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NOAA Image Captures Wildfire Smoke and Dust on Collision Course

[ad_1] The video is captivating: Three whitish-gray geysers gush eastward from the mountains of New Mexico, while a brown layer pours down from the north like a wave on a beach. What it represents is far more destructive. Captured in time-lapse by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, the image shows two devastating events …

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Surreal Image Creator Jerry Uelsmann dies at 87

[ad_1] Jerry Uelsmann, a photographer who mastered darkroom techniques to transform his black-and-white images into surreal montages, died on April 4 in Gainesville, Fla., as expected many years before the revolutionary digital image editing by Adobe Photoshop. He was 87 years old. His son, Andrew, said the cause was complications from the stroke. Mr. Uelsmann’s …

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No More Apologizing: Facebook Pushing to Defend Its Image

[ad_1] The changes included Facebook executives from the marketing, communications, policy and integrity teams. Five people who worked with him said Alex Schultz, a 14-year company veteran who was appointed chief marketing officer last year, was also instrumental in the effort to reshape the image. But three people said that at least one of the …

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New York Public Library to Keep Image Collection Browseable

[ad_1] The New York Public Library reversed course on Thursday, announcing that it will continue to keep its venerable Painting Collection in circulation and browsable. The collection will be moved to another room on the same floor at the main branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, and the move is tentatively scheduled for early …

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Godmother of Digital Image

[ad_1] The puzzle Daubechies solved was how to take a recent wavelet progression made by French mathematicians Yves Meyer and Stéphane Mallat, but technically impractical, and make it suitable for application. Daubechies used to say “preoccupy” but without making it ugly. As Guggenheim puts it in his statement: “It’s something mathematicians often take for granted, …

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Thinking of Itself Outside the Header Image, USC Fires Clay Helton

[ad_1] With the University of Southern California’s defense injured, its offense languid and lacking in discipline – the kicker kicked in on the opening kick-off – fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum booed the team during a 42-28 hit at Stanford’s hands. He entered Saturday’s game as a 17-point underdog. Later, seventh-year coach Clay …

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New York Public Library’s Image Collection to Be Archived

[ad_1] Artist Joseph Cornell once requested a painting of a street urchin with a white cockatoo. Andy Warhol borrowed hundreds of paintings for inspiration and never returned them. For over a century, the New York Public Library Painting Collection has evolved gloriously but dangerously as a shape-shifting mismatch in a Dewey Decimal grid. Founded in …

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