Category: Editor’s Choice
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The "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill" Opens in New York City
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. Check…
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lens culture: Paris Photo 2008
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…
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Earth From Above comes to NYC – The Big Picture
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States – to New York City for the first time in 2009. Check it out here.
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Washington County Sheriff’s Office » Bookings
This is me, Trent, talking: This is my new favorite website. Is there any better way to pass the time than to take in these wonderful mug shots and see what they got popped for? Jail Bookings and Citations in the last 48 Hours by time, descending. Includes Cite and Release. Check it out here.…
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Movie Trailers – Synecdoche, New York
Director: Charlie Kaufman Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis…
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The Trouble with Paul Feig – Television's Go-To Geek – NYTimes.com
He lurched without bravado into a litany of film pitches, a young-adult book series, a handful of TV shows at various stages of development and his new gig as co-executive producer of NBC’s No. 1 comedy hit, “The Office.” Hunched over the Mini’s tiny steering wheel, at more than six feet in a Ralph Lauren…
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Press Freedom: "Collateral Damage" // Current
the NUJ has released a short film called Press Freedom: “Collateral Damage” which tackles the issue of police surveillance of bona fide journalists who document political dissent. The film is a damming account of the Orwellian techniques and methods of the Metropolitan Police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT Squad) over the last few years. This film…
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The Transparent City – A Photography Blog.
All this economy mayhem with layoffs and cities panicked makes me all the more poised to snatch up Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City. I love the mix of private and public. Plus, the press release invokes Edward Hopper and Blade Runner. Check it out here.
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SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING IS COMING… – Vincent Laforet
1. The 5D MKII camera produces the best stills in low light that I’ve ever seen – what you can see with you eye in the worst light (such as sodium-vapor street lights at 3 a.m. in Brooklyn) – this camera can capture it with ease. 2. It produces the best video in low light…
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Recent scenes from North Korea – The Big Picture
These photos were all taken within the past six months – some taken from the borders, peering in, others provided by North Korea itself, and several generously shared by freelance photographer Eric Lafforgue, who recently spent some time inside the country Check it out here.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II – 21.03 million image pixels, 1080p video
Canon has announced the EOS 5D Mark II, an update of the oldest camera in its digital SLR lineup and one that the company promises will deliver the best image quality and lowest noise of any EOS model to date. Check it out here.
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B: An Interview with Dan Price
Dan Price is the author of Moonlight Chronicles, a journal of his life which he has been hand drawing and distributing since the early 90s. Before that he worked as a photojournalist for numerous newspapers and was perhaps the only staff photographer in the country to regularly use Diana cameras on assignment Check it out…
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Vewd – For Documentary Photographers
Vewd is a documentary photography magazine continuing the tradition of storytelling through a visual medium. Check it out here. Via APAD.
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Perpignan Saturday: David Douglas Duncan, Brenda Ann Kenneally, and a heated photoj debate
The final conference Saturday was probably the most interesting (and inflammatory) of the week. It focused on a photo that was made in South Africa by photographer Kim Ludbrook, who sent it to his agency, European Pressphoto Agency, which in turned pushed it to the wires. Jean-Francois Leroy explained that the photo had made it…
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Photographers’ Journal: Capturing History at the Conventions – The New York Times
Phototgraphs of the political conventions by New York Times photographers Damon Winter, Todd Heisler, Ozier Muhammad and Stephen Crowley Check it out here. Via Laforet.
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Perpignan Friday Conference on Conflict Photography
comments from the press conference this morning with Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Lucas Menget, and Patrick Robert — the conflict journalist’s speak. These photographers have all made incredible images in the most difficult places imaginable Check it out here.
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ILL MITCH
An old favorite I’ve been meaning to post. Hello to rap fans, I am ILL Mitch. I come from Russia to America now I am free to do 3 favorite things. These are rap and ride on my skateboard and hit my boxing bag. But most favorite thing is rap. Check it out here.