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Winter Olympics: the new video technology that could help push Britain’s skeleton team to gold

Skeleton is an exhilarating Winter Olympic sport in which athletes race head-first down an ice track at speeds reaching over 80 miles per hour (130km/h). While the event can look basic at first glance, success relies heavily on highly engineered equipment and extensive wind‑tunnel testing – much like elite Olympic…

The Conversation

Artist Sarah Sze: ‘A work of art is finished when everything teeters’

Renowned mixed media artist discusses her new exhibition and how it speaks to her personal experience and a wider concept of technology

The Guardian - US

Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking read

The Guardian - UK

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Norwegian start-up gets $8.7 million investment to reinvent the camera – it just won't say how

"Think of the bullet time scene in The Matrix, where the actor was surrounded by multiple cameras," said the CEO

Digital Camera World

Hippos don’t fly – but the massive animals can get airborne

In 1872 Leland Stanford, the founder of California’s Stanford University, hired an eccentric inventor named Eadweard Muybridge to help resolve a supposed (but undocumented) bet: did a trotting horse’s feet leave the ground with all four feet or not?

The Conversation

It’s the art Olympics! The 20 greatest ever sporting artworks

From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in art

The Guardian - UK

5 photographs that changed the world

On World Photography Day, take a look back at iconic images and examine 5 photographs that changed the world

Digital Camera World

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World Photography Day 2023: 17 must-see documentaries and movies

Celebrate World Photography Day 2023 by looking through the pin-sharp lens of these photo-centric films and documentaries.

TechRadar

Exposing Muybridge review – fascinating portrait of ornery photography pioneer

While we wait for a biopic, this is an intriguing doc about the man whose photographs of bodies in motion sparked cinema’s development

The Guardian - UK

Philadelphia's weird connection to Jordan Peele's 'Nope'

PHILADELPHIA — With "Nope" now in theaters, it looks like director Jordan Peele has yet another hit on his hands, following the massive success of "Get Out" and "Us." While we expected Peele's latest directorial effort to be good, we didn't expect to find a Philadelphia connection to the movie.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Movie review: 'Nope' another genre-disrupting masterpiece from Jordan Peele

In “Nope,” writer/director Jordan Peele presents us with a big, shiny summer blockbuster — a cowboys and aliens riff built from the DNA of sci-fi spectacles of yore — and then proceeds to vivisect the very notion of a summer blockbuster before our eyes. He wants us to question the…

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Jordan Peele on the dreams and nightmares of 'Nope'

There’s little in contemporary movies quite like the arrival of a new Jordan Peele film

The Independent UK

Sunday Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: on photography

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear: Alfred Eisenstaedt

The Hindu

29 best movies about real photographers

Relive the lives and struggles of famous photographers in these fantastic movies

Digital Camera World

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