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News.com.au
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Inside Madonna's moody $62 million NYC home
Fans have been given a rare glimpse inside Madonna's $US40 million ($62 million) New York City home. Fashion expert Lyas shared a peek into the 'Material Girl' singer's triple-wide Georgian townhouse on the Upper East Side in a video posted to TikTok and Instagram this week. The pop star's residence features a moody interior, luxurious finishes and several masterpieces by famous artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Page Six reports. 'Guys, this is insane. I'm in Madonna's house,' he said before filming inside the expansive manse, which reportedly has 13 bedrooms. The style guru began by showing black French doors leading to a foyer with tiled flooring and a black-painted staircase accented with a framed throwback photograph of Madonna with the late Basquiat. Upstairs, a large dining room table topped with lit candelabras was situated on a geometric rug beneath a modern chandelier. On the wall, there was a massive black-and-white portrait of Madonna, 66, reclining on a chair that acclaimed photographer Steven Klein took. Lyas then filmed inside the mother of six's office, which had bookshelves filled with accolades like her Golden Globe Awards and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame trophy. There was also a gorgeous white couch, a desk, a centre table with a pink floral arrangement, family photos and lots of art leaning in various spaces. A living room area boasted a cozy fireplace, a seating area and a piano surrounded by guitars. 'This is giving coven,' Lyas joked of the shadowy space before showing off a framed image of the Queen of Pop with former President Barack Obama — signed by the politician. The room also had an original artwork by Haring, a never-before-seen sketch of Madonna by Basquiat and collector's items such as coffee-table books and a typewriter containing rewrites of her 1987 film, 'Who's That Girl.' A private bar room was filled with glassware accentuated by mirrored walls and a glass chandelier. Lyas explored several hallways, all decorated with high-end art pieces, before making his way up the stairs to a beautiful glam room where Madonna sat in a chair while smoking a cigar. 'Oh, hi,' the influencer said, prompting the 'Vogue' singer to greet him nonchalantly while taking a puff. The all-white dressing room had several mirrors and a vanity as well as a table set up for makeup and hair products. Multiple sconces and a large drum chandelier lit the room with a soft glow. The video was seemingly filmed recently, as Madonna was dressed in the same white Tom Ford tuxedo she wore to the 2025 Met Gala.
Cision Canada
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cision Canada
Yaber Highlights the Timeless Design and Natural Aesthetic of the T2 Series in "Lunar Rock" Colorway
NEW YORK, May 14, 2025 /CNW/ -- Inspired by the enduring beauty of natural elements such as stone and granite, Yaber's T2 Series stands out with its signature Lunar Rock colorway. This subtle yet expressive shade conveys quiet strength and resilience, reflecting Yaber's ongoing commitment to products that balance thoughtful design with everyday functionality. Designed for Simplicity, Built for Life Embodying the design philosophy of "simplicity with depth," the Yaber T2 Series features a clean, modern form highlighted by fluid lines and soft curves. A key design element is its multi-functional handle, which not only enhances portability also unfolds into a 360° rotatable stand—offering effortless adaptability for diverse environments. Sustainability at the Core The T2 Series integrates sustainable principles throughout its design. Its lightweight and paint-free body reduces both material usage and environmental impact. Additionally, the use of a single-adapter power solution eliminates the clutter of multiple cables, reinforcing Yaber's dedication to eco-conscious engineering. A Creative Collaboration In a celebration of art and innovation, a special edition of the T2 Series pays tribute to renowned artist Keith Haring, incorporating his iconic illustrations such as "Barking Dog" and "Love and Heart." This collaboration transforms the Yaber T2 into a collectible object—where creative expression and technology coexist in harmony. Availability The Yaber T2 Series is available through Yaber's official website and Amazon. For a limited time, customers can take advantage of a special offer—get the T2 projector for $232.50 using the code P4T8XC25 on Amazon. To learn more, search "Yaber" on Amazon or visit the Yaber T2/T2 Plus product page. About Yaber Founded in 2018, Yaber redefined home entertainment by introducing the world's first entertainment projector, pioneering a new category in the industry. Today, its innovative projectors have delivered immersive experiences to users in over 120 countries, making Yaber a trusted name in global home entertainment. The letter "Y" in Yaber embodies the youthful vigor and innovative spirit of Generation Y. It's not just a symbol, but a unique representation of youth identity and attitude towards life, infusing the brand with rich cultural connotations of youthfulness within simplicity. Committed to excellence, Yaber has been pushing the boundaries of audiovisual innovation, crafting projectors that inspire richer, more vibrant lifestyles. Its achievements are recognised with prestigious accolades, including the RedDot, IDEA, VGP, and CES Innovation Awards.
