This is one of the smartest examples of what it is like to be in the commercial photography business. Now I want to be the client! The only thing missing here is some banter about rights and usage. “Yes I want this video but I need to be able to see all of the others for no additional fee. You gotta work with me here!”
Thanks to Stephen Webster of Hideout Inc.
New York Times goes photoblog. Enjoy. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/
What more needs to be said.
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
I am going to be on line at my local camera story to get me one of these. A must for anyone into photo tech!
{April Fools Day I hope}
This from the New York Times graphic piece that appeared on the front page of The New York Times website yesterday.
To view Visit: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?hp
Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person
My friend George Anderson sent this to me from this smithsonian blog. It is right on the mark. I do have to say that my head is still partly stuck in the “don’t let it out the door mentality”. What do you think?
This is the result of my http://nexus.ludios.net/ Nexus Friend Grapher from Facebook. I am a sucker for a good graph. Go on Friend Me, be part of my Graph. I know you want to…
David W. Dunlap/The New York Times
This is from Dunlap about the NYTimes series
The Brooklyn Bridge The walkway across the bridge was not divided into lanes for walkers and bikers in 1978. The financial district looks much the same, save for the absence of the twin towers.
Mind you, I didn’t set out to take vintage photos.
The assignment in 1978 was simply to illustrate “The City Observed: New York,” a guidebook to Manhattan by Paul Goldberger, who was then the architecture critic for The New York Times. (He is now the architecture critic for The New Yorker.) Paul instructed me to keep the pictures straightforward, documentary and as free of optical distortion as possible. He handed me a carbon copy of his manuscript as my guide, and off I went, with my Nikons and Plus-X film.
Because I can still remember what the weather was like on the days I took these pictures, what the city sounded and smelled like, I was startled to look through my contact sheets recently and realize how much Manhattan had changed. New York did not just crawl out of its near-collapse in the mid-70s, it had boomed almost without interruption. Towers were inserted. Landmarks were deleted. And even in cityscapes that looked unchanged, I knew that far wealthier occupants — residential and commercial — could now be found behind familiar old facades.
My editors and I thought that pairing photos from then and now would be a graphic way to examine the phenomenon of urban churn that so defines this city. The series will visit a dozen or so neighborhoods, uptown and downtown, before the end of 2008. Each diptych tells its own tale, but the overall story is clear: It doesn’t take much longer than a generation for New York to regenerate itself completely. DAVID W. DUNLAP
Follow this link to view these and other pairs in an interesting embedded Flash application.
New book, you decide. Read review in ICONEYE here.
Magno Wooden Radio a must have! I’ll take 10 I love it so much.
I have booked my tickets… you? Don’t forget about eye tattoos as well, for feelunique.com. Great advertising space.
{via NYTimes}
This was fun to watch. I have always had a hard time watching the NYTimes television ads. They should think out of the box a little. Not to mention the model that was in one of their ads about 10 years ago. They were appalled to see that ad run on TV for about 2-3 years. No one else wanted to heir her because her face was so saturated being identified with the NYTimes.
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“Were are not in it to make money, we won’t loose a lot but we won’t make much either.” David Cole, SF Examanier. Boy was he right! “It takes 2 hours to download the entire text of the newspaper”, from KRON news report.
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May we never forget the eloquence of President George W. Bush.
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This image from the Netherlands Polaroid factory where the rebirth may take place.
It is remarkable, but there could be another life for Polaroid film. The company, Impossible Project, may just be able to get this done. Read in their own words below.
We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid’s old equipment, factory and seek your support.
Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.
Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).
Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.
The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.
Go to the website to support them.
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Canon 5D, perhaps the ideal camera of the moment.
The new Canon 5D will get a good workout for the newly announced Obama White House photographer Pete Souza. As can be seen from the IPTC data below Souza had no problem getting his hand on the new Canon camera. Be sure to download your full resolution copy of the Souza official Obama Presidential Portrait above from the 5D.
Here is a link to Pete Souza’s website, where you can find many more wonderful photos of Obama over the years, like the one below.
Photo of Obama by Pete Souza on Capital Hill
So you may be a professional photographer, graphic designer, etc and you are wondering if it is time to finally get that new monitor. Your LCD is fading or your CRT is finally ready to be replaced. But after looking around you wonder “do I go with the 22″ Eizo, where I am buying the reputation Eizo has developed over the last few years, or do I go with the 26″ NEC 2690WUXi2?”
I did some research before I purchased. Not that I am a big tech head, but I did ask around, so my friend Brad told me to look at this NEC. He had seen it at PPE in November, he and several others thought this was a great monitor. One of the big advantages of the new NEC over the previous generation model is that the contrast ratio is now 1:1000.
So my friend Aaron told me he had just bought the Eizo 22″ in the last few months and after hearing that I got the new NEC offered to come to my stuido and we do a side by side comparision. Well I think we both agreed that the side by side test put the NEC on top. Both in value $1180 delivered no tax vs. the Eizo about $1400 + tax. And quality, one of the main reasons I feel the NEC looked better was the contrast ratio of 1:1000.
No dout that the Eizo is a very fine product but in the end I went for more screen space, less money and, I think, better quality. Look forward to hear your opinions. And thanks Aaron for schelpping it over here.
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