Canon Patents 8mm f/4 Fisheye Lens that Can See Behind Itself
8 HRS AGO - It looks like Canon wants to get creative with the full-frame mirrorless RF mount. A new patent Expand
8 HRS AGO - It looks like Canon wants to get creative with the full-frame mirrorless RF mount. A new patent uncovered by Canon News shows that the brand is working on an 8mm f/4 circular fisheye lens with a whopping 182° field of view. The Japanese patent application describes an optical formula that would produce a 23 x […] Collapse
Day Trippers: Beatles fans in Liverpool – photo essay
15 HRS AGO - Photographs of visitors to tourist sites in Liverpool explore the legacy of the Beatles and Expand
15 HRS AGO - Photographs of visitors to tourist sites in Liverpool explore the legacy of the Beatles and coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band’s break-up‘I was shattered’ – Paul Weller, Booker T and more on the day the Beatles splitThe Day Trippers series of photographs considers the enormous pull the Beatles still have for fans all over the world and the phenomenal importance of their legacy to the economy of Liverpool, which in 2016 was estimated to deliver £82m a year in tourism and support more than 2,300 jobs in the city.Visitor numbers were continuing to grow – before the coronavirus pandemic – as the Beatles’ music became increasingly popular in countries such as Brazil and China, alongside the established fan bases in the US and Europe. Continue reading... Collapse
The town built on pineapple martinis: the real Atlantic City – in pictures
21 HRS AGO - With its glittering casinos and thrumming nightclubs, it was known as The World’s Playground. How Expand
21 HRS AGO - With its glittering casinos and thrumming nightclubs, it was known as The World’s Playground. How does it look today? Photographer Timothy Roberts hits the legendary boardwalk Continue reading... Collapse
LensCoat is Using Its Sewing Skills to Make Masks for Health Care Workers
1 DAY AGO - Accessory maker LensCoat usually makes rain covers and other lens protection that help to keep Expand
1 DAY AGO - Accessory maker LensCoat usually makes rain covers and other lens protection that help to keep your gear safe. But as the COVID-19 pandemic increased in intensity, the New Jersey-based company has started making masks for health care workers instead. With most photographers stuck indoors and New Jersey under lockdown, LensCoat had to pare down its […] Collapse
Canon to Release Two EOS M Cameras and More Lenses in 2020: Report
1 DAY AGO - If you were worried that Canon was going to do away with the EOS M lineup of APS-C mirrorless Expand
1 DAY AGO - If you were worried that Canon was going to do away with the EOS M lineup of APS-C mirrorless cameras, it seems you have nothing to fear. Recent reports indicate that Canon has two new EOS M cameras in the works, as well as a few new lenses. Today’s report comes from the ever-reliable Canon […] Collapse
Be it Hopper pastiche or Hockney original, art offers vital comfort in times of crisis | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
1 DAY AGO - Humanity’s creative drive is unassailable – and the coronavirus outbreak has already inspired some Expand
1 DAY AGO - Humanity’s creative drive is unassailable – and the coronavirus outbreak has already inspired some minor masterworksTwo Russians – a man and a woman – gaze gloomily from a photograph. He is wearing glasses, she a floral pinafore. In the foreground, so close that it looks enormous, is a kitchen fork. It is, unmistakably, American Gothic. Except this couple are inside their apartment, standing in front of a window, through which we see huge tower blocks.Confinement has, for lots of us, led to hours of dead time. Our cultural institutions, which house the pinnacles of human artistic achievements, are all closed. And so the people have taken art into their own hands, meticulously reconstructing famous paintings using themselves as the subjects. The American Gothic pastiche comes from a Russian “isolation” Facebook group in which we also see The Townley Discobolus replicated by a nude man holding a saucepan lid, and the ruffs in an Anthony van Dyck portrait reconstructed using toilet Collapse
The artist with the remote-controlled robotic body: 'I’ve made a career out of being a failure
