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ARTIST REVEAL: PRAYFIRSTDIVA A new interactive sculptural installation, made for the first edition of ASMBLY. November 19 · Demo Room, Toronto Community presale ends Oct 21: ctrlshift.community
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Everything we've ever made still dreams. CTRL+SHIFT. The signal for creative intelligence. ctrlshift.community
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We’re going BIG
We’ve been building CTRL+SHIFT one volume at a time. On November 19, we’re taking the next step. Introducing ASMBLY. Part conference + part art exhibit at Demo Room, Toronto. Community presale is live
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We’ve been building CTRL+SHIFT one volume at a time. On November 19, we’re taking the next step. Introducing ASMBLY. Part conference + part art exhibit at Demo Room, Toronto. Community presale is live
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What is CTRL+SHIFT? A monthly creative-tech event series on how technology is changing what it means to create. Year one: 14 sold-out events, 40+ speakers, 120 people a night, 1,300 on Luma. Come for the talks. Stay for the room. ctrlshift.community
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VOL. XIV, recapped. Three talks in Toronto, one thread: more creative decision making. Talk to the system. Art direct the engine. Direct the shot you never had to stage. ctrlshift.community
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Show the world what you are building. Automate the middle, never the ends. A wedge beats a promise. And five questions to audit your system honestly. Lessons from Vol. XIII on building in public.
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Vol. XIV is this Friday, Sept 18. ctrlshift.community
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We're entering an age of generative abundance. Producing more isn't complicated anymore. Producing something tasteful still is. Four questions we keep asking, and the values we use to answer them.
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We believe the future belongs to those who create with curiosity, craft and intention. Control + shift your reality with us. ctrlshift.community
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Vol. XIV is this Friday. Sept 18, 7 PM at Ambition, Toronto. Generative AI, creative coding, agent workflows, hybrid VFX, virtual production. RSVP: ctrlshift.community
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You've seen the 3D demos from Astra and Fable. Here's how they're actually made.
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Footage: Siddharth Ahuja, Thomas Ricouard, Code Bear, Andy Christoforou, Tripo, mds design, Harshith, OpenAI. Vol. XIV is this Friday, Sept 18. ctrlshift.community/
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Building in public is a systems problem. Not a content habit. Accountability. Feedback. Distribution. Most people optimize for one and wonder where the other two went. The failure mode is mistaking output for progress.
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Two lessons from Vol. XIII: content at volume is an infrastructure problem, and specificity beats volume. Show the work, not just the result. Recap: ctrlshift.community
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What people are building with Claude Fable 5.1, one week in: a helicopter in Three.js, a kart racer in one shot, a model train yard in the browser, a drawing turned into a SolidWorks part. Sources on every card. ctrlshift.community
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OpenAI just shipped GPT-6 Astra. It works inside the software, not next to it: a 3D city in Unity, a transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, a house in 3D from one photo, a GTA 2 style game from a single prompt. Field notes, with sources on every slide. ctrlshift.community
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Friday night was all about building in public, from turning a flood of video content into the agentic tools needed to keep up with it, to climbing to #1 on GitHub and Product Hunt in a crowded field of personalized agents. Thanks for everything and @JayChopra_ and @stanforcreators
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This is an insane model from @fal 🤯 I can't describe how wild it feels to generate a long clip in just 15 seconds - this will be transformative for the space. Prompt: "Sheldon and Leonard from the Big Bang Theory discuss building the world's fastest AI video generator."
Introducing H3 Max, new post-trained video model by fal Research. H3 Max ranks #1 for overall quality, prompt understanding, and aesthetics against leading video models, on both first-party and third-party independent evaluations while generating a 5-second 720p video under 3 seconds. H3 Max is 50% off for the next week, making it the highest quality, fastest and cheapest model for overall video generation tasks.
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We're not anti-AI. We're anti-lazy. CTRL+SHIFT isn't in favour of hitting "generate" and calling it art. We're in favour of using tech, AI included, to amplify human creativity, not replace the thinking behind it.
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