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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Pergear 50mm f1.4 Review: Exploring the Fish Scale Bokeh Look
The Pergear 50mm f1.4 lens promised the look of fish scale bokeh in its images. In practice though, my review is debunking that idea despite the fact that the image quality is still something very wonderful. For what it's worth, Pergear is the maker of one of my favorite 35mm f1…
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Jamel Shabazz Has a New Mission
There are two photographers in their 60s and 70s whom I speak with often. One of them has mostly transitioned away from photography and does a ton of video work for brands like Amazon, teaches photography workshops abroad, and spends a lot of time focusing on social media with a…
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The New Fujifilm Instax Soft Haze Film Brings 90s Style
Typically photographers love using mist filters on their camera lenses to get a soft glow, but the newest Fujifilm Instax film is doing that for them. To us, it already did a good job of that anyway. Fujifilm's instax series has won over millions of young photographers and casua…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields...
“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.” OpenAI recently released 350+ proofs of mathematical theorems, all in one go. “I imagine many mathematicians, like me, felt like they got punched in the stomach yesterday,”
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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Zero
The term “no-brainer” refers to a suggestion that is so compelling that it would be foolish to even consider not doing it. I came across a no-brainer recently, thanks to Matt Hobbs: Make all UK Government websites free to access without mobile data charges. When I was…
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Fujifilm Instax Square 2 Review: How I made Over 40 People Smile
For most of my career, I've looked at Fujifilm's more affordable Instax camera options and kind of scoffed at them, but 20 years into my career, and I'm absolutely charmed by cameras like the Fujifilm Instax Square 2. Not only is it adorable, but if you're a photographer who act…
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The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The...
The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. I love Gerwig and I know this will be good, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be great. (I still forever have “Chronicwhatcles of Narnia” stuck in my head tho…)
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Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena...
Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells are all returning. I loved this show and will tune in for sure.
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The Nikon Z8 Behind a Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winner
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards are back, with the main award going to Italian wildlife photographer Federico Veronesi. The image was chosen from record-breaking entries of 65,403 images from 121 countries and territories. This is also the v…
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So Many Different Mes
Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo booths to take hundreds of photos of herself, dressed, posed, and presented differently. Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls that 1998 project, ID…
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ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...
ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks like most of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. Oh, and a word processor and a spreadsheet app because why not?
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Meet the Sponsors Behind the 5 Boro Foto Fest
A festival built around real, human-made photography still needs real support to happen, and the 5 Boro Foto Fest is sponsored in part by Printique by Adorama, Sigma, and Signs365. All three are brands that make sense for an event built around actual prints and actual photograph…
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Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art
Reelizer is a personal project by Roger Erik Tinch that is a collection of movie art: prints, posters, illustrations, albums, books, covers, etc. Careful, you can lose hours here…Tinch has a great eye. A few of my favorites: Tags: art · movie pos…
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Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...
Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days: Harry Styles and Thom Yorke in conversation. “My laptop has been dead for about 6 years. I don’t know where my charger is.” There’s an accompanying Rolling Stone cover story.
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The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how...
The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time.
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Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net...
Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive. “Every death on my corner is offset, with a third of a toddler left over, and I’d like that number in the conversation the next time somebody calls me a murderer…”
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“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser...
“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run actually seem to run very well.”
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The Early 2010s Were the Pinnicle of Human Photography. Can We Go Back?
Recently, I gave my designer friend a camera; he then proceeded to show me a few images. "What I lack in understanding of the camera … I made it up in post editing … Lol," he texted me. Make no mistake, the technology of modern mirrorless cameras is exemplary in the hands of…
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Why Every Experimental Film Photographer Should Try the Fujifilm Rensha Cardia BYU-N 16
Fujifilm has created some fantastic cameras. The INSTAX series, the GFX cameras and the X series APS-C models, each have a fan following of millions of users. While we are looking at the present, this is the time to look at the past. Here is a look at an antique camera that give…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Looks like our friend ChatGPT has run out of icons. Thanks Jim Nielsen for the pictures #Icons #ChatGPT
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jmoiron.net blog (Feed)
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Bespoke of the Devil
In 2022, two years after GPT3's release, Nothing, Forever was released. One of the more socially interesting and compelling early pieces of AI generated art, it was a procedurally generated legally distinct version of the sitcom Seinfeld, presented as an unending twitch stream.…
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Improving Conversation on KDO
I’ve been really pleased with how KDO comments are working lately — you folks have been lively, informative, fun, and pushing conversations beyond what I can individually manage. And the vibe of the threads are more closely matching the vibe of the community guidelines. All…
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