THE VERGE Wednesday October 23, 2024
Meta is testing new AI video editing capabilities that will allow advertisers to animate an image, reports The Verge. Advertisers simply upload a static image and then use Meta’s tool to “generate” a video—for instance, making the strawberries slowly float around a jar of jam. The new tools can also make an existing video larger by generating “unseen pixels in each video frame” to increase its size. Other companies are also bringing AI to advertisers: Last month, Amazon released an AI tool that creates clips based on product images, and TikTok is experimenting with using AI-generated avatars in ads, notes TV.
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David Schonauer Wednesday October 23, 2024
Brianna Capozzi isn't immune to the more exasperating traits sometimes exhibited by sisters, noted the AnOther blog recently. "They steal your clothes," she observed in an interview. But for Capozzi,
an in-demand fashion and portrait photographer who has worked with celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Pamela Anderson, Dua Lipa and Chloe Sevigny, sisterhood is powerful. Her new monograph "Sisters,"
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The Guardian Tuesday October 22, 2024
Photographer Frank Habicht, who captured the social upheaval, the style and the celebrities of London’s swinging 60s, died on October 8 in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, notes Radio New Zealand. “One of his most iconic works, "Lost in a Dream" – a tender portrait of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg in 1969 – has been praised as one of the most beautiful photographs of the couple ever taken,” notes his son Florian Habicht in a tribute at The Guardian. “My camera became an extension of myself,” he once said.
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Rangefinder Tuesday October 22, 2024
“There’s something timeless about the beauty of a woman standing against the backdrop of nature, her long flowing dress sweeping through the air, caught in a perfect moment,” notes Rangefinder, adding that such imagery is the hallmark of photography Brittany Colt’s brand, The Flying Dress Experience. Colt, who for many years was the head of education at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, went on to become a wedding and portrait photographer but brought her passion for landscapes with her.
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