Alexander Breindel

It’s Time for YouTube To Admit It Has Abandoned Its ‘Mission’ And Is Chasing Advertising Dollars Instead

Alexander BreindelMay 7, 2018

User Generated Content (UGC) has been on the decline on YouTube for years now. Back in 2012, the Chicago Tribune published a lengthy profile about how Youtube "...

Facebook and the Subscription Model: A Love Story

Alexander BreindelMay 5, 2018

News is defined by Merriam Webster as "newly received information." I'm not sure this Bloomberg article, published today about Facebook's "weighing" a subscript...

Martin Scorcese Hates “Content,” YouTube, and All New Things

Alexander BreindelMay 3, 2018

Martin Scorcese is finger-waggin' mad. Specifically, he's pissed off that you're lumping his work amongst—*gasp*—YouTube videos. The outrage!Receiving the R...

Natives Photograph Wants To Help You Tell Authentic Indigenous Stories

Alexander BreindelMay 2, 2018

Today marks the first day in business for Natives Photograph, a database of Indigenous visual journalists.Founded by Josué Rivas, an indigenous photographer...

Demand Ethical Nature Photography

Alexander BreindelMay 2, 2018

Nature photography can get ethically murky. Dealing with models who would rather scavenge for food than pose, it is tempting to say f*** it altogether to the "n...

Acclaimed Photojournalist Shah Marai Killed On The Job By Suicide Bomber Targeting Journalists

Alexander BreindelApril 30, 2018

The chief photographer for the French AFP News Agency, Shah Marai, has been killed in a suicide blast in Kabul. The attack, taking place fifteen minutes after a...

Meet Max, the 4 Year Old With Autism Using Photography To Navigate His World

Alexander BreindelApril 30, 2018

Max Pritchard of Brisbane, Australia, had been diagnosed at the age of three with autism. Already experiencing difficulties with speech, anxiety, and social int...

Impersonators On Tinder Are Just The Symptoms of a Cynical, Broken System

Alexander BreindelApril 27, 2018

For many, Tinder is like Pacman—beware the ghosts.But it turns out an even more dehumanizing possibility lurks on the dating app and others of its kind: pa...

Amazon Is Coming for Cameras, Too (Sorta)

Alexander BreindelApril 26, 2018

WyzeCam is a smart home surveillance camera from Wyze Labs.With 1080p HD video, motion tagging, night vision capabilities, and Wi-Fi connectivity, it's noti...

Remembering Abbas, Who Wrote With Light

Alexander BreindelApril 26, 2018

Yesterday, Magnum announced the death of Abbas, the legendary photographer and historian of contemporary religion. He died in Paris at the age of 74."He was...

Know Thine Enemy: Creators Are Not Your Competition, TV Is

Alexander BreindelApril 25, 2018

The internet is a crowded place, with the competition for eyeballs extremely stiff.It can often feel overwhelming, discouraging to the would-be creator who...

SmugMug Acquires Flickr, Will Remain “Separate Entities”

Alexander BreindelApril 23, 2018

On Friday, SmugMug, the photo-sharing website and image hosting service, announced it had acquired Flickr, the global photo-sharing community with over 90 milli...

We Visited The VR Exhibit At The Museum Of Sex: Here’s What We Saw, Heard, Touched, and Felt

Alexander BreindelApril 20, 2018

We entered a dark room lined with velvet rope. Walking up three flight of stairs, we entered an even darker room. Two plush leather benches stood ahead of us, t...

That Adam Pally Debacle Wasn’t The Only Thing That Happened At The Shorty Awards

Alexander BreindelApril 18, 2018

The Shorty Awards are a yearly event meant to honor the "best people and organizations on social media." Hosted in New York, the event has been around for a dec...

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This New Project Finally Combines Photography And Sound

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YouTube Goes After Spotify, Starting Tomorrow

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Alexander Breindel

Natives Photograph Wants To Help You Tell Authentic Indigenous Stories

Demand Ethical Nature Photography

Acclaimed Photojournalist Shah Marai Killed On The Job By Suicide Bomber Targeting Journalists

Meet Max, the 4 Year Old With Autism Using Photography To Navigate His World

Amazon Is Coming for Cameras, Too (Sorta)

Remembering Abbas, Who Wrote With Light

We Visited The VR Exhibit At The Museum Of Sex: Here’s What We Saw, Heard, Touched, and Felt

Alexander Breindel