Artist – Megan Whitmarsh (especially look at the embroidery)
Photography – Anti-racist demonstration in Paris, by Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Wired – Scenes from the MySpace backlash
NYT – Another White House briefing, another day of mutual mistrust
NYT – Dungeon masters in cyberspace, D&D MMORPG
NYT – Army to pay Halliburton unit most costs disputed by audit
NYT – Chaos in Iraq sends shock waves across Middle East
Photography – Photo Mechanic 4.4.2 released
Art/Graffiti – Banksy rocks Melrose
NYT – David Lynch, still disturbing after 20 years
NYT – What civil war in Iraq would look like
NYT – Stephen Colbert
NYT – Dr. Gervais’s Frankenstein, Karl Pilkington
NYT – Book Review, Paul Bremer’s ‘My Year in Iraq’
NYT – Taliban spokesman goes to Yale
Photos – Antonin Kratochvil’s Troubles in the Niger Delta
PDN – Photo groups lobby to protect copyright orphans
PDN – From darkroom to classroom
BBC – Al Qaeda attack on Saudi oil facility
Balkans, BBC – 10,000 SRS members hold pro-Mladic rally in Belgrade
National Review – William F. Buckley Jr. on Iraq
NYT – US supbpoenas 2 Dow writers, then backs off
NYT – Taking spying to a higher level
BBC – Civil War in Iraq
NYT – Sectarian fury in Iraq in wake of shrine blast
NYT – Saudis, Egypt reject US request to cut off aid to Hamas
NYT – Iran pledges financial aid to Hamas-led Palestinians
Photography – Vincent Laforet and Apple’s Aperture at the Olympics
Photography – AP cancels photo coverage of LPGA over rights grab
Photography – AP denied access to LPGA tournament
Nothing worth posting from this morning. Here’s the greatest hoax of 2005:
BBC News – Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight
Cambodian Midget Fighting League is dead. Long live the Cambodian Midget Fighting League!
Balkans – Milan Lukic extradited
Photography – Canon 30D announced
Humor – The Contract of Wifely Expectations
NYT – Government reclassifying previously declassified documents
Music – More on kid-friendly version of Devo
NYT – Artist Daniel Johnston
Humor – Thrash Metal Meltdown!
Photography – New issue of Canon Pro Europe online
NYT – MySpace self-portraits
Photos – War photography shot within first-person-shooters
Photos – Matt Holloway, a photo each day of the year
Art/Video – The Twisted Films of the artist PES
Humor – Despair.Com Demotivating Posters 🙁
NYT – Carlotta Gall: Afghanistan producing bumper crop of heroin
NYT – Wal-Mart chief executive’s postings on internal management website
I met photographer David Leeson a few years ago when we were speaking at the same photojournalism workshop in Omaha. It was like finding a long lost brother, so many things did we have in common. We shared the same obsessive compulsive immersive behaviors, the inability to stop or slow down, and as the conversation flowed over a couple of days we weren’t ever filling each other in on anything we didn’t already know about. Since then, Leeson went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the invasion of Iraq. We haven’t spoken since Omaha.
Here’s the interview: Fayrouz in Beaumont
Photos – The Seine, from source to sea, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955
NYT Book Review – Ivan’s War
NYT – US plans to give windfall to oil companies
NYT editorial – White House shoots foot
Photo – New free beta for Adobe Lightroom
Punk – Boy Sets Fire interview
Punk – New Anti-Flag song
Photos – Beauty in the Apocolpyse by Anton Kratochvil
From the New York Times:
Years after 2 Afghans died, abuse case falters
“The President of the United States doesn’t know what the rules are! The secretary of defense doesn’t know what the rules are. But the government expects this Pfc. to know what the rules are?”
Artist – Alex Gross
Bruce Sterling on the Sony rootkit scandal
World’s smallest videogames (playable on web)
Anti-Authority Section:
Vice President Cheney authorized Libby to leak classified information
NYT:
White House knew of Levee’s Failure on Night of Storm
Ex-Cheney Aide testified leak was ordered
Gallery of winning images from the most prestigious photojournalism competition in the world. A must-see.