So who’s the “owner” of the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill at 89 West 7th Avenue?
Banksy.
Once inside Banksy’s pet store, you discover such things as breaded fish that swim in a large round bowl while hot dogs are living the high life under heat lamps in cages near the cash register.
Get ready for international inspiration, visual stimulation, new photographic insights, and — quite possibly — image overload!
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.
