Shutterstock Wednesday June 29, 2022
If you’re into creating fantasy imagery and want to know what kinds of strange worlds people want to see right now, Shutterstock has some answers, thanks to artificial intelligence that analyzed the last decade of creative marketing data. “Across its data set, the algorithms discovered which fantasy settings, characters, and tropes are most likely to raise the click-through rate (CTR) of any image, graphic, or video,” notes the company. What’s in: Medieval settings, royal characters, and protective armor. Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Wednesday June 29, 2022
“It took 27 years for me to realize I was transgender. It took a month or two to decide to physically transition. It took even less time than that to understand that I should document my transformation—for myself and for anyone else who needs to see it.” So writes Allison Lippy at National Geographic. Lippy turned the camera on herself as she underwent her medical gender transition, shooting hundreds of self-portraits beginning in 2015. She felt a responsibility to document her story, knowing the importance of self-representation. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Wednesday June 29, 2022
VSCO, which built a reputation offering photo presents and other tools, has announced that it is relaunching its platform to better focus on a core creator audience and, in its words, “return to its roots.” The relaunch includes a new leadership team and product updates designed to appeal to more serious creatives, notes PetaPixel. The relaunch is the first stage of new product offerings that includes VSCO Spaces, a shared gallery system that VSCO says enables visual conversations for creators to work together and provide feedback. Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Wednesday June 29, 2022
On March 18 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov clambered through through the outer hatch of his Voskhod-2 spacecraft, stepping into the void outside and into history as the first person to "walk" in
space. Inside the two-man capsule, commander Pavel Belyaevm documented Leonov's 12-minute excursion with a Konvas Automat camera. The camera, and another Soviet-era Konvas Automat camera, were
recently put up for sale … Read the full Story >>
