nofilmschool Wednesday June 8, 2022
Audio content—whether that be podcasts, livestreams, music recording sessions, or even traditional film and video—is huge now. And, notes NoFilmSchool, RODE’s new Rodecaster Pro II, the successor to the popular Rodecaster Pro live mixer aimed at live streamers and podcasters, may be the future of audio. It pushes the boundaries of what a standalone audio recording console can really do, adds NFS. RODE calls it a completely new beast featuring ultra-low-noise, high-gain Revolution Preamps and the ability to accept instruments as well as microphones, adds DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
Museum of Modern Art Wednesday June 8, 2022
The exhibition “Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum” successfully “reframes restrictive notions of womanhood, exploring the connections between photography, feminism, civil rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and queer liberation,” notes the Museum of Modern Art. On view through Oct. 2, the exhibition brings together more than 100 years of photography through the collection of Helen Kornblum, a psychotherapist who, notes Aperture, began collecting the work of women photographers when “maleness was the norm.” Read the full Story >>
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Wednesday June 8, 2022
The City of Minneapolis has agreed to a settlement in the lawsuit brought by independent photojournalist Linda Tirado, who was struck by a rubber bullet amid protests in May 2020 and permanently blinded in one eye. Tirado filed the lawsuit on June 10, 2020, less than two weeks after she was struck with multiple crowd-control munitions, notes the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. The city agreed to pay Tirado $600,000. Minneapolis reportedly also agreed to pay $2.4 million to Soren Stevenson, a protester who was shot with a rubber bullet and permanently blinded. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday June 8, 2022
"In the spring of 2019, I led a team to the Chinese side of Mount Everest to try and solve one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries: Who really was the first to leave their boot prints on its
summit?" So writes author and climber Mark Synnott in "The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death," a new book in which he posits that British mountaineers George … Read the full Story >>
