Movie Studios See a Threat in the Growth of Redbox – NYTimes.com:
Redbox’s growth — it started with 12 kiosks in 2004 and now processes about 80 transactions a second on Friday nights — has Hollywood’s blood boiling. Furious about a potential cannibalization of DVD sales and a broader price devaluation of their product, three studios (20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and Universal) are refusing to sell DVDs to Redbox until at least 28 days after they arrive in stores.
Chase Jarvis Blog: Packing Quick ‘n’ Dirty:
Scott uploaded this vid to my Facebook page from the Karl Strauss brewery at LAX and it quickly got over 100 comments/likes in about 15 hours. Since questions poured in from there and twitter, I thought I’d chuck the vid up here and scramble to answer some of those questions over a wimpy cappuccino here in the Air New Zealand lounge before running to our next legs to Christchurch and onto Queenstown.
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: To Publish or Not?:
Every day we see photographs of Iraqi corpses, Palestinians horribly maimed, Afghan women with horrific burns, Congolese civilians beheaded, and many others. They are also loved ones and have families too, yet we show them in our publications without even thinking twice. Yes, sometimes, a gentle soul at one of the newspapers inserts a caution before the graphic images…but they still end up on our front pages, don’t they?
Why ‘GQ’ Doesn’t Want Russians To Read Its Story : NPR:
“It was quite mysterious to me,” Anderson says. “All of a sudden, it became clear that they were going to run the article but they were going to try to bury it under a rock as much as they possibly could.”
Haiti Makes Bid For 2216 Olympics | America’s Finest News Source:
“This is the place where we may be able to possibly erect an aquatics center,” said Baker, gesturing to a partially submerged field piled high with rusted-out Jeeps. “We’re hoping that within a century or two we’ll be able to raise enough food to feed enough workers to move enough dirt to make a hole deep enough to contain an Olympic-size pool.”
PDNPulse: Getty Announces September 2009 Grant Winners:
Getty Images today completed its fifth annual photojournalism grants program by announcing that Krisanne Johnson, Brenda Kenneally (both from the United States) and Zalmai (from Afghanistan and Switzerland) have been selected to each receive $20,000 grants, as well as collaborative editorial support from Getty Images, to pursue their documentary photography projects.
Death Of A Marine: AP Releases Graphic Photos From Afghanistan Ambush:
AP said in a statement released in conjunction with the photographs today that the meeting with Bernard’s parents included them seeing the photographs in advance of any release.
“AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception. We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is,” AP director of photography Santiago Lyon said. Bernard’s death shows “his sacrifice for his country.”
Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not? – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
It is a scene from which many of us would naturally recoil, or at least avert our eyes: a grievously injured young man, fallen on a rough patch of earth; his open-mouthed and unseeing stare registering — who can know what? — horror or fear or shock; being tended desperately by two companions in what are the first moments of the final hours of his life.
It is a scene that plays out daily among American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one that has largely been unseen by the American public in eight years of war.
On Friday, after a couple of weeks of intramural debate and over the objections of the young man’s father (supported by the defense secretary), The Associated Press released such a photograph, by Julie Jacobson.
Escondido (Hidden), by Federico Gama:
Right at noon on Sunday 13 March 2005 I began my wanderings near the Tacubaya metro station, just as I’d been doing for several months previously. I habitually began at Tacubaya station, would continue outside Pino Suárez metro station and end the afternoon at a downtown park, the Alameda Central, guided by whatever I’d find in the streets related to a project I named Mazahuacholoskatopunk, in which I sought to portray indigenous young people in youthful fashions and styles derived from so-called “urban tribes.”
Robert Gates protests AP decision as ‘appalling’ – Mike Allen – POLITICO.com:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
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Cuban’s Plan to Kill Aggregators: End Free Links | Newsweek Daniel Lyons:
Since the dawn of the Internet, news organizations have accepted the notion that the only way to survive the onslaught of the Web is to publish everything online, at no cost to readers, and let anyone in the world synopsize it, refer to it, and copy and link to it. You can’t charge for your work—that’s rule No. 1 on the Internet. And you can’t block others from copying or linking to it—that’s rule No. 2.
But those rules are starting to look stupid.
Photo News: The Perpignan iPhone app – Image Warehouse closes | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
For those wishing they were at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, France, this week — there’s an app for that. If you have an iPod, you can download the free application here and see some of the exclusive images from the festival.
Getting Lost – sportsshooter:
In my thirty-one years I’ve lost a lot of things. Car keys, fights with roommates, favorite pairs of socks, photo contests, both of my parents and occasionally my mind. But nothing prepared me for losing a job, especially over the phone. Especially when they knew I’d be alone to hear the news.
Photos by Charles Harbutt – Down on the Street:
Awesome set of photos by Charles Harbutt, someone I had never heard of until this morning.
It’s all in the Details: The Exposure Dilemma – sportsshooter:
Without getting into the nature of sensor architecture, or going into tone curves, the simple answer is that it is always better to slightly over expose, and use whatever tools you prefer to bring back detail in highlights. With even minor under exposure, shadow noise goes from bearable to unacceptable, even at low ISO’s on modern digital cameras.
People of Walmart: a collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart, America’s favorite store.
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