks at work. We all know that people who need a cigarette are allowed to have one every hour or so, while the rest of us are relegated to the standard two fifteen-minute breaks a shift.

It doesnt seem fair, but when a woman named Syd (@poorandhungry) took smoke breaks even though she didnt smoke, she got into trouble at work.

She claims that the extra smoke breaks were even written into her companys employee handbook, and since the woman who sat next to her did smoke, she started to realize just how much more time away from her desk the other woman received.

Ian Alteveer, a longtime curator of contemporary art at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art, is stepping down from his role there to chair the contemporary art department at the Museum of Fine Arts

Mo money, mo problems, right?

Well, thats true at least some of the timeand this seems like it might be one of them!

Is this guy wrong for not wanting to help out her sister with money via his parents request?

Read on to get all the details and see what you think.

AITA for how I phrased my reply to my parents request for financial assistance for my sister.

My parents had me very young. Like in high school.

They had an on again off again relationship for my childhood with my maternal grandparents actually doing most of the parenting until I was twelve and they got married and got their s**t together.

They had my sister two years after that.

I was always a second thought with them. Our vacations were suited to an infant. Our home was full of stuff for a little kid not a teen. Whatever. I got out of school and my grandpa helped me get an apprenticeship as a welder.

I enjoy the work and the money is great. I have my own rig now and just bought a house.

My sister is into ballet and she is really good. She has an opportunity to go to a summer program but it will cost a lot of money. My parents cannot afford it at all.

They asked me to help and I said no. They said that I should help her out because she looks up...

This Monday, June 19, Juneteenth will be observed in the United States. The holiday marks the day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached enslaved people in Texas, nearly two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the decree. More than 250,000 enslaved people were finally freed. In 2021, President Biden declared June 19 a federal holiday.

But its worth noting that Juneteenth celebrations have been ongoing for more than 150 years. This ye...

On June 4, Amsterdams Rijksmuseum wrapped the biggest exhibition of Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer to date. The Vermeer show featured 28 of his 37 known paintings, including seven works that had previously never been displayed for the public before. The exhibition sold out within days of its opening and attracted 650,000 visitors from over 100 countries during its 16-week stint that began February 10, according to reports from the museum. 

A new documentary makes the case that, record-smashing numbers aside, the show achieved something far more significant that cannot be measured in ticket sales (although there was nothing trivial about the astronomical eBay resale market, where markups sometimes reached thousands of dollars). On the whole, Vermeer solidified the magnitude...

This summer at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), celebrated contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson alludes to the hidden histories of the garden in things come to thrivein the sheddingin the molting, featuring thought-provoking sculptures and horticulture displays. The artist responds to the collections of NYBG with a living work of art that sheds light on the historical relevance of our collective pasts and the potential for healing in renewal.

Pattersons work embraces the lush, colorful, and enticing elements of gardens while offering bold and provocative moments. Hundreds of glittering vultures descend like shadows to gather among wound-like ruptures in the landscape. Colorful plantings and ghostly cast glass sculptures represent extinct species that now exist only as specimens in NYBGs Herbarium, serving as a reminder of what we stand to lose. Displays in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library feature an immersive video instal...

Heralds, Kemar Keanu Wynters solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York, features a suite of nine paintings on paper and considers the artists established abstraction of food in reference to his family history. The exhibition calls to mind the delectable sensory archive of Jamaican heritage in Wynters earlier works, now presented in hexagonal frames that reveal fields of abstraction. Partitioned in an X formation, the works on view harken to flags, family crests, shields, and Tupperware tubs filled with densely textured foods. 

Wynter uses heraldry, a system used to regulate coat-of-arm designs and corresponding family legacies, to build upon previously-untold stories about his diasporic Jamaican upbringing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His continued inclusion of grommets in the paper brings tactile materiality to the forefront, while saltire-partitioned frames reinforce a sense of robustness in fragility.

Throughout each work, there are four quadrants, two of which contain winding pastel traces, routing the color palettes integral to the harmonious collision at the pieces epicenter. The other two sections blurred nature reconciles these ingredients of color by blending them together almost digesting them. Wynter reflexively tests his boundaries with rebellious markings that ever so slightly slip over the borders. This permeability between sections is particularly notable in (XX.) Cassava Pone (2023), where a bright blue coil flirts with the neighboring panel, a deep brownish blend underscored by that same blue. 

10 Decluttering Tips That Will Help You Tidy Your Home Without Feeling Overwhelmed

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We all have that one place in our home that could use decluttering. It could be a table thats a landing pad for everything once you walk in the door, or it could be that one chair that absorbs all of the clothes that somehow never make it to your closet. Regardless of whether you have a little or a lot of clutter, you dont have to let it bring you down. Let these decluttering tips help make it easy to tidy up.

