The future of filmmaking is arriving ahead of schedule: This week we noted that Toys "R" Us premiered a short promo film at the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival in France that was created almost entirely by using OpenAI's new text-to-video tool. The company's entertainment studio partnered with a creative agency that had early access to Sora, which is not yet publicly available. We also … Read the full Story >>
Landing the “perfect” apartment in New York City requires a combination of funds, flexibility, and fortuitousness. In the case of photographer Dana Scruggs, notes Domino, it also meant sharing space with 13 different roommate situations for about a year and a half until she found a home to call her own. “You get to a point in New York where you’re like: Am I ever going to be able to live by myself?” Scruggs says. The first Black person to shoot the cover of Rolling Stone, Scruggs was one of 15 photographers recognized in the landmark book The New Black Vanguard. Read the full Story >>
The new photography show at London’s Lyndsey Ingram gallery “is an invitation to time-travel back to a freewheeling era of non-stop smoking, lounging in the Saint-Tropez sunshine, and wandering around exotic places,” notes WWD. The exhibition, “Kasmin’s Camera” (through Aug. 23), features more than 100 photographs by the London art dealer John Kasmin, who was shooting his clients and friends, including David Hockney, Frank Stella and Helen Frankenthaler, at a time of feverish creativity in the ’60s and ’70s. Art News has more. Read the full Story >>
Passion for Polaroid photography is growing, and one photographer on Instagram has sparked a great deal of interest with her unique way of developing her instant images, notes Digital Camera World. Texas-based photographer Hannah Harbour shared a video at Instagram showing her ‘Polaroid lift’ technique, where it has been viewed by over 19 million people. She starts with a freshly shot Polaroid, preferably between 15 minutes and an hour after the image was taken, cuts off the borders of the print, then places the portion with the image into a tray of hot water. Read the full Story >>
