It is nice to see someone break all the newspaper multimedia rules. Is it great? I don’t know, but I watched it… Alec Soth rents a metal detector in the California Treasure Hunt
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Financial genius: US record industry turns $16M in legal spending into $391K cash – Boing Boing
Financial genius: US record industry turns $16M in legal spending into $391K cash
The title of this Recording Industry vs The People post says it all, really: “Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!”: If the av…
I’m excited to announce the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010, the second of its kind (after a great start last year). As before, the winner(s) will have their work featured here on this website, in the form of an extended conversation/interview. This year, two guest judges, Elisabeth Biondi (New Yorker magazine) and Susanna Brown (Victoria and Albert Museum), are joining me to pick the winner(s) – and there’s a twist.
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Nikon's President comments on the upcoming mirrorless camera again | Nikon Rumors
Nikon’s President comments on the upcoming mirrorless camera again – Nikon Rumors
In an interview with Pen News Weekly, Nikon’s president Makoto Kimura made few more comments on the upcoming mirrorless camera from Nikon (see the previous interview, where he dropped the bomb about an upcoming Nikon mirrorless concept): Nikon plans to re
Award-winning photographer Peter Turnley talks to CNN’s Jim Clancy about his experience in Haiti and challenges ahead.
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U.S. denies visa to Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, citing Patriot Act
U.S. denies visa to Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, citing Patriot Act
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070905438.html?wprss=rss_world
Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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Canadian photojournalist assaulted and arrested for taking photos
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Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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Time Moves to Limit Free Content Online – NYTimes.com
Time Moves to Limit Free Content Online
In a move meant to drive readers to newsstands and its iPad applications, Time is replacing most of its content online with abridged articles and summaries.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/media/08time.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
In a speech to the House of Commons, the Home Secretary Theresa May has put an end to one of Britain’s most controversial piece of legislation, which has been increasingly used by police officers to restrict photographers working in public places
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LA Pays $1.7m to Fox Camera Operator – Discarted
LA Pays $1.7m to Fox Camera Operator
Fox TV camera operator Patricia Ballaz has been awarded $1.7 million in damages stemming from the May Day 2007 Immigration Rights rally in Los Angeles where she was beaten by the LAPD. In her testi…
Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/la-pays-1-7m-to-fox-camera-operator/
The contest, which ends at 1800 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.
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Panasonic LX5 coming soon with m4/3 sensor? | Leica News & Rumors
Panasonic LX5 coming soon with m4/3 sensor? – Leica Rumors
Rumors surfaced today of a new Panasonic point and shoot camera with m4/3 sensor, fixed 3x zoom Leica lens (starting from 24mm f/2.0 on the wide angle) and some kind of a built-in optical rangefinder with wide and tele markings. They also mentioned that L
An editor at The Economist insists the decision to Photoshop a news photo for its June 19 cover was made for the sake of design, not politics.
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Four Lions: This is Spinal Tap for suicide bombers
Four Lions: This is Spinal Tap for suicide bombers
Parenthood has seriously put a crimp in our moviegoing activities, but every now and again Alice and I get to go see something, and we always try to pick a good one. We scored big on Saturday night…
Ruth Fremson has seen a great deal of war, disaster and poverty. To be able to depict suffering, photographers have to step back and observe, holding themselves a bit apart from the situation — if they can — for just a moment or two. That doesn’t mean, however, that their own emotions can simply be shelved.
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The Online Photographer: KGB'd!
KGB’d!
So news photographers can’t alter images in any way, but new publications can? Shame on Emma Duncan, The Economist, and Reuters. The original picture was taken by Larry Downing of Reuters. The cover crop and alteration was the responsibility of…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/07/kgbd.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
LUCEO will be documenting the decline of small town America as a group project over the coming year.