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Lens Culture is pleased to be a partner with Paris Photo again this year. We are delighted to present our preview selection of more than 200 photographers from the show. And believe it or not, this is just an appetizer for this year’s event.
We caught up with the band and got them to reveal their Top 12 most influential albums. Consider this an exclusive mixtape list showcasing some of the seminal records that have made a lasting impression on the music and lifestyle of Rise Against.
Shaun Pye and the late Harry Thompson’s ultra bleak — and often quite smutty — BBC3 television series, Monkey Dust. Truly, it can be said, Monkey Dust raises the bar!
The New York Times is reporting on a new piece of software developed by Israeli computer scientists that take a photo and make it more attractive based on focus group research they conducted with 68 men and women. The “beautification engine”makes minor adjustments of symmetry, skin tone, and other factors that have been associated with “beauty.”
I would be remiss if I did not repeat this rumor, which I came across in the dpreview.com Nikon D3-D1 / D700 forum. I can not vouch for the validity of the rumor, only that I have quoted it in it’s entirety.
Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983) is an artist ripe for rediscovery. After having trained and taught at Chicago’s renowned Institute of Design, he made his artistic breakthrough in the early 1960s with a giant 12 x 20-inch “banquet” camera that allowed him to marry a 19th-century panoramic vision with mid-20th-century formalism. He was a landscape photographer in the broadest sense: He photographed spaces—both rural and urban—that we inhabit. Sinsabaugh’s remarkable photographs capture a richly nuanced sense of place and the ever-changing face of the American environment.
After talking with several National Geographic photographers about shooting for the magazine I became intrigued with the process of getting a story made. The collaboration between the photo editors and photographers and then the photographers involvement in all the steps along the way is unique and important to how they make stories
Adobe Configurator (screenshots 1, 2), a new utility that’s due to ship on Adobe Labs around the end of the month, is a key part of our strategy. Configurator makes it easy to snap together your own Photoshop panels (a.k.a. palettes). Think of Configurator as a box of Legos–an app that lets you drag and drop all the tools and menu items in Photoshop, call actions & scripts, and add widgets (images, videos, other SWFs, etc.).
Vice: There’s a long history of soldiers taking things like speed to improve their fighting, but smoking weed in combat seems really counterintuitive, right?
You’d think so, but as I say to one of the main soldiers in the series with Jack, “Normally, that would make you more cautious, wouldn’t it?” And he said “Yeah, it would make me more cautious, but it makes these guys even more brave.” They just smoke for a few minutes then they get up and run toward the bullets. There was one day–it was the first time we were attacked while I was with the company. One of the Brits dove into a ditch and started firing, and the Afghan next to him stood up eating an apple.
Recently the publisher Damiani released a new edition of Mary Ellen Mark’s 1979 book Ward 81
Aperture just launched Aperture Live, a new initiative to offer live webcasts of their artist talks, panel discussions and other events online. In addition, these webcasts will be archived so that all of us can watch what we missed.
London street bomber and STOLEN SPACE gallery impresario D*FACE unveiled his grand homage to the unholy marriage of “Street” and Pop Art with his instant sellout “Apopcalypse” solo show at the upstart BLACK RAT PRESS GALLERY in London last Saturday.
By Andrea Bruce
Flipping back a canvas tarp, 12 men squint at the dusty sun and jump, one by one, off the bed of a U.S. military transport truck, dropping to their knees in prayer. They are free.
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States – to New York City for the first time in 2009.
Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn’t permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters.
Self-help gurus want to sell you on success. I prefer to do the opposite. I’d rather tell you how to fail because failure is more insightful. What’s more, you’re probably already on your path to failure. You’re already doing the things that increase your chance of failure. And by the end of this article, I hope you’re so livid at me that you change your trajectory. So without further ado, here’’s how to fail as a photographer.
He may have played Kipland Ronald Dynamite (Kip) in Napoleon Dynamite, but Californian photographer Aaron Ruell is much more comfortable behind the camera. We interviewed him recently
SpY is an artist from Madrid whose art consists in the playful reappropiation of urban elements, that he replicates or transforms and then installs in the street.
Are they great, terrible, or both? You figure it out. Links go to Netflix.
Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars. Naked aliens from Mars land on Earth and try to create a new species that is a cross between humans and vacuum cleaners. After mating with homeless man Vernon (Dick Monda), one vacuum becomes an unstoppable killer that strangles women and sucks their blood. Full of lowbrow humor, gross-out moments, silly special effects and plenty of violence, this low-budget film has gained notoriety as a cult classic.
Apocalypse Africa: Made in America. Journalist Del Walters’s documentary explores secret recordings, classified films and other archival evidence that suggest the United States’ involvement in the downfall of Africa, including genocidal wars in Darfur, Uganda and Rwanda. Through top-secret data, hidden documents and other sources obtained from government archives, this film reveals links between the destruction of Africa and those who influence American foreign policy
Faces of Death. Not for the faint of heart, the first film in the cult favorite and controversial “Faces of Death” series (which depicts supposedly authentic death scenes) features such grisly fare as an electric chair execution and the clubbing of baby seals. Other disturbing “deaths” include a monkey killed for its brain meat, a man setting himself on fire and cultists dining on human organs. No wonder why the film is banned in over 40 countries.
Lucha Libre: Life Behind the Mask. Get an inside look at the sport of lucha libre, also known as Mexican wrestling, in this documentary that explores the world of Mexico’s most popular spectator sport. Through the masked eyes of four luchadors in different stages of their careers, the film follows a 30-year veteran wrestler, a famous luchador’s son who carries on the tradition, a man at the beginning of his career and a young boy who aspires to enter the sport.
The Simpsons: Season 11. After a decade on the air, “The Simpsons” keeps on ticking, and Homer (Dan Castellaneta), Marge (Julie Kavner), Bart (Nancy Cartwright), Lisa (Yeardley Smith) and Maggie are as animated as ever. In the show’s 11th season, Homer weighs in on Mel Gibson’s remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Lisa helps her father keep his job as a food critic; and Bart is confined to a wheelchair after breaking his coccyx.
The Visitor. Widowed professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped up in their lives when Tarek is thrown into a detention center. A wonderful Hiam Abbass co-stars as Tarek’s mother, who forges an unlikely connection with Walter. Director Thomas McCarthy’s follow-up to his indie hit The Station Agent premiered at Sundance in 2008.
