COLOSSAL Wednesday May 8, 2024
Photographer Dudi Ben Simon sees visual parallels everywhere, notes Colossal: A cinnamon bun stands in for a hair bun; the crinkled top of a lemon is cinched like a handbag; a yellow rubber glove stretches like melted cheese. “I see it as a type of readymade, a trend in art created by using objects or daily life items disconnected to their original context, changing their meanings and creating a new story from them,” Ben Simon says. “I attempt to preserve the regular appearance of the items, but with a switch.”
Read the full Story >>
WGME Wednesday May 8, 2024
A middle school band teacher and photo enthusiast from the Pacific Northwest stumbled upon one of the most important events of the year for the natural world, declares WGME. Michael Sanchez of Vancouver, Washington, was setting up his new camera to capture a waterfall at Oregon’s Hug Point at sunrise when, adds The Guardian, he spotted a little bird hopping around. He snapped a few photos and didn’t think much more of it. But it turned out that Sanchez had photographed the first images of an extremely rare blue rock-thrush in North America.
Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Wednesday May 8, 2024
When the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses launched last fall, they were a pretty much a capture tool with a pair of headphones, notes The Verge. Now they also feature multimodal AI, meaning, that they can offer users real-time information and answer questions—and, adds PetaPixel, they can do multiple AI tasks at once. You could, for instance ask the glasses to identify a plant. They then take a picture, the AI communes with the cloud, and an answer arrives in your ears. Sound cool? The possibilities are not limitless, advises TV.
Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Wednesday May 8, 2024
Diana Matar’s images of modern America possess a melancholic undertow that is both familiar and unsettling, notes The Guardian. The 110 photographs in her new book, My America, are of sites where civilians were killed by law enforcement officers across Texas, California, Oklahoma and New Mexico in 2015 and 2016. “I chose those four states because Texas and California are where most people die in encounters with law enforcement,” she says, “while Oklahoma and New Mexico have the highest per capita deaths.”
Read the full Story >>
