feature shoot Wednesday April 6, 2022
“I’m standing on the rooftop terrace of FRAME11 Gallery, staring at a portrait by the photographer Yanissa X,” write Ellyn Kail at Feature Shoot. By the way, she adds, FRAME11 Gallery exists not in a single physical space but in the metaverse. It’s part of Cryptovoxels, a virtual world powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Like most artworks in a traditional gallery, the art in FRAME 11 is available to collectors. But you can’t carry the picture home with you, and you can’t ask the gallery to frame it. Instead, you can acquire it as an NFT. Read the full Story >>
Bleeping Computer Wednesday April 6, 2022
There's a new Android spyware that disguises itself as a system component and can access a variety of smartphone functions, including the microphone and camera, to secretly record the user. Researchers from Lab52 discovered the malicious APK spyware, which is named “Process Manager.” The malware uses the same shared-hosting infrastructure previously seen used by the Russian APT group known as Turla, notes Bleeping Computer. BC reports that information collected from infected devices is sent in the JSON format to a command and control server with an IP address in Russia. Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Wednesday April 6, 2022
Photographer Mike Moats lives in what might be regarded by many as a lilliputian world: He photographs macro subjects almost exclusively. And while that restriction on subjects might seem a "little"
confining to some, it has made Moats an extremely successful photographer and photo/workshop teacher. In fact, he owns an online macro photo club that has more than 2,500 members (each of whom pay … Read the full Story >>
PHOTOSHELTER Tuesday April 5, 2022
When clicking the shutter, it’s important to remember that we’re not just making images, but also presenting ideas. What gets included or left out affects the way stories come to life, which in turn affects how the public views various communities and cultures, notes PhotoShelter, which presents insights on photographing marginalized communities from Miriam Alarcón Avila, one of the first mentees in PhotoShelter’s Mentorship Program. A Latina photographer originally from Mexico, her life’s work has been to cover the minority Latino population in her home state of Iowa. Read the full Story >>
