PetaPixel Tuesday February 18, 2025
Photographer Barron Claiborne has filed a lawsuit against major retailers that allegedly sold canvas art prints that were inspired by his iconic “King of New York” portrait of rapper Notorious B.I.G. The photograph was taken just three days before the rapper’s death in March 1997 from a drive-by shooting, notes PetaPixel. The lawsuit, filed by Claiborne and the estate of Notorious B.I.G., claims that art company iCanvas sold the canvas prints and used Biggie Smalls’s “persona, name, image, and likeness, and related marks,” as well as elements of Claiborne’s "King of New York" photo, without permission since at least 2015. Read the full Story >>
LiveScience Tuesday February 18, 2025
It’s been a big year for planets, and French astrophotographer Gwenaël Blanck has taken advantage, notes LiveScience. Blanck created an image of a "planetary parade" by combining photos of six solar system worlds alongside the moon—the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—all captured from Paris on Feb. 2, between 6:30 p.m. and 7:50 p.m. local time. "I had to start quite early, shortly after sunset, to image Venus and Saturn before they were too low on the horizon," Blanck said.
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Bloomberg Tuesday February 18, 2025
Apple Inc. has canceled a project to build advanced augmented reality glasses, notes Bloomberg. The now-canceled product would have looked like normal glasses but would have included displays in the lenses that connected to Mac devices. The project had been seen as a potential way forward after the weak introduction of the Apple Vision Pro, a $3,499 model that was too cumbersome and pricey to catch on with consumers. Apple now risks losing ground to Meta Platforms Inc., which already sells a popular set of Ray-Ban smart glasses, adds Bloomberg.
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Columbia Journalism Review Tuesday February 18, 2025
Nate Gowdy, a Seattle photographer whose work focuses on American politics and identity, was on hand to witness the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. His new book Insurrection chronicles what happened that day, when, as he writes at the Columbia Journalism Review, he saw a fellow journalist thrown from a five-foot retaining wall and feared for his own safety. President Donald Trump’s pardons of convicted rioters “isn’t just legal absolution—it’s vindication for a movement I’ve documented for a decade,” he writes.
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