I got this email from a reader and after a brief investigation of the source I feel comfortable to post it here – I have no way to confirm the validity of the rumor, but I have a reason to believe that the source is trustworthy:
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in Equipment
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The Defense Department is again reviewing its policy that prohibits the news media from photographing flag-draped coffins of war dead returning to U.S. soil.
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Masters of vinyl toydom TIM BISKUP and Tokyo’s T9G teamed up to blow minds of Japanese collectors with their “T x T Project” of collaborative vinyl toys and new paintings from Mr Biskup that opened last weekend at STITCH GALLERY.
in Art & Design
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“We left our motel room around 2 p.m. in the afternoon, from 2:30 p.m. til 3:30 p.m. on Monday we did as the Lord commanded in going into disguise by going into the suntanning salon,” he said on Aug. 12, 2005. “The Lord has directed that I watch certain movies to see how this generation and nation delight in warfare, immorality, about the Crusades, a very bloody, violent show, and how the people of this nation are indoctrinated in fighting against religion.”
Later, Warren Jeffs was visited by some of his wives.
“They were dressed as the gentiles are in britches and short sleeve blouses. Their hair was patterned after the gentile hairdos, and had the makeup or paint on their faces. I had them change into Priesthood dresses, and I explained why they were there,” he said. “The Lord had directed that I make sure they see the program ‘Man on Fire’ a very violent, immoral show about kidnapping, where the parents of a child kidnap their own child to get money. I explained to the ladies that this is what the Lord showed me would happen against some of our Priesthood people.”
in Misc
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Yesterday, I promised to tell you about a few of the 150 moving, inspiring and depressing talks I saw at the TED conference last week. Today, a few notes.
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Benjamin Lowy received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, and Libya among others. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass and was nominated for the ICP Infinity Award. He was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, POYi, PDN, Communication Arts, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Design. Benjamin’s work from Iraq and Darfur have been collected into several gallery and museum shows, and his work from Darfur appeared in the SAVE DARFUR media campaign. In 2008 Benjamin joined the VII Network.
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Renowned for his old master style oil paintings of modern black males in renaissance poses, NYC based artist KEHINDE WILEY makes his first foray into photography just as memorable with a new series of stills replicating his instantly recognizable fine art aesthetic. Created for “Black Light,” a forthcoming book by Brooklyn-based publishers POWERHOUSE set to debut in Ma
in Photography
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American Pop photographer David LaChapelle is in the art-world spotlight this year, with a big mid-career retrospective exhibition in Paris (February 6 – May 31), and a simultaneous solo show that just opened in Mexico City.
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West Africa-based freelance photographer Olivier Asselin has a nice series of Ghana street portraits.
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Joanna of Morbid Anatomy found delight and wonder, as I now have, in this collection of vintage photos that are bizarre by their nature, juxtaposition, or just the lack of context.
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Lytvinenko scores again with a new day-in-the-life stop-motion video of our annual meet.
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Pellegrin traveled around the world to capture these movie stars in various locations. He also had the help of a post production team in Europe and the US to retouch the images. But I don’t think it dimishes the images — we want our movie stars to look immaculate and mythological. And these pictures do the trick. So apologies to Paolo for being a doubter. You killed it.
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To his friends and family, Richard LaVon Griffiths was a loving, hard-working truckdriver from Beaver.
To the Sundance Film Festival audiences who saw him in Salt Lake City filmmaker Trent Harris’ “Beaver Trilogy,” Griffiths was an acting talent with a personality so eccentric, honest and charming, he became a cult-film figure.
Griffiths, also known as “The Beaver Kid” and “Groovin’ Gary,” passed away Feb. 2 at Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Medical Center. He was 50 years old.
in Obituaries
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Occipital’s ClearCam also wants to help you take better pictures. But it does so in a fairly unique way. ClearCam takes six pictures in rapid succession (around 2.5 seconds), automatically picks the sharpest of the six, then — using that sharpest shot as a baseline — merges the frames together to generate a super-resolved 4 megapixel image.
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in Copyright
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Members of the spoof heavy metal band Spinal Tap have confirmed they are to record their first album in nearly 20 years.
in Music
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Czech photographer Dita Pepe uses self-portrait photography to explore ideas of how personal identity can seem to change dramatically in relationship to the other people in our lives, and the surrounding circumstances.
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As underground art phenomenon SHEPARD FAIREY’s first major museum retrospective prepares to open at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART/BOSTON on February 6th, we feel the need to address some of the vicious and unfounded rumors surrounding the originality of Shepard’s artwork that have been floated online in recent years. Though written by a variety of different detractors for a questionable array of reasons, the common thread binding them all—aside from a thinly masked veneer of obvious envy in most cases—is a nearly ubiquitous lack of understanding of the artist’s use of appropriated imagery in his work and the longstanding historical precedent for this mode of creative expression.
