From St. Petersburg Times:
They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys — that’d straighten them out.
Fifty years later they are, by their own account, screwed-up men — afraid of the dark, unable to love or be loved, twisted by anger, scarred by the whippings they endured in a cinder block hell called the White House.
via Chip.
CLICK NOTE: So if I have this right, we could pay $1.9 million to buy the band Rednex and never hear Cotton Eye Joe again. Sounds reasonable to me.
From Pop Band For Sale!:
Buying a pop band opens up opportunities to make a hayload of money and peek behind the scenes of an exclusive branch. Rednex is touring around the world, making dozens of TV & Radio performances yearly, doing shows at galas, sport arenas and festivals, from city celebrations in front of 1 million people to orphanages, and even for royalty at their private palaces in front of 30 people.
And if you see anyone claiming to be the real Rednex, make sure to report them.
From Zack Arias:
For my bag I use the ThinkTank Airport Security roller bag. This is THE best camera bag I have ever owned and it has more miles on it than I can count and every stitch is still in place. I love that I can lock the main compartments as well as lock the tethered cable to something so someone can’t simply roll off with it. They have to show up with bolt cutters to take off with this thing.
From Smashing Magazine:
As an introduction to the wonderful world of online photography magazines, we put together a list of the biggest and best that we could find. You won’t find these magazines in your local bookstore, they’re only available online. From photojournalism to portraiture, from landscapes to lomography (and everything in between), you’ll find the most amazing photography and discover the work of some of the world’s best photographers, both famous and unknown. Dive in and enjoy their work.
From Perfesser Kev:
A letter written to my students of the time, a couple weeks after the Columbine shootings:
May 4, 1999
Dear students,
Two weeks ago a horde descended upon Clement Park to cover the massacre at Columbine High School. There bereaved families and students found themselves face-to-face with more camera operators than I have seen anywhere, and that collision created a perfect laboratory for us to look at ourselves, the job we do and how the public reacts to our work.
From Wonderful Machine:
Bill Cramer would probably have an MBA if he wasn’t a photographer.
From dvafoto:
100 Eyes’ “Upfront: Our Children” ranges from Rebecca Drobis’ work documenting childhood on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana to Stephen Shames’ work getting children to school in Uganda
From Tim Hussin:
I found Leo. He is the founder of a small-town camera shop in Klamath Falls, Oregon called Leo’s Camera Shop.
From SuperTouch:
It is truly with a heavy heart that we must break the news that one of Supertouch’s dear friends, photographer SHAWN MORTENSEN, passed away last nite. A kinetic force of optimism and seemingly limitless positive energy, Shawn’s hearty career as a photojournalist and artist took him around the world several times over, unselfishly spreading his endless supply of good vibes as he went.
From lenscratch:
Los Angeles photographer, Jo Ann Callis, is being celebrated in an exhibition at the Getty Center.
From 5B4: …all the days and nights by Doug DuBois:
It is hard enough to photograph your family let alone to be honest about it.
From STALIN VS. MARTIANS:
The game is more or less plot-driven, so we’re working on a script wild enough to fit into our concept. In short, the outline looks like this:
Year 1942. Summer. The martians suddenly land somewhere in Siberia and attack the glorious people of Holy Mother Russia. It is a hard time for USSR as you might know from the history books if you ever attended school. The situation is really f*d up, so comrade Stalin takes the anti-ET military operation under his personal control. The operation is a top secret and virtually nobody knows about the fact of extraterrestial intervention.
From Prison Photography:
Not once did I envisage the current situation whereby the act of photography could bring about the threat of detention and imprisonment. Such impingement on basic rights of expression has been known in some of the dictatorial and despotic regimes of modern history … but not so much in the West, right? The times they are achangin’.
From PixelatedImage Blog:
Somewhere along the road we lost sight of this simple, fundamental fact about photography – it’s an aesthetic craft.
From Gadget Lab, Wired.com:
This is the Tactical Bail Out Gear Bag, and everyone should have one.
From Threat Level, Wired.com:
Sunde, The Pirate Bay’s spokesman, announced the news over Twitter Friday morning before the verdict was official. He remained defiant, and offered comfort to supporters. “Stay calm — Nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing whatsoever. This is just a theater for the media.”
