Popular Photography Monday November 1, 2021
Plenty of artists have jumped headlong into the blockchain world of non-fungible tokens, but headshot photographer Peter Hurley is taking the idea a step further. Hurley is launching a collection of 10,000 photography-inspired NFTs called Shabangrs on the Ethereum blockchain. Owning a Shabangrs NFT will grant you “‘citizenship’ in the virtual city of Shabangrsville,” notes Popular Photography. There’s also an opportunity to win prizes like a Canon EOS R5 camera or mentorship from Hurley. Read the full Story >>
CNN Monday November 1, 2021
Images of a cube-shaped office building in Berlin and a soaring Chinese skyscraper complex are among the finalists in the prestigious Architectural Photography Awards, notes CNN, which spotlights the work (chosen from some 2,000 entries submitted by photographers in 40 countries). They also include a photo of a curvilinear hotel in Dubai and a Hong Kong tower in complete darkness after residents were evacuated during lockdown. Winners will be announced at the annual World Architecture Festival in December. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday November 1, 2021
The big blue-and-white F is no more. Facebook has taken what The New York Times calls “an unmistakable step toward an overhaul” by rebranding its corporate identity as Meta. Facebook and its other apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, will remain but under the Meta umbrella. The move underscores how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to refocus his Silicon Valley company on what he sees as the next digital frontier, which is the unification of disparate digital worlds into something called the metaverse, notes The Times. Renaming Facebook may also help distance the company from swirling social networking controversies. The Verge has more. Read the full Story >>
npr Monday November 1, 2021
The ocean surface is the thinnest of lines between two worlds—"molecular thin"— underwater photographer David Doubilet calls it. Below is a world as alien as outer space with galaxies of fish and kaleidoscopic corals; above lies the world of human habitation. In his new book Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea (Phaidon), Doubilet brings those two realms into single images. The work, he tells NPR, was made possible by the invention of the OceanEye underwater camera housing by photographer Bates Littlehales. Read the full Story >>
