Tag: Images

The Unrealistic Beauty Standards Social media has become a modern mirror, reflecting images of perfection that are often far removed from the reality of human diversity. The study points out how these platforms are rife with images promoting unattainable beauty standards. It’s like wa...

Iam deep-diving into the Midjourney Alpha website world of style referencing. It is more difficult to do on a Discord server, but not impossible. I have used my own artworks as image references for a good while now, but that was generally taking an image and getting variations on the theme of the...

History is fascinating, but it’s difficult to visualize what the world looked like thousands of years ago. Many aspects contributed to this difficulty. Partially it’s because ancient people had a different sense of aesthetics. Before the 1400s, painters rarely had perspectiv...

among other aspects. While telescopes like Hubble and JWST have captured our imaginations with their deep, high-resolution views all across the Universe, they also face a tremendous limitation: they have narrow, small-angle fields of view, and can only see a tiny fraction of the sky at once. But ...

Although it might seem that the world changed long ago from the Hubble era to the JWST era, the reality is that humanity’s greatest space-based observatory of all-time is less than two years old. It launched on Christmas Day, 2021, and required six months of deployment, commissioning, and cali...

While telescopes like Hubble and JWST have captured our imaginations with their deep, high-resolution views all across the Universe, they also face a tremendous limitation: they have narrow, small-angle fields of view, and can only see a tiny fraction of the sky at once. But other observatories &...

Ished a little tear of joy when I learned about the 2023 Africa Climate Summit and the Africa Union’s admittance to the G20 at the Delhi summit: it is about time for Africans to have a seat at the top table in the emerging new world order. For the first time in history, the idea...

Asprosecutors, we have jobs that require us to view explicit, often very graphic, unsettling evidence. You can’t simply avert your eyes because a child’s safety is at stake, and a criminal must be brought to justice. Nonetheless, there are ways to guard your senses and your sensibility i...

Japan is one of the most photographed countries in the world. A quick search on the popular photo sharing site, Flickr.com, returns around 2.2 million images for the term “Japan” and roughly the same number for “USA”. The word “France” produces 3.6 million results...