Author: Trent

  • Hot Summer Fashion Tip #53: The Gary Spivey Afro Helmet

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    Gary Spivey is my new hero.  Internationally revered psychic medium/healer/attention skank notwithstanding, frankly it’s a miracle the guy can even walk or stand upright; the man has grapes the size of Bruce Bruce.  Showing his face in public essentially wearing a PASGT for hydrocephalics covered in white fibers recycled from a 3M allergen filter takes a level of intestinal fortitude as yet not acheived by any human being.                

    Check it out here.

  • Judge Throws the Book at Photographer

    It’s finally over … or is it? In an unfortunate turn of events, it looks like Carlos Miller, the Miami photographer and journalist who was arrested last year while photographing police, has been sentenced to one year probation, 100 hours of community service, anger management class and a $540.50 court cost payment.

    Interestingly enough, a jury found Miller not guilty of both disobeying a police officer and disorderly conduct. They did find him guilty, however, of resisting arrest without violence.

    Check it out here.

  • Republic photographer, Pulitzer winner dies

    Angela Cara Pancrazio, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who later became a well-respected writer and storyteller, died Thursday night at her home in Phoenix.

    She was 51 years old.

    Pancrazio was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in May of 2007.

    Check it out here. Via PDNPulse.

  • Cranford Rose Garden tilt-shift timelapse – Boing Boing

    Dave Allen shot this nifty timelapse video of three days at the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Each still frame of the video was treated with a tilt-shift lens effect in Photoshop.

    Check it out here.

  • New Nikon Full-Frame DSLR? at CameraPorn

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    Rumors are going wild about the release of the supposed Nikon D700, a full-frame DSLR that shares the same sensor and autofocus system of the wonderful Nikon D3.

    Check it out here.

  • Rumor alert: Nikon D700 — smaller and cheaper D3?

    Well see if it holds this time, because someone has posted cell-phone shots of press materials for a smaller, cheaper 35mm-framed Nikon called the D700, and they have me totally convinced. There are a lot easier ways to fool people than to create your own offset printed brochure with out-of-left-field items like redesigned sync caps and totally new magnesium frame mockups. If this is fake, it probably means that Nikon is taking the Apple route and creating professionally made false materials to smoke out whoever leaked earlier products like the the D200.

    Check it out here.

  • Abdullah The Butcher's House Of Ribs & Chinese Food

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    If your future plans include being anywhere near Atlanta and you like offbeat eateries, you’d be making a terrible mistake if you neglected to visit Abdullah The Butcher’s House Of Ribs & Chinese Food.  Abdullah’s primary claim to fame, of course, is as a professional wrestler with a reputation as a bloodthirsty brute.  In the ring, Abdullah was known for his maniacal habit of using a fork to carve into his opponents’ foreheads.

    Check it out here.

  • People Pictures

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    The Art of the Conceptual Photograph 1915 – 1920
     
    Featuring work by: Mole and Thomas, E.O. Goldbeck, and Others

    Check it out here.

  • Alexandre Orion Book and Hand Cut Art

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    We’re proud to announce that the Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion is the latest artist to participate in our “Wooster Special Edition” project. Alexandre follows sold out editions from such artists as Faile, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, BAST, and Darius and Downey.

    Check it out here.

  • Vomiting slime-dog toy – Boing Boing

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    In August, Bandai subsidiary Mega House will ship its new “Biri Biri Kaze Hiki Wanko,” (“shocking sick puppy”) toy, which commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of toy slime with a plastic vomiting doggy.

    Check it out here.

  • New VH1 Show Canceled For Not Being Pathetic Enough

    In a press release Tuesday, Viacom executives announced their newest hour-long VH1 Celebreality program, Knight Life, with former Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, has been canceled for failing to reach the wretched depths of the network’s low standards.

    Check it out here.

  • Scripps Hosts Underwater Photo Shoot with Wayne Martin Belger

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    Perhaps you’ve read about Wayne Martin Belger’s unusual homemade cameras — now go see them in person!

    Check it out here.

  • Longtime Oakland Tribune Photographer Retiring

    Photographer Ron Riesterer is retiring after 50 years (!) at the Oakland Tribune;

    Check it out here.

  • Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned

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    The A.P. doesn’t get to make it’s own rules around how its content is used, if those rules are stricter than the law allows. So even thought they say they are making these new guidelines in the spirit of cooperation, it’s clear that, like the RIAA and MPAA, they are trying to claw their way to a set of property rights that don’t exist today and that they are not legally entitled to. And like the RIAA and MPAA, this is done to protect a dying business model – paid content.

    So here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exist. We don’t see them, we don’t quote them, we don’t link to them. They’re banned until they abandon this new strategy, and I encourage others to do the same until they back down from these ridiculous attempts to stop the spread of information around the Internet.

    Check it out here.

  • Firefox 3, released today, supports colour managed web browsing

    The long-awaited Mozilla Firefox 3 for Mac and Windows, which emerged from beta at 10AM Pacific today, is the latest web browser to support the colour managed display of photos with embedded ICC profiles. That’s the good news. The bad news is it’s turned off by default. Here’s how to turn it on.

    Check it out here.

  • Pixels Are Hot

    And then there were three (at least!). After much anticipation, Matthew Drayton has shipped Iris 1.0, his company Nolobe’s entry into the “Photoshop-like” pixel-pushing market on OS X.

    Check it out here.

  • Stalking Yemen's Streets: Self-Appointed Morals Police

    Nader Abdul Kadoos, a 50-year-old returning student, was set upon by one such street committee last month in the southern port city of Aden, in a confrontation that received broad attention in Yemen’s news media.

    Kadoos’s apparent offense was to stroll out of the gates of Aden University after class in a group of male and female students.

    About five bearded men pounced on the students, grabbing one woman by the hand to hold her while two other female students escaped in taxis, Kadoos recounted. The men slapped some of the male students. “Is this a lover’s lane?” the leader of the gang shouted, according to Kadoos.

    More bearded men appeared from nowhere to upbraid the group, while some outraged passersby stopped to defend the mostly young men and women.

    “Do you want us to wait until they start having sex in the street?” Kadoos recalled one of the bearded men shouting back at the crowd.

    Check it out here.

  • Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) – Boing Boing

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    In the name of “defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt” the Associated Press is now selling “quotation licenses” that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words. The licensing system exhorts you to snitch on people who publish without paying the blood-money, offering up to $1 million in reward money (they also think that “fair use” — the right to copy without permission — means “Contact the owner of the work to be sure you are covered under fair use.”).

    It gets better! If you pay to quote the AP, but you offend the AP in so doing, the AP “reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time if Publisher or its agents finds Your use of the licensed Content to be offensive and/or damaging to Publisher’s reputation.”

    Check it out here.

  • Ed Kashi's Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta

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    Ed Kashi has recently released his latest project- Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta.

    Check it out here.