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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Earthquake-hit restaurants receive support and singer Alci Acosta is hospitalized as flooding hits Caucasia neighborhoods.

Earthquake Recovery and Urban Life · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-04 00:26Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling city street in Colombia with people walking under a cloudy sky, a damaged restaurant in the background with workers rebuilding, while a paramedic tends to an elderly man in the foreground, and a group of protesters with concerned faces hold objects, not signs, in the distance.

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 bustling city street in Colombia with people walking under a cloudy sky, a damaged restaurant in the background with workers rebuilding, while a paramedic tends to an elderly man in the foreground, and a group of protesters with concerned faces hold objects, not signs, in the distance. 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)

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Costa Caribe
Vandalism hits Cartagena landmark AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Blue paint covers sculpture in Cartagena historic center

The artwork 'El Santo y el Esclavo' was altered by an unauthorized intervention in the city's historic zone.

Regions Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

The sculpture 'El Santo y el Esclavo' by Enrique Grau was vandalized with blue paint in the historic center of Cartagena. A blue paint intervention altered the appearance of the sculpture in the city's historic center.

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