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Around The Horn
28 June 2023
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Bastiaan Woudt, Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist, Blur winners, a creative practice, photo stats, fooling Ai detectors and NASA code rules.
- Life in Black and White presents the images of the monochrome minimalism of Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt from a new exhibit in Zurich.
- The shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year has been revealed.
- Mike Johnston awards The 'Blur' Baker's Dozen Prizes. But the fun thing about this piece is reading guest judge Hugh Crawford's assessments of the three images.
- In Building a Creative Practice, Rain Hayes discusses her infrared photography and the challenges of creating art. "Of all the things that conspire to keep us from manifesting our best work, the time, money and energy it requires are not the real issues. It's our mental framing around those things."
- In How Many Pictures?, Jasenka Grujin gathers statistics from various sources to count how many images are taken and uploaded to various services. "If you use social media, you probably see more than 3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video shared daily," she writes. That includes some 93 million selfies taken daily. "This is probably not surprising, but the average 16 to 25-year-old woman spends around 15 minutes taking 3 selfies per day, or 5 hours a week, according to Beauty site FeelUnique," she adds.
- Stuart A. Thompson and Tiffany Hsu ask How Easy Is It to Fool AI-Detection Tools? (gift link) To find out, they test five services claiming to be able to tell if an image is AI-generated on seven images. Two techniques that fooled the tools was resizing an image an introducing grain.
- In How NASA Writes Space-Proof Code, Jason Kottke presents Gerard Holzmann's 10 rules for software development and wonders if Tesla and AI are abusing them. Here's the six-minute video of the rules:
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