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In Mexico’s Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/01/AR2010080103481.html?wprss=rss_world
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With Storm, Paolo Pellegrin takes a fresh and personal look into fashion. Through an exploration of the Present, he portrays his dreamlike vision of the future, involving in the course of pages a unique collection of landscapes from all over the planet – passing from the most condensed asian metropoles to Iceland, from an unseen Dubai to an oniric New York City, to Siberia – unconventional fashion series, ghost imaginary and a gallery of some of the key visionaries of our days – including the director Alejandro Jodorowsky, the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, the architect Sir Norman Foster, the fashion designer Ms Stella McCartney, the Chairman John Elkington, the designer Mr Bruce Mau, among others. An inner journey, between fiction and reality, through mankind’s present position toward the planet.
Link: Storm
in Books
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Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found.
Link: mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
via: Boing Boing
in Photography
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Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop
Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his unmarked car and waving his gun at a unarmed motorcyclist pulled over for speeding. When the footage was uploaded to YouTube, auth…
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360 Panorama for iPhone Builds Scenes as You Swipe
360 Panorama is a new kind of pano-shooting app for the iPhone. Instead of taking many pictures and then stitching them together afterwards, like every other pano app, you just sweep the iPhone across the scene in front of you and 360 Panorama will build
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/360-panorama-for-iphone-builds-scenes-as-you-swipe/
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The Palm Beach Post: Local & World News, Sports & Entertainment in West Palm Beach, FL
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via The Palm Beach Post: http://clikhear.palmbeachpost.com/
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Has the time come to take photojournalism off life-support? After nearly 25 years in the business, agency director Neil Burgess steps forward to make the call.
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | “For God’s sake, somebody call it!”
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In April 2009, I joined a flickr group called “Bench Monday,” whose rules were: “Stand on a bench. Make sure it’s Monday. Wear something pretty.” It started innocently, a game of discovery – a bench, a dress, a setting – and as a laboratory for post-processing experiments. The weekly self-imposed assignment, however, transformed into ONCE UPON, a photo-tale exploring the ego and individual in various environments and apparel.
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Gallery of Rephotography Shows WWII in Today’s Cities
On Monday we took a look at computational rephotography, a technique for making a new photo exactly match the point-of-view of an old photo. Today we take a look at a gallery of photos showing rephotography in action. The pictures have been put together b
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/gallery-of-rephotography-shows-wwii-in-todays-cities/
in Photography
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Figures in a Western Landscape
Jesse Chehak was born in the West, but returned to chronicle it with a prospector’s eye. Celina Fang traces the journey.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/showcase-194/
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That got me thinking… It has to be possible to make my own post-processing presets for Lightroom, to turn my carefully lit, exquisitely sharp and ridiculously high-resolution camera RAW images into blurry, colourful, vastly attractive garbage. So I created a couple of presets for Lightroom 3 – and I’ll walk you through the thinking behind one of them and I’ll show you how to make your own. How’s that for a double whammy of awesome?
Link: DIY Toy camera presets for Lightroom :: Photocritic photography blog
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WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at t
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Lethbridge (Canada) Herald staff photographer Ian Martens:
It was only when I took my eye from the camera after the peak of the flames that, to my great relief, I saw the pilot’s parachute land safely away from the burning wreckage. I don’t remember seeing the pilot through my viewfinder even though he is in many of the frames of the sequence – I was just so focused on what was happening with that aircraft.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Fighter jet crash “one of the most unforgettable moments,” says photographer
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Afghanistan, July, 2010
This past month, much of the attention focused on Afghanistan centered on the release of thousands of classified documents from the war effort by WikiLeaks. While the consensus appears to be that nothing significantly new was revealed by the release, the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html
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Here are some of the amazing and inspirational visual goodies that have been feeding my creative brain. I hope you find something you haven’t seen and it inspires you to create something.
Link: A Virtual Gallery of Video Inspiration – MultimediaShooter