Author: Trent

  • DOUBLE CROSS: Joe Nelson Fights The (White) Power

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    Around my town of Huntington Beach, a couple of pretenders to the Aryan throne did arise. There were gangs with names like SFU, which is perhaps the most original gang name ever, since every city has at least 3 under the same name, and the Huntington Beach Skins. They weren’t as organized though as the Metzger gangs. To me they seemed like amateur hour. I mean for Christ’s Sake, they didn’t even have any stickers to hand out. How the hell can you run a racist group without stickers?

    Then the “Battle of St. Simon Jude Fair” happened. In fairness to the WAR and AYM skins, the H.B. Skins were very minor league, especially for a White Pride/Power type outfit. After all, their leader was a Hispanic kid, and one of the number ones was a Jewish dude, who had a swastika tattoo, and was nicknamed “Cornball”. With people like that running the gang it was obvious they would self implode before ever being a real threat to us.

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  • People Are Now Playing Quake Live

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    Quake Live, the upcoming free in-browser version of Quake, is sending out beta invitations to the service. Users are directed to beta.quakelive.com

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  • A Family Portrait | PDN Photo of the Day

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    Duncan Family Portrait, Tennessee 2008, photographed by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding project. [Re-wilding: the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization.]

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  • R. Crumb's Book of Genesis coming in 2009

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    Here’s a little peek at a page from Robert Crumb’s forthcoming Book of Genesis, a literal adaptation from the first book in the Old Testament. It’s been years-in-the-making

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  • Andrew Hetherington, New York

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    You have recently self-published the photography book, A Room With A View. What made you decide to show the work in this way?
    ‘I decided from the get go that this was going to be a long-term project. I had been shooting it for three years and just kept filing the negs away before I figured out how I wanted to present it. There were a lot of images. Early on I knew that it was all going to be about volume and repetition. The pictures don’t necessarily stand alone by themselves.

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  • Looking Through Some Pictures

    Many of you will know MURRAY BOWLES as the GILMAN STREET photographer. He’s no longer in attendance at every show the way he once was, but during the first few years the club was in operation, he turned out enough photos – invariably black and white – to start his own Gilman museum.

    I mean, he could start his own Gilman museum; he hasn’t actually done so as far as I know, but my one-time business partner and LOOKOUT RECORDS co-founder DAVID HAYES has compiled a nice little collection that’s well worth having a look at if you’re at all interested in the early Gilman scene.

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  • PDNPulse: How One Photojournalist Found Life Beyond Newspapers

    Philadelphia Weekly has a good story about photojournalist Jim MacMillan, who left his job at the Philadelphia Daily News and found a new platform for his work through independent online journalism. MacMillan is a great example of how to use online services like Twitter and Facebook to share your professional work outside of traditional media.

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  • I AM OGDEN

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    A former railroad town, Ogden is redefining itself and becoming one of the outdoor capitals of North America while still maintaining it’s “rough around the edges” western flair.
    The portraits (by Brian Nicholson) in this 12×12 inch, 360-page book showcase the lives of those who make this city great. By indiscriminately blending all walks of life, income levels, skill sets and backgrounds into one unified body, the artist has created a masterpiece of history for generations to come.

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  • LAST MISSION/LAST HOUR

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    A double amputee Iraqi translator lives as a refugee in America. Photos by Ramin Rahimian

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  • NatGeo Best of 2008

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    Editor in Chief Chris Johns selects some of his favorite photos published in National Geographic magazine in 2008.

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  • The Renegades at the New York 'Times' – The All New Issue — New York Magazine

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    On the day Barack Obama was elected, a strange new feature appeared on the website of the New York Times. Called the Word Train, it asked a simple question: What one word describes your current state of mind? Readers could enter an adjective or select from a menu of options. They could specify whether they supported McCain or Obama. Below, the results appeared in six rows of adjectives, scrolling left to right, coded red or blue, descending in size of font. The larger the word, the more people felt that way.

    All day long, the answers flowed by, a river of emotion—anonymous, uncheckable, hypnotic. You could click from Obama to McCain and watch the letters shift gradually from blue to red, the mood changing from giddy, energized, proud, and overwhelmed to horrified, ambivalent, disgusted, and numb.

    It was a kind of poll. It was a kind of art piece. It was a kind of journalism, but what kind?

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  • Few in U.S. See Jazeera’s Coverage of Gaza War

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    In a conflict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct advantage. It was already there.

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  • Writing in the Age of Distraction

    I think I’ve managed to balance things out through a few simple techniques that I’ve been refining for years. I still sometimes feel frazzled and info-whelmed, but that’s rare. Most of the time, I’m on top of my workload and my muse. Here’s how I do it:

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  • Another London photographer arrested for "terrorism" (i.e. "taking a picture of a public building") – Boing Boing

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    A photographer who spent his whole life photographing and painting around his home neighbourhood of Elephant and Castle in London was arrested under anti-terror laws and jailed, his DNA and fingerprints taken. He was released after five hours, once his Member of Parliament intervened. Under current policies, his DNA will remain on file forever — though the EU has ordered Britain to cease this practice.

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  • Wim Wenders Movie for Leica Camera

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  • PDNPulse: Time To Enter Your Best Work of 2008 in Photo Contests

    This would be a perfect weekend to stay in and get your work in order for all the year-in-review contests, don’t you think? Many of the most noteworthy photo contests have deadlines this month. Here’s our roundup of them.

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  • In Memoriam: William J. 'Sandy' Colton

    Sandy Colton achieved mastery as a photojournalist. He achieved this by working as a photographer, an editor, a champion for the Eddie Adams Workshop, a father of two great photojournalists/editors, a husband, a friend and mentor to many others. Through all this he came to photograph without photographing and to understand the importance of giving back to the community.

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  • Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel

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    The question was always a problem for Richard Avedon. Even in the final decade of his life and career as the most celebrated, ridiculed, honored, debated portrait and fashion photographer of his time, journalists and critics would posit the same intolerable, unbelievable notion: Is photography really art? And it didn’t sound much kinder coming from his friend Charlie Rose, playing the genial provocateur and devil’s advocate for the TV viewers at home in 1993. Anyone watching could have detected Avedon’s moment of pain. “Listen, that is such a bogus and nitwit thing to ask .”

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  • Best PhotoBooks of 2008

    Welcome to the Best Photobooks of 2008 interactive feature — a new and expanded version of what has become a cherished photo-eye tradition. In the window above you’ll see a list of prominent photographers, publishers, editors, writers, critics and publications who have been kind enough to share their picks for the top 10 (or so) books of 2008. Clicking on any name will give you their list, and clicking on any book will show all the other lists on which it appears.

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  • PDNPulse: Chicago Tribune Readers Find Big Photos "Disorienting"

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    Last September we showed you the Chicago Tribune’s splashy, graphics-intensive redesign. We thought the design looked nice, but apparently it wasn’t good enough to stop the catastrophic downward slide of the entire newspaper industry.

    In fact, readers hated it so much that the Tribune is undoing many of the changes. Today the Tribune published a special cover flap announcing its responses to reader complaints. Among the problems: Readers didn’t like the larger photographs.

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