2 DAYS AGO - Stelarc has suspended himself from hooks and had an ear implanted in his arm. Now his 2020 Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Stelarc has suspended himself from hooks and had an ear implanted in his arm. Now his 2020 Adelaide biennial work puts the audience at the helmWhat was it about the 1970s that promoted suffering for one’s art? In Rhythm 0 (1974), Marina Abramović stood next to a table loaded with items ranging from a rose to a gun, and let the audience desecrate her with them. Tehching Hsieh took a two-storey leap for Jump Piece (1973) and broke his ankles. Chris Burden somehow lived to the age of 69, despite – in the same curious decade – getting a friend to shoot him, cramming himself into a locker for five days and nailing himself onto a Volkswagen Beetle. For Eleanor Antin’s 1972 work Carving a Traditional Sculpture, the artist crash-dieted for 45 days and documented her decline.Stelarc’s series of 25 Body Suspensions also began in that decade, when the singularly named performance artist lived in Japan. For one such flesh-hook suspension, at Tokyo’s Komai Gallery, he additionally stitched his Collapse
Photographer Creates Advanced Color Chart that Blows Away Everything Else on the Market
2 DAYS AGO - Photographer Hugo Rodriguez has created a “new generation” of color chart called the Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Photographer Hugo Rodriguez has created a “new generation” of color chart called the HR-1 SuperChroma that blows your ColorChecker out of the water. Using 999 evenly distributed color patches, Rodriguez claims his chart can produce more accurate results than anything else on the market today. We first heard about the HR-1 SuperChroma in February, when […] Collapse
Make a masterpiece at home – with one tin of tuna and a load of tables and chairs
2 DAYS AGO - Is making a sandwich art? What about stacking furniture? Our writer gets through quarantine by Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Is making a sandwich art? What about stacking furniture? Our writer gets through quarantine by obeying the commands of ‘instructional artists’ from Yoko Ono to her modern-day successorsLast year, back when talking to people in real life was a thing, Fernanda Gomes showed me round her solo exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. In one corner, stacked on the floor, was a pile of coins, a typically minimalist gesture by the artist. “This work is a gift to the public,” she said, “who are free to replicate it at home.’’ Back in London, I took up her invitation and recreated the sculpture, using several Brazilian coins. Stacking the money, I’m pleased to say, used up a bit of quarantine time.A lot of art involving everyday objects can, by definition, be copied, and some artists actively encourage us to remake their work. In 1919, unable to attend his sister’s wedding in the immediate aftermath of the first world war, Marcel Duchamp sent from Buenos Aires instructions for an artwork by way of a Collapse
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Sony Firmware Update Lets You Close the Shutter When Swaping Lenses
10 HRS AGO - Sony has released a major firmware update for the sports-focused a9 II, adding a bunch of useful Expand
10 HRS AGO - Sony has released a major firmware update for the sports-focused a9 II, adding a bunch of useful high-speed shooting features and other usability enhancements, including one much-requested Canon EOS R copy: the ability to close the shutter whenever you swap lenses. The laundry list of updates in Firmware Version 2.0 starts with the stuff most […] Collapse
To All The Artists Out There… My New Art
15 HRS AGO - Artmag's new initiative has been met with an enthusiastic flood of responses, which we've been Expand
15 HRS AGO - Artmag's new initiative has been met with an enthusiastic flood of responses, which we've been posting on social media: send us a good-quality photo of your new visual art and craft/sculpture work completed since the lockdown. Collapse
British Museum looks to crack mystery over decorated ostrich eggs
1 DAY AGO - Experts reexamine eggs – some dating back to bronze age – to understand origins and designsThey Expand
1 DAY AGO - Experts reexamine eggs – some dating back to bronze age – to understand origins and designsThey are about the same size as a standard Easter egg, but are rather older – with some specimens dating back five millennia to the early bronze age.A collection of decorated ostrich eggs belonging to the British Museum in London has been reexamined by experts in an effort to understand where they originated, and how their often elaborately painted or engraved designs were created. Continue reading... Collapse
Photographer Accused of ‘Artificially Creating’ Her Plagiarism Claim
1 DAY AGO - After World Press Photo announced its finalists this year, Iranian photographer Solmaz Daryani Expand
1 DAY AGO - After World Press Photo announced its finalists this year, Iranian photographer Solmaz Daryani came forward and accused German photographer Maximilian Mann of plagiarizing photos from her personal project for his environmental photos of Lake Urmia in Iran. Now Mann’s collective is firing back, accusing Daryani of fabricating the controversy with previously unpublished photos. Back in […] Collapse
