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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/17/yann-gross-ugandas-homegrown-skate-park/#1
During a vacation in Uganda in 2008, Swiss photographer Yann Gross heard rumors that a skateboarding half-pipe had been built in a suburb of Kampala
That photo of the mayor in Lithuania, driving a tank over an illegally-parked Mercedes? Faked…
via Rob Galbraith
Everyone’s favorite copyright troll Righthaven has once again had its ass handed to it. The company, which was spun out of a Nevada newspaper, sublicenses the right to sue people from copyrig…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/16/copyright-troll-handed-ass-again-tries-saddest-trick-ever-to-get-out-of-paying-its-victims-legal-bills.html
Righthaven then argued that it shouldn’t have to pay the defendants’ attorney fees because it didn’t have standing to sue, so the court didn’t have standing to order it to pay. The judge laughed and laughed and laughed. And told them to cough up $34,045.50
via Laughing Squid
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/16/bronx-boys-a-digital-monograph-by-stephen-shames/#1
What started out for Stephen Shames as an assignment for Look magazine back in 1977 turned into an epic twenty two year project documenting the lives of young boys in the Bronx, New York. He was assigned by former Look editor John Durniak to simply do an essay on the Bronx. Shames says: “On the first day I got the picture ‘Ralph Jumps,’ which is one of my favorite pictures I ever took, and so I guess I was hooked.
The AIGA worked to ensure that professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work long before technology allowed for easy, free publication of writing and photography
Sean O’Hagan: Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/aug/09/luc-delahaye-war-photography-art?CMP=twt_gu
Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration — the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/subway-internet-shuttering/
For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration — the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.
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Matt Lutton has been living and working in the Balkans since early 2009. His project “Only Unity” is an exploration of Serbia’s relationship with its history and a psychological portrait of the Serbian people adjusting to a radically changed landscape with physically contracting borders.
Bloggers and photographers are calling on the BBC to rethink its use of Twitter images during its news broadcasts after failing to credit copyright owners
Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-titanic-taxonomy-of-professional-wrestler-names/
Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
via Laughing Squid
The Police Chief of Long Beach has confirmed that his department’s policy is to detain photographers who do nothing more than take pictures in public places, and that he neither has, nor plan…
McDonnell says that while there is no police training specific to determining whether a photographer’s subject has “apparent esthetic value,” officers make such judgments “based on their overall training and experience” and will generally approach photographers not engaging in “regular tourist behavior.”
When constabulary duty’s to be done in Long Beach, California, police officers have a lot on their plates: arresting robbers and cut-throats, ticketing speeders…and being art critics. That’s right: according to the Long Beach Post, the city’s police chief
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/cops-stop-photogs-over-subjects-of-no-apparent-esthetic-value.html
When constabulary duty’s to be done in Long Beach, California, police officers have a lot on their plates: arresting robbers and cut-throats, ticketing speeders…and being art critics.
Don’t worry: L.A. artist Shepard Fairey, 41, only has a “black eye and a bruised rib” after a pummeling he received in Copenhagen, Denmark last weekend.
(Image contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by Bhautik Joshi) Finally, here is BART’s cop-out explanation for why they shut down wireless service in Bay Area stations on Aug. 11. BART temporaril…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/bart-statement-on-killing-wireless-service-in-stations-on-aug-11-in-anticipation-of-civil-unrest.html
Good thing the Bay Area subway system operators are taking a cue from Hosni Mubarak! Because, you know, if an actual riot had occurred, it’s not like anyone affected would have had any need to communicate for help or anything.
Murat Germen, 1965, Turkey, is an experimental artist that often uses photography as his medium. He received a Bachelor of science in city p…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/08/photographer-355-murat-germen.html
For his series Muta-Morphosis he created bizarre panoramic photographs or multidimentional cityscapes in various places around the world
When Mustafah Abdulaziz drove across America to ask himself questions, he didn’t find the answers. Here is what he did find.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/on-the-road-embracing-the-distance/
While his essay, “Memory Loss,” is set to the tune of an American road trip, for him, it is much more than that. The photos explore distance and disconnect. They are both experimental and experiential. “It’s like I had to go on a road trip,” Mr. Abdulaziz said. “I had to go where nothing belonged to me.”
The Fuji FinePix X100. It’s one of the more talked about and lusted after cameras on the market right now. It’s also one quirky beast full of contrasts. Reviewers are quick to point out every annoying flaw, yet are also quick to tell you how much they love it and the resulting images. Thanks to a generous friend, I finally had the chance to test drive it myself for an afternoon.
Before I say more, however, let me state that this is not a full review. It’s barely a quick review. In fact, it’s really a set of personal impressions based on several hours walking around town playing with the camera in hand. There’s no science here. Just my own unfettered opinion. Got it? Good.
Instead of walking out on the street to find interesting scenes and people, a few photographers are now simply curating the pre-documented streets from the comfort of their desks at home.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/google-street-view/
Michael Wolf, for example, uses a camera to photograph scenes from Google Street View open on his computer’s browser. In February, his honorable mention in the Contemporary Issues category at the World Press Photo Awards for A Series of Unfortunate Events ignited a storm of debate. Some balked at the idea that Wolf’s project was photojournalism, while others embraced the decision and called for more conceptual leaps and redefinitions of photojournalism in the digital age.