Trent Parkes new exhibition “The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parkes family album” will be shown at the Australian Centre for Photography from 21st November 2008 to 21 January 2009.
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Someone has been putting little tiny McCain campaign signs in the dog doo left on the streets of Venice, California
Check it out here.
Click Note: The Click is politically neutral. Go plant an Obama sign on dog poo and we’ll laugh at that, too.
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Click Note: The Click is politically neutral.Obama-inspired by alphabet created by dozens of the country’s top artists, designers, and photographers.
Contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, Karen Collins, R.O. Blechman, Larry Fink, Jake Chessum, MC Paul Barman, and a housewife in Texas who created an embroidered “S”. Each of the participants reinterpreted one letter of the alphabet in a way that represents what Obama’s candidacy means to them. In all, more than 100 letters were created.
To create banners to post online (using embed code), bumper stickers, posters, postcards, and t-shirts, simply type in a word and the site generates an original design using letters from the alphabet.
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Five years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.” Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since.
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Click Note: You have to click on the “Feature Gallery” tab to see the photographs in the portfolio. It’s very easy to miss, so don’t.Most days a campaign will put out the same bowl of fruit for us to interpret—accuracy, of course, is paramount—and some will paint it, sculpt it, or wax poetic in the hope of making it more interesting than it looked the day before. But lately, John McCain’s campaign schedule has been as erratic as a gold mine penny stock I’ve been watching.
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I also knew that even though those good photos would be found in the crowd, my newspaper would only be interested in running one photo of Taylor Swift singing.
I guess I could have just shoot what was expected and leave it at that but the day I do that will be the day that the paper is looking for something different.
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Are they great, terrible, or both? You figure it out.
Links go to Amazon, though there’s now a Netflix link at the end of each entry.
Dance of the Dead (2008). Filled with geekdom and gore, this tongue-in-cheek, teen creature feature centers on a high school prom at which the living dead await a crowd of unsuspecting students. Unfortunately for the promgoers, the only ones who can save them from zombiehood are the losers who couldn’t even get a prom date in the first place. Can the vastly different cliques band together long enough to defeat the living dead? @Netflix.
Stuck (2007). Driving home after a night of partying, Brandi (Mena Suvari) accidentally crashes into pedestrian Tom (Stephen Rea), who gets stuck in her car’s windshield. Brandi struggles with whether to help save this man’s life or simply let him die and thereby protect her career. In extreme pain and with little time left to live, Tom pleads for Brandi’s help and tries to find a way to escape from his glass prison in this horrific thriller. @Netflix.
Carole & Paula in the Magic Garden (1972). Now parents can introduce their kids to this critically acclaimed children’s series from the 1970 and ’80s, with this fun-filled, 10-episode collection of the show’s most memorable sketches, songs and lessons. Join hosts Carol Demas and Paula Janis as they sing and play guitar, act out exciting stories and pal around with friends Sherlock the squirrel, Flapper the bird and a joke-telling bed of flowers known as the Chuckle Patch. @Netflix.
Night of the White Pants (2006). Thrown out of his mansion by his soon-to-be ex-trophy wife, Barbara (Janine Turner), Dallas businessman Max Hagan (Tom Wilkinson) forges an unlikely connection with punk rocker Raff (Nick Stahl), the boyfriend of his workaholic daughter, Beth (Selma Blair). Joining Raff for a wild night on the town, Max abandons his thoroughly dysfunctional life and gets in touch with his inner punk in this rollicking comedy from writer-director Amy Talkington. @Netflix.
War, Inc. (2008). John Cusack heads the cast as professional ice man Brand Hauser, who’s paid by a private corporation’s brass to take out the competition — a Middle East oil minister — while masquerading as a trade-show director. But not all goes according to plan when fetching field reporter Natalie Hegalhuzen (Marisa Tomei) sidetracks the young assassin. Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley and Joan Cusack also star in this outrageous satire. @Netflix.
Standard Operating Procedure (2008). Through captivating interviews and dramatic reenactments, filmmaker Errol Morris documents the scandal that erupted in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, where mistreatment of detainees at the hands of members of the U.S. military was captured on film. What was the psychological state of the soldiers? Why were the pictures taken? These questions and more are explored in detail in this engaging look at one of the Iraq War’s most notorious episodes. @Netflix.
The Edge of Heaven (2007). When his father (Tuncel Kurtiz) accidentally kills a prostitute (Nursel Koese), Nejat (Baki Davrak) seeks out the woman’s 27-year-old daughter, Ayten (Nurgul Yesilcay), to make amends. Nejat focuses his search in Turkey, but Ayten, part of a closely scrutinized activist group, has already fled to Germany. Lives intersect in unexpected ways in writer-director Fatih Akin’s multilayered drama, which won Best Screenplay at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. @Netflix.
