by Joshua Gorchov
Superhuman Strength and Physical Proportions
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Author: Trent
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3 iPhone Media Apps (that Feel a Little Like Magic) | 43 Folders
There are so many amazing new apps on the iPhone store that I hope to review here (and I’ll certainly spend time on a few more over coming weeks), but today I want to point you to three applications that make me feel like I’m a music fan of the very-near-future — where personalized data flies through the air, phones play rock music based on your personal preferences, and everybody listens to Silkworm on moving sidewalks and in tricked-out rocket cars.
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Bikini Man | MySanAntonio.com
Gary Duncan hides almost nothing about himself. Quite literally. Most days, his modesty amounts to little more than a nylon and Lycra man-bikini stretched across his nether region.
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When the medium becomes the message (Conscientious)
I sometimes get an email with a link suggestion and a comment along the lines of “these photos are great, they use [add your favourite process here]”. I don’t care much about the process when looking at photography (unless the process is an integral part of the photography, which is almost never the case). What I mean by that is that whatever it took to produce a photograph does not determine whether the result is good or bad.
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SportsShooter.com – Lighting In A Bag with Myung Chun at Sports Shooter Academy IV (video)
This is video from Myung Chun teaching a portable lighting class using small strobes at Sports Shooter Academy IV, held April 2007 in Southern California. Chun is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times.
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Father-of-three branded a 'pervert' – for photographing his own children in public park | Mail Online
When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out.
But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old Cory, and Miles, five, led to him being called a ‘pervert’.
The woman running the slide at Wolverhampton Show asked him what he was doing and other families waiting in the queue demanded that he stop.
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Photos of vehicles in Africa and NYC booksigning – Boing Boing
Here are some great shots of African cars in various states of disrepair. I made these pictures on my travels through West-Africa.
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US Gov't torture playlist stickers – Boing Boing
Mother Jones’s Torture Playlist includes the music used in American military prisons to torture detainees, and ranges from Christina Aguilera to Sesame Street. Using address labels – sized 2.25″ x 0.75″ – you can affix these stickers I designed to CDs in your local record shop and make a small political statement about state violence. I’ve developed the stickers below to raise awareness about this form of torture. There’s a copyright-free PDF available at the suggested website link.
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The Exposure Project: Fran Osborn-Blaschke's Curve Of The Earth
In anticipation of the third issue of The Exposure Project Book, slated for release in late August, I am going to be posting some work that will be included in the publication. Fran Osborn-Blaschke is a Boston-based photographer whose project Curve Of The Earth takes a rather scientific approach to landscape photography.
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Wooster Collective: "Roadsworth: Crossing the Line" – The Six Minute Trailer
new six minute trailer for the upcoming film, “Roadsworth: Crossing the Line” We’ve been hearing great things about it.
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iPhone line-waiter strikes back at jackass TV reporter – Boing Boing
An obnoxious TV reporter went to Burbank to ask stupid questions to people waiting in line for the new iPhone. I was delighted to see that my pal Jeff, or his identical twin brother (he really has one) told the reporter he was a jackass.
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Warped Beyond Repair
When the Warped Tour launched in 1994, nearly all the featured acts played really fast, got profanely angry about politics, and said funny s* on stage. Also, unwatched by most, “extreme athletes” performed. The heavy corporate presence, amphitheater settings and lofty concession prices bristled some Mohawks. Other than that, it wasn’t the worst possible way to spend a day, if you were 14 or so. Scattered decent acts participated, and you’d leave not much dumber than you entered.
By contrast, attending Warped 2008 is like having someone attach sand to your skin with liquid cement, blowtorch that sand into a form-fitting glass shell, then forcibly shatter that encasing, driving shards into every inch of your naked flesh.
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Ricochet – washingtonpost.com
By Warren ZinnThe e-mail was a punch in the gut: “the soldier you made famous — killed himself last Saturday — thought you should know.”
I thought I’d put photojournalism and war behind me four and a half years ago when I traded in the dusty battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan for law school in Miami. But those words reminded me that you never truly leave the battlefield behind.
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Casio Catches Video Before You Shoot It
The new firmware update gives the EX1 the same feature—for video. That is, when you press the Movie Record button while using the new mode, the camera stores the five seconds of video that it witnessed BEFORE you pressed the button. Once again, it’s great for capturing unexpected events without wasting a lot of “tape.”
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The Long War of Genaro García Luna – NYTimes.com
photos by Anthony Suau for The New York TimesWhen Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s top police official, arrived in Tijuana in January, the city was in the middle of a storm of violence that he found, as he put it to me with clipped understatement soon after his visit, “surprising.” First, three local police officers were murdered in a single night, apparently in retaliation for a bust that a drug-cartel boss warned them not to carry out. A few days later, federal police officers tried to storm a trafficker safe house in a quiet Tijuana neighborhood and ended up in a shootout. Five gunmen held off dozens of police officers and soldiers for more than three hours. By the time the police made it inside the house, six kidnap victims from a rival cartel being held there had been executed. The traffickers had skinned off some of the victims’ faces to conceal their identities.
The attacks on the police officers were particularly worrying for García Luna, who as secretary of public security is one of the officials in charge of implementing President Felipe Calderón’s decision to aggressively wage war on drug trafficking. Just before García Luna’s visit to Tijuana, a police officer’s wife and 12-year-old daughter were murdered in their home there, in violation of a longstanding code of combat that is supposed to safeguard the families of cops and traffickers alike.
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Phase One P65+ Preview
July 14th will see the announcement of the Phase One P65+, arguably the most desirable medium format digital back yet. What makes it so?
Here’s the story…
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Photo Essay: Congo Portraits
by Gary Knight, VIIThe Congolese are generally not the most willing of subjects particularly when they think that the photographer will somehow profit from the exchange at their expense.
After a week or two struggling to work on stories on the Congo River I decided to engage in a collaboration with some of the villagers and city dwellers in and around Kisingani. I set up a portable studio (my hotel bed sheet, some gaffer tape and anything in the vicinity I could use to hang it on) and invited passers by or merchants in the area to be photographed with anything or anyone they desired. Most of them were photographed with the tools of their trade or with friends. It’s probably the most fun I have ever had with a camera.
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