The Washington Post Tuesday October 11, 2022
After natural disasters like Hurricane Ian, local, national and global news outlets ritually search for photographs taken by victims. Some news agencies, such as Reuters, even have dedicated Twitter accounts for the pursuit, notes The Washington Post. While journalists pleading to use someone else’s work is hardly a new phenomenon, the public nature of social media has laid bare the sausage-making process. Some critics, adds The Post, “are upset to see multimillion-dollar media corporations essentially begging for free material — usually offering the amateur photographer no compensation besides a caption credit.” What’s your opinion?
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CNN Tuesday October 11, 2022
Two previously unseen photos of the Beatles have been found, showing the band playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1961, shortly before they shot to fame, notes CNN. The images have been published to mark the 60th anniversary of the October 1962 release of “Love Me Do,” the band’s first single on the Parlophone label, according to a statement from Tracks, a UK-based music memorabilia dealer. The photos were reportedly taken by a fan who followed the band in the early 1960s and had a camera.
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THE VERGE Tuesday October 11, 2022
Yesterday we looked at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mounting problems. But there's more: Meta’s VR social network Horizon Worlds — the company’s flagship “metaverse” app — is suffering from so many quality issues that even the team building it isn’t using it very much, according to internal memos obtained by The Verge. In one memo, Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, said the team would remain in a “quality lockdown” for the rest of the year to “ensure that we fix our quality gaps and performance issues before we open up Horizon to more users.”
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Loose Joints Tuesday October 11, 2022
Photographer Richard Mosse, known for his infrared landscapes, has captured the Amazon as you’ve probably never seen it: “Fiery oranges, hot pinks, acid greens and milky blues coalesce to tell a story of destruction” in his book and film project Broken Spectre, notes AnOther. Mosse began the work in the summer of 2019, when, he notes, the Brazilian Amazon was on fire. Says the photographer, “At its strongest, when my work is really working, you might feel the blood on your hands.”
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