West Africa-based freelance photographer Olivier Asselin has a nice series of Ghana street portraits.
Author: Trent
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Ghana Street Portraits
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Supremely odd vintage photo collection – Boing Boing
Joanna of Morbid Anatomy found delight and wonder, as I now have, in this collection of vintage photos that are bizarre by their nature, juxtaposition, or just the lack of context.
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Stop-Motion: A Day in the Life of Luceo « Luceo Images
Lytvinenko scores again with a new day-in-the-life stop-motion video of our annual meet.
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Paolo Pellegrin Turns in a Great Performance of His Own
Pellegrin traveled around the world to capture these movie stars in various locations. He also had the help of a post production team in Europe and the US to retouch the images. But I don’t think it dimishes the images — we want our movie stars to look immaculate and mythological. And these pictures do the trick. So apologies to Paolo for being a doubter. You killed it.
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Utah's 'Beaver Kid' dies
To his friends and family, Richard LaVon Griffiths was a loving, hard-working truckdriver from Beaver.
To the Sundance Film Festival audiences who saw him in Salt Lake City filmmaker Trent Harris’ “Beaver Trilogy,” Griffiths was an acting talent with a personality so eccentric, honest and charming, he became a cult-film figure.
Griffiths, also known as “The Beaver Kid” and “Groovin’ Gary,” passed away Feb. 2 at Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Medical Center. He was 50 years old. -
ClearCam Is The Rapid-Fire Way To Clearer iPhone Pictures
Occipital’s ClearCam also wants to help you take better pictures. But it does so in a fairly unique way. ClearCam takes six pictures in rapid succession (around 2.5 seconds), automatically picks the sharpest of the six, then — using that sharpest shot as a baseline — merges the frames together to generate a super-resolved 4 megapixel image.
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Spinal Tap Confirms Reunion
Members of the spoof heavy metal band Spinal Tap have confirmed they are to record their first album in nearly 20 years.
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lens culture: Dita Pepe
Czech photographer Dita Pepe uses self-portrait photography to explore ideas of how personal identity can seem to change dramatically in relationship to the other people in our lives, and the surrounding circumstances.
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THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE: SHEPARD FAIREY AND THE ART OF APPROPRIATION
As underground art phenomenon SHEPARD FAIREY’s first major museum retrospective prepares to open at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART/BOSTON on February 6th, we feel the need to address some of the vicious and unfounded rumors surrounding the originality of Shepard’s artwork that have been floated online in recent years. Though written by a variety of different detractors for a questionable array of reasons, the common thread binding them all—aside from a thinly masked veneer of obvious envy in most cases—is a nearly ubiquitous lack of understanding of the artist’s use of appropriated imagery in his work and the longstanding historical precedent for this mode of creative expression.
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Why newspapers can’t stop the presses
Contrary to some of the ill-informed articles you might have read lately, almost every newspaper company still needs to print newspapers if it wants to stay in business.
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The Challenges Of Tomorrow’s Multimedia As Seen Through The Eyes Of Google, Yahoo, Nokia And Others
Part of this year’s ACM Multimedia conference, the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009 aims to collect information on the specific problems and issues companies like Google, Yahoo, Nokia, HP, Radvision and CeWe see arise on the multimedia horizon for the next 2-5 years.
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How To Be A Portrait Photographer : justinhackworth.com
Watch this 30 second slideshow and you’ll know what it’s sometimes like to be a family portrait photographer. You’ve got to work fast.
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War Paparazzi: Israel's War Against Hamas and Still Photographers – The Digital Journalist
As Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip ended, Barack Obama was taking the oath of office and became the 44th president of the United States. The last Israeli tank rolled across one of the gates from the Gaza Strip back into Israel, but no one knew when or where. That was a moment no media captured because the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) did not want the media to see the event, or anything else in the three-week conflict.
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Quality Vs. Value – When is Enough Enough?
We are coming to a significant crossroad in the evolution of digital photography. There is a convergence of factors underway that is changing the way in which we perceive the merits and value of the equipment that we purchase.
On the one hand we have a rapidly flattening slope on the image quality side of the ledger, where it takes a serious additional expenditure to derive what is often only a moderate increase in image quality.
On the other we have the worst global economic environment in our lifetimes, which is causing photographers to more seriously evaluate the value proposition of their purchases than ever before.
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MARK RYDEN SIGNS “THE TREE SHOW” BOOK THIS WEEKEND AT MOCA
Worshipers of the formerly ultra-hairy beast known as MARK RYDEN can get their stalk-on up close and personal at MOCA this Saturday between 3—5pm when the reclusive artist will be onsite signing copies of his brand spankin new “The Tree Show” book. For the uninitiated unfamiliar with former Ryden appearances, prepare yourself for an epic line of otaku fanboys and girls all patiently waiting their turn to have the master sign all manner of objects and flesh. In short, it’s the people-watching event of the weekend bar none.