There are different levels of clutter. Some are the everyday messes that you can remove in seemingly no time. But then there is systemic clutteryou have too much of something, for instance. In that case, youll want to take a different approach and consider whether or not you need it in your home.

Scroll down for decluttering tips to help motivate you and offer strategies for putting things away.

Learn about the common types of clutter and tips for decluttering your home.

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Types of Home Clutter

You might look at clutter and see it as all the same mess, but there is nuance within each pile of stuff. Figuring out where your clutter fits in these categories can help you decide what to do about it. Here are some common types of clutter that might be hanging around your place.

• Clutter without a home....

I worked for a catering company and on a food truck for a long time, so I picked up some pretty great cooking hacks over the years from my boss and other co-workers.

And who doesnt love cooking hacks, am I right?!?!

You know it!

So pay attention and check out what AskReddit users had to say about this.

I like that!

Boxed chocolate cake : use cooled brewed coffee instead of the water.

Richens the flavor so much.

I do it with boxed brownies too.

Fill em up.

When making stuffed shells by hand, mix the filling in a zip top bag, then cut a corner off and use it as a makeshift piping bag to fill the shells.

Good to know!

Revive veggies that have lost their water by cutting their edges and soaking them in col...

OTSU, Japan Its a fiercely tragic scene: On the left side of the painting, a white heron sprays water on a raging fire, trying desperately to extinguish the flames that engulf a shrine. On the right, the same heron lies on the banks of Lake Biwa, exhausted to death from its valiant effort. Though its based on a local legend, the painting also contains a premonition about its creator. Setsuko Mitsuhashi painted The Requital by the White Heron (1973) just months after losing her dominant right arm to a malignant tumor. Shortly after its completion, she learned that the cancer had spread to her lung. She would survive only to age 35, leaving behind a budding art career, a husband, and two small children. But like the heron, she fought bravely and passionately, painting powerful works like this one until the very end.

Three Worlds Drawn by Setsuko Mitsuhashi at the Setsuko Mitsuhashi Memorial Museum commemorates three creative phases of the artists short life: her beginnings as a botanic...

This article is part of Hyperallergics Pride Month series, featuring an interview with a different transgender or nonbinary emerging or mid...

Pat Sajak Announces Hes Retiring From Wheel of Fortune Hosting After 41 Seasons

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The game show Wheel of Fortune is a mainstay of broadcast television, and host Pat Sajak is as iconic as the program itself. But not for much longer; Sajak is stepping down as host. He recently announced that he'll be retiring from the show at the end of the upcoming season.

Well, the time has come, Sajak said. Ive decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. Its been a wonderful ride, and Ill have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all. (If nothing else, itll keep the clickbait sites busy!)

At 76 years old, Sajak has earned his retirement. But, he wont be completely stepping away from Wheel of Fortune. Hell remain on as a consultant to the show for three years. His on-camera hosting, however, will mark the end of an era. Sajak has been the face of the show since its syndication it in 1981. Co-host Vanna White has been with him since that time.

Wheel of Fortune is one of the most popular shows on broadcast television and routinely has an average of 9 million daily viewers. Sajak is one of the most enduring television game show hosts in the United States. Hes won three Daytime Emmy Awards as well as a lifetime achievement award (along with the late Jeopardy host Alex Trebek).

Theres no talk of who will replace Sajak, but whoever does will have big shoes to fill.

Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak announced that he'll be retiring after the 41st season of the show airs this year.

As the wealth gap in the United States increases, class consciousness becomes an ever more common topic in public discourse. Sean Claffey adds to this discourse by foregrounding real stories and the ripple effects that place working-class people in crisis. With Americonned, Claffey takes us from the founding of the Amazon Labor Union, led by Chris Smalls in Staten Island, all the way to the forced evictions of families in Orlando. Though the film does not offer new revelations about inequality, it does make grassroots activism a viable strategy to sow the seeds of tangible change. 

The majority of US wealth is concentrated in the pockets of a select few, and a significant amount of people are suffering the repercussions of that disparity. One of Claffeys subjects is Christina, a single mother of three who lost her truck driving job and had to apply for food stamps. When the person handling her application told her, You drive a truck, so you can go find something else to deliver, Christina responded, Okay, Ill bring my kids to your office and take your job while you find something for me. This exchange exemplifies the often repeated narrative that the problem of resources is on the unemployed individual. Christinas punishment for losing her job is having to advocate for herself to receive public assistance.

