many of you have seen this book before, but i am sure many of you have not….my first work in print….i publish it again here now only because my friend Masaaki Okada, who was the designe…
a new $100,000 prize for artists under the age of 35.
All artists—no matter what medium they work in—who are under 35 may apply through the Prize’s web site. A panel of 100 curators, teachers, artists and critics will also be asked to make nominations.
This teaching thing must really be getting into my blood. Now that I’m on winter break and I haven’t been in a classroom for over a week, I have a strong urge to spew unsolicited and unnecessary multimedia advice. Please excuse the rant and take it for what it’s worth–the ramblings of a wanna be intellectual. TAKE WHAT YOU WANT AND LEAVE THE REST…
Outraged by the social effects—perceived or real—of skinny female models in advertising, politicians in France, Britain and Israel are calling for varying degrees of regulation.
The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)
French newspaper le Monde just announced that collective photo agency, L’oeil Public, was filing for bankruptcy. For those who only care about what is happening in their own country, or even backward, that might mean nothing. However, like a upcoming storm, events that will soon be over your head tend to start somewhere else
The Hipstamatic, contrary to its name, isn’t a camera to be used whilst wearing tight pants, showing your underwear and doing elephant trunk skids on your fixed-gear track bike. Instead, it is an iPhone application which will apply all manner of image deg
Digitimes, a site which likes to predict the future of Apple hardware by keeping track of the components Apple orders from its suppliers, has a juicy tidbit regarding the iPhone camera. Not only has Apple, apparently, ordered 40-45 million camera units fr
McLeroy worked at the newspaper for 29 years until taking a buyout in 2007, then became a freelance photographer. A slideshow on mysanantonio.com illustrates his range, from coverage of Pope John Paul II’s visit to the Alamo City in 1987 to a clever shot
It turns out that the situation is hardly clear at this point and after 3 Months we still have no idea if photos are allowed as originally suggested by Orr or not. What we do have are a series of week after week after week non-answers coming back from Starbucks marketing. Below are all of the responses filtered out from Starbucks which read like typical corporate doublespeak and delay tactics, with no official answer from Starbucks and no official answer anywhere near in sight
Last Monday was December 21st – the Winter Solstice, or the shortest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere). The 21st would also have also been the first day of Nivôse, the first winter month of the long-abandoned French Republican Calendar, named a
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post. More galleries will be posted next week.
All this stuff degrades over time, so the contemporary advice is to digitize it for enhancement and indefinite preservation. Enter scanners and scanning software – a field which retains a steady clientele despite the onslaught of digital capture. A few firms still manufacture film scanners and several scanning applications are on the market, of which SilverFast remains the most comprehensive.