Maxiss game The Sims teaches an important lesson about human behavior Most of the time, were just trying to meet a set of basic needs. In the world of the Sims. For decades, photo and video equipment was designed and tested with only white subjects in mind. Lighting darker skin tones takes a different approach than lighting. Pda Formats Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure Review Film' title='Pda Formats Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure Review Film' />Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Benchmark Capital, one of Ubers largest investors, is trying to explain its legal feud with former CEO Travis Kalanick to the ridesharing companys employees. If theres anything that just about sums up the desperation of the Great Depression in one filthy package, its photos of the Dust Bowl, when overfarming. Uber Investors Slam Travis Kalanick in Open Letter to Employees UpdatedBenchmark Capital, one of Ubers largest investors, is trying to explain its legal feud with former CEO Travis Kalanick to the ride sharing companys employees. Benchmark sued Kalanick for fraud last week, adding another controversy to the companys already disastrous summer. In an open letter to Uber employees, Benchmark slammed Kalanicks leadership of the company and said that he was purposely hindering the boards search for a replacement CEO. The firm also criticized Ubers slow response to the a report compiled by Eric Holder and Tammy Albarrn on harassment within Uber, and the stagnant search for a chief financial officer that has dragged on for more than two years. It has appeared at times as if the search was being manipulated to deter candidates and create a power vacuum in which Travis could return, the unsigned letter reads. Other Uber shareholders led by Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Capital have vehemently opposed Benchmarks lawsuit. Pishevar and his supporters have argued that Benchmarks actions are destroying the value of their investments in Uber. Benchmarks lawsuit aims to force Kalanick off the board of the company he founded. Its easy to reduce this situation to a battle of personalities. But this isnt about Benchmark versus Travis. Its about ensuring that Uber can reach its full potential as a company. And that will only happen if we get rid of the roadblocks and distractions that have plagued Uber, and its board, for far too long, Benchmark wrote in its letter. Failing to act would have meant endorsing behavior that was utterly unacceptable in any company, let alone a company of Ubers size and importance. Benchmarks letter also makes reference to the allegations contained in the Holder report, which have yet to become public. Benchmark says that Uber has yet to start working on some of the recommendations laid out in the report, including coming up with new cultural values for the company. To describe it as hard hitting would be an understatement, Benchmark wrote. Gizmodo reached out to Uber and Pishevar for comment and will update with their responses. Update 81. 4 at 3 4. Kalanick has responded to Benchmark through a spokesperson. Watch Eleanor`S Secret there. Heres his statement given to the New York Times Like many shareholders, I am disappointed and baffled by Benchmarks hostile actions, which clearly are not in the best interests of Uber and its employees on whose behalf they claim to be acting. Since 2. 00. 9, building Uber into a great company has been my passion and obsession. I continue to work tirelessly with the board to identify and hire the best CEO to guide Uber into its next phase of growth and ensure its continued success. Update 81. 4 at 5 3. An Uber spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company is on track to fulfill the recommendations of the HolderAlbarrn report on time, and isnt lagging behind as the Benchmark letter suggested. Uber has rolled out a feedback tool for employees to submit suggestions for new cultural values and, once it gets a new CEO, that person will be in position to implement them. Changes to Ubers performance review process are also underway. Benchmark. How Insecure Properly Lights Black Actors. For decades, photo and video equipment was designed and tested with only white subjects in mind. Lighting darker skin tones takes a different approach than lighting pale ones. Ava Berkofsky, director of photography on HBOs Insecure, tells Mic how her team beautifully lights the shows black actors, and Mic reporter Xavier Harding demonstrates some of the techniques below. Good lighting benefits from teamwork involving multiple departments. According to Berkofsky, the makeup department should use a reflective moisturizer on dark faces. The lighting crew should maximize the surface area of light, and the camera crew should shape that light with a polarizing lens. Harding explains some of the racist history of photographic technology, and the marginalizing effect of treating white models as the default use case. Cameras didnt have to be built to capture white skin more easily than dark skin those deficiencies were built into the system by carefully optimizing the technology for white skin alone. As Buzz. Feeds Syreeta Mc. Fadden writes, Kodak only introduced black friendly film stocks after complaints from chocolate and furniture advertisers. On Priceonomics, Rosie Cima talks about how the TV industry accepted and perpetuated this bias, and how filmmakers struggled to overcome it. At Jezebel, Dodai Stewart has explored some contemporary implications of this history, like poor lighting of minorities on high budget shows and films, and apparently white washed magazine photos. Because of conscious choices by the film technology industry, photographers still have to learn special techniques for properly shooting a vast portion of the population. Even in film school, Berkovsky tells Mic, she wasnt taught how to film nonwhite people. Digital photography has provided a lot of solutions, but as Buzz. Feeds Mc. Fadden explains and MIT Media Labs Joy Buolamwini further explores, it inherited a lot of white skin biases. So Insecures Berkovsky has a suggestion for dark skinned people grabbing a selfie Stand by some soft light and turn three quarters toward it. Because looking great on camera isnt just for TV stars and white people.