WePresent Wednesday July 17, 2024
Photographer Rachel Fleminger Hudson’s elaborately staged work garners attention for her perceived nostalgic ode to the 1970s, but there’s a lot more to it than that, notes We Present: She uses materials to connect with bygone eras, and to better understand today’s permanently online world. “I’m not a fashion photographer, but fashion is what the work is about,” says Hudson. “My work isn’t a glorification of the 1970s. For me, the 70s is a rule book. It’s about using meaning rather than dissolving it. It’s about making something flat to build ideas upon.”
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THE VERGE Wednesday July 17, 2024
Yes, you can technically post Instagram videos to your feed that are as long as one hour, and yes, Instagram did try to push for longer videos with its IGTV app, before shutting the app down. But now, notes The Verge, Instagram’s boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that the app is going to focus on shortform videos. In a recent video, Mosseri said that Instagram’s two main jobs are to help users connect with friends and to help you explore interests “usually through shortform video.” He says that those two jobs are “symbiotic.”
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David Schonauer Wednesday July 17, 2024
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, which guards the legacy of Ansel Adams, has announced that Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly will become its newest trustee. Kennerly is
only the seventh trustee in the organization's 48 years: He replaces outgoing trustee David H. Vena, who was Adams's former attorney and held the position since the AAPRT's inception in 1976. "David
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LiveScience Tuesday July 16, 2024
Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas and Seoul National University in South Korea have developed an imaging chip that could equip future smartphones with "Superman-inspired" X-ray vision, notes LiveScience. The experimental chip consists of an array of three sensor pixels that emit and receive high-frequency radio signals in the millimeter-wave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Signals reflected back from the target object are then amplified and mixed by onboard components, enabling outlines of the object to be viewed on a display. In tests, the chip could detect an object behind cardboard at a distance of around 1 centimeter.
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