Frank Folwell shows us where the media will be sleeping and offers other wonderful information about traveling to China.
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By David McIntyreAs the 2008 Beijing Summer Games are just around the corner — August 8th, 2008 to be exact — I thought I would take this opportunity to give some insight into what people might expect, not expect, and also feel free to ask so that I can try to answer later.
As a resident of Hong Kong and China for the past 14-1/2 years, I guess I might have some knowledge in me for you all.
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Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce “Where the Hell is Matt?”, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly silly, high-energy dance in some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world. This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.
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MSNBC reporter Monica Morales is seeing stars after a light stand came crashing down on her head during a live report. Morales valiantly tried to press on but was clearly too fazed to do anything other than throw it back to anchor Mika Brzezinski, who commiserated: “Oh my goodness, I love it when the wind blows down the light thing.”
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For me this has always pointed to the distinction that can be made between considering yourself a “newspaper photographer” versus a “photographer who happens to work for a newspaper.”
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This August is going to be one to remember. I got lucky…real lucky. I’m going to be part of the Gannett team that is covering the Olympics in Beijing, China. Wow…I still can’t believe it. Did I mention it’s the Olympics?! Ya think I’m excited? Oh…I’m excited. This excitement, however, comes bundled with anticipation, urgency and a touch of nervousness. You see this is my first Olympics, which means I’m a rookie. A rookie who asks the question, “What the hell am I supposed to pack for this international event?” Well, I’ll give it a shot…
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By Vincent LaforetThe challenge is to find a way to continue to produce quality original content, and to connect with your audience – not to hold on to the old, traditional way of doing things. So while the cloud may be falling – there’s plenty of blue sky above – and the possibilities are endless. Good luck.
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Photographers have had a long love affair with freebies. And I’m not talking about the Canon fanny packs and Nikon Olympic pins we all love to get at big time sporting events. If only. No, I’m talking about giving away freebies. Free prints. Free portrait sessions. Free wedding photography. Free photographs to the local SID. Why, I’d bet there are some photographers who would give away their own grandmother for the promise of a 6-point photo credit along the inseam of a trade publication. And while I’d love to say that all this giving only proves that we have big hearts, the sadder reality is that we have an addiction to giving things away and the only hope right now is for an intervention.
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By Robert Beck, Sports IllustratedI have spent a lot of time thinking about writing this piece. I have even started it a couple of times. But trying to describe the incredible experience that was the 2008 U.S. Open on the South Course at Torrey Pines is more confounding than covering the tournament. There are tales within tales and stories that will grow grander, perhaps becoming mythical, over time. So, in advance, please forgive me if weave through this yarn as crookedly as I might play a round of golf.
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“Once again we have shamed all our detractors, who, through gullible people, tried to use every opportunity to undermine our independence and desecrate our hard-earned and inalienable right to self-determination,” Mugabe said as he opened his sixth term in office.
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An estimated 450,000 unsold copies of Time’s special April 22 Earth Day issue were trucked Monday from the magazine’s New Jersey distribution center to the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island.
The discarded copies of the issue–which features articles about conservation, biodiversity, and recycling, as well as guest editorials by President Clinton and Leonardo DiCaprio–are expected to decompose slowly over the next 175 years.
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Yesterday I took a trip to the Deutshes Technikmuseum Berlin, an oddity of a place containing all manner of weird and wonderful German technology, from a yard full of locomotives to an exhibition on cutlery and plates from railway dining cars. Unlike many science museums, the DTB doesn’t have a whole lot of interactive exhibits — just a few push buttons here and there — but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t full of screaming kids on a Sunday.
What it does have, though, is an amazing collection of historical German camera gear. The exhibit is full of retro gadgets, as you’ll see below, but the most interesting to me were the bisected lenses and cameras, the insides of which show the precision of a CAD drawing. Read on to see sawn-off gadgets, the origin of digital cameras and a secret doorway just for horses.Check it out here.
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Nikon has filled in the gap between its midrange and pro digital SLRs. The D700, announced today and slated to ship in late July 2008, looks like a D300, acts like a D3 and promises to be as big a hit as each of them. Nikon has taken the full-frame 12.05 million image pixel CMOS sensor from the D3, placed it inside a body that is similar to the D300, weaved in capabilities from both and put a U.S. price tag of US$2999.95 on the result.
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Completing Nikon’s announcements today are two perspective control lenses, the PC-E Micro Nikkor 45mm f2.8D ED and PC-E Micro Nikkor 85mm f2.8D ED, which Nikon had indicated were in development back in January 2008.
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We’ve heard the names of the new Magnum Photos members who were elected at the cooperative’s meeting in Paris last week:
Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata and Alec Soth have been elected full members.
Olivia Arthur and Peter Van Agtmael are new Magnum nominees.
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Eric Bouvet covered the Second Chechen War from October to December of 1999, and returned in February 2000. Bouvet traveled with three Russian officers during his second visit to the region and witnessed up-close the destruction and decay of a country ravaged by war. In Grozny, Chechnya’s capital city, buildings were all but leveled, tens of thousands were dead, and radioactive material polluted the area in the wake of storage facility bombings. “Nothing remained,” Bouvet recounted, “just a huge, imposing void.” When he returned in March 2008, Bouvet found Grozny as a city in the process of rebirth. Civilians, totaling only about 5,000 in number, were carrying on with daily life and were starting the task of rebuilding a once magnificent city. As he revisited places he had photographed in his earlier trips to the region, Bouvet not only documented the modernization of a city, but the will and determination of a people rising from the ashes of war.
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Whoever beat Trent Keegan to death probably wanted his computer. But why would robbers leave money in his pockets?
Questions like this trouble the friends and family of Keegan, 33, a New Zealand photojournalist who was murdered while working in Nairobi, Kenya last month.
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For today, Amazon is selling the digital version of the Ramones’ classic Rocket to Russia for just $1.99.
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A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe.
Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from the thugs, convinced that they were about to murder her.
She heard one of them say, “Let’s kill the baby”, before Blessing was hurled on to a bare concrete floor.
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Here’s a site (Andreas Wolkerstorfer :: cameras) where the photographer runs film through all types of cameras so you can see what kind of pictures they take and although the general theme seems to be vignette with the older cameras, I still enjoy seeing images that aren’t perfect.
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