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Around The Horn
1 April 2025
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 cherry blossoms, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Concrete in Life, Mesquite Dunes tutorial, Candy Clark's Polaroids, timely tech innovations, the Fujifilm GFX 100RF and Overlai.
- Reuters showcases 24 photos of Cherry Blossoms in Peak Bloom around the world. Which would inspires us to take a walk around the neighborhood if we could avoid these series of surprise downpours.
- Matadors and Madness features images from a new exhibit of the work of multimedia artist Rose Finn-Kelcey. "The British artist, who was born in 1945 and died in 2014, used humor as a point of access into her work, which merges performance and feminist art to explore such topics as life, death and spirituality."
- Winners of the sixth annual Concrete in Life 2024/2025 contest have been announced from over 20,000 contestants.
- Julieanne Kost provides a 12-minute Mesquite Dunes Full Tutorial, a special episode of her Snap Happy series. She starts with an Auto adjustment and uses Generative AI, too:
- Nathan Taylor Pemberton reviews Tight Heads (gift link), actress Candy Clark's new book of old Polaroids. "It's both a visual memoir of the actress's charmed life and a document of a halcyon cultural moment, when directors had free rein, an independent spirit flourished and a girl from a small town with no acting experience could be discovered at a casting call," he writes.
- In Lucky, Mike Johnston celebrates the technology that "has tended to come along just as I needed it." Like auto focus and image stabilization. "I'm lucky that it's counterbalancing my slowly declining physical skills," he writes.
- Everyone Seems to Love the Fujifilm GFX 100RF Except for Me, whines Derrick Story in his podcast. Among his complaints: no image stabilization, for one. Oh, and that wide angle lens on the 4:3 sensor with its various aspect ratio options.
- Paul Melcher has 10 Questions for a Startup: Overlai. Luke Neumann has "built a tool that gives creators control over what can—and cannot—be done with their content. Using a smart battery of available technologies, Overlai lets users set their own rules, all via a free app."
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