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Eye-Fi Pro X2, The Un-Fill-Up-Able Memory Card
LAS VEGAS — Amidst the flouncy, high-glamour at CES, where handsome middle managers trade business cards with other handsome middle managers, Eye-Fi has made a solid, down-to-earth product announcement. The Eye-Fi Pro X2 is the same old Wi-Fi equipped SD
The Eye-Fi Pro X2 is the same old Wi-Fi equipped SD card, only everything has been dialed up to eleven.
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I was disappointed to see a post from my friend Andertho on Flickr this morning regarding a photography ban that is in place at the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Vistor Center in Washington DC. Of all places that ought to allow photography, Government (remember that old “by the people, for the people thingy?) ought to be the most open of all.
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It was 1979. I had only just begun to take photographs. Most of my time in life at that point was spent late into the evening, until the sun was coming up, at the Mudd Club in lower Manhattan. There I observed a downtown scene that was bizarre, fashionably cryptic at times, youthfully exuberant, its veneer quasi-religious. So when I decided to make a spontaneous journey to Haiti, nothing could prepare me for the magic realism that I was about to witness. Yes ~ this was no Mudd Club.
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The South African Daily Voice is what all newspapers will look like after the apocalypse. It’s like Heat for the age of Mad Max; The Grapes of Wrath in handy Daily Star format. It’s leading the way with a new model of what a tabloid can be.
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This week, Mårten Lange interviews Bertrand Fleuret.
Bertrand Fleuret is a photographer living in Berlin. He has published two books, The Risk of an Early Spring (Artimo, 2004) and Landmasses and Railways (J&L Books, 2009).
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Last night the Deleteme Uncensored group on Flickr published our first group book together, Save 10, The Lightbox Collection. The 80 page 8×10 landscape format photography book features 75 photographic plates by 40 different DMU photographers.
Link: Announcing the DMU Book: Save 10, The Lightbox Collection | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
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Here are a few of their predictions for what it might be like to look through a photobook in ten years
Link: How should photobook CONSUMPTION evolve in the next decade? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
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Shaena Mallett is a young photographer and anthropologist based in southeastern Ohio, who works to blend art and documentary storytelling to share intimate visual experiences.
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Allowing Flowers by Alec Soth
With the economic crisis and the toll on the housing market we saw and heard hundreds of stories about families facing foreclosure, evicti…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/allowing-flowers-by-alec-soth.html
Alec has teamed up with a Minnesota-based non-profit housing developer called CommonBond Communities with the goal of providing 4000 affordable apartments and townhouses to needy residents of the Upper Midwest. Alec photographed some of the residents of the CommonBond homes and produced a beautiful book called Allowing Flowers that is given away as a gift to people who donate significant sums to the effort.
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You’ll notice the overall visual changes first. While the old site (image 2 in the slideshow above) was good enough, it was a stock wordpress template and has been popping up all over the place of late. It was cluttered, didn’t utilize the full width of modern computers, and was beginning to look dated. Mostly, I was just tired of it and thought I could do something that fit our visual content better. We also wanted a way to highlight posts from our archive.
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Cut This Story!
Newspaper articles are too long.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/short-writing
ONE REASON SEEKERS of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news. Newspaper writers are not to blame. These conventions are traditional, even mandatory.
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too much chocolate Announces Winners of the First Ever TMC + Kodak Film Grant:
– Murray Ballard
– Anna Beeke
– Magda Biernat
– Phil Jung
– Collin LaFleche
– Molly Landreth
– Caitlin Price
– Andy Spyra
– Leah Tepper-Byrne
– Susan Worsham
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another offering from Dokument and Hello Press… Like Lipstick Traces is a coffee-table collection of 600 polaroids taken specifically for this project over the course of two years by 13 mostly European graffiti artists.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine –
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In much of the world men and women remain economic refugees, whether they be in Israel, South Africa, Russia, China, Bengladesh, or in the United States. With an growing world population and an increased competition for limited resources, the exploitation will inevitably increase, just as the backlash against them will become more severe.
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Opinion
The best opinions, comments and analysis from The Telegraph.
via The Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucydavies/100005959/pictures-of-the-year-the-photographers-choice/
I asked a number of photographers and curators to name their image of 2009 for the Sunday Telegraph magazine end of year issue. In case you missed it, here they are:
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Tortuga Travel Photography Adventure Workshops formed in the summer of 2009 with a common goal of sharing our knowledge of great still photography and love for the amazing diversity and similarities of cultures and people around the world.
Link: Tortuga Photo Workshops
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