WMAR Monday March 10, 2025
A Maryland man is in police custody for allegedly setting a commercial building on fire so he could film firefighters battling the blaze. The 911 caller, Joshua Christian-Stanley Jackson, 21, was known for filming emergency services responses for social media sites, notes WMAR. Jackson told investigators he set the fire and explained how he made profits on other videos he had filmed. He was charged with second-degree arson, malicious burning, and causing a false fire alarm.
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ARTnews Monday March 10, 2025
Christie’s first-ever auction dedicated to artificial intelligence-generated art, “Augmented Intelligence,” concluded on March 5, exceeding estimates and, according to the auction house, drawing a fresh wave of collectors. The sale amassed $728,784, outpacing its $600,000 projection, notes Art News. Nearly half of bidders identified themselves as Millennials or Gen Z, while 37 percent were first-time buyers at Christie’s. The auction proceeded despite fierce opposition from thousands of artists, who have argued AI models of exploiting human creativity without consent.
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Fstoppers Monday March 10, 2025
Josh Dury, a photographer based in Somerset, UK, recently captured a panoramic image showing all eight planets—including Earth—in a single frame. He took the photograph on February 22, 2025, during an uncommon astronomical event called the "planetary parade," an occurrence when all eight planets align on one side of the sun, notes Fstoppers. Dury relied on astronomy software and mapping apps to confirm the locations of each planet, but capturing Neptune, Mercury, and Saturn was challenging due to their proximity to the the western horizon. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday March 10, 2025
Which city has the most outdoor basketball courts? You might guess New York, or perhaps Los Angeles. But American photographer Austin Bell estimates that Hong Kong has that honor. And he's made it his
mission to photograph every one of them. With a camera and a drone, Bell has taken over 58,000 photos of 2,549 basketball courts in the city--sometimes shooting 100 courts in … Read the full Story >>
