Jim Lavrakas has been a staff photographer at the Anchorage Daily News for
27 years. Friday, October 3, was his last day. He volunteered to depart, a
result of McClatchy staff reduction. He put together a retrospective video
of his career here
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The code word was “chill.” That’s what the crew with Shepard Fairey, the cult graphic artist known for his screen prints and stickers of the wrestler Andre the Giant, had been instructed to say if a police car rolled by as Mr. Fairey was wheat-pasting one recent night here, illegally tagging warehouse walls and empty billboards with his black-and-white images. Then Mr. Fairey and his helpers would know to make a run for it, to avoid yet another arrest.
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Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten has shot a commercial promoting Country Life butter.
in Punk Rock
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XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely
drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through powerful photographs
taken by James Nachtwey. XDR-TB, or extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis,
is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis. Similar in creation to
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) but more extreme in its manifestation,
it arises when common tuberculosis goes untreated or standard TB drugs are
misused. James’ photographs represent these varying strains. Learn more about TB, MDR-TB and XDR-TB, and learn how you can take action to stop this deadly disease.
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An old friend of mine has an airplane in Afghanistan, and I’ve hitched a few rides with him. On one trip, I took aerial photos of compounds in Helmand Province, between Camp Bastion and Lashkar Gah.
Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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I am a little late to this party but Farewell Books has a new release called Naini and the Sea of Wolves by Trinidad Carrillo that is well worth some additional attention as it has now won the Swedish Photobook Award for 2008.
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Exciting updates are on the way this month for the PhotoShelter Personal Archive. In mid-October, you’ll see many of your most requested new features, like:
Easier customization. New tools will simplify customization — you’ll have templates to quickly blend sales, search, and gallery functionality into your website.
New look. We’re simplifying navigation and sprucing up the Personal Archive public and member pages, so using PhotoShelter will be more efficient for you and your buyers.
Member forums! Connect with fellow Personal Archive subscribers for professional and technical discussion — or even just a little fun.
Gallery widget. Embed a slick gallery slideshow into any website or social network to extend your marketing reach.
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Nintendo hosted its latest press conference in Tokyo last night, and with the gaming giant not displaying its goods at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, the press was expecting some big announcements from the event, and no one was disappointed. New hardware, new games, and new services were all announced and detailed, but the biggest news has to be the revamped Nintendo DS, called the DSi.
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Later this year, photo bag maker Think Tank Photo will release the Shape Shifter, a way-cool photo backpack that expands to carry both photo gear and a laptop to the assignment, then contracts to about half its maximum depth to hold just your computer and accessories while you shoot. If you’re a newspaper or wire service photographer, or you simply need to carry a minimum of equipment on your back while you make pictures, the Shape Shifter may be for you
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Dan Winters spent 22 days in New York photographing dozens of New York power brokers, New York newsmakers of the past (wow, Frank Serpico looks nothing like Al Pacino, but Joey Buttafuoco has turned into John Belushi) , New York director Woody Allen, New York pride and joys like Deborah Harry, and 36 New York actors.
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This is me, Trent, talking: This is my new favorite website. Is there any better way to pass the time than to take in these wonderful mug shots and see what they got popped for?Jail Bookings and Citations in the last 48 Hours
by time, descending. Includes Cite and Release.
UPDATE: Thanks to Grayson, here are the Summit County (Park City) bookings. The difference between Summit County and Washington County seems to be the difference between cocaine and meth.
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Hey Fake Chuck,
I’ve already had a bit of a whinge to you about being shafted with my 1d3 doorstop, was just wondering if Canon have any intention of offering all us 1d3 owners some sort of discount or trade-in incentive to upgrade to the 1d4 when it comes out ?
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WINDOWS OF THE SOUL : My Journeys in the Muslim World by Alexandra Avakian is now available.
The book is a memoir of the two decades (or so) Alexandra spent documenting the world of Islam from Central Asia, throughout the Middle East, Persia, Africa and the United States.
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Julieanne Kost has posted some detailed overviews of Camera Raw 5.0 and the rest of Photoshop CS4
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A Washington DC train station was shut down for a couple hours recently as a bomb squad investigated this “hobo polo bear” standing near a trash can. Turns out, the stuffed animal was part of a collaboration between Greenpeace and prankster artist Mark Jenkins
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James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking
and underreported global crisis. Over the past 18 months, the TED community
have been working with James to gain access to locations he wished to photograph,
and to prepare spectacular plans for unveiling these pictures.Here’s the video from 2007 setting the scene in case you missed it:
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Director: Charlie KaufmanTheater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems (Dianne Wiest), a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.
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