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how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-29 00:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A darkened cityscape with a massive storm cloud looming in the background as people rush to evacuate flooded streets, while a group of officials in suits gather around a large map of the world, pointing to various hotspots, and a drone flies overhead, its lights reflecting off the wet pavement.
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 darkened cityscape with a massive storm cloud looming in the background as people rush to evacuate flooded streets, while a group of officials in suits gather around a large map of the world, pointing to various hotspots, and a drone flies overhead, its lights reflecting off the wet pavement. 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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Pope Leo XIV addresses 150,000 in Lourdes; basilica covers accused priest's mosaic ahead of visit
During his official visit to France, the pontiff spoke of church wounds while the sanctuary concealed work by an artist accused of abusing nuns.
By Miriam Santos · 50mThe Basilica of the Rosary in Lourdes, France covered a mosaic artwork by Marco Ruffini ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit to the site.
Ruffini, a former Catholic priest, is accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing over 20 women, most of whom were nuns, between 1980 and 2018.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated mass and addressed the gathered crowd at the Lourdes sanctuary on the Sunday of his visit. Four separate outlets reported attendance at approximately 150,000 people.
In his public remarks, the pope called on the Catholic Church to heal 'deep wounds' and 'painful errors'. He met with survivors of child sexual abuse following the service.
During the France visit, Pope Leo XIV also publicly restated official Catholic doctrine opposing abortion and medically assisted death.
No public statement has been issued by basilica staff explaining the decision to cover the mosaic. The artwork was not referenced during any public portion of the papal programme in Lourdes.
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