New York Post
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
2025 Full Flower Moon: Shocking truths bloom under the 'assassin's moon'
Step up and shout out, folks, the Full Flower Moon in Scorpio is upon us. The Full Flower Moon rises and shines on May 12, 2025, at 12:56 PM EST in intense AF Scorpio, the sign of death and rebirth, intimacy and underbellies, sex and power, control and release. Full Moon May 2025 6 The Full Flower Moon is peaking at 22 degrees of Scorpio. Ambreen – What makes this moon even more acute is that it is peaking at 22 degrees of Scorpio. This is known as the 'assassin's degree,' as the energy is critical — kill or be killed — and associated with karmic contracts and responsibilities. But what needs to be slain or consumed is not another person but another version of ourselves. Paired with Pluto, our planet of shadows, retrograding and revealing in Aquarius, this killer Scorpio moon is meant to provoke, to point to the areas in life where we are stuck or stagnant, and raise a sharpened claw towards the way out. Onward and through.. Remember my babies, that those born with Scorpio moons have the powerful ability to rengenerate, and the divine capacity to alchemize pain into purpose, and we are all gifted with that medicine during this lunation. What is a Flower Moon 6 The full moon in Scorpio will directly oppose Uranus, our planet of the outlandish and the unexpected. Papilouz Studio – The full moon in Scorpio will directly oppose Uranus in Taurus, a planet known as 'The Great Awakener' for its capacity to disrupt, destroy, liberate, and cast us out and anew. This Uranian influence could unceremoniously edge us to burn the boats of before, choose freedom over fear, and courage over comfort. 'I am a necessary part of an important search to which there is no end.' Keith Haring Also, in the interest of public health and as the brilliant astrologer Evan Nathaniel Grim notes, this is the full moon when folks are most likely to catch an STI or an unwanted pregnancy. Look alive, wrap it up, and don't let your great awakening be a rash. Full Flower Moon 6 During the Full Moon, Mercury in Taurus will square Pluto in Aquarius. janez volmajer – During the full moon, Mercury in Taurus will form a tense square with Pluto. Mercury is the mind and its expressions, and Pluto is the buried, the exiled, and the subconscious, in kind and not so kind; this aspect gives rise to triggering conversations and erratic behaviors. If Taurus is the sun drunk surface, Scorpio is the truth that comes from the bottom up. Rest assured, though, whatever comes up (Pluto) and is let out (Mercury) is actually in service of improved stability and increased abundance (Taurus). 6 Artist Keith Haring paints a mural on the handball wall at Clarkson Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. Newsday RM via Getty Images Fall apart to come together, so to speak. Full moons are always about release and revelation, but as Taurus/Scorpio is the axis of the possessive/obsessive, and form(Taurus)/transform (Scorpio), there's added impetus to let go, break free, and let others be. If Taurus is the sun drunk surface, Scorpio is the truth that comes from the bottom up. Artist and activist Keith Haring, himself a Taurus sun with a Scorpio moon, embodies this axis with the belief: 'I am a necessary part of an important search to which there is no end.' Here's to that ceaseless seeking. Flower Moon meaning 6 The Full Flower Moon gets his name from the blooms that flood the earth this time of year. jakkapan – As per the Farmer's Almanac, the Algonquin people called May's full moon the Flower Moon, a reference to the boom of blooms that carpeted North America in late spring. Other names for this moon include the Leaf Budding Moon, marking the awakening of flora and fauna as the weather warms, and the Planting Moon, denoting the time when seeds should be sown for the summer to come. The Cree called this month's moon the Egg Laying Moon and Frog Moon, while the Oglala knew it as Moon of the Shedding Ponies. From flowers to ponies, seeds to eggs, all names reflect the promise of vitality and the power of changing forms. In reference to the Flower Moon falling in the sign of rot and renewal, it becomes a symbol for what can flourish when we turn over the soil of ourselves. How will the full moon in Scorpio affect my zodiac sign? 6 The house within your birth chart ruled by Scorpio can tell you how this full moon will express itself in your life. Pamela Ranya – Because this full moon falls in a fixed axis, those with personal planets in the fixed signs: looking at you, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and specifically those with placements between 18 to 26 degrees, will feel the effects of this lunation most acutely. To determine how this full moon will express itself in your life, look to the house within your birth chart ruled by Scorpio. When is the next full moon? The next full moon will be the Full Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius, rising on Wednesday, June 11th, and peaking around 3:44 a.m. Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
New York Times
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Goose Rules the Jam-Band Roost (Sorry, Haters)
A monkey, a giraffe, a pair of goth nuns, a bee holding flowers and an old-timey circus strongman made their way through the crowd last month at Luna Luna, the lost art carnival, in Manhattan. Fans of the 11-year-old jam band Goose were wise to what they were witnessing. 'They're from the band's lore,' one explained spying the performers, who had assembled to help announce a new Goose album, 'Everything Must Go.' Soon the four members of Goose and a guest saxophonist situated themselves in the center of the crowd of hundreds that fanned out to Jean-Michel Basquiat's Ferris wheel and Keith Haring's carousel, and began an hourlong jam. Creative, intentional, extremely eager to please: The whole thing was very Goose. A jam band 'is like a sitcom,' said Cotter Ellis, Goose's drummer. 'When you watch a show like 'The Office,' after a while you feel like you know the characters. That's how people view us — they feel they're such a part of the scene that they actually get to know us.' Ellis, 33, who earlier had strolled anonymously around Luna Luna dressed as a lion, added, 'I like that. I don't want to be seen as better than the crowd. I want it to be seen as, 'We're all in this together.'' 'Everything Must Go,' a 14-song set that features major-key tunes with lyrics alternately goofy and uplifting, a prog-y instrumental number and a new single, the Don Henley-inflected 'Your Direction,' comes as the group solidifies its status as rock's biggest 'new' jam band. On Thursday, Goose will make its debut at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, followed by its first destination festival — Viva el Gonzo, next month in San José del Cabo, Mexico — and a sold-out headlining concert in June at Madison Square Garden, long the site of heralded residencies by the jam great Phish. Together, it all inescapably feels like an anointment. 'Within the community, there's all this talk of, 'Who's coming next?'' said Peter Anspach, Goose's keyboardist. 'You see the lineage of the Grateful Dead, Phish. 'Well, what's going to happen after this?' Is it going to be a pool of bands? Is it going to be, like, one pinnacle band?' Goose — not to be confused with Geese, an indie-rock band from Brooklyn — has been embraced by its elders. Rick Mitarotonda, the band's virtuosic guitarist, has sat in with Dead & Company and played with Phil Lesh and Friends. Phish's Trey Anastasio joined Goose during a 2022 concert at Radio City Music Hall, and took his Trey Anastasio Band on the road with the young group for eight dates where they shared top billing later that year. Performing at a benefit for hurricane victims last year at the Garden, Goose welcomed Dave Matthews for a rendition of 'The Way It Is,' a song by the former Dead touring member Bruce Hornsby — who has also performed it with Goose. 'They're creating something that will expand and evolve to more adventurous musical areas for years,' said Hornsby, who guested on the song at a Goose concert last year at Hampton Coliseum, near where Hornsby lives in Virginia. 'I think their musical heart is in the right place,' he added. 'They're intellectually curious, musically.' But as in any insular scene with its own customs, vernacular and fiercely protective fans, there has been backlash. Social media is packed with digs and memes implying that Goose is too slick, too corporate. The band has 'gotten guerrilla advertising campaigns that have gotten the name out via social media,' a Reddit post said. 'Their fans are convincing themselves that they're witnessing something like 93 Phish' reads a message-board post. 