From Photo District News, the photo editing process at US Weekly. Here.
Senior editor Albert Lee picks up a picture of Jennifer Garner clowning around in her Oscar dress.
“What the hell is she doing?” Lee cries. “Eff her!” He casts Garner aside.
From Photo District News, the photo editing process at US Weekly. Here.
Senior editor Albert Lee picks up a picture of Jennifer Garner clowning around in her Oscar dress.
“What the hell is she doing?” Lee cries. “Eff her!” He casts Garner aside.
Interview at Wired with Fumito Ueda, one of the most creative videogame designers. Here.
“I really like boss fights in video games, and I wanted to create high-quality ones. When I start playing a game, I want to get to the boss fights quickly. Fighting a boss is a really fun element in games, and I wanted to have a lot of that.”
“The labels are shooting themselves in the foot,” said Tim Quirk, executive editor of the Rhapsody music service. To the labels, Mr. Quirk advises, “every single track that you are worried about is available for free whether you want it to be or not.”
The very cool Space Invader Dot Com, for your information.
Artist- Michael Slack
Game Art – I am 8 bit
Photography – Preparations for Khmer Rouge trials, Cambodia, by John Vink, Magnum Photos
NYT – The Wild Web of China
Photography/Celebrity – How Hollywood’s bold-faced names secretly steer the celebrity news machine
Photography – Olivier Rebbot, gallery link after Peter Howe introduction
Photography – John Ficara’s Black Farmers in America
Photography Dispatch – Iraqi Special Police Commandos by Guy Calaf
Film Review – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
Photography – Idols + Believiers by Jocelyn Bain Hogg
Artist – Christian-themed artist Thomas Kinkade is accused of ruthless tactics and seamy personal conduct
Balkans – Milan Babic kills himself
Punk Rock – Riot at British Invasion concert
NYT – book review: Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
NYT – Army ordered to look again at Tillman friendly-fire death in Afghanistan
Photography/Graffiti – Alexandre Orion
NYT – Masked police officers force tv station off air, then trash, burn newspaper office
Photography – Is Film Dead? Four part series on SportsShooter.com. Matthew Mendelsohn, Robert Seale, Brian Davies, Trent Nelson.
Punk – Anti-Flag releases third song from their upcoming major label album, “For Blood and Empire” (I’ve heard the album, it ain’t bad. Listen to the song The Press Corpse to hear Anti-Flag at their best.)
Punk – FatWreckChords new podcast
Photography – Getty Images editorial photography grants to Andrew Testa and Kristen Ashburn (portfolios)
Gaming – Wired interview with David Jaffe
CBC – Pets dumped in Moscow’s “Forest of Death”
Wash Post video – AP video of Bush receiving warnings of Katrina
NYT – Taliban still menacing Afghan south, have closed down 200 schools, by Carlotta Gall
Photography – USA Today photographer Robert Hanashiro on Torino
Photography – Photographer Brad Mangin: Spring Training ‘Death March’
Photography – Darrell Miho on the LPGA credential controversy
Photography – Chris Detrick named Student Photographer of the Year (my new co-worker)
Photography – Ho Chi Minh Highway, by James Nachtwey
Photography – Pictures of the Year winners gallery
Artist – Jude Buffum, does hilarious art with classic 8-bit videogame imagery
Yahoo war reporter Kevin Sites is now in Chechnya
WFMU – Compilation of the month: Shut up and Play (mp3’s of inane between-song banter). Featuring Slayer, Mercyful Fate, and the infamous Venom in Cleveland tracks
WFMU – And if you liked those, in this post are a few Paul Stanley from KISS clips
KSL – Family resolution causes concern in Kanab
Iraq – Toll in Iraq’s deadly surge: 1,300
CIA – Pillar to press: don’t get fooled again
Artist – Megan Whitmarsh (especially look at the embroidery)
Photography – Anti-racist demonstration in Paris, by Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Wired – Scenes from the MySpace backlash
NYT – Another White House briefing, another day of mutual mistrust
NYT – Dungeon masters in cyberspace, D&D MMORPG
NYT – Army to pay Halliburton unit most costs disputed by audit
NYT – Chaos in Iraq sends shock waves across Middle East
Photography – Photo Mechanic 4.4.2 released
Art/Graffiti – Banksy rocks Melrose
NYT – David Lynch, still disturbing after 20 years
NYT – What civil war in Iraq would look like
NYT – Stephen Colbert
NYT – Dr. Gervais’s Frankenstein, Karl Pilkington
NYT – Book Review, Paul Bremer’s ‘My Year in Iraq’
NYT – Taliban spokesman goes to Yale
Photos – Antonin Kratochvil’s Troubles in the Niger Delta
PDN – Photo groups lobby to protect copyright orphans
PDN – From darkroom to classroom
BBC – Al Qaeda attack on Saudi oil facility
Balkans, BBC – 10,000 SRS members hold pro-Mladic rally in Belgrade
National Review – William F. Buckley Jr. on Iraq
NYT – US supbpoenas 2 Dow writers, then backs off
NYT – Taking spying to a higher level
Video – Frank Zappa versus Robert Novak on “dirty record” censorship, 1986
Slate – The economic case for polygamy
BBC, Balkans – Mladic may be seeking surrender
NYT – Nigeria counts 100 deaths over cartoons
BBC – Civil War in Iraq
NYT – Sectarian fury in Iraq in wake of shrine blast
NYT – Saudis, Egypt reject US request to cut off aid to Hamas
NYT – Iran pledges financial aid to Hamas-led Palestinians
Photography – Vincent Laforet and Apple’s Aperture at the Olympics
Photography – AP cancels photo coverage of LPGA over rights grab
Photography – AP denied access to LPGA tournament
Nothing worth posting from this morning. Here’s the greatest hoax of 2005:
BBC News – Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight
Cambodian Midget Fighting League is dead. Long live the Cambodian Midget Fighting League!