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Ford and Jay Leno blend past and future, customizing an F-150 Lightning to match Walmart founder’s 1979 pickup

August 22, 2022
At this past weekend’s Woodward Dream Cruise – metro Detroit’s annual celebration of the automotive industry – Jay Leno, former late-night TV host and host of Jay Leno’s Garage, revealed a custom Ford F-150 Lightning. Not just any Lightning, though – the EV unveiled by Leno was custom painted to match a 1979 version of the F-Series owned by Walmart’s founder, Sam Walton. In front…
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Small Vermont utility quietly builds fleet of 4,000 Tesla Powerwalls

August 22, 2022
Green Mountain Power (GMP), a Vermont electric utility, has quietly built a fleet of 4,000 Tesla Powerwalls, and it is saving them a lot of money. GMP has been one of Tesla’s best partners when it comes to deploying Powerwalls, Tesla’s home battery pack, in a decentralized way with electric utilities. The relatively small electric utility operating in Vermont was one of the earliest…
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How to Find a Photoshoot Location

August 22, 2022
You have a photograph in mind and now you want to try and make it a reality. Or, a client has contacted you to help them realize a photograph they have in mind. What now? The obvious first step would be to start researching the details needed to realize your…
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Scammers Snare Celeb with Smashed Camera and Fake Photographer

August 22, 2022
An Australian celebrity fell foul of a nasty scam by a criminal group pretending to be a Palestinian photographer. Bryan Dawe, 74, a noted satirist, comedian, and writer, came across a Facebook post by a woman named Sarah Murtaja who claimed that her Canon 5D Mark III had been destroyed by an Israeli bombardment of Gaza. “Israel prevented the introduction of financial aid into Gaza…
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Desert Photos Illuminated by UV Light Look Straight Out Science Fiction

August 22, 2022
Photographer Cody Cobb has a knack for shifting the perception of a familiar landscape photo into an entirely new experience. His ongoing photo series Spectral takes viewers through environments that feel like something out of science fiction. In Spectral, spotted by Colossal, Cobb morphs the American West into a sci-fi dreamscape, by using a trick of the light —UV light to be…
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