TechCrunch Tuesday December 2, 2025
Across platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users are watching billions of videos every day, with companies benefiting massively from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there is pressure to create more content than ever before to be relevant and make a living out of it, especially as more AI-generated slop is infiltrating these platforms. Jay Neo, a creator and former content lead for short videos at MrBeast, thinks AI can help creators understand what is working for them and also help them create new content ideas in that direction.
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DIYPhotography Tuesday December 2, 2025
The U.S. National Archives has published a batch of newly declassified government records on Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who vanished over the Pacific in 1937, and among the cache of material, notes DIY Photography, is an image of Earhart standing in front of an airplane, wearing her leather jacket “and a confident, bright smile.” The undated photo is labeled simply. “018-P-228266_a." Earhart has always been closely tied to imagery: Her public appearances and pre-flight preparations were widely documented, adds DIYP.
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DIYPhotography Tuesday December 2, 2025
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) has long recognized photographers who capture the intricate relationship between people and their environment. Now, notes DIY Photography, Leica Camera AG is expanding the award with the LOBA Women Grant, a new category offering female photographers the chance to fund and realize a project concept. The initiative builds on Leica’s prior efforts, including the Leica Women Foto Project Award launched in 2019. The new grant, open globally to professional female photographers aged 21 and above, offers 10,000 euros, a Leica Q-Camera, and professional support to recipients. Go here for more. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Tuesday December 2, 2025
During a stay at her family home in Outer Island, Connecticut, in 1949, artist Susan Weil introduced her then-husband Robert Rauschenberg to the photographic practice of making cyanotypes. During the next few years, the pair continued to work together on blueprint artworks. Now, notes AnOther, this series of ethereal images of deep and varied blues has been brought together in a new book, The Blueprints of Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, 1952 (published by Stanley/Barker). Read the full Story >>
