npr Wednesday April 12, 2023
Millions of elderly Ukrainians have remained in the country since Russia invaded in February 2022, either unwilling or unable to evacuate, notes NPR, which features a photo report with images by Claire Harbage. People over 60 years old make up nearly one-fourth of Ukraine's population, according to HelpAge, an international nonprofit focused on the elderly. Among those who stayed: Pavlo Komodovskyi, a former military pilot, and his wife, Tamara Vasylenko, who’ve have spent the last year in their apartment building in Kyiv.
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Medium Wednesday April 12, 2023
AI models like Midjourney let you use text prompts to create images. But a new feature from Midjourney, called “Describe,” lets users turn images into words. Writing at Medium, Paul DelSignore notes that the feature brings a number of benefits, from improved accessibility for people with visual impairments to better searchability via search engines. It can also be of use in writing captions and can help in suggesting detailed text prompts for creating new imagery—a sort of state-of-the-art creative feedback loop.
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David Schonauer Wednesday April 12, 2023
One morning during the Woodstock music festival in 1969, Bobbi Ercoline rested her head on her boyfriend's chest, seemingly oblivious to the all that was going on around her; the drowsy, misty moment
was captured by the photographer Burk Uzzle, and his picture would later be chosen for the cover of the festival's soundtrack album. Over time, the image, seen in dorm rooms and … Read the full Story >>
ESPN Tuesday April 11, 2023
Hunt Auctions has announced the private sale of a bat used by Babe Ruth circa 1920-21 for $1.85 million, a record price for a baseball bat. The sale was predicated with photographic proof of authenticity, notes ESPN: The "Polo Grounds" bat, as it is colloquially known for the stadium the New York Yankees played their home games in until 1922, is matched to a 1921 photo of Ruth swinging it. This is the only known example of a piece of sports memorabilia that came with what Hunt Auctions describes as “photographic corroboration.”
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