Helen Cammocks art reassesses the role of women in politics across the world. Her Turner Prizewinning film, The Long Note (2018), represents womens various efforts in Northern Irelands Civil

American filmmaker Sky Hopinka and Canadian videographer Sin Wai Kin have been awarded the twenty-fourth Baloise Art Prize, the largest art prize affiliated with the Swiss iteration of Art Basel. The

SITE Santa Fe presents Goodnight Moon, a new solo exhibition by Rachel Rose on view through September 11. The show features new and recent work in sculpture and installation, as well as newly commissioned video work and notable historical loans from the Yale Center for British Art.

Goodnight Moon centers Roses 2019 film Enclosure, originally co-commissioned by LUMA Foundation and Park Avenue Armory. It teeters on the edge of magical realism in its gripping and rigorously-researched narrative about the catastrophic social, psychological, and ecological impact of the advent of capitalism in 17th-century agrarian England. A collection of historic drawings and paintings by Samuel Palmer, John Linnell, and William Blake on loan from the Yale Center of British Art directly inspired her vision for this expansive body of work.

Venus del Mitreo (2023), part of a project with Museo de Muralismo Contemporneo de Mrida, Mrida, Spain. All images PichiAvo, shared with permission

PichiAvo (previously) continue to scale multistory buildings from Ontario to Tahiti, recently painting a series of vibrant new murals. Known for combining figures from Greek mythology with spraypainted tags synonymous with graffiti, the Valencia-based duo often work in vibrant jewel tones, especially warm pinks and violets shadowed by cool blues. Rendered in a style evocative of ancient marble statues, classically idealized portrayals of deities like Mercury and Venus are intertwined with contemporary street art. For a recent project back in the pairs hometown, the god of wine, Bacchus, hoists a bunch of grapes on a wall of the aptly named Mythic Hotel.

During extensive travels, PichiAvo have found ways to adapt what they call urbanmythology, especially as it relates to specific locations. A diptych on two buildings in Paea, Tahiti, taps into a Tahitian legend about the prince of neighboring Papar and the prince of Paeas son fighting for control of the land in a javelin duel, thus determining the borders between the two communities. And taking the theme of the wall indoors, an ongoing body of work they call Diaspasis turns raw plasterboard into a canvas, emphasizing crumbled edges as if it has been chiseled and removed from a...

Artist Explores the Concept of Dual Identities in Series of Textile Portraits

Gio Swaby, Together We Bloom 3, 2023, cotton fabric and thread sewn on muslin, 64 x 52 inches. (Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery)

Moving to a new country can be invigorating and isolating all at once. When Bahamian artist Gio Swaby relocated to Canada, she back home. Her new exhibition I Will Blossom Anyway explores the concept of dual identities experienced by immigrants with a series of self-portraits and a grid work of nine silhouettes.

In this series, I reflected a lot on my own path and started to recognize how many parts of myself exist in the in-between spaces. In-between many cultures, being born and raised in The Bahamas, and spending much of my adult life in Canadian cities, Swaby says. Each piece is made with a needle and thread and offers an introspective view of her journey. The use of textile materials is a nod to her seamstress mother and the traditional domestic practice of sewing. Where her art differs, however, is in the life-size scale and the slightly unfinished style of leaving loose threads and knots dangling on the portraits, elevating what is normally regarded as imperfections.

Swaby's use of thread creates pencil-like drawings that are loose and expressive. The printed fabrics add an element of eccentricity and personal style, all reflective of her identity. In-between many selves, having experienced many versions of who I am today and feeling conflicted about which parts to share and which parts to keep hiddenwho I should be at home in The Bahamas, and who I should be at home in Toronto, Swaby continues. This work marks an exploration of those in-between spaces and multiple selvesit is a visual manifestation of my ongoing journey of striving to approach all of these parts with acceptance and love....

40+ Dads Show Up to an 8th Grade Graduation Wearing the Same Exact Shirt

Photo: Screenshot from TikTok

When a prank goes incredibly well, it leaves everyone wanting to send their praise to the mastermind behind it all. But sometimes, you can be surprised by who is really pulling the strings. Jolee Windnagle (@jonichole84) posted a video on TikTok presenting dozens of dads showing up to their kids' 8th grade graduation wearing the exact same purple shirt. The success of this prank had many scratching their heads. Was it the dads' idea? Was it the kids?

The video is part of a trend on TikTok, aptly known as the same shirt prank. While many thought the fathers may have coordinated this hilarious fashion faux pas to put a smile on their kids' faces, their bewildered looks reveal they are not in on it. After some theorizing, many have come up with the correct answerit was the wives/moms who came up with the plan!

