TechCrunch Thursday December 5, 2024
Indian-based video-editing platform Invideo is launching a generative AI-powered video-creation feature that lets you use prompts to generate video clips in various styles, including live-action, animated, or anime, and export the resulting video in formats suitable for YouTube, Shorts/Reels, and LinkedIn. Users can also edit these videos, notes TechCrunch, PetaPixel tested it and created a 1:52 video made up of iStock footage and an AI-generated voiceover explaining the basics of cameras.
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BELT Thursday December 5, 2024
In 2001, the Carnegie Museum of Art purchased the archive of Pittsburgh-born photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris — joyful images that document life in the black communities of Pittsburgh from the 1920s to the 1970s, from weddings and funerals to church events, street scenes, businessmen, and mill workers. For years, notes Belt magazine, the museum relegated Harris’s work to bad exhibition real estate, including a hallway leading to an elevator. But now it has dedicated a full gallery to Harris.
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HuffPo Thursday December 5, 2024
By tapping and holding the screen, you can watch TikTok videos at twice the normal speed, and, notes HuffPo, a lot of people seem to be doing just that. “At first I was using it on slow talkers. A stranger explaining her marriage saga in a 52-part series? I needed to speed through it to see if it was worth the payoff,” writes Monica Torres. “But now I have been using it on cucumber recipes, hair tutorials, explanations of why your pet tortoise should go in a fridge to mimic hibernation." In this sped-up world, there are no pauses—and also less time for thinking, Torres notes.
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David Schonauer Thursday December 5, 2024
Practicing photography amid nature in nature is good for you. Studies have shown that immersing oneself in the natural world can have significant health benefits, noted LiveScience recently. In her
book "Good Nature," Kathy Willis, a professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford. draws on the available evidence to show the health benefits of being surrounded by nature. Willis also shows
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