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In 2014 we took 1tn photos: welcome to our new visual culture

We also took an estimated 30bn selfies last year and we load 300 hours of video on to YouTube every minute. How is it affecting the way we see the world?

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I won't lie, this is amazing. A projector phone has so many guerrilla filmmaking possibilities…the activist possibilities are endless.

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Best Thing Ever: The Sleeveface Trend

Selfies are so last season. Sleevefaces are the way to go in 2014. Get inspired here!

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Some things are too good and must be shared with the world:

Don’t Stop Believing

Hand Embroidery on Linen

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AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has opened up at least 24 new positions for their in-house camera hardware and software engineering teams. This further illustrates that Apple takes iPhoneography seriously and how the iPhone and other mobile devices have changed photography. This also indicates the weight Apple gives to how we capture images and further illustrates their commitment to stay on the leading edge of mobile phone photography.

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The power of images has radically shifted with the evolution mobile production technology combined with the tenacity of the human spirit.

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This Will Forever Change The Way You Look At "Selfies" -

The selfie as a form of empowerment and critical intervention into media culture.

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We live in the age of the selfie. A fast self-portrait, made with a smartphone’s camera and immediately distributed and inscribed into a network, is an instant visual communication of where we are, what we’re doing, who we think we are, and who we think is watching. Selfies have changed aspects of social interaction, body language, self-awareness, privacy, and humor, altering temporality, irony, and public behavior. It’s become a new visual genre—a type of self-portraiture formally distinct from all others in history. Selfies have their own structural autonomy. This is a very big deal for art.

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The possibilities for participatory media culture are limited by the simplicity of Twitter's 140 character interface ...the platform may produce visibility and support but solidarity? "Twitter is starting to feel calcified, slowed down by the weight of its own users, cumbersome, less exciting than exhausting. It may be why less public forms of communication — messaging applications like Snapchat, GroupMe, Instagram Direct and even old-fashioned e-mail threads and Google groups — are playing a bigger and bigger role in the most meaningful interactions during my day online."

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old laser pointer + bobby pin + tape = zoom lense

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Big Brother watching intellectuals: Kansas Board of Regents restricts free speech for academics online

Kansas state universities are now allowed to fire (tenured and untenured) employees for

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Tourist walks off pier while browsing on Facebook

Police rescue woman from dark and chilly Melbourne waters still clutching her mobile phone

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Are Mobile Movies The Way of the Future?

The 21st century saw the movie fundamentally change - how it was shown, experienced and - most importantly - made. Color, sound, larger formats and 3D all presented new challenges and opportunities for makers to tell their stories. Today, makers are being again challenged as to what it means to make a movie. Is a mobile movie in your future?

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Social Media Theater: America Is Stunned that a Producer for the 'Bachelor' Lied About Diane in 7A

America woke up on Tuesday to the harsh fact that "Diane in 7A," the terrible Thanksgiving travel villain who launched a thousand retweets and too many Internet think pieces, was all a sham.

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Gradual exodus of young people towards WhatsApp, WeChat and KakaoTalk is just as their mums and dads get the hang of social networking