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Student Spotlight | Graphic design student’s thesis displayed through photography, projections, and 3D art

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Graphic design MFA candidate Katie Kiesewetter’s exhibition “Gratuitous Hospitality” portrays the body as a job site through emotional labor.

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Katie Kiesewetter talks about her art in the Visual Arts Building on Friday, April 14, 2023.

The service industry often revolves around tips, with some servers depending on money to stay afloat. For one graphic design student, the focus of her thesis revolved around the exploitation of service industry laborers.

Katie Kiesewetter is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in graphic design with a secondary focus in photography. Kiesewetter, originally from Farmington, Illinois, graduated as a double art and English major from the University of Iowa in 2018, and worked in the service industry before she came back to school to pursue this thesis.

Her thesis exhibition portrayed the body as a job site through emotional labor. The exhibition was displayed through photography, projections, and 3D art.

Presented at the Visual Arts Building gallery, “Gratuitous Hospitality” was open for viewing April 10-15.

“Art allows me to investigate things that I’m going through. The photographs that I made explore what care work and emotional labor means to me and what it means to internalize one’s labor,” Kiesewetter said. “And even though you may leave work, the work doesn’t leave you. It’s sketched on your body.”

Kiesewetter said she is pursuing the performative aspects of labor; specifically, the exploitative nature of tipped work and hospitality. When first entering the exhibit, viewers are met with a mural of a cartoon character in the style of “The Simpsons” writing “I will not let money define my value” on a chalkboard. To the right of that was Kiesewetter’s 40-page in-depth written thesis.

“I wanted to make work that could relate to people,” Kiesewetter said. “When I make, I make for joy, but I also want to ensure that what I’m doing matters or means something or connects with people in an interesting way.”

Next to the written thesis were five black-and-white photos in red frames. The first photo depicted Kiesewetter topless, her back facing the camera, standing in front of cabinets. The second photo depicted $1 bills glued to Kiesewetter’s chest. The third had Kiesewetter sitting at a table with wine poured in a glass and money scattered on the table. The fourth depicts Kiesewetter grabbing at her chest. The last one was a close-up of Kiesewetter’s mouth biting a price tag.

“It was really important to me to explore the feminine body in public spaces including all folks who would identify as feminists — like women and non-binary folks — and how the way that you’re perceived affects your income in certain roles, especially in service and hospitality, but also exploring the intersections of race as well and how that affects income,” Kiesewetter said.

To the right of the red frames was a checkerboard sitting area with more black and white photos scattered on the wall. There was a theme of isolated red coloration throughout the set of photos. All photos depicted Kiesewetter and other subjects working.

There were also zines Kiesewetter designed and printed available for attendees to take as a souvenir.

To the right of the sitting area was a projection of a waitress putting an apron on.

“We take these processes for granted, especially with the way that tipping functions, with tips being lower than minimum wage and being supplemented,” Kiesewetter said. “Tips are a vital part of a lot of people’s income.”

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The final portion of the exhibit was another projection. The screening consisted of interviews edited to look like silent films with vintage text cards that read things like “I just don’t want to be in a relationship right now.”

“I think as an artist, as a maker, as a writer,” Kiesewetter said. “There’s a lot of directions that I could take with this work, even though it’s still growing and expanding, I can make more things out of it, but I’ve resolved a lot of thoughts that I’ve been working on for the past couple of years.”

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Nueva montura ZWO AM3 supercompacta

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ZWO acaba de presentar estos días durante el NEAF 2023 una nueva montura, la ZWO AM3 que viene a ser la hermana pequeña de la AM5. Al igual que ésta estamos ante una montura armónica de pequeño tamaño y que puede funcionar sin contrapesos para manejar cargas de hasta 8kg (hasta 13kg con contrapesos).

La AM3 puede funcionar tanto en modo ecuatorial como altazimutal y permite su control desde app vía Wifi o a través de cable/mando. Por supuesto también cuenta con integración completa con ASIAIR.

Esta montura pesa tan solo 3,9kg lo que la convierte en una de las más portables del mercado además de contar con una gran precisión gracias a su mecánica basada en reductor de engranajes de onda de tensión y correa síncrona con una capacidad de reducción de 300:1.

La alimentación es a 12V con unos consumos que van desde 0.58A en seguimiento hasta 1.7A en GOTOs. Dispone de puerto de guiado ST4 y conexión USB 2.0.

