TechCrunch Thursday February 29, 2024
Stability AI has announced Stable Diffusion 3, a next-generation image-synthesis model that, notes Ars Technica, “follows its predecessors by reportedly generating detailed, multi-subject images with improved quality and accuracy in text generation.” While details about the new model are scant, “it’s clearly an attempt to fend off the hype around recently announced competitors from OpenAI and Google,” notes TechCrunch. Meanwhile, reports The Verge, Google is pausing the ability of its new Gemini AI model to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be creating inaccurate historical images.
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By David Schonauer Thursday February 29, 2024
"When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears." So noted photographer Philippe Halsman, who from the
1940s through the 1970s shot sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians for Life magazine and other publications. He is perhaps best known for is "Jumpology" series of
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PetaPixel Wednesday February 28, 2024
A wedding photographer has gone viral with what she termed an “unpopular opinion”—specifically, that she would rather be seated at a table with other vendors for dinner, and not with other guests. In a TikTok video that has over 3.1 million views, Ohio-based photographer Chelsea McFolly, shared footage of the fun she was having at a “vendors table” at a client’s wedding. Despite McFolly’s belief that this was an “unpopular opinion,” the video amassed over 351,000 likes. Many viewers loved the idea of a separate vendors table, notes PetaPixel.
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Vogue Wednesday February 28, 2024
Last month, Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing collaborated with Ghanaian photographer Prince Gyasi for his first full menswear show since the pandemic. As part of the collaboration, some of Gyasi’s images were printed onto the brand’s Autumn/Winter 2024 ready-to-wear and accessories. Gyasi is part of a new wave of African creatives — including South Africa's Trevor Stuurman, Nigeria’s Stephen Tayo and Kenya’s Barbara Minishi — shaping luxury fashion in and around the continent, notes Vogue Business.
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