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Around The Horn
23 January 2024
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 rodent photographers, Ocean Art winners, Brendon Burton, glass furniture, Larurent Laporte, panoramas, cuteness, the uncanny valley and HP ink cartridges.
- In Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves (gift link), Emily Anthes presents Augustin Lignier's experiment with a Skinner box to train two rats to photos of themselves. "The rodents quickly became enthusiastic button pushers," she writes.
- The Ocean Art 2023 Winning Images have been announced. Suliman Alatiqi won Best in Show with Aquatic Primate shot in the Phi Phi Islands, Thailand.
- Kate Mothes showcases Brendon Burton's images of North America's Metamorphosing Rural Landscapes. "Focusing his lens on abandoned structures and isolated landscapes, the photographer emphasizes the tenuousness of memory, passing time and places left behind," she writes.
- The Guardian curates a few images of Colorful Glass Furniture from vases to lampshades.
- In Where Is the Cool, Heidi Volpe talks to Larurent Laporte about "a magazine with more photography than writing but still something to say and engage in cover to cover in one hour."
- Jason Row discusses How to Shoot Panoramic Photographs on both smartphones and cameras, both automatically and manually. And briefly.
- In Oh No, the Zf Is Cute, Thom Hogan mentions reading about four Japanese women who find their Zf cameras cute. "If you didn't already know, automakers long ago started to understand the gender preferences when it came to transportation," he writes. "Maybe we'll get some cute lenses, too ;~)."
- Paul Melcher explores The Uncanny Valley of Information in Deepfakes. "The uncanny valley in information suggests that there is a threshold of credibility that must be carefully navigated," he writes. "An image or video may look startlingly real, but if the accompanying information or narrative is too outlandish or implausible, it fails to convince."
- In HP CEO Evokes James Bond-Style Hack via Ink Cartridges, Scharon Harding reports Enrique Lores explained the company's printing bricking. "We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges," Lores said on CNBC TV. "Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network."
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