Haight Street Art Center Friday September 13, 2024
Through Sept. 29, San Francisco’s Haight Street Art Center looks back at the city’s punk scene of yesteryear with the exhibition “We Are the One: San Francisco Punk, 1970s–1980s.” The show features 150 photographs of bands and musicians including Crime, the Avengers, the Ramones, Devo, Mutants, Blondie, the Nuns, John Cale, Lou Reed, Nico, and the Dead Kennedys. Among the photographers whose work in on display: Richard Alden Peterson, who has been featured previously at PPD.
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Digital Camera World Friday September 13, 2024
Generations of people with darker or non-white skin tones have faced the frustration of seeing their complexions rendered inaccurately in photographs—a problem rooted in how cameras are made. But now, notes Digital Camera World, two companies, Lululab and Spectricity, are partnering to solve the problem with AI and multispectral imaging technology: While traditional RGB sensors capture only three channels (red, green and blue), Spectricity's cameras capture light across 16 distinct color channels, from the visible spectrum into the near-infrared.
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npr Friday September 13, 2024
Over the past 10 years, photographer David Herasimtschuk has photographed forests across the Pacific Northwest, documenting the inhabitants of these last remaining old-growth ecosystems. “As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” he tells NPR. “Yet, because these processes and relationships occur in places and at scales rarely observed, our connection with forest biodiversity and the role it plays in nurturing our well-being often goes completely unnoticed.”
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The Washington Post Friday September 13, 2024
Russians are losing access to YouTube, the last major Western social platform freely available in the country, cutting them off from information independent from the Kremlin and alarming internet freedom advocates, journalists and opposition activists. The throttling of YouTube, widely used by Russians for everything fro, watching cartoons to exposés on government corruption, comes amid fears that Russia will also shut down the Telegram messenger app after its founder, Pavel Durov, was detained by France, notes The Washington Post.
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