Art & Photography — Posts

20 posts on "Art & Photography" by Shlomo Strauss — bilingual writing on technology, science, and business.

• The impending collapse of GoPro and its technological legacy — Facing financial struggles and fierce competition, GoPro nears the end of its path while leaving a lasting legacy in digital image stabilization.
• Ghost flowers of the Mekong Delta: harvesting lotus at dawn — Each monsoon season in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, local women harvest white lotus blossoms by boat at dawn, in a tradition rooted in ecology, cuisine, and…
• The Bugatti Royale sold only 3 units — and now fetches $22 million — Built between 1927 and 1933 with a 12.7-liter aircraft engine, the Bugatti Type 41 Royale was a commercial failure that now sells for $22 million at…
• Adobe's new iPhone camera app stacks 32 frames for cleaner shots — Adobe's free Project Indigo app captures 32 bracketed exposures and merges them into a single clean image, offering manual controls and direct Lightroom…
• Robotic sculpture and the question of what human artistry still means — As Monumental Labs deploys autonomous robotic arms to carve stone, the post asks whether machine-made sculpture can ever carry the same weight as a…
• Leading lines in photography and architecture: how geometry guides — From the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ceiling to the Chords Bridge, leading lines are a visual tool that draws viewers through a space and focuses attention on
• A composer's lab-grown brain cells are making music in a gallery — Organoids grown from composer Alvin Lucier's blood cells now generate sound from electrical signals, raising questions about authorship and what art…
• Yousuf Karsh and the art of black-and-white portraiture — An exploration of Yousuf Karsh's portrait philosophy — using deliberate lighting and a fleeting unguarded moment to reveal each subject's inner secret.
• A camera from 1898 and the optical principle behind every lens since — A 126-year-old black-and-white camera shows how every device, from film to iPhone, is fundamentally a box that captures light through an aperture.
• South Tel Aviv's street art scene hiding in plain sight — Amid the neglected streets of south Tel Aviv's industrial quarter, vivid murals deliver an authenticity that polished city centers rarely can.
• Disney built a stunt robot to bring Spider-Man's aerial moves to life — Disney's stunt robot is filmed in real time as it flies through the air, achieving human-like motion that current animation software struggles to…
• What a video player looked like in 1930 — Decades before digital pixels, early video devices already relied on the same core principle: cycling still images fast enough to fool the human eye into…
• Camera sensor size explained: why it matters and how smartphones — A concise explainer on how sensor size affects image quality, low-light performance, and bokeh — and why software processing lets smartphones punch above…
• Vantablack: the material that absorbs 99.965% of visible light — A concise look at how carbon nanotubes make Vantablack so extraordinarily dark, its uses in telescopes and space, and the art-world controversy it sparked.
• A hyperrealist sculpture of a homeless man in a Zurich luxury hotel — A Zurich luxury hotel placed a hyperrealist homeless figure by artist Duane Hanson near its reception to provoke reflection on social inequality.
• Google's Add Me feature puts the photographer back in the group photo — Google's new Add Me feature for Pixel devices uses AI to merge two separate shots into one group photo that includes everyone, even the photographer.
• The Sony camera that saved photos directly to floppy disks — The Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 was a real digital camera that stored photos on standard floppy disks.
• Why green screens are green: the optics and sensor science behind — Camera sensors dedicate half their pixels to green, and the color contrasts well with human skin tones — two reasons that made green the default for video
• Your PC is furniture — it's time to treat it like one — A custom-built PC can reflect your personality and complement your workspace just as much as any other design element in the room.
• How Canva grew from a quiet underdog to a $25 billion design giant — A look at Canva's cloud-first approach, ease of use, and pricing that explain how it reached 135 million monthly users and 85% of Fortune 500 companies.