The pace of doom and gloom stories for printed media continues unabated but I’ve noticed more and more that are offering brilliant insight into the problem and even a few solutions.
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in Journalism
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I am apparently the last blogger in the world to discover Cooliris. Formerly called PicLens, this is a lightweight browser plug-in that fills your screen with digital images displayed in a flying interface
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This year’s winners are:
Kurt Tong, China/UK
Mimi Youn, Korea/UK
Nigel Dickenson, France
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in Photography
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I am probably not the only one who has noticed Bradford Fuller’s beautifully lit bird photos in the Strobist pool. His artful mix of flash and ambient against a 2-D background gives the photos a lyrical feel. And the red stamps added in post at the bottom make them seem as if they came from faraway lands.
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REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.
Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.
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in Ethics
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BJ Papas may be the most legendary photographer of NYHC. Pretty cool considering the bad rap hardcore has always gotten for the lack of female involvement. Seemingly elusive and interview-shy despite still photographing bands and being connected to the scene which she grew up in, we were psyched as hell to be able to chat with her.
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An introduction to the strip camera, how Tom Dahlin made his, and how you can too.
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in Equipment
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the Age of Great Invention. is the world that my paintings pertain to. people loved inventions in olde timey times. here they are!
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in Art & Design
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A 360 degree high resolution panorama, shot by Kari Kuukka from a photographer’s corral about 30 minutes before the start of the men’s 100m final at Beijing National Stadium on Saturday, gives an up close look at the working shooters in attendance and the Canon and Nikon gear they were using.
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in Sports
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The technical sophistication of the Russian forces turned out to be inferior in comparison with the Georgian military. While Georgia’s armed forces operated Soviet-era T-72 tanks and Su-25 attack planes, both were upgraded with equipment such as night-vision systems to make them technologically superior to similar models operated by the Russian Ground Forces, said Konstantin Makiyenko, deputy director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
“The Russian forces had to operate in an environment of technical inferiority,” Makiyenko said.
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in War
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Every morning Paul Convery walks out of his front door to be confronted by piles of discarded coffee cups and sandwich wrappings. There is an unmistakable stench of urine. The pavements are filled with stocky, intimidating men with glowering expressions and the parking spaces have all been taken by battered 4x4s that have not paid or displayed.
‘The neighbours down the road are woken nightly at around 3am by the sounds of taxi doors slamming, shuffling of feet, shouting and excitement,’ he says. But this is no unexplained urban menace: this is the modern paparazzi at work. Convery has the misfortune to live on the same north London street as Peaches Geldof, the ubiquitous celebrity poppet whose picture is much in demand from tabloid newspapers and glossy magazines.
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Photo by Vincent Laforet/NewsweekI shot most everything from overhead today, either with the use of remote cameras or by physically shooting from the catwalks. Here is Andrei Rybakou of Belarus winning the silver medal and breaking the world record with an 185 Kg snatch in the men’s 85kg weightlifting competition. This was shot with an overhead remote camera–more on that later…
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in Sports
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So he was there and Joe Crucial gets on the mic and says “We’re happy to be here, we hear Ian’s in the crowd tonight. You’re so great and wonderful, but, why do you have to use the F-word so often?! That’s not very positive! This song goes out to you! Those Who Curse Are the Worst!” The thing was, I hadn’t talked to Ian yet that evening, but I looked over at him and he just thought it was hysterical, because he’s never taken it that seriously. It’s not this Rah! Rah! thing for Ian, at all. He pretty much said “This is no set of rules.” I don’t know if he’s, exactly still like that. The drummer for Uniform Choice got so upset, he went running to Bill the sound guy, who only occasionally drank, but at that time he wasn’t doing anything, and started yelling “Shut off the PA! These guys can’t play anymore! They’ve just blasphemed my God!”
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in Punk Rock
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The Department of Defense would be required to grant journalists access to ceremonies honoring fallen military personnel under a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Forget April. For bean counters at financially troubled newspapers, August is the cruelest month.
Their budget-stretching began with coverage of the Beijing Olympics, which ends Aug. 24. A day later, the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Denver, and the Republican National Convention begins Sept. 1 in St. Paul, Minn. The result is predictable.
“Almost every large news bureau, with maybe a few exceptions, is cutting back,” says Jerry Gallegos, superintendent of the House of Representatives’ daily press gallery, which is handling newspapers’ convention credentials. In some cases, though he won’t say which ones, papers have reduced their staffing “by as much as 20%.”
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in Journalism
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(met-l fer mon’strs) cause. 1. An effort by Blend Creations to raise money for UNICEF by collaborating with artists for a special line of limited-edition stainless steel pendants.
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in Art & Design
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I think the way clients and photographers communicate and reach each other and the job of Photo Editor will profoundly change in the next decade. There’s exciting technology to take advantage of and the potential of the internet has barely been tapped by publishers. I wanted to start talking with .com and junior Photo Editors to look at the way they’re using technology and get a feel for what the future might bring.
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in Interviews
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JOHN EDWARDS’ NATIONALLY TELEVISED confession on ABC’s Nightline this week was absolutely unconvincing and, in the end, rather revolting. “I don’t know who that baby is,” Edwards said when asked if he had, indeed, fathered the young child of Rielle Hunter.
That baby? Haven’t we heard that before? You know, like when Big Bill referred to Ms. Lewinsky as “that woman.”
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Every morning during the Olympics, the local organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee address the world’s media at a state-of-the-Games news conference.
These things are rarely entirely smooth sailing for the officials, but Wednesday’s conference was unusually testy.
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Photo by Vincent Laforet/NewsweekWe’re about a third of the way through the Olympic Games as of the end of today – and I’ve always found this to be a good point to look back through the images I’ve made so far, and to make adjustments on how I will shoot from here on out.
This of course has put me in a very introspective mood. Truth be told I’m not thrilled with any of the images I’ve taken so far, and as a result my head has been in the clouds for most of the day. I’m trying to figure out how I can change my approach from this point on, in an effort to produce images that I will be proud of, and that hopefully this blog’s readers will appreciate throughout the rest of the games.Trying to figure out what to do next has led me to asking one of the most basic questions that most sports photographers ask themselves on a regular basis: How exactly do you define a great sports photograph?
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