Month: September 2021

|In: Close Up Photography|Last Updated:
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists see the funny side of nature
A snickering gray seal pup. Though it looks like it's laughing, the seal is actually yawning.

1 of 20 Martina Novotna/Comedywildlifephoto.com

Mr. Giggles

It’s been a tough couple of years. You deserve a laugh. Finalists in the annual Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are here to lift you up with uproarious images of nature at its nuttiest. From grumpy birds to clingy raccoons, these photographers have you covered. 

A snickering gray seal pup stars in this fortuitous shot. A little bit of basking is good enough reason to smile. Photographer Martina Novotna snapped the shot in the UK after waiting for hours on a rocky beach. Though it looks like it’s laughing, the seal is actually yawning.

Two bear cubs stand up in a movement that makes it look like they're dancing together.

2 of 20 Andy Parkinson/Comedywildlifephoto.com

Let’s dance

Two bear cubs stand up in a movement that almost looks choreographed. Photographer Andy Parkinson caught sight of the young bears on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The wet bears had just crossed a stream.

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards of 2021 announced 42 finalists

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Art Notes, Sept. 3, 2021 | Arts & Entertainment

Two workshops to design new City Gym mural

The City of New Smyrna Beach and Atlantic Center for the Arts will host two workshops on a new mural planned for a City Gym exterior wall at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8 in the Alonzo “Babe” James Community Center at 201 N. Myrtle Ave. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22 in the Coronado Civic Center at 150 N. Pine St.

During the workshops, ACA artists will ask participants to share a pattern design that is meaningful to their culture or family heritage. Examples include quilts, family crests, cultural fabric patterns (e.g. African kente, Scottish tartans, Japanese mons, etc.), or a simple design that is representative of their interests.

Atlantic Center for the Arts

Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach hosts classes, meetings and exhibits.

University of Central Florida Flying Horse Editions: The Art of Collaboration will be on

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|In: Yard Art|Last Updated:
Neon and Light Museum popup in River North showcases art form’s ‘positive vibe,’ curator states

Jason Pickleman remembers shelling out a great number of hrs of his childhood peering into the backyard of his upcoming-door neighbor, an avid artwork collector acknowledged to fill his lavish Hinsdale property with neon lights.

“My teenage bedroom missed a zoo of neon,” says the whole-time artist and graphic designer, now based mostly in Chicago. “It was interesting and illuminating and exotic, and it was every little thing I needed art to be. I recall considering that I wished to fill my lifestyle with colored mild.”

For 30 yrs, he has performed just that.

It is that colored gentle that Pickleman will now have on show at the Neon and Gentle Museum, an immersive popup knowledge containing more than 60 skilled neon and gentle-primarily based sculptures by distinguished artists from throughout the place, all housed inside 7,000 square ft of show area in the coronary heart of River North.

“Chicago

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‘Shang-Chi’ Could Crack Two New Contradictory Box Office Information

By this time tomorrow, we’ll be dissecting the Thursday preview quantities for Disney and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings (evaluate). Fingers are crossed that Destin Daniel Cretton’s MCU action fantasy can notch something approximating a strong opening weekend (above/less than $100 million throughout the world would be good) as it launches in excess of the Fri-Mon Labor Day body. With reliable evaluations, powerful excitement, presumably first rate term-of-mouth (I just can’t think about normal audiences not to some degree taking pleasure in it) and a thirty day period in advance of No Time to Die on Oct 8, the film has some place to breathe even if it doesn’t established the box office on fireplace this weekend.

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|In: Photography Degree|Last Updated:
Philip Pacheco has joined the San Francisco Chronicle as picture editor

Veteran freelance photographer and Bay Space native Philip Pacheco has joined The San Francisco Chronicle as a image editor. 

Pacheco comes to The Chronicle soon after a 9-calendar year career as an independent photographer, contributing to wire services like Getty Visuals and Agence France-Presse with his operate appearing in The San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among the quite a few other publications. 

He has documented the destruction of the 2019 Kincade Hearth in Sonoma County and civil unrest in the streets of Oakland in the wake of George Floyd’s loss of life. 

As a picture editor at The Chronicle, Pacheco will work closely with photojournalists in the area and reporters and editors across the newsroom, conceptualizing and coordinating picture assignments that seize the day’s news and enhancing the photos Chronicle journalists file to get to the heart of the story. 

“I sense like getting

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|In: Film Photography|Last Updated:
Kai Wong on his enthusiasm for movie images

Photographer, writer and YouTube feeling Kai Wong tells us more about how he obtained into film, and the inspirations behind his brand new reserve that celebrates all points analogue

I turned obsessed with film images when I was in college, despite the fact that the emotions for the funky-smelling things go back again way extended than that, obtaining developed up looking at my mother and father choose all the family images with film cameras. My selection to understand with a film camera was more of a pragmatic option than just one born out of passion, because, at that time, digital was even now kinda new and kinda expensive for a very poor college student.

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The method of film photography is continue to a thing that I adore as significantly now as I did back again then. Getting a good lab could not

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