Joby Aviation completes autonomous US transcontinental flight and FAA debuts SMART routing tool while Puerto Rico faces flood risk from a tropical wave.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-19 01:28Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A dark stormy sky looms over a bustling airport scene with planes taxiing and a Boeing 737 MAX 8 in the center, as a group of people in the foreground navigate through floodwaters, with a damaged Boeing E-3 Sentry visible in the distance, under a warm golden light.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A dark stormy sky looms over a bustling airport scene with planes taxiing and a Boeing 737 MAX 8 in the center, as a group of people in the foreground navigate through floodwaters, with a damaged Boeing E-3 Sentry visible in the distance, under a warm golden light. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
193618919d2ff98f10337278c52bebef075fdddfa2f3c3126b261e492710add5
Insurer sues Alaska, Hawaiian over $521,900 in water-damaged art
Distinguished Programs says Alaska Airlines made no effort to shield 11 paintings from water during a Honolulu transfer.
By Gordon Frame · 3wDistinguished Programs, an art insurer, filed a lawsuit on Sept. 6 against Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Compass Forwarding, a Queens-based logistics company, seeking more than $521,900 for damage to 11 paintings.
The complaint alleges Alaska Airlines made 'no effort to protect' the paintings from water damage during the Honolulu transfer and that its employees 'knew that such conduct would result in significant damage to the artworks.' The paintings, on paper, were packed in cardboard crates, and the complaint contends the carriers acted with 'gross neglect, reckless disregard, and or with willful misconduct.'
Alaska's cargo requirements state customers are responsible for packing goods robustly enough to withstand normal handling, and that the airline is not responsible for damage caused by 'improper or insufficient packing.'
Naga Antiques and Alaska Airlines did not respond to requests for comment from The Independent.
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