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☆ Ray Francis, Celebrating Blackness
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Blake Gopnik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the late 1970s, in Montreal, photography students were obsessed with getting deep blacks — “max black” — in our prints, squeezing the full range of tones out of our black-and-white photo paper. Few of us realized there might be more to blackness than a lack of light. We didn’t understand that in the right hands, the deep, deep blacks might speak to far more than a darkroom technique — to issues of race and segregation. Four hundred miles south of us, in New York, Ray Francis was printing shots that had the bold shadows we were striving for. Thirty-two of his prints are on view now in “Waiting to Be Seen: Illuminating the Photographs of Ray Francis,” at the Bruce Silverstein gallery in Chelsea, a posthumous show that is Francis’s first solo presentation.

Persons: Ansel Adams moonrise, Ray Francis, ”, Bruce Silverstein Locations: Montreal, New York, Chelsea

☆ Ansel, a health insurance startup that wants to upend the claims industry, just raised $20 million using this 12-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewHealth insurance startup Ansel has raised $20 million in new funding. Founded in 2019, Ansel is a platform that provides supplemental health insurance via carriers across 48 US states. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Advertisement"We're focused on making health hardships not become financial burdens," Veer Gidwaney, founder and CEO of Ansel, told Business Insider. The new capital will go towards expanding the company's partnerships with leading insurance providers, developing its tech platform, and scaling its marketing and distribution.

Persons: —, Ansel, Veer Gidwaney, Gidwaney Organizations: Service, Business, Gallup, Nationwide, Portage, Sigma Ventures, Brewer Lane Ventures, SixThirty Ventures Locations: New York City

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Fink, an acclaimed and adventurous photographer whose subjects ranged from family portraits and political satire to working class lives and the elite of show business and Manhattan society, has died at 82. Robert Mann, owner of the Robert Mann Gallery, told The Associated Press that Fink died Saturday at his home in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. Mann did not cite a specific cause of death, but said that Fink had been in failing health. “Of course the revolution didn't quite get there so I was left with a career,” he told Blind Magazine in 2021. Fink's survivors include his second wife, the artist Martha Posner, and a daughter, Molly, from his marriage to painter Joan Snyder.

Persons: — Larry Fink, Robert Mann, Fink, Mann, ” Mann, “, Robert Frank, Ansel Adams, Larry, ”, Fink's, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, George W, Bush, John Simon Guggenheim, Lisette, Martha Posner, Molly, Joan Snyder Organizations: Associated Press, Museum of Modern, The, Times, Whitney Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Blind Magazine Locations: Manhattan, Martins Creek , Pennsylvania, Long, Martins Creek, The New York, Martin, Greenwich, New York City

☆ We moved to Copenhagen to raise our young kids. Childcare is astronomically cheaper and better, but we miss the convenience of shopping on Amazon.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I wanted to raise my children in EuropeOwens, her husband, Shawn, and their three children. I brought my kids outside all the time even before we got here. I feel safe enough to leave my kids outside when I go run into a convenience store or a bakery. If you want to do Amazon, you can do Amazon Germany, but it's more expensive to ship from there to here. Ellie OwensIf you are okay with living outside the city and commuting in, you can find a lot cheaper housing.

Persons: Ellie Owens, —, Shawn, he'd, Europe Owens, he's, They're, I've, Owens, it's, We're Organizations: Service Locations: Denmark, Copenhagen, Ridgefield , Connecticut, New York, Detroit , Michigan, Bremen, Germany, Europe, Swedish

“And it was like, huh!”When a smaller restaurant unexpectedly goes viral on TikTok or other social media, the sudden demand can be overwhelming. But savvy business owners who are able to adapt can parlay newfound fame into a lasting boost for their business. Elreda now has 10 locations, including newly opened restaurants in Detroit and Brooklyn — an expansion started by one viral video. “But it’s a good tired.”One person who knows about going viral is Dominique Ansel. In 2013, before most people knew the term “going viral,” the French pastry chef created the “Cronut,” a cross between a croissant and a doughnut, at his newly opened New York bakery.

