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News & Updates
September 1, 2017
Please Join Us in Supporting Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
As the world now knows, earlier this week Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast and left a wake of destruction.
Much of Houston and its surrounding communities are under water. The American Red Cross and volunteers from around the country are working around the clock to evacuate and provide safe shelter and comfort for tens of thousands impacted by this devastating storm. No one knows how long it will take for the floodwaters to recede and the recovery will take months, if not years.
SXSW has made a donation to the Red Cross. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to do the same at redcross.org/sxsw.
Over the years, we’ve tried to harness the unique power of the SXSW community and its selfless interest in helping others. We invite you to join us in making a donation to help meet the immediate and long-term needs of the millions of people affected along the Gulf Coast. Let’s see how much we can raise as a collective community of caring creative people.
If you are looking for other ways to contribute, The Texas Tribune has put together a comprehensive list of how to get help and how to give.
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September 1, 2017
Adapting ‘Polina’: ‘We Wanted to Make a Film on Dance That Itself Dances’
Discover how the filmmakers transformed the pages of the graphic novel with movement to explore the journey of a dancer’s life.
Like the spare, elegant graphic novel by Bastien Vivès on which it is based, Polina, the new film from Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj, has an arresting immediacy about it from the start. The film tells the story of a girl (played by Anastasia Shevtsova, herself a dancer with the Russian Mariinsky Theater) who, after studying with a rather repressive ballet teacher as a child, breaks away to study under different masters—most notably Liria, a modern dance choreographer based in Aix-en-Provence, played here with understated force by Juliette Binoche.
As it turns out, Polina’s most important master is herself, as the film shows her gradual trajectory from a confident student into a person who guides other dancers. The route she take to get to that point is not necessarily smooth, and Polina finds herself in numerous locales and circumstances before her “arrival”; at times, the film reads like a distant descendant of Agnes Varda’s Vagabond.
Source: NoFilmSchool
September 1, 2017
Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive: Prices are lower, but our favorite remains the same
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are the two big names in the virtual-reality arena, but most people can only afford one. Our comparison tells you which is best when you pit the Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive.
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Source: Digital Trends VR
September 1, 2017
The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, September 1
The Daily Chord provides a short digest of music news each weekday. This week, we read about Taylor Swift’s return, Harvey’s cultural impact, and an optimistic report on the music business by Goldman Sachs. As summer turns to fall, take a second to subscribe to the Daily Chord email blast. Your inbox will thank you.
Monday, August 28
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Margaret Moser 1954-2017
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Harvey’s impact on Houston’s music venues
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2017 MTV Video Music Award winners
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The 19-year-old helping to stamp out homophobia at music festivals
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Experimental rocker EMA talks VR, the dark web, and hiding behind screens
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Why Detroit is one of America’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll cities
Post from M Live
Tuesday, August 29
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Hip-hop artists dominate USA’s top songwriters chart in first half of 2017
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From music to movies to TV, Latinos are widely underrepresented – and I’m done with it
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Feat the kitchen sink: How Zayn, David Guetta and Drake changed pop credits
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Sonos to announce new smart speaker on October 4
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Billboard’s 2017 digital power players
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The New Pornographers albums from worst to best
List from Stereogum
Wednesday, August 30
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Music industry will hit $41 billion by 2030, according to new Goldman Sachs report
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Ambassadors of London’s rebooted, revitalized jazz scene come to New York
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Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett: Inside indie-rock superduo’s new album
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The brilliant way one founder made a killing from the music industry
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The 25 most anticipated albums of fall 2017
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Hinder sues former lead singer
Item from Pollstar
Thursday, August 31
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Do you play Taylor Swift or does she play you?
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Why is John Denver’s music in so many movies this year?
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The Simpsons composer Alf Clausen fired
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Viewership down for MTV’s Video Music Awards
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Flavor Flav sues Chuck D over Public Enemy royalties
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Wanda Jackson unveils autobiography ‘Every Night Is Saturday Night’
Item from Rolling Stone
Friday, September 1
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Spotify: Don’t compare us to Napster
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These are the most-streamed songs of summer 2017
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Why you can’t put the music industry on a blockchain
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Two years later, is new music Fridays doing its job?
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Solange and other musicians join Harvey relief efforts
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A brief history of Neil Young’s greatest lost albums
Column from Uproxx
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Source: SxSW Music
September 1, 2017
State-of-the-art scanning technique digitizes humans, sticks them in VR
Scientists at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Germany have developed a state-of-the-art scanning technique for capturing realistic images of a person. And you can record models for VR and AR at their studio
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Source: Digital Trends VR
September 1, 2017
Introducing the Unsplash Awards
Introducing the Unsplash Awards
We are pretty excited to announce the Unsplash Awards, a celebration made just for you, to recognize the open photography movement. Unsplash team decided to go forward and present 13 photography categories that will be judged by a guest curator to help select the best photos. The guest curators will be coming from all over including brands like: DJI, Kodakit, Lonely Planet, Squarespace, Airbnb and more. Submissions are now open for one month-long, let’s share the best of your creativity!
About Unsplash
Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license. Meaning that you can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is still very appreciated when possible.
So today, we couldn’t be more excited to kick off the Unsplash Awards, an online celebration to recognize the powerful impact Unsplash contributors have made through their generosity and artistry. We’ve created 10 photography categories where we will feature the work of Unsplash contributors. For each category, we’ve invited a guest curator to help select the most inspiring photos.
13 categories. 13 judges.
Aerial | DJI Team
Animals & Wildlife | Imgix
Astrophotography | Chris Messina
Black & White | InVision
Food & Drink | Kodakit
Interiors & Architecture | UltraLinx
Mobile Photography | Google Live Case
Nature & Landscapes | Lonely Planet
People & Portraits | Squarespace
Sports | GoPro
Street Photography | Airbnb
Tech & Business | Product Hunt & AngelList
Unsplash Community
Today, over 50,000 Unsplash members have contributed over 260,000 high-resolution, freely usable photos. This has turned Unsplash from a humble blog into the largest open repository of high-resolution photography in the world.
Unsplash photos have gone on to inspire millions of creators from world-renowned writers like Deepak Chopra to multi-platinum recording artists to people of all ages looking to make their creative mark on the world. Unsplash would simply not be possible without the people who believe that sharing their work to support someone else is worthwhile. To give without expecting anything in return.
Timeline
- Sept 1 — Sept 30th: Submissions open. To have your photography featured in a category, go to awards.unsplash.com
- Oct 1 — Oct 10: Curator selections
- Oct 15: Announcement of featured photos
Links
- Learn more about the Unsplash Awards at awards.unsplash.com
- Follow Unsplash on Instagram
- Cover Picture by Rob Bates
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Sep 01, 2017
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September 1, 2017
The Power of Shooting with a Shallow Depth of Field
Here’s how shooting with a shallow depth of field can immerse your audience like nothing else.<p><i>Top image via Hollywood Reporter.</i><p>Choosing how you will …
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