A Scottish castle that has been turned into a hotel is now on sale in Hong Kong and the mainland after languishing for seven months on the British market without any offers - which the hotel co-owner is blaming on the credit crunch. A remnant of the 15th-century palace of the Bishop of Sutherland, the 25-bedroom Dornoch Castle Hotel, in the Highland town of Dornoch, is being priced at GBP2.5 million (HK$31. Read More...
Finding Prince Charming and living in a giant castle is a childhood fantasy for many. But for one girl from Guangdong, China, finding that happily ever after wasn’t just a fairy tale.
Li Ran, married to Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne-la Tremoille of Belgium, is said to be the first Chinese person to gain a European royal title. While Li comes from a modest, working-class family, Prince Charles, a visual artist, hails from the House of Ligne, which is among the oldest Belgian noble families. Read More...
“It creates this dopamine path in your brain. It’s very addictive to keep pushing that button and getting these results,” she says.
Supercomposite – whose real name is Steph Maj Swanson and is originally from the United States – created the red-cheeked, hollow-eyed woman called “Loab” in 2022 when she was testing out the new artistic possibilities offered by AI.
Her posts on social media of Loab and about the process to create her went viral, with commentators describing the images as “disturbing” and saying they had “sparked some lengthy ethical conversations around visual aesthetics, art and technology”. Read More...
