28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics
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A series of preemptive police raids on Twin Cities anarchist groups prior to last week’s Republican National Convention roiled the blogosphere, after prominent progressive writers such as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake posted video from the scene. But according to a warrant affidavit filed by the Ramsey County sheriff, it was a YouTube video that may have piqued the authorities’ interest in the first place.
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I’ve had a weekend to digest my visit to Visa pour l’Image. Here are some of my impressions.
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The project (a brainchild of art collaborative PROCESS) supplied each artist with a train car illustration, either as a vector file or a screenprint. They were then instructed to take complete creative control over the trains, resulting in a miniaturized versions of THE BEST train cars you’ll ever not see chugging along the tracks
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It takes but a glance to see that the Sony Alpha A900 is unique among modern digital SLR cameras. The large, pyramidal shape behind the SONY logo suggests that a very large pentaprism glass element lies underneath. A quick glance through the viewfinder completes the impression: it’s like a room in there, into which it seems you might fall if you’re not careful. 35mm camera owners from the last century will find the Sony A900’s viewfinder comforting, then quickly forget about it and begin composing with an impressive photographic tool.
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It has been a long wait and rumours have been circulating the photography forums for many months but today Sony has announced the A900, their flagship model which sets a new benchmark with a 24.6 megapixel full frame sensor.
I recently had the opportunity to get my hands on one for a day, along with a Canon 1DsM3 kindly loaned to me by Kayell Queensland. I was able to see for myself how the new camera stacks up against what has up until now been regarded as representing the pinnacle of dSLRs.
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Photokina is nearly three weeks away, and as the conference draws nearer we can’t help but notice various blogs and gadget Web sites claiming to have reliable sources on new full-frame cameras from Canon, Leica, Nikon, Pentax and Sony.
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Andreas Gefeller is a German photographer well known for his series Supervisions, which pushes the boundaries of photography by elevating the view point off the ground. I have been extremely interested in Andreas’ work for a long time, and I recently had the chance to talk to him about it.
Check it out here.
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Back from Beijing, Gabriel Dance of nyt.com puts the viewer there during Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention. I was struck by this pano in that I can’t find a single stitching error anywhere, which is impressive given the situation and subject matter.
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Michael McNamara is a photojournalist, and currently works at the Arizona Republic, shooting for their magazines and features pages.
Jill Peitzmeier used to be a photojournalist, but since moving to Phoenix she spends her time making crafty things and working at a cute little shop.
She misses taking pictures for a living and would love to photograph something (or someone) for you!
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Igloo Chronicles is a pipeline of information regarding this world we live in. All images are copyrighted by G.West. All thoughts are trademarked by G.West.
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PAKISTAN’S WILD, LARGELY ungoverned tribal areas have become an untouchable base for Islamic militants to attack Americans and Afghans across the border. Inside the tribal areas, Taliban warlords have taken near-total control, pushing aside the Pakistani government and imposing their draconian form of Islam. And for more than a year now, they have been sending suicide bombers against government and military targets in Pakistan, killing hundreds of people. American and Pakistani investigators say they believe it was Baitullah Mehsud, the strongest of FATA’s Taliban leaders, who dispatched assassins last December to kill Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister. With much of the North-West Frontier Province, which borders the tribal areas, also now under their control, the Taliban are increasingly in a position to threaten the integrity of the Pakistani state.
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Early on Friday 1 August 2008, Nicholas Rice made a mistake that may just have saved his life. He spilled a pan of water. The Californian was sitting in his tent at Camp IV on the shoulder of K2’s south-east ridge, preparing to leave for the summit. Getting ready to do anything at 7,900 metres above sea level takes a long time. Melting the snow for that pan of water must have taken an hour. It’s as if time accelerates, leaving you plodding along behind, taking an age to put on boots, an epoch to fasten crampons and zip up clothing. To a brain fogged from lack of oxygen, mistakes come easily.
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I’ve also posted a video interview with CARE International Award winner Stephanie Sinclair.
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Brent Stirton has won the Visa d’Or Feature Award for his work on the slaughter of gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Michael Phelps on his way to his first gold medal during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008.
My pic shows an underwater view of Michael Phelps swimming the 400-meter IM, on his way to his first of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.Check it out here.
More Olympics posts from Lucy Nicholson, Scott Strazzante, Robert Beck, Vince Laforet, Smiley Pool, David Eulitt, Mike Blake, Dan Powers, Paul Kitagaki, Jeff Swinger, Nhat Meyer, Don Miralle, Tim Clayton, Jack Gruber, Mark Terrill, David McIntyre, Chris Detrick, Bob Rosato, David Burnett, Robert Hanashiro and Rod Mar are here.
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