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It’s #Ad Season. Don’t believe everything you see.

It’s the holiday season and our feeds are currently stuffed with gorgeous filtered photos and fifteen second videos warmed with soft music – all with one clear and focused goal: to make us buy and follow, follow and buy. Keep your wits about you. It’s a tricky season in the best of years, but at the end of the soul-suck that is 2020, we are more than a little ready to believe that others are handling life/garden/finances/decor/gift giving/holiday baking and of course, personal hygiene, a great ...
Tags: Gardening, Instagram, Virginia, Tampa Florida, Chris Hernandez, Marianne Willburn, Your Gardening Dollar, Paul Hansbarger

Plant Delights 2021 Catalog Sparks Outrage

Tony Avent’s beloved garden and his Plant Delights Nursery in North Carolina have many mentions here on GardenRant, all favorable. We’ve reported on visits in person, and we were thrilled to be included in the cover of the 2013 catalog (the four original Ranters are in the upper left). So no one here takes pleasure in reporting on the public outcry over the 2021 catalog, though it sure deserves it. But judge for yourself. (Comments contrary to fact will be removed.)           Hundreds of people...
Tags: Gardening, Instagram, Ukraine, Best, Biden, North Carolina, Democratic Party, HARRIS, Tony, Susan Harris, Ministry of Controversy, Avent, Kathy Jentz, Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery, Kathy Kathy

Reddit Users Revolt Against the iOS App's New Video Player

The official Reddit for iOS app recently received an update that added a new video player UI, and many users don't like it one bit. XDA Developers reports: The Reddit Mobile subreddit, the community where Reddit administrators notify users of new Android and iOS app updates, is currently filled to the brim with complaints about the new video player. Many users describe the experience as TikTok or Instagram-like. Others simply say it's too intrusive and also requires more button presses to reach ...
Tags: Instagram, Tech, Ui, Reddit

Canon takes tentative step towards eliminating photographers with robotic PICK camera

Canon is embracing the AI-infused future with a strange new robotic camera called the PowerShot PICK. This little device swivels and keeps its subjects in view, taking commands or snapping shots on its own. It’s a bit like a smart security camera or Facebook’s Portal, but meant to be taken with you wherever you go, attached to a selfie stick, and so on. Its body is about the size of a juice box, making it portable but not quite pocketable. The camera company appears to be hedging its bets by off...
Tags: Gadgets, Facebook, Asia, Photography, Hardware, Tech, Canon, Dennis, Powershot, Makuake

Endangered giraffes are trapped on an island in Kenya's Lake Baringo. Photos show how rescuers are ferrying them to safety.

A giraffe named Asiwa is ferried to the Ruko Conservancy in Kenya, December 2020. Ami Vitale/Courtesy of Save Giraffes Now A group of endangered giraffes got marooned on an island in Kenya's Lake Baringo. Rising waters are flooding more and more of the island, so conservationists hatched a daring rescue operation. Groups are working together to ferry the animals off the island. Three of nine giraffes have been saved so far. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. In Kenya's Lak...
Tags: Photos, Science, News, Animals, Africa, Trends, Kenya, Connor, Myers, Rothschild, Noelle, David O Connor, Asiwa, Giraffes, Lake Baringo, Ami Vitale

Chicago area retailers sued over iconic David Bowie photo

Brian Duffy was an English photographer. He died in 2010 but the Brian Duffy Archive owns and enforces the copyright in his works. Defendants are small retailers around Chicago who developed and sold gift items alleged to appropriate one of Duffy’s well-known David Bowie photos. Who among us hasn’t wished for a Rebel Rebel Pouch or a Ziggy Stardust Koozie? Apparently not the Brian Duffy Archive. It has sued for copyright infringement. Plaintiff first noticed allegedly infringing work...
Tags: Photography, Law, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Chicago, David Bowie, Duffy, Brian Duffy, Evan Brown, Duffy Archive, Duffy Archive Limited, The Found Inc

What is Vanish Mode on Instagram? Here's what you need to know about the platform's disappearing messages feature

