THE VERGE Friday May 24, 2024
It’s been three months since OpenAI unveiled Sora, its text-to-video AI. Now, notes The Verge, Google is trying to steal some of that spotlight with its own AI video generator. Announced during Google’s recent I/O developer conference, the new tech, called Veo, can generate “high-quality” 1080p resolution videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic styles. It can also understand cinematic terms like “timelapse” or “aerial shots of a landscape.” Users can direct their desired output using text, image, or video-based prompts. Donald Glover loves it, adds TechRadar.
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David Schonauer Friday May 24, 2024
In October, a huge new photography museum is due to open in Lishui, a city of of 2.5 million in southeast China. The Lishui Photography Culture Center will have a total construction area of 34,221
square meters, of which 15,150 square meters is devoted to three floors of exhibition space. By comparison, the V&A's recently completed Photography Center in London has 1,000 square meters … Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Thursday May 23, 2024
The new film Civil War, which follows two photographers covering a contemporary armed conflict in a divided United States, gets the job of photojournalist “fundamentally wrong — with dangerous implications,” writes photojournalist Louie Palu at The Washington Post. The film’s two photographers, played by Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny, “focus on covering shooting up close, as though that’s the most important aspect of what we do,” Palu notes. Their images, he adds, “don’t explain a civil war any more than the film does.”
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CNN Thursday May 23, 2024
A photographer was killed after he tried to take photos of a cow moose and her newborn calves near his home in southern Alaska on Sunday, reports CNN. The photographer, Dale Chorman, 70, had witnessed the moose giving birth to a pair of calves in his hometown of Homer, according to Alaska's News Source. He was with a friend when the pair spotted the female and her two newborn calves, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. An initial report says the moose charged the two men and kicked Chorman. The other man was not injured.
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