The Athletic Tuesday October 10, 2023
The Nation College Athletic Association is moving toward banning recruiting photo shoots during unofficial visits, reports The Athletic. The NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee recently introduced legislation to prohibit “institutional involvement in arranging photographs or photographing the prospective student-athlete and those accompanying the prospective student-athlete” during unofficial visits. The recruiting photo shoot has become an increasingly elaborate and onerous element of recruiting and is “a huge burden for recruiting and creative teams,” adds TA.
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The Guardian Tuesday October 10, 2023
Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg made his name with acclaimed projects such as "Raised By Wolves" (1995) and "Open See" (2009), which spoke of his deep engagement with other people’s troubled lives. But, notes The Guardian, with his new book Coming and Going, the subject is himself. “I’m making something universal out of a normal life.” he says, “It’s all in there: deaths, births, divorce, illness, all the stuff that happens along the way. It’s my story, but all our stories, too.”
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THE VERGE Tuesday October 10, 2023
Adobe is announcing a new AI-powered photo editing tool at the Adobe Max event this week that makes it much easier to alter images without prior editing experience, notes The Verge. The new “object-aware editing engine” — dubbed Project Stardust — automatically identifies individual objects in regular photographs, allowing them to be easily moved around and changed. A demonstration of the new software shows how objects in a photograph are automatically identified and selected as if they had been separated using Photoshop’s lasso tool.
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 10, 2023
At least 15 media workers have been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale war in February 2022, note Kelly Bjorklund and Simon J. Smith of Staffordshire University in the UK in a recent
article at The Conversation. Along with targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, orphanages, residential buildings, communications centers and places of worship, the Russian state has been accused by
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