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Rode’s $90 MagSafe mount lets you attach pro lights and mics to your iPhone
15Apr By adminNo Comments
Technology

Rode’s $90 MagSafe mount lets you attach pro lights and mics to your iPhone

Modern iPhone cameras are extremely capable video recorders, but typically require accessories like lights and microphones to ensure professional results. Audio gear manufacturer Rode just announced a pair of gadgets intended to simplify this process, so streamers won’t have to build a cumbersome rig in the computer room or haul one to an outdoor space.The Rode Magnetic Mount is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a MagSafe mount with a pair of connection points for accessories like the aforementioned lights and microphones. There are two adjustable cold shoe arms that allow people to use the phone in portrait or landscape mode. For the uninitiated, “cold shoe” refers to metal connection brackets that lack power, whereas “hot shoe” would refer to metal connection brackets that feature elect...
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Coming of Age While Confronting Arab Stereotypes, in “Simo”
16Dec By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Coming of Age While Confronting Arab Stereotypes, in “Simo”

Simo, a typical teen-ager, lives in the shadow of Emad, his older brother, and their domineering dad, in the suburbs of Montreal, where the family emigrated from Egypt. One night, Simo impersonates Emad in a live-stream gaming session. That simple act leads to serious consequences, when a racist false accusation escalates and puts his brother at risk.Bold cinematography and a soundtrack of throbbing Egyptian rap beats set the scene and compound a sense of social alienation that affects these men yet strengthens the family. “Drawing heavily from my own life experiences, I couldn’t ignore the elephant in the room,” the film’s writer and director, Aziz Zoromba, says, regarding “the stereotypes associated with being an ‘Arab’ in the West.”“Simo” premiered at the Toronto International Film Fes...
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Two Perspectives on One Tragic Raid in Afghanistan
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Two Perspectives on One Tragic Raid in Afghanistan

In early 2019, I travelled to Afghanistan to investigate the deaths of my mother and sister three decades earlier—a personal search for answers. While seeking out distant relatives in a remote corner of the eastern province of Nangarhar, I met a widow named Mahzala. Sitting before me with shoulders bowed, her small frame cloaked in black, she quietly relayed a story that completely changed the trajectory of my investigation. She told me that her two sons had been killed in a raid several months earlier by masked men who descended on her small home in the middle of the night. She didn’t know why they had been targeted, or by whom.Our chance encounter spurred me to begin investigating the units that had killed her sons. I learnt that the raid on Mahzala’s home, along with hundreds of others...
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16 Best Camera Accessories for Phones (2023): Apps, Tripods, Mics, and Lights
21Oct By adminNo Comments
Technology

16 Best Camera Accessories for Phones (2023): Apps, Tripods, Mics, and Lights

We're living in a golden age of mobile photography. The gear in this guide will up your game for making content at home or out and about, using just your smartphone. Our favorite Android phones and iPhones have outstanding cameras, but tripods, mics, and video lights can elevate the quality of your work. Here's everything you need to turn your phone into a pro-grade powerhouse.Check out our other buying guides, like Gear and Tips to Make Studio-Grade Videos at Home, Best Compact Cameras, Best iPhone 15 Cases, Best Pixel Phones, and Best Instant Cameras.Updated October 2023: We've added the Lume Cube Creator Kit 2.0, Lume Cube Ring Light Mini, Moment T-Series Lenses, Moment Filmmaker Cage, Insta360 Flow, Boling P1, DJI Mic, Rode Wireless Go II, Nimble Champ, Canvas Lamp, Joby Wavo Plus, an...
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“La Isla” Shows the Absences Left by El Salvador’s Mass Arrests
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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“La Isla” Shows the Absences Left by El Salvador’s Mass Arrests

When the government of El Salvador declared a “state of exception” in March of last year, after a sudden spike in gang killings, it was supposed to be temporary. Soldiers and police officers could arrest anyone they considered suspicious. No one was entitled to a legal defense. Each month, the country’s Assembly would have to vote to extend this state of affairs. But the party in power, called Nuevas Ideas, held a super-majority. Their fealty to the President, Nayib Bukele, was total, as was his commitment to an indefinite campaign of law and order based on mass arrests.The state of exception has now been renewed eighteen times. As one journalist put it to me, el régimen de excepción has become la normalidad excepcional, the exceptional norm. In the past year and a half, the government ha...
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2023 Tour Championship prize money, staggered strokes format
20Aug By adminNo Comments
Money

2023 Tour Championship prize money, staggered strokes format

The 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs conclude this week at the Tour Championship, where the winner will take home $18 million (before taxes) in bonus money. This year marks the 17th season of the playoffs. PGA Tour players battled through 46 events to get to the finale. The top 70 in the FedEx Cup points made the postseason with the top 50 advancing to Week 2 and then just the top 30 reaching East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Rory McIlroy became the first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup when he rallied from six shots back a year ago to track down Scottie Scheffler. The money The winner of the Tour Championship is declared the FedEx Cup champion and takes home the first-place prize of $18 million in bonus money. The runner-up gets $6.5 million, with third place earning $5 million, all the way down...
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