WWD Wednesday July 10, 2024
On view through Aug. 31 at the House of Lucie in Ostuni, Italy, is the exhibition “Gian Paolo Barbieri: Beyond Fashion,” which brings together masterworks by the esteemed fashion photographer along with unpublished photographs from his archive dating from the 1960s to 2000. The work features models and celebrities including Veruschka, Naomi Campbell, and Audrey Hepburn, all shot by Barbieri for major ad campaigns. House of Lucie was established in 2016 by Hossein Farmani to showcase the work of the Lucie Awards honorees, notes WWD.
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THE VERGE Wednesday July 10, 2024
Last July, Meta launched Threads as a rival to Elon Musk’s X. A year later, Threads has reached more than 175 million monthly active users. Threads arrived in the App Store on July 5th, 2023, as “Musk was taking a wrecking ball to the service formerly called Twitter,” notes The Verge. While the growth of Threads has been steady, Musk hasn’t shared comparable metrics for X since he took over. Much of the growth of Threads is still coming from its promotion inside Instagram, adds TV.
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The Washington Post Wednesday July 10, 2024
“As a professional freelance photographer, I’ve spent the past decade documenting the people and culture of Silicon Valley. Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT debuted in November 2022, countless entrepreneurs have been inspired to make their own generative AI tools.” So notes Laura Morton at The Washington Post, which recently featured her images of life inside the San Francisco tech firms that are behind the AI revolution. “Many start-up founders and their teams live and work together so they can focus intently on building their companies,” she notes.
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Ad Age Wednesday July 10, 2024
With AI promisING to change filmmaking as we know it, SpecialGuestX and 1stAveMachine—two longtime innovators in the advertising production space—have developed a camera that transforms real images into generative AI on the fly. The CMR-M1 (short for Camera Model 1) incorporates a FLIR sensor, a Snapdragon CPU and a viewport, notes Ad Age. It records real images—in 1368x768 resolution at 12 frames per second—and transforms them using AI. The AI processing is done in the cloud:The real footage is uploaded to a server where a Stable Diffusion workflow is executed. The camera made its debut at this year’s Cannes Lions.
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