TechCrunch Monday February 20, 2023
The AI photo editing trend may have already fizzled, notes TechCrunch: Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store as consumers explored AI powered–experiences like Lensa AI’s “magic avatars” feature and other apps promising to turn text into images using AI tech. But new data from app intelligence firm Apptopia indicates consumer interest in AI photo apps has fallen as quickly as it rose. Apptopia found that this group of AI apps first began to take off around Thanksgiving, then hit their peak in terms of both downloads and in-app purchases around mid-December.
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David Schonauer Monday February 20, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist J. Ross Baughman has come forward saying he is a victim of an alleged $1.6m art fraud scheme, in which investigators say a Detroit-area gallery owner conned
collectors out of more than 100 fine art photographs using made-up employees and fake medical emergencies. As we noted last year, Wendy Halsted Beard of the Wendy Halsted Gallery in Birmingham, a
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Los Angeles Times Friday February 17, 2023
As a photographer for Time magazine in the Los Angeles of the 1960s and ‘70s, Julian Wassar elevated the adage of “right place, right time” to an art form to an art form, notes the Los Angeles Times. Wasser, who captured the era’s celebrities, musicians and artists, died on Feb. 8 at age 89. He became something of a celebrity himself with his staged 1963 picture of the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp playing chess with the completely nude writer Eve Babitz at the Pasadena Art Museum—a photo that inspired inspired last year’s documentary, Duchamp Comes to Pasadena.
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The Slow Mo Guys Friday February 17, 2023
One millisecond is a pretty brief period of time, but Gav and Dan—aka the YouTuber duo known as The Slow Mo Guys—know how to deal with that. In a recent video, they fired.22 caliber bullets at a small tank filled with water, hoping to make them bounce off the surface, like skipping stones on a lake. (Look out for ricochets!) They also filmed the experiment at 82,000fps with a Phantom TMX7510 high-speed camera (the world's first high-speed camera to utilize back side illumination).
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