LiveScience Wednesday August 14, 2024
Astronomers and stargazers are eagerly awaiting the appearance of a "new" star, which will burst into view in the skies any night now, notes LiveScience. The star, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) or the "Blaze Star," is a nova that appears to viewers on Earth roughly every 80 years. Situated roughly 3,000 light-years away in the Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown constellation, the nova is actually a pair of stars —an ancient red giant and an Earth-size white dwarf. It will be visible with the naked eye, according to NASA.
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BRANDYWINE MUSEUM OF ART Wednesday August 14, 2024
On view at Philadelphia’s Brandywine Museum of Art through Sept. 22, the exhibition “Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present” centers on the photographer’s approach to portraying American Black life in many forms— from jazz and art, food and church. Stewart, who describes himself as a child of the “apartheid South,” tells AP that he has drawn inspiration from photographers such as Ernest Cole and Roy DeCarava, who was among his instructors at New York’s Cooper Union.
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FastCompany Wednesday August 14, 2024
Zillow Gone Wild, the social media account-turned HGTV reality series that highlights amazing (and outlandish) homes for sale across the US, has become a viral hit since it was launched as a pandemic-era hobby by former BuzzFeed writer Samir Mezrahi in December 2020. But, notes FastCompany,Zillow Gone Wild’s success story could come to a grinding halt thanks to a lawsuit filed late last month by real estate photographer Jennifer Bouma, who says two of her images were used without permission in a post that appeared on Zillow Gone Wild’s website and social media. Bouma wants up to $150,000 for each photograph.
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CNN Wednesday August 14, 2024
Slovakian photographer Petra Basnakova made a series of remarkable and personally transformative discoveries during her three-year-long journey among Palestinian Bedouin families, notes CNN. “This photography journey was a wakeup call for me because it completely transformed my personality,” Basnakova says. “I’ve grown up and found my inner peace, and I started to appreciate things I didn’t before.” The result of her journeys is the photo book Born of Sand and Sun.
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