'Not 100 percent sold on Goose,' the saying goes. Hidden amid the invective and gatekeeping is a kernel of truth about the novelty of Goose's rise. It has not been a stealth 'guerrilla advertising campaign,' but rather the work of savvy, ambitious musicians leveraging how music travels today to make themselves supremely available to fans. Borrowing from pop fandoms — and some roots laid by jam royalty — Goose has been assiduous and clever about building lore like cheeky in-jokes (its self-proclaimed genre, 'indie groove,' is a pun on 'in the groove'), annual celebrations (one word: Goosemas) and gimmicks such as Bingo Nights, where the next song is selected by a gigantic ball generator. Concerts are livestreamed, and soundboard recordings available to download within hours after a gig. Four shows from last year alone — including a two-night run at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y., that included Vampire Weekend sitting in for a 33-minute jam on 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa' — are available on Spotify. 'It's the classic thing, of how everything seems like an overnight success,' Mitarotonda, 34, said. 'It was many, many years of work. To me, it started when I was in middle school. It's not a straight line, it's a very weird and challenging road.' GOOSE'S JOURNEY BEGAN in suburban Connecticut, where three-quarters of the band grew up and today Mitarotonda lives in a house purchased during the pandemic alongside a barnlike studio he built. In middle school and high school he studied jazz; he listened to the Dead and Phish, he said, 'to get stoned and let my hair down.' Trevor Weekz, Goose's bassist and the other founding member still with the band, was into metal as well as jam music. Weekz, 35, and Mitarotonda met in high school, and later played in a band called Vasudo along with Ben Atkind, Goose's original drummer, who left in late 2023, and Matt Campbell, who remains Mitarotonda's songwriting collaborator. Vasudo ended, and Mitarotonda found himself in Fort Collins, Colo., slinging tacos and itching to be in a band again. So in 2014 he put one together with Vasudo alumni, borrowing a bit of nonsensical kitchen lingo from the restaurant Dam Good Tacos — 'Goose, I need three pollo'; 'Carne asada, good to goose.' Already, Mitarotonda's listening habits were expanding. Jerry Garcia had bluegrass and Django Reinhardt; Trey Anastasio mined Frank Zappa and Talking Heads. Mitarotonda became enamored of Fleet Foxes, the Seattle indie-rock act. Other indie influences followed, including Father John Misty (Fleet Foxes' drummer for a time, who has since sat in with Goose) and Bon Iver. 'It was two LPs and two EPs,' Mitarotonda said of Fleet Foxes' output circa 2014, 'but it was a world. The artwork, the aesthetic, the music, the melodies, the lyrics — nothing took you out of that world.' Goose by all accounts became the band it remains today, in 2017, when Anspach, who was with the eclectic jam band Great Blue, joined as keyboardist despite being a guitarist who did not really know keys. Something of a Paul to Mitarotonda's John — sonically obsessive, interpersonally garrulous — Anspach, 32, took on the role of concert emcee and, thanks to a charismatic mustache, the one you would be likeliest to recognize if you saw him walking down the street. Anspach's technical know-how and perfectionism unlocked the band's secret weapon — accessibility — and the group started to pump out a constant stream of almost immediately available, high-quality soundboard recordings and impressive video. 'Once he joined the band, it was like I had someone on the front lines — I always picture Green Berets with knives in their teeth, scaling a wall,' Mitarotonda said. 'It felt like I had had another guy with a knife in his teeth.' Goose's appearance at the 2019 Peach Music Festival in Scranton, Pa., is a case in point. The festival poster broadcast headliners like Phil Lesh and Friends, the Trey Anastasio Band and the String Cheese Incident in big print; Goose was the equivalent of a footnote. But its jam-heavy set — with multiple, well-edited camera angles and terrific soundboard audio — has been viewed on YouTube 434,000 times. A 38-minute clip from the 2022 Radio City show with the Anastasio cameo has nearly one million views. 'During Covid, they maybe grew, didn't shrink,' Peter Shapiro, an impresario of the jam-band world, said in an interview. 