A new study suggests that thinking quickly can boost your mood. It’s not clear precisely why this is the case, but it seems that people believe that fast thinking is a sign of a good mood.
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Check out John Harrington’s video interviews with photographers who covered President Obama’s address to Congress last night
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A few years ago, while hanging out at my future wife’s apartment, I opened a cupboard in her cramped bathroom. To be sure, this is not a habit of mine, and I can’t recall my exact motivation. What I found hanging in this cupboard above the toilet, however, made me uneasy: a small ax.
“Uh, I don’t mean to sound paranoid or anything, but do you think you could get rid of that ax in the bathroom?” I asked her after exiting.
I had been covering crime for the MT for about a year at that point, and it seemed every second murder played out the same way: friends or lovers drink, friends or lovers argue, one of friends or lovers grabs ax and hacks other friend or lover to death. Postmortem dismemberment by the killer was an occasional twist in these cases.
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Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years. We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors–big and small, to see what each one is capable of
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Today I got another confirmation form a source that has never been wrong before: the Nikon D5000 is real
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It’s been pretty quiet, so far, in terms of new digital SLR releases for PMA 2009, but Olympus stirred things up a bit this morning with the release of its new E-620. This camera is really more for students and aspiring pros than pros though.
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A good friend of mine and Blackspot band mate Scott Lytle helped design a really cool skate shoe for Adidas and Rev. It’s one thing to be on the outside of a scene to try to capture it’s coolness in a shoe, but to actually be involved in hardcore and be friends with Rev and the bands involved gives the shoe and the company’s designers much more credibility. The 3 guys involved even give short stories about themselves related to HC
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Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich Village, a country house, and something else: the rights to all of her photographs.
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I am now working with a translator which helps me understand the specifics of a project more clearly and enables me to find the more personal side to my subjects.
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Christopher LaMarca has been photographing these activists and loggers since the summer of 2003
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Dana Popa photographed a shelter there for women who had been freed from their ‘handlers’ and returned to their country.
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Getty buys Mediavast (Wireimage) where photographers have a 50/50 royalty split more or less and after several months realizes that’s not their standard split and that they’ve been “overpaying” all this time.
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Aaron Kupferman started a company called Motorsport Lens, and is one of the many people who have made great use of the ‘Personal Use’ download option within PhotoShelter. He spends many of his weekends shooting images during “amateur track day” events, where normal people get to take their cars for a spin on a real racetrack .
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Once in a while I get a staggering email from a photographer. The latest greeted me when I returned from Paris; ten images in my inbox from Portuguese photographer João Pina, from his new series about the incredible violence that plagues Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Luceo Images is celebrating our one year anniversary by teaming up with AdoramaPix and Photoshelter to make collector’s prints available for a limited time.
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