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How living in the desert gave new life to Melissa Lakey's mixed-media art

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Moving to the high desert in 2015 brought me back to art after a long hiatus," she recalls. Featuring colourful mixed-media paintings and drawings on paper, canvas, and wood, the show will be on display from 11 March through 6 April. But sometimes, going to the opposite extreme can be more fulfilling.

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Kind Studio crafts a floral identity for UAL's 2024 graduation ceremonies

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It was a dream gig for the studio, which was founded in 2015 by Sean Vellacott-Murphy and James Stockton. This was to be carried across social media, internal communications, print, and throughout the day at the Royal Festival Hall. They'd originally met at Nottingham Trent University for their BA.

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Veronika Bolotina's fight against misinformation is a book that helps us understand propaganda

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The media is being banned, and the independent journalists are getting arrested. The way the media create the isolation of information is frightening.". When the first conflict took place in Ukraine in 2015, she decided to leave forever. "At At that time, I was already confronted with the way the media portrayed it," she says.

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20 Best Brands with Social Media Marketing Strategies

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20 Best Brands with Social Media Marketing Strategies. Social Media Marketing is a vast and dynamic landscape, and its results differ from brand to brand. The best thing you can do is look at the other brands and their social media marketing methods , which make them successful and also learn from their previous mistakes.

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Danielle Scruggs on Storytelling, Social Media, and the One Sitter She’ll Never Forget

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So far, the most memorable work I have done has been working on social media content for Getty’s Instagram and Twitter platforms. The post Danielle Scruggs on Storytelling, Social Media, and the One Sitter She’ll Never Forget appeared first on Feature Shoot. October 2019, Danielle Scruggs for the New York Times.

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Colourful portraits celebrate the success of London's refugee entrepreneurs

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We don't see these stories in the media that often, though. Lightcraft Family Razieh Then there's Max, a Sri Lankan Tamil who sought asylum in the UK in 2015 and faced persecution and mistreatment before battling PTSD. So it's unsurprising that they have a stronger work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit than the local population.

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Recontextualized media

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The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events, movies, and video games and shove the bits into a different context to fill a different purpose : Posts with recontextualized media often take advantage of short, less than one-minute video clips that lack much context about where the video originates.

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