62-year-old Italian Capuchin Friar Cesare Bonizzi is nor ordinary heavy metal rocker
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The better way? Most D-SLRs in the menu setting let you take the autofocus away from the shutter release and move it to the little button on the top-back of the camera to the right of the viewfinder window.
This is my preferred technique, and its value is revealed if you tend to shoot things that move as opposed to still subjects like landscapes.I can now keep the focus mode on continuous-tracking and have the best of both worlds.
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On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. James Marsh’s documentary brings Petit’s extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as “the artistic crime of the century.”
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A while back, a friend of mine—a guy who does a lot of directing work—was asked to shoot some rather odd film footage. It was all brief scenes of people ignoring each other. Families talking on cell phones, couples tapping at adjacent laptops, everyone looking in opposite directions.
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There are so many amazing new apps on the iPhone store that I hope to review here (and I’ll certainly spend time on a few more over coming weeks), but today I want to point you to three applications that make me feel like I’m a music fan of the very-near-future — where personalized data flies through the air, phones play rock music based on your personal preferences, and everybody listens to Silkworm on moving sidewalks and in tricked-out rocket cars.
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Gary Duncan hides almost nothing about himself. Quite literally. Most days, his modesty amounts to little more than a nylon and Lycra man-bikini stretched across his nether region.
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I sometimes get an email with a link suggestion and a comment along the lines of “these photos are great, they use [add your favourite process here]”. I don’t care much about the process when looking at photography (unless the process is an integral part of the photography, which is almost never the case). What I mean by that is that whatever it took to produce a photograph does not determine whether the result is good or bad.
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This is video from Myung Chun teaching a portable lighting class using small strobes at Sports Shooter Academy IV, held April 2007 in Southern California. Chun is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times.
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When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out.
But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old Cory, and Miles, five, led to him being called a ‘pervert’.
The woman running the slide at Wolverhampton Show asked him what he was doing and other families waiting in the queue demanded that he stop.
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Here are some great shots of African cars in various states of disrepair. I made these pictures on my travels through West-Africa.
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Mother Jones’s Torture Playlist includes the music used in American military prisons to torture detainees, and ranges from Christina Aguilera to Sesame Street. Using address labels – sized 2.25″ x 0.75″ – you can affix these stickers I designed to CDs in your local record shop and make a small political statement about state violence. I’ve developed the stickers below to raise awareness about this form of torture. There’s a copyright-free PDF available at the suggested website link.
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In anticipation of the third issue of The Exposure Project Book, slated for release in late August, I am going to be posting some work that will be included in the publication. Fran Osborn-Blaschke is a Boston-based photographer whose project Curve Of The Earth takes a rather scientific approach to landscape photography.
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new six minute trailer for the upcoming film, “Roadsworth: Crossing the Line” We’ve been hearing great things about it.
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An obnoxious TV reporter went to Burbank to ask stupid questions to people waiting in line for the new iPhone. I was delighted to see that my pal Jeff, or his identical twin brother (he really has one) told the reporter he was a jackass.
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When the Warped Tour launched in 1994, nearly all the featured acts played really fast, got profanely angry about politics, and said funny s* on stage. Also, unwatched by most, “extreme athletes” performed. The heavy corporate presence, amphitheater settings and lofty concession prices bristled some Mohawks. Other than that, it wasn’t the worst possible way to spend a day, if you were 14 or so. Scattered decent acts participated, and you’d leave not much dumber than you entered.
By contrast, attending Warped 2008 is like having someone attach sand to your skin with liquid cement, blowtorch that sand into a form-fitting glass shell, then forcibly shatter that encasing, driving shards into every inch of your naked flesh.
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The e-mail was a punch in the gut: “the soldier you made famous — killed himself last Saturday — thought you should know.”
I thought I’d put photojournalism and war behind me four and a half years ago when I traded in the dusty battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan for law school in Miami. But those words reminded me that you never truly leave the battlefield behind.
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