I got an e-mail from Brandon Pavan yesterday with a link to his website. His series Breakfast At Grandma’s is quite nice and deserves a more thorough examination.
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Adobe seems to be hard at work at Adobe Creative Suite 4*. In May, they released public betas of CS4 versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth. Existing CS3 owners are able to continue to use these applications beyond the initial 48 hour window.
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Like a modern-day Weegee, Harri Palviranta cruises the night streets of Finland, armed with his Hasselblad camera and a big flash, looking for a fight to photograph, or the bloodied face of a drunken party-goer, or the scene of a recent brawl.
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Director Milcho Manchevski explores the circle of violence that pervades the Balkans and the way ethnic bloodshed can spill over into more “civilized” countries. Photographer Aleksandar (Rade Serbedzija) is wracked with guilt for having caused a man’s death while covering the war in Bosnia. Now, he intends to leave England and his lover (Katrin Cartlidge) for Macedonia in hopes of making amends in the violently unstable country of his birth.
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No country is wholly free of anti-immigrant prejudice, whether it is the United States, where illegal immigration was a hot-button issue in the Republican primaries, or post-apartheid South Africa, where economic migrants were recently burned to death. But in many Western European countries today, something new and insidious seems to be happening. The familiar old arguments against immigrants — that they are criminals, that their culture makes them a bad fit, that they take jobs from natives — are mutating into an anti-Islamic bias that is becoming institutionalized in the continent’s otherwise ordinary politics.
Examples abound. The Swiss People’s Party sponsors ads in which three white sheep push one black sheep off the Swiss flag — and wins 29 percent of the vote. In Belgium, the Vlaams Belang deploys a clever variation, publicly praising Jews and seeking their support against Muslims, whom it tellingly describes as “the main enemy of the moment.” Meanwhile, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders calls Islam “the ideology of a retarded culture.”
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Cody’s Books, the half-century-old Berkeley bookstore that has long been an East Bay institution — one of the truly great west coast stores — has closed its doors forever.
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THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world’s largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever.
And Williams’ designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—”Pinball 2000″—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-new possibilities for a product thought to be on its last legs.
Yet soon after its successful and highly-profitable launch, Williams pulled the plug, leaving behind unanswered questions and abandoning one of the world’s great design organizations. TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball is a documentary that tells the story behind one of entertainment’s most mysterious failures.
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Gary Spivey is my new hero. Internationally revered psychic medium/healer/attention skank notwithstanding, frankly it’s a miracle the guy can even walk or stand upright; the man has grapes the size of Bruce Bruce. Showing his face in public essentially wearing a PASGT for hydrocephalics covered in white fibers recycled from a 3M allergen filter takes a level of intestinal fortitude as yet not acheived by any human being.
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It’s finally over … or is it? In an unfortunate turn of events, it looks like Carlos Miller, the Miami photographer and journalist who was arrested last year while photographing police, has been sentenced to one year probation, 100 hours of community service, anger management class and a $540.50 court cost payment.
Interestingly enough, a jury found Miller not guilty of both disobeying a police officer and disorderly conduct. They did find him guilty, however, of resisting arrest without violence.
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Angela Cara Pancrazio, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who later became a well-respected writer and storyteller, died Thursday night at her home in Phoenix.
She was 51 years old.
Pancrazio was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in May of 2007.
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Dave Allen shot this nifty timelapse video of three days at the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Each still frame of the video was treated with a tilt-shift lens effect in Photoshop.
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Rumors are going wild about the release of the supposed Nikon D700, a full-frame DSLR that shares the same sensor and autofocus system of the wonderful Nikon D3.
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Well see if it holds this time, because someone has posted cell-phone shots of press materials for a smaller, cheaper 35mm-framed Nikon called the D700, and they have me totally convinced. There are a lot easier ways to fool people than to create your own offset printed brochure with out-of-left-field items like redesigned sync caps and totally new magnesium frame mockups. If this is fake, it probably means that Nikon is taking the Apple route and creating professionally made false materials to smoke out whoever leaked earlier products like the the D200.
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If your future plans include being anywhere near Atlanta and you like offbeat eateries, you’d be making a terrible mistake if you neglected to visit Abdullah The Butcher’s House Of Ribs & Chinese Food. Abdullah’s primary claim to fame, of course, is as a professional wrestler with a reputation as a bloodthirsty brute. In the ring, Abdullah was known for his maniacal habit of using a fork to carve into his opponents’ foreheads.
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The Art of the Conceptual Photograph 1915 – 1920
Featuring work by: Mole and Thomas, E.O. Goldbeck, and OthersCheck it out here.
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We’re proud to announce that the Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion is the latest artist to participate in our “Wooster Special Edition” project. Alexandre follows sold out editions from such artists as Faile, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, BAST, and Darius and Downey.
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In August, Bandai subsidiary Mega House will ship its new “Biri Biri Kaze Hiki Wanko,” (“shocking sick puppy”) toy, which commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of toy slime with a plastic vomiting doggy.
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In a press release Tuesday, Viacom executives announced their newest hour-long VH1 Celebreality program, Knight Life, with former Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, has been canceled for failing to reach the wretched depths of the network’s low standards.
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Perhaps you’ve read about Wayne Martin Belger’s unusual homemade cameras — now go see them in person!
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