Todavía no tenemos precio en España pero en la página web indican un precio estimado de 1500 dólares así que probablemente la veremos en torno a los 1800€ cuando se ponga a la venta en nuestras tiendas de confianza.

Sin duda estamos ante una montura muy interesante por características y prestaciones aunque todavía personalmente se me hace muy raro ver estas monturas sin barra de contrapesos, supongo que será cuestión de acostumbrarse.

Tampoco es que haya podido ver todavía en acción a la AM5 ni conozco mucha gente que la tenga así que por el momento no puedo dar valoraciones personales sobre esta montura. En principio estaría por capacidad y manejo de peso a la altura de una EQ6-R con mayor precisión.

Esta nueva montura viene a completar una nueva gama de productos presentados durante los últimos días por la firma china que incluyen una nueva cámara y por primera vez telescopios refractores.

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Talent, Passion, and Perseverance: The Story of Nilangana Banerjee, a Rising Star in the Photography Industry

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Nilangana Banerjee, widely known as Olive in her professional world, is an extraordinarily talented photographer & an art director, currently based in Los Angeles, California. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and went through varying societal limitations (like many youngsters) in India to pursue and build an extraordinary and internationally acclaimed academic career in the field of photography. However, her intense passion, perseverance and utmost dedication to achieve and excel in the field of photography could not be suppressed and thus pushed her in a much larger domain of photography, internationally.

Growing up, Nilangana was encouraged to pursue in various artistic fields by her parents, such as music, painting & crafts etc., However, due to limited exposure and formal training available in these fields, only academic subjects were given priority in the Indian education system. Despite the lack of opportunities for art-based subjects, Nilangana discovered her immense passion for photography during her high school years. She had her first hand learning experiences in photography using some of the photographic equipment belonged to her father, an amateur photographer. It was not until the end of her high school years that she had realized, photography was the right medium of art that had the potential to bloom her imagination into a new birth of life in a different dimension. Meanwhile, Nilangana continued to sketch and paint, but all through, photography remained her primary choice to explicitly express her sense of creativity.

She ultimately entered the field of photography professionally through pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Still Photography and Audio-Visual Production in Mumbai. During her bachelor’s degree, she discovered her interest in various fields like industrial, architectural & interior, portraiture, and conceptual fashion/editorial photography. Thereafter, she had undergone specialization within these fields during her first Master’s degree from Light and Life Academy in India.

Following the completion of her Master’s in India, she worked on putative projects with the Taj Group of Hotels, Four point Sheraton Group of hotels, and other numerous projects from variety of genres in India and abroad. Despite gaining substantial exposure in the Indian photography industry, Nilangana still felt the need to refine her skills and expand her horizons globally. She therefore joined the New York Film Academy‘s cutting-edge Masters of Fine Arts in Photography program, having won the prestigious Talent Award Scholarship, which is awarded to less than one percent of international artists. Nilangana graduated summa cum laude from the New York Film Academy and was graced as a notable alumni of the school.

Since graduation from NYFA, LA, her expanding field of commercial work has gained immense praise and appreciation from reputed photographic institutions, companies, such as Amazon, Walmart, Forever 21, Target, Nordstrom, etc, and numerous publications worldwide. Her work has been featured in VICE Magazine and various fashion & editorial magazines, including L’Attirance Magazine France, MALVIE Magazine France, MOEVIR Paris, DOLCE Magazine Spain, MOVEUX Magazine France, ELLAS Magazine Spain, BLOOM ROMA Italy, VOUS Magazine Spain, VANITY WALL Magazine New York, ROIDX Paris, 17:23 Magazine New York, HORIZONT Magazine New York, GMARO, FADDY ITALY Magazine, MOB JOURNAL, and many more.

Nilangana has always been an entrepreneur with finest professionalism. Her ability to stay consistent and dedicated in all her endeavors had been the key to her success in her dream industry. Despite facing societal pressure to pursue a traditional academic career, she maintained her passion for photography and art, which has yielded a successful career in the field. Her unique blend of traditional and contemporary elements, coupled with her keen eye for details has resulted in visually stunning and thought-provoking images that have been featured in numerous reputed publications worldwide. With her creativity, photography skills, and passion for the art form, Nilangana Banerjee is undoubtedly a rising star in the industry, and her future endeavors are sure to be raised at the apex of her career with worthy success.

