photo community
Humor – Thrash Metal Meltdown!
Photography – New issue of Canon Pro Europe online
NYT – MySpace self-portraits
Photos – War photography shot within first-person-shooters
Photos – Matt Holloway, a photo each day of the year
Art/Video – The Twisted Films of the artist PES
Humor – Despair.Com Demotivating Posters 🙁
NYT – Carlotta Gall: Afghanistan producing bumper crop of heroin
NYT – Wal-Mart chief executive’s postings on internal management website
I met photographer David Leeson a few years ago when we were speaking at the same photojournalism workshop in Omaha. It was like finding a long lost brother, so many things did we have in common. We shared the same obsessive compulsive immersive behaviors, the inability to stop or slow down, and as the conversation flowed over a couple of days we weren’t ever filling each other in on anything we didn’t already know about. Since then, Leeson went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the invasion of Iraq. We haven’t spoken since Omaha.
Here’s the interview: Fayrouz in Beaumont
Photos – The Seine, from source to sea, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955
NYT Book Review – Ivan’s War
NYT – US plans to give windfall to oil companies
NYT editorial – White House shoots foot
From the New York Times:
Years after 2 Afghans died, abuse case falters
“The President of the United States doesn’t know what the rules are! The secretary of defense doesn’t know what the rules are. But the government expects this Pfc. to know what the rules are?”
Gallery of winning images from the most prestigious photojournalism competition in the world. A must-see.
Artist – Alex Gross
Bruce Sterling on the Sony rootkit scandal
World’s smallest videogames (playable on web)
Anti-Authority Section:
Vice President Cheney authorized Libby to leak classified information
NYT:
White House knew of Levee’s Failure on Night of Storm
Ex-Cheney Aide testified leak was ordered
Though it won’t be published for another eight months, you’ve got to check out the preview to photographer Andrew Faulkner’s book, Midnight Train to Warsaw.
Aerial photographs of Mexico City
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
Hamas ready to talk to Israel, won’t renounce violence
day19.com – Jeremy and Claire Weiss Photography
NYT:
Gizmondo is dead, long live Gizmondo
Photos – Gotham Girls Roller Derby
Contest for Cartoons Mocking the Holocause Announced in Tehran
West sees Islamic Protests as sign of deep gulf
Startling Lesson in the Power of Imagery
Photo:
Burma nights, Rangoon Lights, photos by John Stanmeyer
Still photographer on the set of Munich
Inside the walls with Mara Salvatrucha, Luis Sinco
Nancy Kaszerman on shooting The Red Carpet
Alec Soth’s Niagara (different than previous mention)
Other:
Former Green Beret blogging from Iraq…
…His blog (by the way, the Pulitzer is only award to work appearing in a US newspaper)
People who cut themselves will now be given clean blades in UK
Four now dead protesting cartoons
Latest edition of the North Star Chronicles, polygamist newsletter from Canada (PDF)
MP3’s of the People’s Temple Choir, now you can listen to the sounds of Jonestown
Alternative considerations of Jonestown, People’s Temple
NYT:
Al Qaeda’s Jamal Ahmed al-Badawi escapes Yemeni jail in 460 foot tunnel
