Author: Trent

  • The calamity of Asia's lost women

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    The Observer: In today’s China, there are now 119 men for every 100 women. In some areas, the imbalance is greater than it was in Huai-pei in 1850. Earlier this year, an official Chinese report projected that by 2020, one in 10 men between 20 and 45 would be unable to find a wife. Professor…

  • BEARING WITNESS TO GENOCIDE

    BEARING WITNESS TO GENOCIDE

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    SF Gate: Rotting corpses, starving babies, burned-out villages. Those aren’t the kinds of images kids at San Anselmo’s Sir Francis Drake High School usually see when they crowd into the gym for an assembly. But they got an eyeful one recent morning when Mark Brecke, a resourceful San Francisco photographer who’s spent a decade documenting…

  • A New Face of Jihad Vows Attacks on U.S.

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    NYT: The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he trains fighters and spreads the ideology of Al Qaeda. He has solid terrorist credentials. A former associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the…

  • Take the Funny and Run

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    Radar: While the genial, hardworking Leary is generally liked and admired by most of his peers, Comedy Central star Carlos Mencia is almost universally reviled. According to Rogan, the famed Comedy Store in Los Angeles has even instituted a Mencia early-detection signal similar to the Improv’s for Williams, though considerably less high-tech. “Every time he…

  • Time Gets Crafty With Weepy Reagan Cover

    Time Gets Crafty With Weepy Reagan Cover

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    Radar: Is Time hoping a little controversy will draw attention to its redesign? The first new-look issue, on newsstands tomorrow, features what appears to be a photo of Ronald Reagan with a fat tear sliding down his cheek, illustrating the cover story, “How the Right Went Wrong.” A somewhat cryptic credit in small type on…

  • Cerealism – Ernie Button

    Cerealism – Ernie Button

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    PhotoEye: So, there sat King Vitamin next to a new version of Cap’n Crunch, Choco Donuts, on a recent trip to the grocery store. Looking at the rest of the cereal aisle, it is clear that breakfast cereal has changed. The cereal aisle has become a cornucopia of colors with marshmallows that resemble people and…

  • Lavigne Defends Spitting on Photographers

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    SF Gate’s Daily Dish: Canadian singer Avril Lavigne defends spitting on photographers outside a Hollywood nightclub because they are “scum.” The 22-year-old was leaving Hollywood hotspot Hyde when she was bombarded by a pack of paparazzi and she lashed out. She tells Seventeen magazine, “I was at Hyde and there were a million paparazzi guys.…

  • Dan Witz' Mosh Pit Series

    Dan Witz' Mosh Pit Series

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    Wooster Collective: Dan Witz has been working on a new series of figurative paintings for two upcoming shows in Europe; one in London at the Stolenspace, and the second in Paris at Addict Galerie. If you check out Dan’s website, you’ll notice that he’s quietly previewing a few of the pieces. Here.

  • PDN's 30 2007

    PDN's 30 2007

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    PDN: Our choice of new and emerging photographers to watch. Gmb Akash, Aneta Bartos, Maxine Beuret, Julie Blackmon, Marco Bohr, Lane Coder, Kathryn Cook, Pierre Crocquet, Victoria J. Dean, Brad Dececco, Autumn De Wilde, Rena Effendi, Serkan Emiroglu, Ditte Isager, Jamie Isaia, Shuli Hallak, Kathryn Hillier, Dorothy Hong, Aaron Huey, Brian Lesteberg, David Leventi, Debora…

  • Clips: ’80s Video Dating Losers

    Clips: ’80s Video Dating Losers

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    Dethroner: Hold the comically oversized mobile phone: this video of men recording their profiles for a video dating service in what appears to be the early ’80s is too good to be true. I know I haven’t gotten into fashion much yet this week, but consider this a primer on what taking a risk will…

  • The Studio Episode 1

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    J. Garner Photography: GUYS, THIS IS A JOKE! Please don’t take these episodes literally. “Image” is NOT everything. For JGP, humility, character & professionalism are the real virtues. We’re just simple wedding photographers, having a GREAT time! Here.

  • The Mayor's Fake "Worst Gangs"

    The Mayor's Fake "Worst Gangs"

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    LA Weekly: The lead homicide detective of LAPD’s deadly Southeast Division found the list odd. “I can’t imagine that those are the worst gangs in the city,” said Detective Sal LaBarbera. “I think they were trying to spread it out over the whole city, because we’ve got five gangs alone in Southeast — the PJs,…

  • Drawing out artist R. Crumb

    Drawing out artist R. Crumb

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    SF Gate: Fritz the Cat will be there. Mr. Natural will be there. The Snoid will be there. But R. Crumb will not. “Robert wears his nerves on the outside of his body,” explains Crumb’s wife, Aline, as they swap the Sheraton room telephone back and forth. “He appreciates the fact that all these people…

  • Van Halen: 'My Rehab Needs Have Scuppered Reunion Tour'

    Van Halen: 'My Rehab Needs Have Scuppered Reunion Tour'

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    SF Gate Daily Dish: Rocker Eddie Van Halen has revealed his supergroup’s reunion plans have stalled because he needs to check into rehab. In a message to fans, the rocker admits he put a planned reunion tour on hold because he felt he wouldn’t be able to perform at his best until he sorted out…

  • TED award winner James Nachtwey

    TED award winner James Nachtwey

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    Boing Boing: Three people were awarded TED prizes today: Bill Clinton, sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, and photographer James Nachtwey, who specializes in capturing startling and disturbing, yet moving and beautiful images of people whose lives have been destroyed by the hatred and greed of other people. As Nachtwey spoke, his photographs were displayed on a large…

  • The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins

    The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins

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    Westword, via DIGG: “A Rough Go” opens with a band of characters milling around inside an ominous dungeon. Over the computer voice-chat system, the players plan in nasally über-geek detail how to tackle the baby dragons nearby: “Um, I will use Intimidating Shout to kinda scatter them,” “We’re gonna need Divine Intervention on our mages,”…

  • Drain Guy

    Drain Guy

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    Little People: ps. Got a couple of exhibitions coming up this month. The first is in a completely unofficial capacity… I will be placing some little people around The Leonard Street Gallery for the opening night of their new show Eleven on Thursday 8th March. Eleven features, unsurprisingly, eleven artists who “…question the nature of…

  • Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries

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    Wired: A suite of photo-authentication tools under development by Adobe Systems could make it possible to match a digital photo to the camera that shot it, and to detect some improper manipulation of images, Wired News has learned. Adobe plans to start rolling out the technology in a number of photo-authentication plug-ins for its Photoshop…

  • Historians Fight Bush on Access to Papers

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    NYT: In December 1989, one month after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Malta and, in the words of a Soviet spokesman, “buried the cold war at the bottom of the Mediterranean.” The Russian transcript of that momentous summit was published in Moscow in 1993.…

  • For an Opaque White House, A Reflection of New Scrutiny

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    Washington Post: Shortly before he was inaugurated for his second term, President Bush was asked why no one was held responsible for the mistakes of the first. “We had an accountability moment,” he replied, “and that’s called the 2004 elections.” Two years and a stinging midterm election later, Bush is having another accountability moment, but…