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The Daily Triptych114 / 365

24 APR 2026

Day 114

All that is solid melts into air.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · The Communist Manifesto
A small early eighteenth-century print densely filled with satirical urban scenes alluding to opera, masked balls and fashionable architecture, worked in a mix of etched and engraved lines.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

The Bad Taste of the Town

William Hogarth · 1724 · British Museum

In the mid-1720s William Hogarth issued a small satirical print that needled London for chasing Italian opera, masked balls and imported architecture over home-grown art.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Unified MultiModal Embedding with ImageBind

multimodality · image, text, audio, depth, thermal, IMU · image-paired data

ImageBind aligns images, text, audio, depth, thermal and motion into one space by pairing each only with images — so modalities never seen together still meet.

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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified

A weathered rock face carrying a large shallow relief of a horseman in profile, the figure and mount reading as one mass against the cliff.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Madara Rider

8th century · Bas-relief sculpture · Madara Plateau, Bulgaria

High on a rock wall near Madara, a horseman was carved in bas-relief in the eighth century. The figure still rides; what it was meant to declare remains only partly settled.

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