Hopefully we managed to wet your appetite for all things bicycle and in particular Le Tour de France with yesterdays teaser post. Unfortunately those of us not in Austin Texas will miss out on the party tonight as friend an inspirator Brent Humphreys unveils his monster Tour project with a show at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop. In attempt to get us all upside the peloton Brent was gracious enough to go through full WTJ? race scrutineering. The resulting post like Le Tour is pretty epic. 2972 words and 20+ pictures; way more juice then you would ever get in a feature well story. Hope you enjoy !!!
Unfortunately I didn’t get chance to meet California photographer, Peter Tonningsen, at Photolucida, but his images were well showcased at the event. Peter approaches and presents his work with a unique point of view, and his broad range of images and interests are quite refreshing. After studying art at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Jose State University, he is currently an adjunct photography instructor at The Academy of Art University and has also been an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley since 2006. In addition, Peter is the recipient of the Phelan Art Award in Photography, which recognizes significant California born artists.
A few months ago I wrote to Jenn Ackerman, praised her Trapped project and of course offered to promote it. I wanted to get at her stories behind the images – namely do an interview.
Product Review: Hands on with the Gigapan Epic 100:
No larger than a lunchbox, the Gigapan system is super-easy to use, and is comprised of a single unit that mounts on a tripod and automatically orients a camera and trips the shutter (thanks to a small robotic arm) with just about no attention from the user.
SFGate: Daily Dish : Beyonce sweats over gig photos:
“Beyonce’s costumes are so tiny and her choreography is so complicated that inevitably she sweats. It looks pretty gross, so no one is allowed to shoot her from that particular angle any more.”
PDNPulse: Swedish Papers Boycott Britney Spears Over Photo Restrictions:
“Sweden’s four national newspapers, Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet boycotting Britney Spears concert at the Globe July 13. The organizer needs to press photographers must sign a contract that gives her the copyright to the images, and the right to decide which images may be published. ‘If they do not tear the contract we will not shoot,’ says DN’s image manager Roger Turesson.”
Is a Touch Screen DSLR Inevitable? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
The iPhone, of coure, is entirely touch controlled, but the whole interface would be welcome on a compact camera. There are already touch-screen compacts, but so far SLRs have escaped the treatment. Why? Well, for one, they are usually used held up to the eye — live-view can be useful sometimes but I’d bet that most DSLR users compose and shoot with the viewfinder. This would, it would seem, make touch-to-focus almost useless, something which could slow things down more than speed them up.
“Flashes of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating powerful, uplifting portraits of children fighting cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.”
European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright – NYTimes.com:
The publishers said widespread use of their work by online news aggregators and other Web sites was undermining their efforts to develop an online business models at a time when readers and advertisers are defecting from newspapers and magazines.
photographers are finding new and exciting ways to showcase their best work online. We took a look at some of the beautiful photography websites that we could find, analyzing the design trends and the reasons why these websites work.
Fighting Ghosts And Selling The Good War Or Why Are The Toy Soldiers On The Front Lines! « The Spinning Head:
The silence is deafening. As American troops are dropped in on Afghanistan to fight their fantasy war, there is no sound from our defenders of truth and checkers of power i.e. the media, about the operation, its objectives, our continued presence in the country, our blood thirsty allies, our ‘pretend’ Afghani democracy, our support of drug lords and genocidiares, our consistent killing of innocents and our blind faith in our own righteousness and unquestioned right to trample on another people and bend them to ‘our ways.
The glory of war is being sold on the front pages of our newspapers, none of which have the courage to ask what they know is in fact a fake war, aimed at a poor and defenseless people, fueled by the ‘intelligence’ and advice of a group of venal, corrupt, blood thirsty and power hungry clique of Afghani warlords, drug barons and oil huckster!
Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” has done substantial work covering the protests against the election in Iran. His post this morning “Counter-Targeting the Protestors” led to a site controlled by the Iranian government, where the regime was posting candid photographs of Mousavi supporters demonstrating in the streets, and using the site as a plea to the public to help with identifications.
It appears Nikons 2009-10 schedule for release of cameras and lenses has been leaked. At least that is the claim. But it can of course just as well be fantasies or a wish list created by someone having to much time to spend!
Showcase: The Walls Speak – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
In 2000, a U.N. combat unit entered a deserted village near Shegbwema in eastern Sierra Leone — territory then held by the Revolutionary United Front, a rebel group infamous for its use of child soldiers and widespread amputations. The abandoned buildings were covered with cryptic and deranged drawings. Here and there were sentences, names, questions and statements — all of which made no sense to me at that time. Empty of life, the village was an eerie and suffocating place, and the drawings hinted at a deeper psychosis.
Born in the Canadian prairies, Liz Wolfe studied photography at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto. Since starting out in 2004, Liz has become known for creating colorful, fantastical worlds out of everyday objects. In 2009, she exhibited her work at the Architecture + Design Museum (Los Angeles), the Gladstone Hotel (Toronto) and Project Basho Gallery (Philadelphia). She has also exhibited at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Pikto Gallery, and other locations in Canada, USA, Portugal and Australia. Liz currently lives in Toronto.
