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Friday Five with Bram Vanderbeke: Finding Inspiration in Ancient Ruins and Architecture

The Belgian artist and designer shares what inspired the Anthology Side Table/Stool, created in collaboration with jeweler Lore Van Keer

Design Milk · EN

A 1910 Seattle Beach House Gets a Colorful Makeover

Shed reimagines a century-old home above Alki Beach with a surf-inspired palette, inventive storage, patterned tile, and a wildlife mural by artist Stevie Shao

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Jeremiah Brent Brings Architectural Influences to Loloi Rugs

The interior designer draws inspiration from Mies van der Rohe, ancient Rome, and Gothic architecture for a collection of rugs and pillows

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Oyster Estate Brings a New Design Perspective to Greenport

Islyn Studio transforms a former mid-century hotel on Long Island's North Fork with handcrafted details, warm materials, and subtle references to Greenport's maritime heritage

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Toledo Museum of Art Brings Bobby Anspach Home

The late artist’s immersive sculptures invite visitors to explore perception, mindfulness, and human connection in a new exhibition

Design Milk · EN

Dear Guest Cafe Brings Art Deco Whimsy to Silver Lake

Studio Jialun Xiong blends Art Deco elegance, playful geometry, and dreamlike details in a Los Angeles cafe inspired by European hotels and Japanese hospitality

Design Milk · EN

The One Thing I Want Most for My Nikon Zf

In today’s article, I am going to shamelessly beg Nikon to add one very specific feature to what is already my favorite camera body. [ Read More ]

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DoorDash Will Photograph Your Menu Free, Claim a 44% Sales Lift, and Bar the Pictures From Uber Eats

DoorDash's help center lays the deal out in plain language: a professional photographer comes to your restaurant for a 1.5-hour session, shoots up to 20 menu items plus one header image, and DoorDash pays the photographer. You pay for the food and the labor to plate it. Then comes footnote three, which reads, "Photos provided by DoorDash may not be used on other third-party delivery platforms." [ Read More ]

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Why You Don't Need Focus Stacking for Every Landscape

Focus stacking has become close to a default step in landscape work, with plenty of people blending 20 or even 50 frames so every rock and grass blade is sharp from front to back. Whether that effort shows up in the final image, or whether a single frame focused at the hyperfocal distance would look the same, decides how much of your time goes into focus while the light keeps changing. [ Read More ]

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The Case for Photographing the Place You Already Know

The places you see every week are the ones you're least likely to photograph, since they feel too familiar to bother with. Familiar doesn't last, and the village fair or street corner you skip this year is exactly what someone will want to see decades from now. [ Read More ]

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The Viltrox AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro Is Sharp in the Corners Wide Open

The Viltrox AF 35mm f/1.4 Pro sells for $829, and it brings a metal body, weather-sealing, and a clicked aperture ring at that price. Few focal lengths stay on a camera as long as a 35mm does, so how a lens like this behaves wide open, in the corners, and while tracking a moving subject affects a big share of everything you shoot. [ Read More ]

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Chasing a Vivid Fog Bow and a Golden Gate Bridge Shot Years in the Making

Fog in the San Francisco Bay Area can bury a scene in seconds and hand it back a minute later with trees, towers, and light arranged in ways you won't see again. Shooting it well means working quickly, reading the direction of the light, and resisting the urge to stick with the first composition that looks good. [ Read More ]

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Can’t Afford a Leica? Buy One of These Instead

If you’re pondering a Leica rangefinder film camera but can’t bring yourself to spend a crazy amount of money, maybe give this a go. Having reimmersed myself back into the wonderful world of analog about five years ago, my collection of film cameras has slowly been growing. And like many analog enthusiasts, there’s one camera that has a certain allure, especially as all the cool kids on YouTube seem to own one: the Leica M6. [ Read More ]

Fstoppers · EN

The Luminar Fall Update Has Some Powerful New Tools

Luminar has released a solid fall update with some new features and some enhancements. The update is free to current owners and can, of course, be purchased by photographers who are interested. This new update is version 1.29.0. The update should appear automatically, or you can click "Check for Updates" in the Luminar dropdown menu. [ Read More ]

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Another GoPro Competitor is on the Scene as XTU Launches the New S7 Pro Action Cam

The action cam battlegrounds will seemingly never let up as another new GoPro competitor is on the scene. Just as we’ve seen with DJI and Insta360 getting into the action camera game, more challengers are looking to take a shot at the DIY action and adventure camera genre. The new S7 Pro action camera from XTU is the latest example of a powerful, capable, and intriguing competitor that run-and-gun vloggers and videographers might want to explore. Built for everyday action video and creation, this new S7 Pro has promising specs and features worth highlighting. So let’s check it out. The XTU S7

