Writer, photographer, TEDx speaker, and the author of the 1,000 True Fans essay, Kevin Kelly talks about his new book 'Excellent Advice for Living, Wisdom I wish I'd known earlier,' 450 wisdom tweets. Also on the show today, the lights are off in the Himalayas, thoughts about making 'Day Trips to Hell,' and a show page challenge to see if you can identify reality from deep fake. There’s a very touching story today about how photography has brought one of our writers back from a very dark place, news about Africa '24 and we're inviting entries for the May's photo assignment.

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REFERENCES AND GALLERIES FROM TODAY’S SHOW

AFRICA ‘24 EXPEDITION AND PHOTOWALK RETREAT.
Excellent Advice for Living, by Kevin Kelly.
The Day Trips to Hell episode featuring Giles Penfound.
Kevin Kelly’s Instagram art grid of work and quotes, and latest TEDx talk on optimism.
Bing Image Creator, Leonardo AI, Midjourney; AI generators used by Matthias Focks in the gallery competition below.
The Amnesty International AI fake pictures story as mentioned within the show. A newspaper article by The Guardian.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2023.
By Bike and Boat, the Facebook page mentioned on the show.
Leon Droby and Randy Bullerwell, guests featured on this week’s Extra Mile show.
Don McCullin’s ‘Unreasonable Behaviour’ on Audible.

MATTHIAS FOCKS’ AI QUIZ

Can you spot which pictures are the work of a photographer with a camera and which pictures are creations made by a photographer but this time prompting an AI generated result? Enter in the comments below placing the letter R for real, F for fake next to each number between 1 and 11.

Images 1 (L) and 2 (R), portrait and editorial.

Images 4 (L) and 5 (R) wet plate collodian.

Image 6, picture from Time or time to generate a picture?

Image 11, photojournalism or journofaked?

Can you spot which pictures are the work of a photographer with a camera and which pictures are creations made by a photographer but this time prompting an AI generated result? Enter in the comments below placing the letter R for real, F for fake next to each number between 1 and 11.