ABC 7 Los Angeles Tuesday December 12, 2023
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass used her medical training during a press conference last week to help save a local TV station photographer who apparently suffered a medical episode. Bass and Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore were at the LAPD's academy to discuss police recruiting efforts when the photographer collapsed, notes ABC 7 Los Angeles. A graduate of the USC Keck School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program in the 1980s, Bass once worked as an emergency room physician's assistant.
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The New York Times Tuesday December 12, 2023
Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua, a 22,837-foot peak in the Andes of Argentina. Things quickly went wrong: Two climbers died, their bodies were left behind. Now, notes The New York Times, a camera belonging to one of the dead climbers has emerged from a receding glacier near the summit, A dial on top of the camera indicated that 24 exposures had ben made. Those photos now are raising questions about what actually happened during the climb.
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TechCrunch Tuesday December 12, 2023
We noted recently that Meta is releasing a standalone AI-powered image generator. Now, reports TechCrunch, Amazon is getting in on the AI game with its own image generator. The new Titan Image Generator can create new images (from a text description) or customize existing images. It isn’t quite the same as consumer-facing image generators like Dall-E and Midjourney, adds PetaPixel: Businesses that use it can take images of their own products and have the generative AI swap out settings, backgrounds, or complementary visual elements through prompts. Amazon says the AI generator will simply “augment” what photographers are already doing.
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COLOSSAL Tuesday December 12, 2023
For more than five decades, artist Sandy Skoglund has explored a fusion of photography, installation, and conceptual art, notes Colossal. A new exhibition at Palazzo del Duca in Senigallia, Italy, celebrates Skoglund’s career through a survey of her remarkable photographs, emphasizing her attunement to the relationships between hues and contrasts, her subjects, and elements of each set. Titled “The Imaginary Worlds of Photography,” the exhibition continues through June 2, 2024.
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