Persons: hasn't, Nicolas Heller, New York Nico, “, ” John Philis, Ali Elreda, Elreda, @misohungry, ”, It’s, Kevin Muccular, Katy, Chimetime, Aunt Bill’s, ” Muccular, Muccular, Philis, Max Ferfoglia, Nico’s, hasn’t, Dominique Ansel, Ansel, there’s Organizations: Lexington Candy, Sam's, Walmart, Labor, YouTube Locations: Lexington, New York City, New York, Downey , California, Detroit, Brooklyn, Katy , Texas, Houston, Texas, ”, Hong Kong, Las Vegas

☆ My miserable, euphoric, muddy escape from Burning Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Social media was having a field day turning Burning Man into the epicenter of schadenfreude and misinformation, the few people who managed to connect to the internet reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe reality of Burning Man was not quite so dire. 2023 was my first year at Burning Man. I'd wanted to go to Burning Man for years. Even before the floods, there was an uncomfortable tension to Burning Man.

Persons: Joy, I'd, JULIE JAMMOT, Betty, preemptively, There's, they'd, Twitter, Zeynep Tufekci, Tufekci, I've, Ansel, we'd, Rob Price Organizations: FEMA, National Guard, Social, Getty, New York Times, Rock City, YouTube Locations: Nevada, San Francisco, Silicon, playa, AFP, Somme, Northern Nevada, Rock, American, Ansel Adams, Trail

☆ 10 Things in Tech: AI-generated Drake songs, discounted startups, and Amazon’s upgraded Alexa
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and in this turbulent economy, I definitely want stability over most other things. And my colleague Grace Mayer highlights how retail, finance, and other (seemingly more stable) industries are piquing our interest instead. A leaked document viewed by Insider revealed that Amazon wants to focus on entertainment features for Alexa. The upgrade will feature Amazon's own generative AI technology instead of using OpenAI's technology (like how Microsoft paired ChatGPT with Bing). Bell dished to my colleague Ashley Stewart on why he made the move, how he met Satya Nadella, and more.

☆ This Airbnb owner put 2 tiny houses in his yard to make extra cash, and now they're his primary income — see inside
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Troy is very transparent about the neighborhood the home is in, warning guests that there might be trash in the streets. He also urges visitors to treat the unsheltered community with respect. Courtesy of Ansel Troy

☆ I bought 2 Airbnb tiny houses and put them in my yard. It started as an easy way to make extra cash — now it's my primary source of income.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I became an Airbnb host after I bought a tiny house and parked it on the side of my home in Oakland, California. Before the tiny house, I had converted my garage into a studio. I had a long-term tenant there already, and getting the tiny house was my attempt to make a little extra income on Airbnb. I think the popularity of tiny homes and the minimalist movement, along with my low pricing, helped attract Airbnb viewers. Since I had extra space, I decided to buy another tiny house for $35,000I call it The Tiny Heauxtel, and I bought it in 2021.

There is perhaps no Zoom meeting less satisfying than one scheduled on a cold weekday morning to talk about food — specifically, the food that one ought to eat in Paris. And so was the Paris culinary scene, driven by that thrilling hunt for places both new and old, French and not, an obsession among natives and tourists alike. As with a similar list we made for New York — and as part of our ongoing T 25 series, which has surfaced significant and memorable travel destinations, buildings, interiors, art, fashion and books — we wanted to name the essential Parisian dishes to eat right now. The final list, which appears in unranked alphabetical order below and covers most arrondissements, isn’t what we expected, nor is it like the myriad Parisian food rankings we’ve all encountered before. Above all, it speaks to the fact that great food — particularly in Paris, particularly right now — looks forward and backward at once: That’s what makes eating there (and debating where to eat there) so deliciously freewheeling.

Persons: I’d, Dominique Ansel, Dorie Greenspan, Moko Hirayama, Omar Koreitem, Aude, Mercerie, Daniel Rose, Jessica Yang, Pierre Hermé, chou, — Kurt Soller Organizations: New York Locations: Paris, New, 11th, Marie, America, France, Italy, Africa, Asia, Philippines

☆ Steve Jobs never locked the front door of his Palo Alto house, which had an English-style cottage garden full of wildflowers and 'stuff you could eat,' U2's Bono says in memoir
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Steve Jobs never locked the front door of his modest Palo Alto house, Bono wrote in his memoir. The U2 frontman described the house as "low-key" and said Jobs grew food in his cottage garden. "Steve lived with his wife, Laurene, and their three kids in a low-key Tudor-style house on a prosperous street in Palo Alto, California," Bono wrote. "Their Anglophilia also inspired a cottage garden full of wildflowers and stuff you could eat, with a gate opening yards from a front door he never locked." Walter Isaacson, Jobs' autobiographer, similarly noted that he usually kept the back door unlocked and didn't have a security fence.

