Author: Trent

  • Georgian Conflict Exposes Obsolete Hardware in Russian Forces

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    The technical sophistication of the Russian forces turned out to be inferior in comparison with the Georgian military. While Georgia’s armed forces operated Soviet-era T-72 tanks and Su-25 attack planes, both were upgraded with equipment such as night-vision systems to make them technologically superior to similar models operated by the Russian Ground Forces, said Konstantin Makiyenko, deputy director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

    “The Russian forces had to operate in an environment of technical inferiority,” Makiyenko said.

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  • A good year for the paparazzi? Just ask Amy and Peaches | Life and style | The Observer

    Every morning Paul Convery walks out of his front door to be confronted by piles of discarded coffee cups and sandwich wrappings. There is an unmistakable stench of urine. The pavements are filled with stocky, intimidating men with glowering expressions and the parking spaces have all been taken by battered 4x4s that have not paid or displayed.

    ‘The neighbours down the road are woken nightly at around 3am by the sounds of taxi doors slamming, shuffling of feet, shouting and excitement,’ he says. But this is no unexplained urban menace: this is the modern paparazzi at work. Convery has the misfortune to live on the same north London street as Peaches Geldof, the ubiquitous celebrity poppet whose picture is much in demand from tabloid newspapers and glossy magazines.

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  • World Records Seen From Above

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    Photo by Vincent Laforet/Newsweek

    I shot most everything from overhead today, either with the use of remote cameras or by physically shooting from the catwalks. Here is Andrei Rybakou of Belarus winning the silver medal and breaking the world record with an 185 Kg snatch in the men’s 85kg weightlifting competition. This was shot with an overhead remote camera–more on that later…

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  • DOUBLE CROSS: Shaun Sheridan – The Anthrax Part II

    So he was there and Joe Crucial gets on the mic and says “We’re happy to be here, we hear Ian’s in the crowd tonight. You’re so great and wonderful, but, why do you have to use the F-word so often?! That’s not very positive! This song goes out to you! Those Who Curse Are the Worst!” The thing was, I hadn’t talked to Ian yet that evening, but I looked over at him and he just thought it was hysterical, because he’s never taken it that seriously. It’s not this Rah! Rah! thing for Ian, at all. He pretty much said “This is no set of rules.” I don’t know if he’s, exactly still like that. The drummer for Uniform Choice got so upset, he went running to Bill the sound guy, who only occasionally drank, but at that time he wasn’t doing anything, and started yelling “Shut off the PA! These guys can’t play anymore! They’ve just blasphemed my God!”

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  • Bill Would End Ban on Photos of Returning Military Dead

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    The Department of Defense would be required to grant journalists access to ceremonies honoring fallen military personnel under a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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  • Convention Cutting – Forbes.com

    Forget April. For bean counters at financially troubled newspapers, August is the cruelest month.

    Their budget-stretching began with coverage of the Beijing Olympics, which ends Aug. 24. A day later, the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Denver, and the Republican National Convention begins Sept. 1 in St. Paul, Minn. The result is predictable.

    “Almost every large news bureau, with maybe a few exceptions, is cutting back,” says Jerry Gallegos, superintendent of the House of Representatives’ daily press gallery, which is handling newspapers’ convention credentials. In some cases, though he won’t say which ones, papers have reduced their staffing “by as much as 20%.”

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  • Metal for Monsters Monsters

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    (met-l fer mon’strs) cause. 1. An effort by Blend Creations to raise money for UNICEF by collaborating with artists for a special line of limited-edition stainless steel pendants.

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  • A Photo Editor – The Next Generation Of Photo Editors

    I think the way clients and photographers communicate and reach each other and the job of Photo Editor will profoundly change in the next decade. There’s exciting technology to take advantage of and the potential of the internet has barely been tapped by publishers. I wanted to start talking with .com and junior Photo Editors to look at the way they’re using technology and get a feel for what the future might bring.

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  • LA Weekly – Who's Your Daddy? Why John Edwards' Sex Life Is Our Business Too

    JOHN EDWARDS’ NATIONALLY TELEVISED confession on ABC’s Nightline this week was absolutely unconvincing and, in the end, rather revolting. “I don’t know who that baby is,” Edwards said when asked if he had, indeed, fathered the young child of Rielle Hunter.