Nofilmschool · EN

Blackmagic Design Rolls Out a Powerful New Capture and Playback Solution With Expanded Connectivity

The world of high-speed capture and playback solutions is getting another top option, as Blackmagic Design has officially announced its new UltraStudio Express HD, with 3G-SDI, HDMI, and analog connections for your USB4 and Thunderbolt computers. With a wide range of connections and overall versatility, this new model could be ideal for archiving from older broadcast desks or editing in DaVinci Resolve. A nice mix of old and new, let’s take a look at this new Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Express HD and what it could possibly offer for your capture and playback workflows. The Blackmagic Design

Nofilmschool · EN

Film Quote of the Day: Professor X’s Most Moving Lesson on Hope and Finding Your Way

I absolutely adore the X-Men movies . They were sort of the first foray into whether or not people would take these blockbusters seriously, and they absolutely rocked. As the franchise continued into the 2010s, we saw characters across time, with the ultimate team-up movie being X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). It merged both timelines of the X-Men movies into one. Bryan Singer directed the movie, and Simon Kinberg wrote it, and it functions as both a prequel and a sequel at the same time. The stakes are the entire world, and you get cameos from some of the most memorable and best characters

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What Happened to the Mid-Budget War Film?

I am old enough to remember when we got at least one theatrical war movie a year, and maybe even a couple more indies that got a limited release. These were often disguised as action movies or another genre, and usually gave an actor a chance to get their face seen by a lot of people, or a director a chance to show their teeth before demanding a higher budget. Examples include The Hurt Locker (2008), Three Kings (1999), and even Platoon (1986). These films relied on gritty realism and morally complex screenplays to draw in audiences. Sometimes, they made big bucks at the box office and could b

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SIRUI Has a New Swift Lens Series Promising Daily Carry Capabilities for Photo and Video

SIRUI has just launched a new series of “Swift” lenses, which the company calls a daily-carry option designed as a high-value, entry-grade full-frame series for effortless creation. Set to feature a nice combo of lightweight design, autofocus technology, and solid image quality, this new series will debut with a 20mm and a 40mm option, both set to be available for Sony E, Leica L, Nikon Z, and Fujifilm X-mounts and compatible with a range of cameras; these new lenses might be worth considering for those looking for multi-purpose photo and video work. Let’s check them out. SIRUI Swift Lens Seri

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The "Boring" Editing Exercise That Teaches You to Cut for Emotion

Obsession has been the horror story of the year, and Curry Barker edited it himself. In the film , a lovesick music-store clerk named Bear (Michael Johnston) gets his hands on a magical novelty wish-maker and uses it on Nikki (Inde Navarrette), the friend he's pined after for years. The wish works, eh, a little too well. Barker made the film for less than a million dollars, and Focus Features paid roughly 20 times that after it screened at TIFF. It went on to be a sleeper hit that put its creative team and cast on the map. We can pull a lot of lessons from the film. I talked to Barker about th

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Here Are the Script and Film Competitor Award Winners from This Year’s Austin Film Festival

After a busy weekend at the 33rd installment of the Austin Film Festival , the festival, founded on the principle of honoring the screenplay, has officially unveiled its 2026 Script and Film Competition Award winners. And, as you might expect, they’re all quite intriguing, full of promise, and an inspiring lot of scripts, pitches, films, and ideas that, if you’re into the craft of screenwriting or just filmmaking in general, are worth checking out. So, without further ado, let’s check out this year’s winners and explore these projects. Austin Film Festival 2026 Award Winners Always a popular f

Nofilmschool · EN

What a Top Lit Agent Looks for in Your Script

Most screenwriting advice comes from writers. This conversation comes from the other side, meaning someone whose job is to decide which scripts go out into the world. Glenn Cockburn is the founder of Meridian Artists, a premier literary talent agency established in 2005. Based in Toronto and Los Angeles, his agency carries a roster of Canadian screenwriters, directors, and authors. He got his start in 1996 as a script reader for New Line Cinema and Innovative Artists, then spent 1997 to 1999 as a creative executive at Templeton Productions, which had a first-look deal at New Line. He moved bac

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Acclaimed Photographer Pipo Nguyen-duy Found Shot Dead

Pipo Nguyen-duy, a celebrated photographer and well-respected photography professor, was found dead at the age of 64. [ Read More ]

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Man Jailed for 14 Months After Stealing $19K Worth of Camera Gear From Photographer

A man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for robbing a photographer of nearly $19,000 worth of camera equipment as he was preparing for a photo shoot. [ Read More ]

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