The story of Japanese jazz is about music and a movement, but also a nation’s state of mind – a daring vision of a better future after the second world war, sounded out on piano, drums and brass. Jazz is a distinctly American art form – the US’s greatest cultural […]
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Cities on screen: the best movies to spirit you away to Tokyo
This article is part of a guide to Tokyo from FT Globetrotter Has anywhere else made film lovers hold two thoughts in their head at once like Tokyo? One vision of the city became a Hollywood staple. It was created by a director born far from Japan — and was supposedly a […]
What the History of ‘Spirit Photography’ Portends for the Future of Deepfake Videos | Innovation
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Illustration by Kotryna Zukauskaite Two years ago, Noelle Martin discovered someone had made a “deepfake” video about her. Martin is a 26-year-old Australian law graduate who has lobbied governments and corporations to take action against the online harassment of women. Now, someone on the internet had decided to attack her […]
The Famous Fight Over the Turn-of-the-Century Trend of Spirit Photography
In 1923 and 1924, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini both toured the United States. They both sold out theaters, often in the same city within days of one another, and neither of them was offering crowds what they were most famous for. The author was not there to tell […]