The film industry has seen a range of formats over the decades, from Cinerama and Cinemascope to Ultra Panavision 70 and IMAX—but out of all of them, Super 35 has probably been the most popular among filmmakers since its debut in the early 1980s, notes NoFilmSchool. Today, though, the industry moving towards larger full-frame sensors. Which one should you use? Neither one is right or wrong, adds NFS. Read the full Story >>
After leaving his native Mexico, Santiago Soler found success as a commercial photographer, shooting for brands like Chanel, Swarovski, Dior, Nike, Vogue and HBO. He came to feel there was something missing from his life, leading him on a spiritual journey to Asia, South America and Africa. His first book Nahual emerged from that spiritual quest, and a return to Mexico, where he worked with a community in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, centered on the Yucatec-Maya archaeological site of Ek Balam, notes The Washington Post. Read the full Story >>
Russia’s assault on Ukraine, a conflict between two internet-savvy nations in a region with good cellular coverage, offers rich pickings for open source intelligence, notes Wired, which reports that online sleuths on using facial-recognition tech to identify Russian soldiers. “Just having access to a computer and internet, you can basically be like an intelligence agency from a film,” says the the CEO of a French law enforcement and military training company called Tactical Systems. The power to identify people from afar could bring new accountability to armed conflict but also open new avenues for digital attack, notes Wired. Read the full Story >>
“The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.” So begins an extraordinary piece of reporting from Associated Press featuring images from photographer Evgeniy Maloletka. “In the nearly three weeks since Russia’s war began, two Associated Press journalists have been the only international media present in Mariupol, chronicling its fall into chaos and despair," notes AP. The city is now encircled by Russian soldiers. Read the full Story >>