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Artist Henrique de França Creates Minimalist And Surreal Pencil Drawings

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Brazilian Artist Henrique de França creates minimalist and surreal pencil drawings. Minimalist and surreal pencil drawings are fascinating art form that combines simplicity with the bizarre. These drawings often feature sparse, clean lines and a monochromatic color scheme, but also include unexpected elements and distortions that can create a dreamlike quality.

An unconventional feeling about these drawings, which almost places them into another reality. Some untold stories, unseen characters, and unsolved plots left behind the frame are so tempting and intriguing.

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One of the most famous minimalist and surreal artists is Rene Magritte, who often used this style in his paintings. Magritte’s famous painting, “The Treachery of Images,” features a simple drawing of a pipe with the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”) written beneath it, highlighting the disconnect between language and reality.

Another artist who has gained recognition for his minimalist and surreal pencil drawings is Ester Roi. Roi’s work is characterized by a minimalist approach to color and form, with precise and intricate pencil marks that create striking compositions. Her drawing “Perpetual Motion” features a series of interlocking circles, each with its own intricate pattern, creating a sense of movement and energy.

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In contrast to Roi’s precise and intricate approach, the artist Andrea Kowch creates minimalist and surreal pencil drawings with a more loose and organic feel. Kowch’s work often features distorted and exaggerated figures, creating a sense of unease and ambiguity. Her drawing “Harvest” features a woman with an oversized head and hands, holding a large pumpkin, standing in a field of barren trees. The combination of organic shapes and surreal elements creates a haunting and otherworldly atmosphere.

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Overall, minimalist and surreal pencil drawings are a fascinating art form that combines simplicity and precision with the unexpected and bizarre. Artists like Magritte, Roi, and Kowch have pushed the boundaries of this style, creating powerful and evocative works that challenge our perceptions of reality.

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Looking for the northern lights? Use your phone camera

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That little greenish smudge on the right is the northern lights, as seen by my phone camera’s night mode.

© Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
That little greenish smudge on the right is the northern lights, as seen by my phone camera’s night mode.

Somewhere over Greenland, I opened up the window shade. People see the northern lights on their flights to Iceland, right? Might as well check. I was sitting parallel to the wing, the blue and yellow Icelandair logo lit against the black sky. But as I looked back toward the tail of the plane, I saw something else: a faint white smudge in the sky. I looked away and back a few times, and sure enough, the light was moving. I could just make out a white line with vertical bands radiating upward. Not the awe-inspiring green waves you’d hope for, but not nothing.

The only camera I had close was my iPhone 13 Mini. Not ideal. A picture through a dirty plane window with a tiny phone camera sensor? Pfft. No chance. I figured I’d try anyway just to have something to point to when we got back home and told people we saw the northern lights. The camera app switched into night mode automatically, and a few seconds later, I had a picture — the northern lights, clearer than I’d seen them with my own eyes.

Night mode came in clutch again a few days later on a northern lights boat tour that was unfortunately absent of northern lights — at least, any we could see. A crew member told us he’d spotted some activity using a “nice camera,” meaning a full-frame Sony mirrorless ILC, as far as I could tell.

You can just make out a faint green line extending horizontally from the top of the mountain. At least we got some aquavit out of the deal.

© Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
You can just make out a faint green line extending horizontally from the top of the mountain. At least we got some aquavit out of the deal.

I had the Xiaomi 13 Pro on hand this time, and sure enough, my night mode photos revealed a faint green line in the sky that was invisible to the naked eye. The crew passed around shots of aquavit, too, so it wasn’t a total bust.

Night mode might not have been developed specifically for astrophotography, but as it turns out, it’s actually really good for taking pictures of things like the northern lights. The long exposures it uses can reveal light that’s too faint for our own eyes to see, and computational processing produces a clean, bright image.

Night mode is particularly good for faint light photography and, in some cases, is better than simply taking a long-exposure image

“Night mode is typically taking multiple images, like maybe five to ten images at a set speed that it optimizes for. And then it compares the images to find the best ones and basically combines those into your final image. It does dark subtraction and flat fielding, which removes distortions, and also removes some of the graininess,” says Sten Odenwald, an astronomer and educator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who literally wrote the book on smartphone astrophotography. He explained to me why night mode is particularly good for faint light photography and, in some cases, is a better option than simply taking a long-exposure image with your phone camera.

In addition to noise reduction from multiple frames, it has another benefit over traditional long-exposure photography: stabilization. “If there’s a feature in the scene that’s going to be constant, like city lights in the lower border of the image, it’ll use those to figure out how to stabilize the rest of the image.”

