Road Kill Toys – Josh Spear, Trendspotting
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Chase Jarvis:
I’ll pick my favorite image from all those uploaded and I’ll give that person my beloved iPhone 3G. Announced Wednesday 6/24.
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Holly Stuart Hughes, PDN:
A European photographer who was arrested in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday was not subjected to violence, but says, “other colleagues have not had such good luck.” Speaking to PDN by phone Wednesday night, the photographer says other journalists described being beaten and having their cameras and memory cards destroyed.
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lens culture:
This edition is packed with wonderful new discoveries including a rare, intimate look inside the working studio of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from American photographer Laurie Lambrecht; extraordinary glass negative portraits from 30s Poland by Stefania Gurdowa (which have provided the material for our favorite photobook of the year so far: Negatives are to be Stored); and Andrzej Kramarz’s innovative images of the eclectic collections and bizarre jumbles of objects he discovered over two-and-a-half years photographing flea markets in Krakow.
We’re also featuring some recent work from Roger Ballen, who has published a beautiful and disturbing new photobook, Boarding House (click here for an exclusive audio interview with the artist), and artful documentation of decades of car crashes by former Swiss police photographer Arnold Odermatt. There’s coverage of Czech artist Vladimir Zidlicky’s 30-year retrospective — an important survey of the artist’s surreal, experimental and abstract nude photography. And Laura Domela’s fun, personal portraits of real-life characters (misfits, pioneers, entrepreneurs, artists, troublemakers) from a small gold mining town in Alaska.
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Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
Are you a Nikon shooter? And an iPhone owner? Are you jealous that those pesky Canon fanboys get to remote control their DSLRs directly from the phone itself? Are ya?
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LAY FLAT:
Lay Flat is a print publication devoted to promoting the best in contemporary fine art photography and writing on the medium. Each issue is assembled by Shane Lavalette in close collaboration with an invited guest editor. Photographers and writers from across the globe are encouraged to submit their work to be considered for publication.
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Thoughts of a Bohemian:
A woman copied 24 songs, she gets fined $1.92 million dollars. That is $220,000 a song. Corbis looses 16,000 images, they get fined $7 dollars per image. Justice anyone ?
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CLICK NOTE: Watch it bigger at the Vimeo link and you’ll be blown away.
I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.
Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition.
Mostly 1000FPS shots, made during a recent rugby competition in the Stade de France, Paris.
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Feature Shoot:
Angus Rowe MacPherson was born and raised in the tundra of the Canadian high arctic. He built a darkroom at eleven — commandeering one of the household bathrooms — so that he could print pictures of the world around him. He has been making pictures ever since. He moved to Toronto in 2004, where he snagged a job with a top commercial photographer. Since then, he has been shooting for advertising and entertainment clients, while also focusing on his own work. Recent projects include a study of independent wrestlers, a staged underground table tennis showdown, portraits of drag queens, and stylized explorations of banal daily life, where you’ll find at least one fake ham.
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lenscratch:
Ferit Kuyas was born in Istanbul, studied architecture and law in Switzerland, and has spent a lot of time in China. His most recent work, City of Ambition, showcases the city of Chonqing.
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Yes Men:
In a front-page ad in today’s International Herald Tribune, the leaders
of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in
months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate
conference that will be held this December. “It was only thanks to your
massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically
shift our climate-change policies…. To those who were arrested, we
thank you.”There was only one catch: the paper was fake.
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Still Hoping:
Still Hoping is a multimedia reminder to the Obama administration from his constituents 6 months into the President’s term. These letters from around the country are pleas for equality and better lives.
via APAD
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Blaine Harden – washingtonpost.com:
he helped arrange the shipment and watched in February 2003 as the cash was packed. After the money arrived, Kim Jong Il sent a letter of thanks to the managers and arranged for some of them to receive gifts that included oranges, apples, DVD players and blankets, Kim said.
“It was a great celebration,” he said.
in News
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CORY DOCTOROW – Boing Boing:
Vancouver, site of an upcoming Olympic games, has just announced a policy prohibiting cops from taking away your camera or making you erase your photos.
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On Assignment: Covering Tehran – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Newsha Tavakolian, a 28-year-old photographer who was born and raised in Tehran, has been covering Iran for Polaris Images since 2001 and has also worked as a freelancer for The Times since 2004.
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in Books
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Peter Krogh – A Picture’s Worth:
Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a term that refers to everything one does with image files from the point of capture onward. This includes transferring, renaming, attaching metadata, rating, adjusting, proofing, backing up, archiving and more. Understanding the principles of sound DAM practices will help you design a workflow that is secure and efficient, and can help you increase profitability in the world of digital photography.
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Oliver Weber | Photographer | Marrakech:
Oliver is a photographer who hails from Munich, Germany. Currently he lives and works on the Canary Island of La Gomera. His specialty areas are reportage, portrait and what has come to be recognized as street photography. He has become more widely known through numerous features with reputable magazines and publishing houses.
Through his 2007 exhibition “Humans” (Galerie Foto 21) in Bredevoort, Netherlands, Oliver Weber became more broadly accessible to an international audience. This occasion also saw the publication by Kulturbuch Verlag of his first book of photographs which was nominated for the German Photo Book Award.