Beginning of a new era': how culture went virtual in the face of crisis
1 DAY AGO - The rise of Covid-19 has forced cultural institutions to explore alternative digital spaces with Expand
1 DAY AGO - The rise of Covid-19 has forced cultural institutions to explore alternative digital spaces with online exhibitions and a rise in virtual realityIt’s a terrible time for going out. Since the emergence of Covid-19 and resulting self-quarantine, thousands of museums, cultural institutions, festivals and global happenings have temporarily shuttered operations, leaving behind empty streets and a restless public. In a sector that thrives on in-person connection, the loss of an audience is disastrous, yet resilient performers, institutions, galleries, even entire art fairs, are moving to the digital arena, using streaming services and virtual reality, manifesting live concerts on the gaming app Twitch, organizing Instagram dance parties and launching online-only spaces.During his popular 2015 Ted Talk, the immersive artist, entrepreneur and director Chris Milk suggested that virtual reality could someday become the “ultimate empathy machine” but despite an initial burst of interest in 2015 Collapse
The great British art quiz: set by Derby Museums
1 DAY AGO - The latest in our series of quizzes set by British museums and galleries closed during the corona Expand
1 DAY AGO - The latest in our series of quizzes set by British museums and galleries closed during the corona lockdown comes from Derby Museums. Explore its collection as you answer these teasersThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Derby Museums runs three sites in Derby, including the Museum and Art Gallery, the Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill, and Pickford’s House Museum. Continue reading... Collapse
April's pink supermoon - in pictures
2 DAYS AGO - A supermoon occurs when the moon reaches its closest position to the Earth, known as the perigee, Expand
2 DAYS AGO - A supermoon occurs when the moon reaches its closest position to the Earth, known as the perigee, making the satellite appear bigger and brighter than usual. This month’s supermoon is also a pink moon: the name comes from the herb, moss pink, or wild ground phlox which are bright pink in colour Continue reading... Collapse
Canon Update Fixes 1D X Mark III ‘Lock Up’ Issue, Adds 24p Recording
2 DAYS AGO - Canon has released a firmware fix to the dreaded “lock up” issue that has plagued some Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Canon has released a firmware fix to the dreaded “lock up” issue that has plagued some 1D X Mark III users, making the camera unusable for high-speed shooting. Firmware version 1.1.0, released earlier today, fixes the problem and adds a few additional features at the same time. The problem cropped up in early March, when […] Collapse
How to build a hospital in nine days: emergency architecture in a pandemic
2 DAYS AGO - From mobile morgues to pop-up intensive care wards, the coronavirus outbreak needs a new kind of Expand
2 DAYS AGO - From mobile morgues to pop-up intensive care wards, the coronavirus outbreak needs a new kind of elemental architecture – and lots of itCoronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellationsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn eerie mechanical hum has joined the usual backdrop of tweeting birds and the roar of the North Circular at Wanstead Flats in London. The sound is coming from behind a large wooden fence, recently erected on wide open fields by Epping Forest, where a group of long, white marquees poke up above the tree line. It looks like the makings of a beer festival, but the reality is far more bleak: the hum is not coming from beer taps, but from a generator that will be used to keep a fleet of storage units at 4C for the coming weeks – the temperature required to prevent human corpses from decomposing.Covering an area the size of two football pitches, this new complex is a temporary mortuary, one of many such structures that are being erected at Collapse
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LA Originals: a Netflix documentary about an influential hip-hop duo
12 HRS AGO - Estevan Oriol and Mister Cartoon talk about a new film focusing on their ascension within the Expand