My colleague Vee took this aurora photo using night mode on her recent trip to Iceland. The city lights in the bottom of the frame served as a reference point for the camera to align the images, providing a stabilizing effect.

© Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge
My colleague Vee took this aurora photo using night mode on her recent trip to Iceland. The city lights in the bottom of the frame served as a reference point for the camera to align the images, providing a stabilizing effect.

If the aurora is much brighter and moving fast, he says that that’s when you might want to switch out of the automatic night mode and try a camera app that lets you take a long exposure. “The thing is that aurora change. They literally change from second to second. So if you let the AI add things together, it’s going to blur out some of the details. But if you take the images yourself then you’re able to keep up with the actual rapid changes and the shape of the aurora.” The bottom line, he says, is to know your camera and app and experiment with different settings to get the results you like best.

I spend a lot of time thinking about and using phone cameras, but it never occurred to me that my phone might be a really good tool for night sky photography. If you’re ever on the hunt for aurora and don’t see anything, give night mode a shot — you might be pleasantly surprised.

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Photographer refuses award at top photography prize after revealing winning image was made by AI

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A German photographer has turned down a prestigious prize after revealing that his winning photograph was created using artificial intelligence.

Boris Eldagsen was named the winner in the creative open category at the Sony World Photography Awards, with his black and white photograph Pseudomnesia / The Electrician. The image shows a young woman standing in front of the camera while an older woman stands behind her.

However, one week after he won the prize, Eldagsen shared a statement on his website announcing that he “would not accept the awards”.

“I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not,” he wrote.

“We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter – or would this be a mistake?”

Eldagsen, who specialises in photo and visual art, said that he “hoped to speed up this debate” by refusing the award.

He suggested that “if you dont know what to do with the prize, please donate it to the fotofestival in Odesa, Ukraine”.

A spokesperson for the World Photography Organisation said that Eldagsen told them he had “co-created” the image using AI before he was announced as the winner.

“As per the rules of the competition, the photographers provide the warranties of their entry,” they told The Guardian.

“The creative category of the open competition welcomes various experimental approaches to image making from cyanotypes and rayographs to cutting-edge digital practices. As such, following our correspondence with Boris and the warranties he provided, we felt that his entry fulfilled the criteria for this category, and we were supportive of his participation.”

The WPO added that they had additionally “welcomed Boris’s wish for dialogue”, but had suspended working with him after he declined the award.

“Given his actions and subsequent statement noting his deliberate attempts at misleading us, and therefore invalidating the warranties he provided, we no longer feel we are able to engage in a meaningful and constructive dialogue with him,” they said.

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The Lyrids meteor shower will peak this week

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Lyrid Meteor Shower – Night astrophotography skies with light trails from streaking meteors in April. (File/Getty)

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Lyrid Meteor Shower – Night astrophotography skies with light trails from streaking meteors in April. (File/Getty)

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Get ready stargazers, we’ve got a meteor shower to view!

The Annual Lyrids meteor shower begins this week and will peak by the end of the week to this weekend. Unlike other meteor showers that can last several weeks to a month, this one tends to be shorter so you’ll have to run out and see it before it’s gone.

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The estimated peak will be predawn from April 21st through April 23rd, during this time you’ll be able to see roughly 10-15 meteors per hour. The Lyrids are known for having outbursts, so it’s possible you may be able to see up to 100 per hour.

Good news, the moon will enter its new moon phase so you won’t have to compete with moonlight for a good show. All you’ll need to do is find a dark place away from city lights.

The Lyrids mark the end of the months long meteor drought that we typically see from January through mid-April. The last good visible meteor showers were the Geminids in December.

Now that we have entered our “meteor season” the next meteor shower we can look forward to will be the Eta Aquariids in early May.

For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WRBL.

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Artist Krisztian Tejfel Creates The Emotional Depth Of Female Portraits

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Hungarian Artist Krisztian Tejfel creates the emotional depth of female portraits. As a self-taught painter, Krisztián has honed his craft, specializing in classical portraits that capture the essence of the human condition. His works delve into the complexities of life’s darker emotions, exposing themes of melancholy, depression, sorrow, and loneliness.

Tejfel masterfully captures the emotions and inner struggles of his female subjects, concealing them behind their seemingly confident and gorgeous exteriors. Through his unique style, he hints at the surreal, with minute details around their eyes, adding depth and complexity to his works. The portraits walk a fine line between realism and its deconstruction, which adds an intriguing layer to his pieces.

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