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Tuesday, September 15, 2026 (UTC)
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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Earthquakes strike western Colombia and President De La Espriella faces a legislative test as Ecopetrol reports profits.

Colombia Earthquakes And Economic News · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-15 00:20Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A rugged landscape in western Colombia shows people evacuating buildings in Cali as a massive earthquake crack opens in the ground behind them, while a group of legislators in the distance gather around President De La Espriella, who stands calmly amidst the chaos, with a subtle oil rig visible in the far background.

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 rugged landscape in western Colombia shows people evacuating buildings in Cali as a massive earthquake crack opens in the ground behind them, while a group of legislators in the distance gather around President De La Espriella, who stands calmly amidst the chaos, with a subtle oil rig visible in the far background. 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)

614744f9981287b1a9247f0d40b952236e1cf643d301181996a3d7b559511f7b
Bogotá y la Sabana
Three car crash in Monterrey, rescue underway AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Three-car crash on Bogota expressway, another in Monterrey

A road accident in Suba, Bogota, and a collision in Monterrey, Mexico, each involved three vehicles.

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A road accident involving three automobiles occurred on the North Expressway at Calle 210 in the Suba locality of Bogota during the early morning hours of Sunday, according to Semana.

A multiple-vehicle collision involving three vehicles occurred on the bridge at Garza Sada and Revolución in Monterrey, Mexico, on 2026-09-14, according to EL NORTE.

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