    That baby? Haven’t we heard that before? You know, like when Big Bill referred to Ms. Lewinsky as “that woman.”

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  • Things Get Testy at Olympic News Conference – 2008 Olympics

    Every morning during the Olympics, the local organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee address the world’s media at a state-of-the-Games news conference.

    These things are rarely entirely smooth sailing for the officials, but Wednesday’s conference was unusually testy.

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  • Visions of China: A 2008 Olympics Picture Blog : A Third of the Way Through: Time for a Little Introspection.

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    Photo by Vincent Laforet/Newsweek

    We’re about a third of the way through the Olympic Games as of the end of today – and I’ve always found this to be a good point to look back through the images I’ve made so far, and to make adjustments on how I will shoot from here on out.
    This of course has put me in a very introspective mood. Truth be told I’m not thrilled with any of the images I’ve taken so far, and as a result my head has been in the clouds for most of the day.  I’m trying to figure out how I can change my approach from this point on, in an effort to produce images that I will be proud of, and that hopefully this blog’s readers will appreciate throughout the rest of the games.  

    Trying to figure out what to do next has led me to asking one of the most basic questions that most sports photographers ask themselves on a regular basis:  How exactly do you define a great sports photograph?

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  • Adobe's Photoshop Express gives away your work | Copyright Action

    What we have here is yet another example of an aggregator reinventing copyright custom and practice to suit their business agenda at a cost to photographers. Compare and contrast Adobe’s cavalier attitude toward photographers’intellectual property with their own formidable license, that you have to accept when installing the PSX software

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  • Beijing 2008: A Photographer's Blog. Part 1

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    SportsShooter.com member and San Jose Mercury News staff photographer Nhat V. Meyer is in Beijing, China covering his second Olympic Games for the Mercury News. He is also shooting for the MediaNews Group.

    Following are some excerpts from his blog that he is updating daily for family and friends about his experiences in Beijing.

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  • The Phoenix > Photos: North Korea's surreal Mass Games

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    the DPRK invests an estimated 200 million of its people’s man-hours each year in a choreographed extravaganza of gymnastics, music and dancing. That way the politically vetted elite permitted to reside in Pyongyang can watch kids in fuchsia leotards doing back-flips through hula-hoops. They call it the Mass Games, and it’s the most surreal sight in the most bizarre nation on the planet.

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  • Bigfoot discovery press conference on Friday – Boing Boing

    Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo writes about the Bigfoot body purported to be discovered in the woods in Northern Georgia

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  • Foreign media jostled by police near Olympic stadium in Beijing Media | guardian.co.uk

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    Journalists and photographers were targeted by police during the aftermath of a demonstration by Free Tibet activists near the Olympic stadium in Beijing

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  • Reports: At Least Four Journalists Dead in Georgia Fighting

    Photographer Klimchuk and journalist Grigol Chikhladze died after their vehicle came under attack by Georgian forces at a roadblock Monday, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Klimchuk was the head of the Georgian photo agency Caucasus Images, according to the agency’s Web site. Chikhladze was working as a reporter for Russian Newsweek, according to friend and fellow journalist Timo Vogt.

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  • Sign of The Times – The Luminous Landscape

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    At this year’s Olympics the number of Nikons in use by pros seems to equal if not surpass the number of Canons. A definite sign of the times.

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  • Huge Toy Auction – Josh Spear, Trendspotting

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    If there was any doubt that in the 21st century toys = bonafide art, Christie’s recent pop culture auction — including $625 vinyl figures from Huck Gee and Joe Ledbetter –settled it. Now, Phillips de Pury & Company is following suit with an urban art auction to be held in London on September 6th and in New York on October 25th. The selection of original works includes paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, record covers and yes, toys, by urban street artists like Bansky, Blek le Rat, DFace, Faile, Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Dave Kinsey, Adam Neate, Barry Mcgee and Swoon.

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  • Trikont – our own voice

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    Crazy & Obscure / Novelty Songs 1914-1946

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    compiled by: Werner Pieper – publisher from media experiments and counterculture since many years

    CD in Digipak with detailed Booklet in german and english

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