☆ (foto, video) Google a anunțat care este cel mai căutat cuvânt în 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-10 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Nu surprinde pe nimeni că termenul „coronavirus” a fost cel mai tastat cuvânt pe motorul de internet Google şi care a înregistrat cele mai multe căutări în întreaga lume, relatează miercuri EFE, scrie agerpres.roCele mai căutate cuvinte de internauţii din întreaga lume sunt în această ordine: „coronavirus”, „election results”, „Kobe Bryant”, „zoom”, „IPL”, „India vs New Zealand”, „coronavirus update”, „coronavirus symptoms”, „Joe Biden” şi „google classroom”. Datele privind cei mai căutaţi termeni au fost publicate de Google, care a precizat că în plină pandemie mondială provocată de virusul SARS-CoV-2- căutările pe internet s-au axat majoritar asupra informaţiilor legate de criza sanitară. Google a clasificat şi care au fost ştirile care au suscitat cel mai mult interesul internauţilor din întreaga lume, mai ales cele legate de noul coronavirus şi de alegerile prezidenţiale americane, alături de căutari legate de Iran şi Beirut, hantavirus, Tesla Stock sau de mişcarea Black Lives Matter. Printre actorii care au suscitat cel mai mult interesul se numără Tom Hanks, Joaquin Phoenix, Amitabh Bachchan, Ricky Gervais, Jada Pinkett Smith, Justin Hartley, Lea Michele, Eleazar Gómez y Ansel Elgort, a anunţat Google, care a dezvăluit şi numele sportivilor cei mai căutaţi pe internet, precum Ryan Newman, Michael Jordan, Tyson Fury, Tom Brady şi Mike Tyson. Personalităţile cele mai căutate au fost în această ordine: Joe Biden, Kim Jong Un, Boris Johnson, Kamala Harris, Tom Hanks, Jacob Blake, Kanye West, Ghislaine Maxwell, August Alsina şi Ryan Newman, alături de personalităţi decedate anul acesta, cel mai căutat fiind Kobe Bryant, urmat de Naya Ribera, Chadwick Boseman, Sushant Singh Rajput şi George Floyd.

Persons: Joe Biden, Tesla, Tom Hanks, Joaquin Phoenix, Ricky Gervais, Jada, Smith, Justin Hartley, Lea Michele, Ansel, Ryan Newman, Michael Jordan, Tyson, Tom Brady, Mike Tyson, Kim Jong, Boris Johnson, Kamala Harris, Jacob Blake, Ghislaine Maxwell, August Alsina, Kobe Bryant, Ribera, Chadwick, George Floyd Organizations: Google, Black, West Locations: Kobe, India vs New Zealand, Iran, Beirut, hantavirus

Cele mai căutate cuvinte de internauţii din întreaga lume sunt în această ordine: „coronavirus", „election results", „Kobe Bryant", „zoom", „IPL", „India vs New Zealand", „coronavirus update", „coronavirus symptoms", „Joe Biden" şi „google classroom". Datele privind cei mai căutaţi termeni au fost publicate miercuri de Google, care a precizat că în plină pandemie mondială provocată de virusul SARS-CoV-2- căutările pe internet s-au axat majoritar asupra informaţiilor legate de criza sanitară. Google a clasificat şi care au fost ştirile care au suscitat cel mai mult interesul internauţilor din întreaga lume, mai ales cele legate de noul coronavirus şi de alegerile prezidenţiale americane, alături de căutari legate de Iran şi Beirut, hantavirus, Tesla Stock sau de mişcarea Black Lives Matter. Printre actorii care au suscitat cel mai mult interesul se numără Tom Hanks, Joaquin Phoenix, Amitabh Bachchan, Ricky Gervais, Jada Pinkett Smith, Justin Hartley, Lea Michele, Eleazar Gómez y Ansel Elgort, a anunţat Google, care a dezvăluit şi numele sportivilor cei mai căutaţi pe internet, precum Ryan Newman, Michael Jordan, Tyson Fury, Tom Brady şi Mike Tyson. Internauţii din Spania s-au interesat în schimb despre „cum să faci pâine de casă", cum să „confecţionezi măşti din pânză", despre „când se deschid saloanele de coafură, când „se încheie starea de urgenţă", sau au dorit să afle „de ce se cumpără masiv hârtie igienică".