Instagram's Vanish Mode lets you send secret messages that disappear when you're done chatting. d3sign/Getty Images Vanish Mode on Instagram lets you have a temporary chat that is automatically erased when the chat ends. To enable Vanish Mode, swipe up from the bottom of a chat window.  Either party can end Vanish Mode by tapping "Turn Off Vanish Mode."  Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories. Not all messages are meant to live forever, or at least that's ...
Tags: Instagram, Messaging, Trends, Social Media, Dave Johnson, Instagram App, Tech Insider, BI-freelancer, Tech Reference, Software & Apps (Reference, Tech How To, Smartphones (Reference

Blocking 8 emoji stopped 90% of my unwanted Instagram comments

At the start of the pandemic, I thought I'd start using my Instagram more to share some positivity. Cue the creeps. Instagram gives a little more control over comments than more toxic platforms like Twitter. From the front of your profile, tap the menu icon at top right. — Read the rest
Tags: Post, News, Instagram, Emoji, Trolls

Whatever Happened to Urban Decay: A Case of Formula Changes

Whatever happened to Urban Decay? Their formulas sure has changed over the last decade hasn’t it? This weekend Christine (Temptalia) did a poll on Instagram asking which brands don’t interest you anymore and I didn’t even hesitate with my reply. Right away my fingers few over my Iphone to type out “Urban Decay”. Urban Decay hasn’t rallied since 2012 when it was purchased by L’Oreal for the sum of 300-400 million (the amount was never disclosed). Maybe they should have held out for the big ...
Tags: Instagram, Uncategorized, Beauty, Estee Lauder, Don, Oreal, Ulta, Urban Decay, Christine Temptalia, Milani Eyeshadow Palette

Facebook Sees Apple’s iOS 14 Prompt and Raises With an Information Screen of Its Own

The ongoing dispute between Facebook and Apple over changes to the latter's iOS 14 operating system may soon evolve into pre-empting a prompt. iPhone users with Facebook and/or Instagram installed on their devices will soon start seeing a pop-up prompt that gives them the option of whether or not to allow those applications to track...
Tags: Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Advertising, Platforms, Social Pro Daily, Facebook Sees Apple

The Adam Project Photos Preview Reynolds & Ruffalo as a Father and Son Duo

BEGIN SLIDESHOW The Adam Project photos preview Reynolds & Ruffalo as a father and son duo Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds took to Instagram to share new behind-the-scenes photos from the set of Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi comedy film The Adam Project, featuring Reynolds and MCU star Mark Ruffalo who plays a father and son duo in the star-studded film. Check out the full photos below along with Reynolds’ witty Hulk-references in the caption!   View this post on Ins...
Tags: Movies, Instagram, Netflix, Levy, John Malkovich, Streaming, Bob, Deadpool, Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Levi, Skydance, David Ellison Dana Goldberg, Zoe Saldana, Reynolds

DesignCrowd raises $10 million AUD to grow its DIY platform, BrandCrowd

DesignCrowd announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.6 billion USD) in pre-IPO funding. The capital will be used on hiring and product development, with the goal of accelerating the growth of BrandCrowd, its DIY platform. The new funding comes as DesignCrowd gets ready for a potential initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange. The round’s investors include Perennial Value Management, Alium Capital, Ellerston Capital, Regal Funds Managemetn and CVC, along with r...
Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Design, Diy, Instagram, Australia, Tech, Designers, United States, CVC, Logos, Branding, Designcrowd, Lynch, Sydney Australia

'I document America's strange beauty': the photography of My Name is Earl's Jason Lee

He played a redemption-seeking redneck on TV, but lately the actor has found solace off-screen, travelling with his camera. He talks about slackers, the Mallrats sequel and breezing into one-horse townsJason Lee knew he was in trouble when he stepped on the set. The year was 1992, Sonic Youth were at their peak and he was starring as a doomed skateboarder in their latest video. As a music obsessed, pro skateboarder with acting aspirations, he felt he had a point to prove. To add more pressure, i...
Tags: Art, Books, Photography, Celebrity, Film, Religion, America, Life and style, World news, US news, Culture, Art and design, Robert De Niro, Scientology, Spike Jonze, Kevin Smith

Pregnant Shawn Johnson tests positive for COVID-19: 'My body is just exhausted'

Shawn Johnson reveals on Instagram that she has tested positive for coronavirus, weeks after revealing she is pregnant with her second child.          [Author: USA TODAY]
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