12 HRS AGO - Estevan Oriol and Mister Cartoon talk about a new film focusing on their ascension within the star-studded LA hip-hop world after a chance meeting in 1992 It’s 1992, and two lowriders walk into a Penthouse Players record release party at the Hollywood Athletic Club. They did not arrive together, but as two of the only Chicanos at the party, they were quickly introduced. Both steeped in the 1990s hip-hop zeitgeist, they bond over music, art and the beloved Los Angeles pastime of custom lowrider cars. Bedazzled in intricately designed, glinting candy paint with wire-spoke wheels, whitewall tires and bouncing hydraulics, a lowrider isn’t just something you own, it’s something you are. Related: 'He dominated me!' The livestreaming beat battles shutting down lockdown Continue reading... Collapse
The great British art quiz: set by the Holburne Museum, Bath
20 HRS AGO - British museums and galleries are closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their Expand
20 HRS AGO - British museums and galleries are closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their collections through a brain-teasing quiz, set by a different institution each dayTake all the quizzes in this seriesThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by the Holburne Museum, Bath. At the heart of the Holburne Museum is the collection of Sir William Holburne (1793–1874), fifth baronet of Menstrie. It was his wish that his collection be left to the City of Bath for everyone to enjoy. Since his death, more than 2,000 items have been added to his collection, including portrait miniatures, porcelain, embroideries and portraits by some of the greatest artists of the 18th century. Continue reading... Collapse
Sigma Launches ‘Shot at Home’ Photo Contest, Will Hand Out Thousands in Prizes
1 DAY AGO - Lens and camera maker Sigma has launched a #SigmaShotatHome photo and video contest that hopes to Expand
1 DAY AGO - Lens and camera maker Sigma has launched a #SigmaShotatHome photo and video contest that hopes to inspire photographers and filmmakers in the US to get creative, and possibly earn some prize money in the process. The contest began on Monday, April 6, and will run through 8pm Eastern time on June 26th. During that time […] Collapse
The Guardian provides a beautiful window on the world outside | Brief letters
1 DAY AGO - Photography | Bagpipes | Richie Richardson | Cars | Edible plantsOne newly essential way of Expand
1 DAY AGO - Photography | Bagpipes | Richie Richardson | Cars | Edible plantsOne newly essential way of beating the indoor blues since going into semi-lockdown has been to slowly flick through the Guardian website and app feature “Best photographs of the day”, magnified to almost full screen on my tablet. What was once merely an appreciation of handsome images by talented artisans, has now become an indispensable window onto the outside world.Gavin MacLeanManchester• Alastair Campbell’s piece (Stay active and curious: 20 tips to help avoid sadness in lockdown, 7 April) contained 20 useful ideas. One question re No 10: is he using the bagpipes to make music, or to enforce social distancing?Jonathan WheelerBirstall, Leicestershire Continue reading... Collapse
Pink supermoon draws people out of their homes
1 DAY AGO - People across the UK were drawn to their windows and gardens on Tuesday evening as a pink Expand
1 DAY AGO - People across the UK were drawn to their windows and gardens on Tuesday evening as a pink supermoon rose over the night sky. Many grabbed their cameras and smartphones to try to record the lunar Collapse
The beautiful and the Damned: Sheila Rock's punk gods – in pictures
1 DAY AGO - From Eater to the Clash, from the lipstick of Siouxsie Sioux to the staff of Sex, photographer Expand
1 DAY AGO - From Eater to the Clash, from the lipstick of Siouxsie Sioux to the staff of Sex, photographer Sheila Rock caught the faces of punk just as it all went haywire Continue reading... Collapse
Canon Patent Shows 85mm f/1.8 and 100mm f/2.8 Lenses for the RF Mount
2 DAYS AGO - Canon News has uncovered a new patent out of Japan that shows some of Canon’s potential Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Canon News has uncovered a new patent out of Japan that shows some of Canon’s potential plans for the RF lens mount. According to the patent, Canon is looking into releasing some more affordable RF prime lenses like an 85mm f/1.8 and a 100mm f/2.8. This patent discovery comes hot on the heels of a […] Collapse
Fotodiox Unveils EF-to-L Lens Adapter with Full Electronic Functions
2 DAYS AGO - Fotodiox has launched a new Fotodiox Pro Fusion Adapter that lets you mount Canon EF (and EF-S) Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Fotodiox has launched a new Fotodiox Pro Fusion Adapter that lets you mount Canon EF (and EF-S) lenses onto Leica L (and T) cameras while retaining the full range of automated functions. “The adapter is designed to offer an inexpensive system that allows for the use of a vast range of lenses,” Fotodiox says. “This […] Collapse
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