Getty Images illegally selling Carol Highsmith’s images that she had donated to the public via the Library of Congress, AND they send threatening letters to people that they believe have infringed the copyright...seriously fucked up.
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Painter Thomas Dewing (1851 to 1938) was best known for his tonalist style, which blurred images to create a dream-like effect...
Source: blogs.smithsonianmag.com
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Spyware installed on computers leased from furniture renter Aaron's Inc. secretly sent 185,000 emails containing sensitive information — including pictures of nude children and people having sex — back to the company's corporate computers, according to court documents filed Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit.
According to the filings, some of the spyware emails contained pictures secretly taken by the rental computers' webcams or other sensitive information including Social Security numbers, social media and email passwords, and customer keystrokes, the Federal Trade Commission determined last year.
The attorneys also claimed Atlanta-based Aaron's hasn't properly notified at least 800 customers allegedly targeted by spyware made by DesignerWare, a company located in North East, Pa.
"Because Aaron's has been so uncooperative in agreeing to give proper notice and assistance to its customers, we've had to ask the court to intervene and order them to do it, so that people can protect their most private kinds of rights and property," said Maury Herman, a New Orleans attorney who was one of several to file the documents.
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I love this Jim Henson sketch, Visual Thinking, from the early 1960s. It’s not only one of the earliest appearances of Kermit, but it shows the innovative mix of puppetry, animation, and video effects that would be become a staple of Sesame Street:
Source: youtube.com
The newest version of the Google Translate app can now translate text from photos, according to Android Central. The image feature works with all languages available in Translate, and allows users to highlight the text they want to convert to another language...
=:O
Source: Ars Technica
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There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via liquidnight)
...Whether or not the miniseries was disappointing, I cannot say, but the still images, especially those illustrating Lizzie Siddal modeling for John Everett Milais' Ophelia, have been wonderful. In the pictures, actress Amy Manson was given the unenviable task of lying in a cold bathtub through in the winter months while driven artist Millais strives for perfection in his painting of her...
Source: underpaintings.blogspot.com