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Tom Anderson, MySpace co-founder, has been traveling the world since 2011 to pursue photography.
He sold MySpace in 2005 for $580 million and now focuses on travel photography.
His travel destinations include Hong Kong, Myanmar’s Bagan, and the Icelandic north coast.
The article notes readers’ engagement with Anderson’s photography and travels.
Anderson’s post-celebrity life emphasizes personal exploration over startup building.
Image credits are provided alongside his travel visuals in the feature.

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A total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, visible along a 5,157-mile path from the Arctic to northern Spain and Portugal.
The event will bring a moment of darkness in Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and northern Spain as totality passes over the region.
Experts warn that weather conditions are the greatest obstacle to a clear view of the eclipse.
Safe viewing requires certified eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer during the event.
Scientists will launch high-altitude balloons to study the Sun’s corona during the August eclipse.
A livestream will share totality for viewers outside the eclipse path.
The next total solar eclipse with coast-to-coast visibility in the Lower 48 will occur on August 12, 2045.
The 2027 eclipse will pass over southern Spain, North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
In the United States, the next opportunity to view totality from Alaska comes on March 30, 2033.

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The documentary centers on Icelandic glaciers and their vanishing future, framing a crisis in personal and environmental terms.
Time and Water is described as a curiously vibrant elegy that celebrates intimate life and the natural world.
The film links glacier decay to Icelanders’ memory, family histories, and cultural narratives like rimurs.
Director Sara Dosa collaborates with Magnason and uses 16mm and digital footage to create a reflective, scrapbook-like portrayal.
The film raises questions about how long Icelanders will be able to enjoy the glaciers as experts predict disappearance within about 200 years.
Time and Water is framed as a hopeful, yet sobering, meditation on change and connection to life and landscape.
The film follows Magnason’s lamentations over a vanishing frozen world and archival family footage.
Dosa’s prior film Fire of Love is referenced to place Time and Water in a continuum of intimate nature documentaries.
The documentary blends narrative with evocative glacier imagery to emphasize epistemic and emotional stakes.
The review notes the film’s tekniche and sensory choices, including Dan Deacon’s score and 16mm visuals.
Time and Water is presented as a time capsule of Icelandic memory, tied to ecology and family history.

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The August total solar eclipse path has been mapped, showing where it will be visible.
Observers should plan around geographic regions and local times to catch the eclipse.
The report emphasizes the scientific importance of the eclipse for solar research.
Times of visibility are provided to help the public plan viewing sessions.
The study outlines how the eclipse progresses from partial to total viewing phases.

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