David Letterman and Pee-Wee Herman? The two greatest minds of the century coming together. I feel lucky to have lived in their time.
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Travelling through middle America is a lot less bleak than it’s usually made out to be.
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photo by David G. McIntyreI have never been sure about having a blog or not, but figured after reading some various friends blogs I could give it a shot. Many of the blogs I have read most recently were by fellow photographer friends during the recently completed 2008 Beijing Olympics, so I figured I would ‘Dive Right In’ with two of my favorite photos from the games.
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After leaving New Orleans, it appears that Banksy is now heading through the Deep South.
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An article published in today’s New York Times (New York Edition) reports on some last-minute censorship of anti-war billboards scheduled to be displayed in St. Paul during the GOP convention next week.
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From the photo series Forty-eight States © Candace Plummer GaudianiContext, framing, style, materials, and historical and cinematic reference all contribute to the success of this click-clack series of black-and-white photos taken through passenger windows in railroad trains rolling through all 48 states of the continental USA.
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George Bush does not want anyone feeling bad for him. Hates the idea, in fact. Why should anyone feel bad for him? He knew what he was getting into, and he is doing what he thinks is right. But as he enters the twilight of his presidency, he finds it both a liberating and a deeply frustrating time.
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I don’t really comment on anything I post here at The Click, but this is important: Why can’t I get a region 1 DVD of the BBC series Look Around You?!
I can’t recommend this highly enough.
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D-D-D-Digic IV? HD Video mode? 19 Point AF? Full Weather Sealing… I just got chills. Looking mighty fine to me. I of course will bring you more info as I see it.
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ARTSPROJEKT, a new online “interactive and culturally relevant online community for the arts, pop culture and action sports” has teamed up with print-on-demand company Zazzle to make high-tech, high-art skate decks. Some of the many artists and micro brands involved include: Lil Jon, Shepard Fairey / OBEY, Crooks & Castles, Blood Is The New Black, Angry Woebots, Alex Pardee, and Dalek.
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The largest photojournalism festival, Visa pour l’Image, kicks off on Saturday in Perpignan, France — and this year the festivities are sure to be bigger than ever. The festival, which met with extreme skepticism when it was first started by the inimitable Jean-Francois Leroy, is triumphantly celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year.
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Philadelphia-based photographer Susan Bank was drawn to a different side of the island nation, however. She wanted to go beyond the borders of the big city and back even farther in time. Toting an unobtrusive 35 mm Leica, Ms. Bank traveled to Cuba’s rural Pinar del Rio province and got to know the people well enough to move in with them.
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The 15th Noorderlicht Photofestival is presenting two major new exhibits, Behind Walls and Beyond Walls, which offer a sweeping overview of Eastern European photography before and after the fall of Communism in 1989. Photography from all the former East Block lands is brought together in one large-scale presentation. Much of the work is being shown for the first time outside its country of origin.
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One of the most common questions that have been posed by people on this blog is: Do you delete your images in camera and do you delete images on your server or in your Aperture Library?
I think it’s a very important question, and my answer for the most part is: No – I don’t.
Why? Well here it is:
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Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
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Reich and Carlson began to leave the premises, says Reich, certain he had captured the use of extreme force on tape. Hoelting, who had stayed behind, then overheard a guard say, “That shit’s going to be on YouTube. We gotta get that tape.”
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Technically the images were very, very good. In fact, I’d say there has never been an Olympic games photographed at such a consistently high level.
Unfortunately, this high level of imagery is due more to the improvements in camera technology, not by any advancement in the vision of the photographers themselves.
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