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By design. An element of randomness in the reward drives creators to put more and more content into the Skinner box.

The first time definitely has a novelty to the experience of getting in the tank, settling, then floating. Then towards the end of the first session you really start to feel comfor…

The fine art market has been doing this for decades by using auction records to set prices.

It was like this for me until I muted any word that was remotely political. All of a sudden it was like a toxic fog had been lifted and I could see clearly again. The article reall…

You answered your own question - it's a play for the next generation. My kids bounce between a multitude of shared digital spaces (games, chat, social, videos etc) and they would b…

Coming up with food photos for the Futurist Cookbook was one of the most fun projects I've ever done: https://annawilliams.com/VORACITY/CONTROPASTASCIUTTA/1/thumb... It's amazing t…

Reminds me of Jonathan Harris's 2007 project 'We Feel Fine.' http://wefeelfine.org/methodology.html When I did some work on sentiment analysis using tools like Crimson Hexagon, it …

Getty already offers free images through embeddable content as well as brand partnerships, so it's natural for them to want a fresh injection of great work. Especially since their …

In the art world it's a pretty straightforward formula: -Buy out the estate of a 3rd tier artist who once drank a beer with a famous artist -Created slick marketing materials writt…

A comment on HN the other day referred to this as the 'moral crumple zone:' how responsibility for an action may be misattributed to a human actor who had limited control over the …

That would definitely make sense if all the shots were from the same angle. We designed/built a nursery that could accommodate shooting from all angles so that all the different sh…

Exactly. The thing is, even shooting tethered with medium format, the pipe just isn't big enough to keep up and the computer and/or capture software gets bogged down, too.

It's not about fps, though the shutter was really fast since babies move a lot. That was hard to balance with the lighting because we couldn't fire strobes since it would freak the…

The resolution is fine if you're in close like we were. But then you lose out on the room details which were needed the final composition, hence the CGI extension. The resolution i…

That's what the photographer was shooting and it is definitely not big enough to pull back and crop in later. The only way to get files big enough is to shoot medium format, but yo…

The article covers a lot of territory but I can say from experience that the limitations to current CGI techniques mean that automation is still a ways away. I produced all the sho…

When I worked in an art gallery in Union Square in SF, we had a client coming in from China to look at an original Chagall. The problem: the crate was arriving from Switzerland onl…

I sent this to several of my friends who are professional photographers and all they could say was ‘shhhh don’t give away our secrets.’ It’s all about the light. Really beautiful d…

The biggest opportunity for disruption is the checkoffs. >These types of programs represent an already existing framework of farmers ‘paying’ for this type of knowledge. This model…

I've been seeing a lot of that lately on Twitter: accounts post inspirational quotes/images about being an entrepreneur and 'transparency' about how much money they've made. Always…

Working at an agency that mostly did CPG work for P+G, I remember how so much of the design work was about catching someone's eye on shelf: how to stand out in a sea of packaging. …

The best way to start generating income is to change your mindset. Instead of asking other people, all of whom have found their own specialized niche that will never be applicable …

>The quality of the shoe you buy is the necessary determinant of how well it will perform. Is that really true if the mind is what makes it so? Product advertising convinces you th…