The Unit: Season 3 (3-Disc Series) (2007). The third season of this action drama finds the covert Special Forces team known as the Unit facing annihilation from a mysterious source. Leader Jonas (Dennis Haysbert) tries to keep his team together while working to uncover the identity of the deadly assassin. Meanwhile, as the brave team members confront their toughest challenge, their dedicated wives face many of their own daunting problems back home. @Netflix.
The Long Way Down: Season 1 (3-Disc Series) (2008). Together again, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman make another outrageous excursion in this Fox Reality Channel follow-up to the actors’ first trip, which was documented in the series “Long Way Round.” Kicking off their travels in the Scottish village of John o’ Groats, the pair eventually make their way to Cape Town, South Africa, journeying through Europe and Africa to reach their final destination. @Netflix.
The Substitute (2007) Vikaren. Something about the new sixth-grade substitute just isn’t quite right. Even though she’s managed to charm all the parents, the students are convinced that Ulla’s (Paprika Steen) cold, eccentric, mind-reading behavior is anything but normal. When they discover that their new sub is actually a menacing alien, Carl (Jonas Wandschneider) and the rest of the students band together to thwart her evil plans. @Netflix.
Negima: Spring and Summer (2008) Mahô sensei negima! Child prodigy Negi Springfield is back in this episode duo from the anime series about a 9-year-old boy teacher at a girls’ school who is well loved by his class of students with supernatural abilities. First, Akaya tries to arrange a romantic getaway with Negi, but her plan turns into an all-out class party. Then, Negi falls victim to a magic spell that finds him harnessed to the bookish Nodoka, who has chosen to spend the day at a spa. @Netflix.
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David Liebe Hart believes he was abducted by aliens, hosts a public-access TV program called “The Junior Christian Bible Story Puppet Show,” draws pictures and performs music for tips on the streets of Los Angeles, and is looking for a woman.
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Click Note: The Click is politically neutral.WASILLA, AK – Records and eyewitnesses have come to light that prior to announcing her candidacy for the Vice Presidency; Sarah Palin shot a Bigfoot from a helicopter.
in News
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Are you a woman being lured to Moscow, the Russian capital, for prostitution? You had better watch it. You may be heading for an early grave. Moscow is not the best of places for the profession, particularly for blacks. If you dare, you may learn too late, in the hands of a certain group of Russian youths popularly called the ‘skin heads.’
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It’s Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Lips’ Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips’ Michael Ivins) fear the worst. Syrtis also hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing (Coyne) arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts.
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These were the questions I sought to answer, and in this article, I give you the results of my experiment: a review of two representative terrorist propaganda games.
in Gaming
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Say ‘Hebbo’ to Tarvuism!
Why not take a look at some of our exciting web pages? Click on the Tarvupedia to read our online Tarvuist encyclopedia, learn all about Tarvu, chat to other Tarvuists in our Tarvuist forum, and find out how you too can become a Tarvuist.
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Abell built a three-decade career as a field photographer for National Geographic based on the lessons he learned from his father and a way of making photographs that he evolved along the way. Abell spoke with PDN from his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, about his work for National Geographic, the way he shoots photographs, and how he brought the two together to create his new book.
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The rumors have been swirling around for a few weeks now about the launch of a new line Apple notebook computers around the 15th of October
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So who’s the “owner” of the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill at 89 West 7th Avenue?
Banksy.
Once inside Banksy’s pet store, you discover such things as breaded fish that swim in a large round bowl while hot dogs are living the high life under heat lamps in cages near the cash register.
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Get ready for international inspiration, visual stimulation, new photographic insights, and — quite possibly — image overload!
Lens Culture is pleased to be a partner with Paris Photo again this year. We are delighted to present our preview selection of more than 200 photographers from the show. And believe it or not, this is just an appetizer for this year’s event.
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We caught up with the band and got them to reveal their Top 12 most influential albums. Consider this an exclusive mixtape list showcasing some of the seminal records that have made a lasting impression on the music and lifestyle of Rise Against.
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Shaun Pye and the late Harry Thompson’s ultra bleak — and often quite smutty — BBC3 television series, Monkey Dust. Truly, it can be said, Monkey Dust raises the bar!
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The New York Times is reporting on a new piece of software developed by Israeli computer scientists that take a photo and make it more attractive based on focus group research they conducted with 68 men and women. The “beautification engine”makes minor adjustments of symmetry, skin tone, and other factors that have been associated with “beauty.”
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