Persons: Joe Biden, Tesla, Tom Hanks, Joaquin Phoenix, Ricky Gervais, Jada, Smith, Justin Hartley, Lea Michele, Ansel, Ryan Newman, Michael Jordan, Tyson, Tom Brady, Mike Tyson, Kim Jong, Boris Johnson, Kamala Harris, Jacob Blake, Ghislaine Maxwell, August Alsina, Kobe Bryant, Ribera, Chadwick, George Floyd, Internauţii Organizations: Google, Black, West Locations: India vs New Zealand, Iran, Beirut, hantavirus, Kobe, Spania

☆ International desserts: 50 famous desserts around the world
▼ + stars: | 2018-11-30 | by ( Jen Rose Smith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +41 min

Taste that rich filling for evidence of the Arab influence that infuses Sicilian cuisine: The candied citrus that often flavors the creamy interior remains beloved throughout the Middle East. In the 1990s, the cake became a menu star as a lava cake or molten chocolate cake. A soft, flaky dough is shaped into a plump half-moon that barely contains the sweet filling, then topped with a light blanket of powdered sugar. Variations on medovik differ widely, but the most popular takes incorporate one of two very Russian ingredients into the sweet filling. Sesame Balls, Jian Dui, ChinaShutterstockBite into the crisp shell of a deep-fried jian dui to discover a sweet filling within the golden, sesame-seed-studded exterior.

Persons: Hong, Austria Natasha Breen, it’s, United States Robert Lachman, Fannie, they’ve, Katharine Hepburn, “, don’t, ” Cannoli, Johanna Kindvall, Ruth Wakefield, Cornes, Brûlée, France David Carson, Louis, Dan Tats, eggy tarts, beignets, Maine’s, Bob Fila, you’re, Gulab Jamun, gulab, Eid, kashata, Kouign Amann, amann, Dominique Ansel, Brittany, kouign amann, kulfi, Pierre Hermé, Torte, daubing, ma’amoul, they’re, blini, United States Nathan Congleton, Pavlova, Aussies, Anna Pavlova, you’ll, Rigó, Rigó Jancsi, Princesse de Caraman, Saffron, Jian, Anita Chu, jian, Xue Hua Bing, Taipei’s, xue, bing, Sticky Rice, rong, treacle, ’, Tatin, you’ve, ”, Tim Krob, tim krob Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles Times, Boston Cooking, Southern, Morocco –, Louis Post, Dispatch, TNS, Chicago Tribune, Gelato, Sudan –, New, NBC, Philadelphia, Taste Research, New Zealand, Kiwis, Midwestern, Le, Central America Locations: Africa, Asia, Italy, Portugal, South, Argentina, Peru, de leche, America, Vienna, Baklava, Turkey, Ottoman, Levant, Balkans, Caucasus, North Africa, Constantinople, Germany, Middle East, East, United States, Fannie Farmer’s, Sicily, Palermo, Sweden, fika, Singapore, pandan, States, Massachusetts, Boston, France, Southern United States, Gazelle, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Moroccan, Tetouan, St, Hong Kong, nata, Macau, Portland, Portland , Oregon, Torta, Hungary, Austro, Europe, Sarajevo, Budapest, Latin America, Spain, Mexico, Chocolat, Gelato, Bologna, India, Persia, York, East Africa, Kifli, Knafeh, Amman, Alexandria, Palestinian, Nablus, Brittany, SoHo, Breton, Kulfi, Mughal, Paris, Austria, Linz, Austrian, Tangier, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Medovik, Russia, borscht, New York, Eastern Europe, Philadelphia, Netherlands, Wageningen, Australia, New, New Zealand, Philippines, Manila, Mexico City, Qatayef, Rigó Jancsi, Belgium, Cream, Iran, Persian, Saffron, Tehran, Tehrangeles, China, Taiwan, Midwestern United States, Midwest, Mango, Thailand, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Treviso, Umbria, Ulaanbaatar, Tres, Central, United, Oakland

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