The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies – Drawger.com:
Welcome to The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies… where tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.
Due to severe government budget cuts to the arts, our little museum’s acquisition funds are frankly, well, bupkus. So, we welcome Drawgerers to submit images of any artistic tools, machinery, gadgets, etc. that they feel have bitten the dust.
via Boing Boing
Chase Jarvis CURRENT: The Consequences of Creativity from Chase Jarvis on Vimeo.
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I was recently invited to speak to the Art Director’s Club of Denver and the ASMP about creativity, and subsequently delivered that keynote two weeks ago. This video is a recording of that talk. Hope it strikes a chord with you.
Photographer Learned About VIBE Shutdown in Mid-Shoot:
David Anthony’s photos of skateboarder Chaz Ortiz will never make it into VIBE, which folded Tuesday as the shoot was in progress.
Gringo Libre » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS:
It was so easy, I laughed. Caught a trolly to the border, went through the lab maze and was spat out in Mexico. Jumped into a cab and there I was, taking photos of all the folks dressed in Lucha Libre masks. My face hurt that night from all the smiling.
Via HEAVY DISCUSSION
Thoughts of a Bohemian » Wall of Shame:
Running a photo agency used to be a gentleman sport. You represented photographers and if, for some reason, the relationship did not work out, regardless the contract, everyone would gently part their own way . These days, contracts are like hammers, mostly used to crush a photographer into the ground.
PDNPulse: Gannett to Cut Another 1,400 Newspaper Jobs:
we must take these steps because the advertising environment remains challenged.
One Year With Nikon « Photofocus:
This week I am celebrating the one year anniversary of my switch to Nikon from Canon. After 17 years as a Canon user, I switched – mostly because no Canon camera could come close to the performance of the Nikon D3.
So what have I learned in a year?
AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Brett Weston (1991)”:
The son of Edward Weston and Flora Chandler, Brett Weston has produced a consistent and prolific body of astonishing images since 1925. He has utilized his energy and natural gifts for almost seven decades. A full sixty-eight years of uninterrupted endeavor, a prodigious span of sustained attention, persistence of vision, and unflagging creative drive.
The “child genius” of American photography turned eighty on December 16, 1991. On that date he began destroying nearly seventy years worth of negatives. This interview was conducted about two weeks before, on December 3.
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Archives » Darius Himes: Tips for creating successful photo books:
Darius Himes is a founding member of Radius Books, where he is an acquiring editor; prior to that he was the founding editor of photo-eye Booklist. In 2008, he was named by PDN as one of fifteen of the most influential people in photo book publishing. This year he is the lead judge of the Photography.Book.Now International Juried Competition. With the deadline approaching — July 16, 2009 — we thought we’d pick Darius’ brain about the contest, self-publishing, and what makes a photo book successful.
365 Portraits, The Book | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
In 2007 Photographer Bill Wadman traveled around the United States and Europe with a single mission. Each day he photographed, edited and posted online a different portrait of a different person. It was a mammoth effort meticulously followed that resulted in one of the most authentic collection of portraits I’ve ever seen.
15 Kopeks Amazing: a virtual look inside Moscow’s Soviet Arcade Games Museum | Offworld:
This started to make the rounds a few weeks back, but hasn’t gathered nearly as much attention as it should, for as outstandingly wicked as it is: you may have originally heard of Moscow State Technical University ‘Soviet Arcade Games Museum’ from an April 2009 Edge article that told the story quite well, but was accompanied by painfully tiny images.
But now, of all people, Art Lebedev’s design studio — the same creators as the OLED-driven Optimus Maximus keyboard [the same as was featured on, of all things, a 2007 cover of Edge] — has given the museum a full website makeover, complete with a growing collection of its games recreated and playable online.
PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG – DAY 2 – MOE DOIRON – NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada:
I blame McDonald’s. In the same way marketers trick consumers into paying more for their super-sized lunch when they really don’t need the extra fries, photo agencies keep pumping more pixels through the pipe as they create packaged pricing deals. Back in the old days (OK, I’ve said it and I promise it won’t happen again) you could browse the wires in an hour, meticulously eyeing all the images of the day and making your selection with surgical precision. Today’s feed is 10 times that, hitting most days 4,000 images in a 24-hour cycle. So it’s keywords and speed browsing, praying all day that you didn’t miss the photo of Michael Ignatieff eating a banana. Such a great feeling. Everything needs to be edited. Even the stuff that you send to editors to edit needs to be edited.
Dear Getty, thanks for the 237 awesome photos of Kim Kardashian arriving at the awards show last night, we’ll be using all of them.
lens culture: Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie 2009 Preview:
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of Les Rencontres d’Arles festival of photography, and we’re delighted to feature 94 preview images from the official festival selection. As always, it’s an eclectic mix.
Awful Library Books:
Awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com is a collection of the worst library holdings. The items featured here are so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information.
lenscratch: Deborah Hamon:
It takes a second to realize that Deborah Hamon has combined painting and photography to produce the series, Girls. The project explores the identity of girls by creating universal portraits that play between fiction and reality. “I want to capture that moment when confidence and insecurity, whimsy and seriousness, innocence and knowledge can all exist.”
Roger Ballen – Boarding House « The PhotoBook:
For most of the photobooks I review, they usually are stand alone books, but I feel that Roger Ballen’s recent book Boarding House needs to be placed into a larger perspective. Specificly to the content of his two previous books, Shadow Chamber, published in 2005 and Outland, published in 2001, both by Phaidon Press. Otherwise, it feels like I have walked into the middle of an fascinating and entertaining discussion, but I am left at a loss of what the topic is.
Dateline: Iraq – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Moises Saman does not need a timetable to know that things have changed in Iraq — however tenuously — since his last rotation there a year ago as a photographer for The New York Times. “You hear music on the street sometimes,” he said Monday in a telephone interview from Baghdad. He’s also noticed that people linger outdoors at night. (Indeed, the music from the park opposite The Times’s bureau was so loud last night that it was hard to hear Mr. Saman sometimes.) “I think there’s more life on the street,” he said. “Without painting too rosy a picture, there’s a definite sense that life is moving.”
William Hundley, Austin – Feature Shoot:
William Hundley was born in St. Paul Minnesota and studied at Southwest Texas State University. He has been part of numerous group and solo exhibitions, including 2006’s Outside In at Okay Mountain and the Predator/Prey show at Halcyon. He lives and works in Austin, Texas
