PetaPixel Wednesday February 19, 2025
Last November, Pixelmator announced that it had reached an agreement with Apple to be acquired for an undisclosed amount. Now, reports PetaPixel, that deal has closed. The acquisition includes Pixelmator for iOS, Pixelmator Pro, and the Photomator apps. The cost of the Pixelmator acquisition remains a mystery, adds PP: Apple’s most recent financial documents published January 30, 2025, don’t specify how much the company may have spent on Pixelmator, instead bundling all of its acquisitions into a single line-item.
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Taschen Wednesday February 19, 2025
Padded shoulders, big hair, and bold colors: You can now revisit the decade of champagne wishes and caviar dreams as captured by one of Britain’s most renowned fashion and portrait photographers. The new book David Bailey: Eighties brings together images shot on assignment for publications like assignments from the pages of Vogue and Tatler, featuring the likes of Princess Diana, supermodel Jerry Hall, and designer Yves Saint Laurent. "The eighties turned out to be magic,” Bailey notes in the book’s forward.
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PC Mag Wednesday February 19, 2025
Tired of Instagram? The Bluesky-based alternative sharing app Flashes is now available in beta, notes PC Mag. Flashes supports posts of up to four images and videos up to one minute in length. Like Instagram, it will support direct messages, and users will be able to post images on Flashes and Bluesky at the same time. The app was announced earlier this month and uses the same basic technical framework as Bluesky, the AT Protocol. It’s currently available for download on iOS using Apple's TestFlight developer testing platform.
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David Schonauer Wednesday February 19, 2025
Color therapy is an alternative medicine that combines colors and light to treat physical and mental health issues. Now viewers can get a big dose of it in the exhibition "Chromotherapia," at the
French Academy in Rome-Villa Medici, on view from February 28 to June 9. (There's also a book from coming from Damiani.) Curated by artist Maurizio Cattelan and Sam Stourdze, director of … Read the full Story >>
