Los Angeles Times Friday October 4, 2024
Artist Refik Anadol, who projected the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a piece of algorithmic video onto the curving steel walls of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018, has announced he will open the world’s first museum of AI arts as part of the Gehry-designed Grand L.A. development in L.A. The privately funded, 20,000-square foot museum, called Dataland, will collect and preserve artwork generated by artificial intelligence. Anadol says it will be it a “living museum” made of pixels and voxels, notes the Los Angeles Times.
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Columbia Journalism Review Friday October 4, 2024
Moses Sawasawa’s home in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hasn’t known peace in his 25 years. In his five or so years as a photojournalist, Sawasawa’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and by the Associated Press—work in which he’s covered ongoing conflict. “It’s war that chose me, not me who chose [war],” Sawasawa tells the Columbia Journalism Review. “It’s an obligation to do this kind of photography.” Now he’s covering the deadly virus mpox.
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DP Review Friday October 4, 2024
DJI says its newly announced Neo drone is designed as "a vlogging tool ideal for capturing everyday life, leisure activities, family moments, and pets,” but notes DP review, “in essence, it's a flying selfie camera.” The $200 drone weighs just 4.76oz and can fly for up to 18 minutes. It can capture 12MP images using a Type 1/2 (6.4 x 4.8) sensor with a 14mm full-frame equivalent f/2.8 lens. It also shoots in 4K/30 or 1080 at up to 60p.If you aren't using electronic image stabilization, the video will be 4:3; turn on the 'RockSteady' or 'HorizonBalancing' mode, and it will drop down to 16:9.
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David Schonauer Friday October 4, 2024
Birds have been in the news recently: This week we spotlighted the winning images of the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year contest, including Canadian conservation photographer Patricia Homonylo's
grand prize-winning image of 4,000 birds that died from colliding with buildings in Toronto. Meanwhile, National Geographic had advice on the best cameras for bird photography, and The New York Times
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