'They had their own video crew, and their streams would feature these hand-held cameras that are unbelievable. The last generation of bands didn't have that streaming thing and the ability to self-release videos.' Shapiro waved off talk of a conspiracy theory to boost the band's profile. 'It's all grass roots,' he said. 'It all comes from the fans and the band's unique relationship to them.' EARLIER THIS MONTH, Goose gathered at Mitarotonda's barn studio in northern Fairfield County. The guitarist has a Golden retriever, Shasta, and chickens whose daily eggs are a better hedge against inflation than most of us enjoy. On a couch in the studio, next to a pull-up station, the band members discussed the things millennial men discuss — real estate, a Bill Burr stand-up routine, lunch — and then tuned, jammed a bit and rehearsed tight versions of tracks from 'Everything Must Go' for a TV appearance. 'Everything Must Go,' its first studio album in three years, catches Goose over an extended period of change, like a photograph taken by a camera set to a very slow shutter speed. Most of the tracks have already been performed live, some for years; a few are brand-new. Four drummers or percussionists appear, including Ellis, the departed Atkind and the percussionist Jeffrey Arevalo — who joined the band in 2020 and left Goose earlier this year because of what the band in a statement called 'inappropriate behavior in Jeff's personal life that does not align with the band's core values.' In a phone interview, Arevalo declined to comment on the behavior; in a statement, he acknowledged pursuing a 'program' to deal with a 'mental health crisis.' Ellis, the current drummer, joined the band a little more than a year ago to replace Atkind. Ellis could well be a typical Goose devotee. While familiar with the band, he had not been a huge fan, instead preferring — who else? — Phish. But as he acquainted himself with Goose's ouevre, he was surprised by how much he loved the music, particularly given its debt to newer sources. (Ellis has since become a Bon Iver fan, too.) 'It felt fresh and exciting, and like we could actually do something new,' Ellis said. For a community that relishes the novelty and spontaneity of live shows, jam-band fans can sometimes be awfully set in their ways. On a recent episode of 'Slow Ready,' a generally worshipful Goose fan podcast, one host proposed that Goose stop releasing studio albums. 'In the jam-band scene — I made this joke the other day — putting out records sometimes feels like extra credit,' Mitarotonda said. But the band relishes seeing what happens to the songs in the studio. Anspach grinned while observing that the live staple 'California Magic' had gotten slower ('swampy') on the album, with in-studio horns. The title track clicked for Mitarotonda when the producer D. James Goodwin recorded and chopped up the drums, the kind of thing Radiohead might do. In addition to 'Everything Must Go,' in recent months Goose has recorded more for another, future album. In the phone interview, Arevalo, the recently departed percussionist, criticized Goose for prioritizing commerce over music: 'I think it was a conscious decision to spend more time focused on growing the business and less time focused on growing the art.' Mitarotonda dismissed the complaint — the band's primary motivation, he maintained, is pushing its music further. But he acknowledged that as Goose has grown more popular, maintaining focus on the art has become harder. It is difficult not to notice that the album's closing track, the anthemic 'How It Ends,' is about a band driving a van off a cliff (a 'metaphor,' said Mitarotonda; 'super-hopeful,' clarified Weekz). 'Most artists I would imagine struggle with the chaos of everything,' Mitarotonda said. As an example, he cited George R.R. Martin, the author of the book cycle that became 'Game of Thrones.' Martin famously has not delivered a conclusion to his narrative even as the television show raced ahead and ended the story in its own, widely criticized fashion. 'He wrote these books, and they had such an impact,' Mitarotonda said. 'And the show moved at a different pace, and the world moved at a different pace than his pace. And his pace is what made the whole thing good in the first place.' Mitarotonda added, 'I'm slow. I like being slow. Sometimes when you're slow, then it happens fast. But if you try to do it fast — if you try to keep up with the fast — nothing good happens.'
