Direct speech of the brightest photographer of the year For many, the most striking and noticeable photographer of the outgoing year was Pavel Samokhvalov - a master of color lighting, which was remembered thanks to the fashionable filming for Afisha and Wonderzine, as well as a clip of SBPC. We talked with Pavel about the benefits of slavery, the new generation of photographers, the influence of Tumblr and Pinterest.

According to his version, the chronology begins in 2987 BC with the events of the film “Thor 2: The Dark World”, and then comes “Thor” and “The First Avenger”.

Fortune magazine published a photograph of Ceo Disney Bob Aiger against the background of the Millenium Falcon ship. These are the first pictures of the new model of the ship, which should appear in the seventh episode of the film Star Wars (will be released in December 2015). The cover was created by Fortune together with the Industrial Light & Magic special effects studio, which was previously created by director George Lucas. ILM did not report the details of the photograph.

Apple has received a patent for a stylus, for which it previously submitted an application. Apple Insider reports this. The stylus (a patent issued to the company by the US Patent Office) connects to the tablet wirelessly and is capable of reading hand movements, based on which lines of drawings and user notes appear on the screen.

On December 30, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation introduced a clone of the Russian Zen site to the “Register of Forbidden Information”. Meaningless and merciless ”, which is dedicated to the action in support of Alexei and Oleg Navalny. Also in the register, the post of Freedomrussia with the last word Alexei and Oleg Navalny, which they said in the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on December 19, got into the registry.

Second place is occupied by Samsung with 17.7%, followed by Nokia (and Microsoft) with 5.8%, Sony (1.6%) and LG (1.4%) are in fourth and fifth positions. Xiaomi, Huawei and HTC have less than one percent. Flurry explains this by saying that devices popular in the Asian market were selling poorly due to the fact that there is no holiday season there.

Roskomnadzor blocked the blog of the politician Alexei Navalny, reports Slon.ru. Update from 17:44, 12/30/2014 LAM readers report that the Golden Blog has been included in the federal list of extremist materials. The reason for the blocking was the post in which Navalny wrote about the transfer of the sentence of the sentence to him and Oleg Navalny in the “Iv Rocher case”. ” At the time of publication of the note, the Golden Blog did not open from some providers.

Actor Matthew McConaughey starred in two more commercials for the Lincoln automobile brand. This time he advertised the Lincoln MKZ and its hybrid version. In the new videos, McConaughey's character grows a beard, thinks about trees and caring for nature, and then waits out the rain in a cafe, only to drive by with the sunroof open. Both videos were directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives). In September, the actor starred in three commercials for the Lincoln MKC advertisement.

What problems experts portend humanity At the end of 2014, few people look at the future with optimism. Experts also have concerns about what can happen to the world in 2015. The World Economic Forum in the forecast for the next year identified the main problems that humanity will encounter. LOOK at me decided to tell about them and reinforce everything with additional statistics, including Russia.

"There is still too little time to determine what place it will take on the market" In the “Document” section, Look At Me talks about letters, manuscripts, notes, concepts and other objects that played an important role in the history of science and creative industries. In the new issue, we talk about how Microsoft described the first version of Windows.

Microsoft is working on a new browser under the code name Spartan. It will be different from Internet Explorer and will be released in 2015 with the new Windows 10, ZDNET writes with reference to its sources. Earlier it was reported that the next browser of the company will resemble Chrome or Firefox, as well as work with third -party extensions. The browser can be presented at the event on January 21, along with some innovations of Windows 10.

Samsung has announced the WAM7500/6500 audio system, which will be presented at Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas. The system was developed in the Samsung laboratory in the city of Valencia in California and will be represented in two types: stationary and mobile. Both models have an elongated shape and are equipped with the so -called Ring Radiator, which allows you to create a panoramic sound.

The Ministry of Culture closed the department that worked with contemporary art in the Department of State Support for Art and Folk Art, Izvestia write . The ministry confirmed this information. The department of fine art was united with a department of folk art of the same department.

Boyd Multerer, the creator of Xbox Live and one of the designers of the Xbox One console, has left Microsoft. He reported this on his microblog on Twitter. Goodbye Microsoft. It was a good run. Xbox was Great! Time to do something new.

Now there is a widespread opinion that there are too many arts, and people who publish their work on the Internet (without thinking at the same time how well or bad they do), clog the information field. It seems to me that times have changed - and noosphere should no longer regret. After I published the previous post on the LAM blog (in which I talked about how I stopped worried and fell in love with creativity), I read a lot of opinions that showing the world my unsuccessful art is bad.