The New York Times Monday February 5, 2024
French photographer Augustin Lignier’s work with rats began when, in graduate school, he began to ponder why so many people feel compelled to photograph their lives and share those images online? As The New York Times explains, Lignier trained two rats to take photographs of themselves and found that the rodents didn’t want to stop. “Digital and social media companies use the same concept to keep the attention of the viewer as long as possible,” Lignier says.
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The Press-Enterprise Monday February 5, 2024
Drone photographer Carlos Gauna and a shark researcher from the University of California Riverside, Phillip Sternes, have captured what is being called the first-ever footage of a great white shark pup, notes The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, CA. The imagery, taken off Santa Barbara’s central coast last year, marks a significant moment in documenting great white sharks and is the subject of a new paper in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal, UC Riverside officials said.
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THE VERGE Monday February 5, 2024
The "YouTube-ization" of TikTok has been happening for a while, with the platform is testing 30-minute long videos just a few months after it began expanding video lengths up to 15 minutes. And now, notes The Verge, the vertical-video platform appears to be incentivizing creators to start posting horizontal videos that are more than a minute long. TikTok says it will “boost” these videos within 72 hours of posting. Creators who’ve been on TikTok for more than three months will be eligible for the viewership boost, as long as the videos are not ads or from political parties.
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The Atlantic Monday February 5, 2024
After fleeing South Africa to publish the 1967 book House of Bondage, a landmark look at the horrors of apartheid, photographer Ernest Cole resettled in America. He photographed extensively on the streets of New York City and documented Black communities in cities and rural areas across the U.S., but those images were thought to be lost until the negatives resurfaced in a Swedish bank vault in 2017, notes The Atlantic. They are now collected in the Aperture book The True America.
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