Axios
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
ChatGPT's new image generator blurs copyright lines
AI image generators aren't new, but the one OpenAI handed to ChatGPT's legions of users this week is more powerful and has fewer guardrails than its predecessors — opening up a range of uses that are both tantalizing and terrifying. Why it matters: Though worries about deepfakes, job replacement and intellectual property theft have been voiced for years, this new tool makes these risks a present — rather than a future — concern. Catch up quick: OpenAI released its new tool on Tuesday, saying it would be available for Plus, Pro, Team and even those using the free version of ChatGPT. On Wednesday, the social media world discovered the tool in earnest and began turning historical photos and their own library into Studio Ghibli stills. By Wednesday evening, Sam Altman said OpenAI was delaying the launch for free users due to heavy demand and on Thursday the company said it would have to impose rate limits even on paid users because "our GPUs are melting." The big picture: Over the past few days, I've used ChatGPT's image generator to handle a range of image transformations as well as projects from scratch. Like many, I found it hard to stop stylizing old pictures with my favorite genres. For me it was less about Ghibli and more about my passions. I turned myself and my friends and family into Muppets and Lego minifigures and also experimented with other artists including Keith Haring, Van Gogh, LeRoy Neiman. This use was so compelling, I had trouble moving on. ChatGPT's tool, though, goes far beyond letting you transform any image into a different style. The tool is good enough for a range of tasks that in the past would have required professional artists, graphic designers and other creatives. It can render text clearly within images, long a stumbling block for AI image generators. Zoom out: Elon Musk's Grok also has a wide range of capabilities and few guardrails, while Adobe's Firefly is at the other end of the spectrum, using only the training data that it has license to in an effort to be "commercially safe" for business use. Zoom in: In addition to the many, MANY Simpsons and Muppets images I created, I also turned my cat, Raven, into a Pokémon card, complete with the powers I asked for: "sleep" and "whine for food." I created a "save the date" flyer for my son's bar mitzvah, having the relevant information appear on a giant scoreboard on top of a realistic basketball arena. I gave ChatGPT a slide with the dates and locations for this year's AI Summits and asked it to create a movie poster touting the three events. It did so in about the time it took me to brush my teeth. Between the lines: ChatGPT did refuse some tasks. It wouldn't put my mother-in-law on a fake cover of "Car & Driver" declaring her the oldest woman to win the Indy 500 "because it involves portraying a real person in a fictional or exaggerated context." It wouldn't create a basketball card for my son with his name because it has a policy against combining real names with photos, though it offered to do a card using a nickname instead. Just once, I got an error when asking to Simpsons-ify a photo saying it "couldn't generate an image in the style of The Simpsons because that involves a copyrighted and trademarked property." The rest of the time it happily turned people into residents of Springfield. It also refused a request to create a Simpsons-style cartoon image that features a bunch of cartoonists on the street with signs that say "Will read for food" and "AI stole my job." But that time it had nothing to do with copyright issues. ChatGPT said it couldn't do that because it "could be interpreted as targeting or mocking individuals or groups affected by real-world job loss or technology shift." Interestingly, the rejections typically came not when I typed the prompt, but after ChatGPT created most of the image, giving me a good look at what my request would have generated had it not decided to enforce a rule. That suggests that a significant amount of its safety checks come at the end of the process. What they're saying: "Our goal is to give users as much creative freedom as possible," OpenAI said in a statement about limits on using an artist's style. "We continue to prevent generations in the style of individual living artists, but we do permit broader studio styles—which fans have used to generate and share some truly delightful and inspired fan creations." The statements are reflective of a broader shift toward focusing more on specific harms than broad categories, as OpenAI's model behavior lead Joanne Jang outlined in a blog post. "We're always learning from real-world use and feedback, and we'll keep refining our policies as we go," OpenAI said. Yes, but: As much as I enjoyed using the tool — and I was up late several nights doing so — a nagging voice inside me warned me that this "free" tool comes at a huge cost. I feel like I burned an acre of rainforest on my own and can only imagine how much energy has been used by people turning everything into Ghibli. I long imagined brands, studios and creators would be able to use AI to allow fans to join their universe. But now OpenAI is doing it on its own, with no money going to creators.