Knowing that their partners would wear whatever they suggested for them, the mothers decided to pull the ultimate prank. While most people who have tried this trendy trick have managed to get maybe two, five or 10 guys tops to wear the same shirt, the moms of this 8th grade class got over 40 dads to take the bait and show up in matching outfits.

In the footage, we first see Windgale's husband Wayne walking into the school. As the video progresses, families fill the venue with a sea of purple. Each dad slowly begins to realize something is off. The reactions go from nervous smiles and silent staring to plain old confusion. Eventually, the jig is up and the dads are all smiles, realizing they've been part of an elaborate joke. They can all be seen chatting with one another and, in the end, they all took a picture together posing proudly with their matching s...

The United States will rejoin UNESCO, a scientific and educational organization established by the United Nations in 1945 to safeguard cultural heritage, and will pay more than $600 million in back

Space is absolutely infinite. We all realize this, but most of the time, theres no way to truly wrap our minds around what that means.

Thanks to the Webb telescope, though, we can literally see dust storms kicking up in solar systems other than our own and that puts things into perspective.

All images  Leonardo Sens, shared with permission

Since the early 20th century, the massive Christ the Redeemer statue has stood at the tip of the Corcovado mountain, spreading his arms and overlooking Rio de Janeiro. Scaling nearly 40 meters from the base of its pedestal to the top of the figures head, the art deco sculpture is a landmark in Tijuca National Park and a busy destination for tourists. Brazilian photographer Leonardo Sens has also set his sights on the cultural icon in recent years, hoping to catch a glimpse of the moon perfectly nestled within Christs hands.

After three years of observing celestial patterns and tracking the satellites position, Sens successfully captured the sought-after shot on June 4. According to PetaPixel, he positioned himself on Icara Beach, which is about seven miles from the statue, and photographed the moon just as it passed behind the figure, who appears to hold the glowing orb in his outstretched palms in an act of divine alignment.

Sens frequently documents the skies and natural landscapes, and you can find more of his work on Instagram.

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Kanagawa-born artist Yuko Mohri, known for her installations and sculptures centering phenomena that continually shift according to various conditions such as their environments, has been chosen to

Watch Kids Erupt in an Impromptu Sing-Along as 7-Year-Old Performs in Talent Show

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A 7-year-old named Cairo took to the stage at his schools talent show dressed as Bowser from the video game Super Mario Brothers. Sitting at a keyboard, he began singing Peaches from The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was inspired by the game and released in theaters earlier in 2023. But thats not all that happened during this performance.

What was supposed to be a solo rendition from Cairo quickly became a whole-audience sing-along led by the young boy. The other kids belted the lyrics and waved their arms. When Cairo finished his performance, the entire audience erupted into thunderous applause. Luckily, an audience member recorded and shared the adorable scene on YouTube, and its no surprise that the wholesome moment has gone viral.

Peaches was first sung by actor Jack Black who voiced Bowser in the film. Hopefully, the videos popularity will reach him, too; Cairo even wore the same costume that Black wore when he appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

Watch Cairos performance below. If you know the song, feel free to sing along.

A 7-year-old named Cairo took to the stage at his schools talent show dressed as Bowser from the video game Super Mario Brothers. He sang Peaches from The Super Mario Bros. Movie and it became a giant sing-along.

Peaches was first sung by actor Jack Black who voiced Bowser in the film.

Hlne (2023), MDF, polyester, and coating, 90 x 142 x 110.5 centimeters. All images Studio Hans Op de Beeck, shared with permission

Seated on the floor with an arm resting on her knee, an exhausted boxer recovers from physical exertion in Hans Op de Beecks newest life-size sculpture, Hlne. Coated in the artists signature shade of gray, the work captures the interplay of light and shadow to reveal subtle folds of fabric, padding, and the figuress physical features. Op de Beeck has always paid special attention to the moment when we let go of our social roles and daily worries and surrender to a moment when we are nobody and nowhere for a while, a statement says, when we slip into the unknown of the subconscious.

A range of dualities are at the core of Op de Beecks practice, such as wakefulness and sleep, motion and stillness, or life and death. Danse Macabre, for example, juxtaposes the playful, nostalgic motif of a baroque carousel with skull ornamentation and a spectral skeleton in a long dress, symbolically examining the cycle of life and relationships between the present and the past, vitality and mortality, and joy and horror.

Op de Beecks monumental sculptures (previously) often focus on a central, heroic figure, like The Boatman or The Horseman, below, which depict lithe, e...