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    The book starts with Sasha, a kleptomaniac, who works for Bennie, a record executive, who is a protégé of Lou who seduced Jocelyn who was loved by Scotty who played guitar for the Flaming Dildos, a San Francisco punk band for which Bennie once played bass guitar (none too well), before marrying Stephanie who is charged with trying to resurrect the career of the bloated rock legend Bosco who grants the sole rights for covering his farewell “suicide tour” to Stephanie’s brother, Jules Jones, a celebrity journalist who attempted to rape the starlet Kitty Jackson, who one day will be forced to take a job from Stephanie’s publicity mentor, La Doll, who is trying to soften the image of a genocidal tyrant because her career collapsed in spectacular fashion

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    The book starts with Sasha, a kleptomaniac, who works for Bennie, a record executive, who is a protégé of Lou who seduced Jocelyn who was loved by Scotty who played guitar for the Flaming Dildos, a San Francisco punk band for which Bennie once played bass guitar (none too well), before marrying Stephanie who is charged with trying to resurrect the career of the bloated rock legend Bosco who grants the sole rights for covering his farewell “suicide tour” to Stephanie’s brother, Jules Jones, a celebrity journalist who attempted to rape the starlet Kitty Jackson, who one day will be forced to take a job from Stephanie’s publicity mentor, La Doll, who is trying to soften the image of a genocidal tyrant because her career collapsed in spectacular fashion

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    NPPA’s Convergence ’10 is underway now at the Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston, and you can watch the event live on Livestream.

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    In April I was sent to Mississippi along with National Geographic writer Joel Bourne and LUCEO partner, audio guru Brad Horn for a fascinating story assigned by the AARP Bulletin. We spent three days in Jackson, Belzoni and finally for a short four hours, the Baptist Town neighborhood in the historic blues community of Greenwood. Joel had told Brad and me about Baptist Town as he visited the day before, and as soon as we set foot in town we knew he was right. It was magic. 

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    Sometimes, when you grow up in a small town, you have to leave and come back to really see it and appreciate it. Tom M. Johnson is about to open a show that celebrates the city of Lakewood, a suburb near Long Beach, California that was his childhood home.

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    Emerging photographer Claire Martin talks to BJP about her Inge Morath Award win and on making it in documentary photography at a time when funding is rare

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    The contest, which ends at 1800 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.

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  • Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf

    CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses how the Obama administration is limiting access by the media to areas affected by the BP Macondo well spill.

    via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/WpJBsjKhRTo&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0

    A new rule went into effect last Thursday that bars journalists, reporters and photographers from getting within 65 feet of the oil-soaked beaches, wildlife and booms in the Louisiana Gulf.

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    LUCEO will be documenting the decline of small town America as a group project over the coming year.

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    BP maintains it followed “industry practice that is required by federal law.” I would like to see this federal law challenged in court because I have a feeling taking photos of  a public street is a constitutionally protected activity.

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    To keep things low-fi and cheap, the sensor is either a full-frame or crop-frame model from last generation designs.

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    Ed Kashi, who has just joined the prestigious VII Photo agency, talks to BJP about his six-year foray into the complexity of the Niger Delta

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    ImageRights, a visual search firm that assists photographers in identifying unauthorized photo usage online, has added a free service level in addition to the paid tiers they currently offer. At no charge, a photographer can upload up to 10,000 photos to ImageRights. The company will then continuously monitor news sites, popular blogs and other online locations for usage of those photos and generate a report for the photographer when a match is found. If the usage is an infringement, then starting next month the photographer can opt for ImageRights to handle the extraction of compensation from the offending site, with the revenue being split between the photographer and the company.

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    I was perusing Marge Casey Agency’s sporadic but worthwhile tumblr the other day and found a link to Claudia Goetzelmann jumping up and down on set with an attractive man who was also jumping up and down, all to the music of the Unicorn. Needless to say, I had to share.

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    I realized that I went back to those two frames from the 11th hole and egads something was terribly amiss. The man (caddie?) behind the golfer in the looser crop had disappeared from the more tightly cropped version. I opened both images and zoomed into that details and it was really quite easy to determine that the image is the same but one had been doctored with software to remove the other man.

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    Donald Weber takes a heart wrenching look at the city of Zholtye Vody in Ukraine. Located near two nuclear waste sites and an enrichment factory in the hub of the Soviet Union’s uranium mining and enrichment area, the homes were built using highly contaminated materials. With a higher radiation level than Chernobyl, over half the population of 60,000 people suffer from some sort of radiation sickness.

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    There are some amazing resources for photographers to learn more about protecting their copyright.  We’ve taken a stab at gathering up *some* of the best resources we’ve found – mostly from industry organizations, government and nonprofits, and a few voices of wisdom in the industry.

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    “I can’t believe I wasted half my life helping Tipper put warning labels on this stuff when I could have been seeing these guys do their thing live,” Gore said of W.A.S.P. “They used to whip raw meat at the audience. How bad-ass is that?”

    “Cause I’m burning, burning, burning up with fi-ire! ” added Gore, screaming the lyrics to “Wild Child.”

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  • North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup

    North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.

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    North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.

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  • An Illicit Whole Earth Catalog at J.F.K.

    Taryn Simon spent five days photographing the world’s material underbelly as it made its way through a New York airport. Miki Meek explains.

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    Passengers, airliners, workers, baggage, cargo, taxis and trains flow ceaselessly through Kennedy International Airport.

    Taryn Simon recorded another ceaseless flow — one the public rarely sees: contraband detained and seized from international flights.

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