Fantastic views of New York City from above.
http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr/2009/newyork/
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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/
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
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.
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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I know this is a little old now but…
Hard to believe that I could feel even a little bit sorry for a guy who lost $50 Billion of his investors money. But I do, perhaps just for a minute.
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Get lost in the NASA Image Archive. You can spend hours viewing the images on this site.
“NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.
The goal of NASA Images is to increase our understanding of the earth, our solar system and the universe beyond in order to benefit humanity.” Quoted frrom NASA Images.
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This is a detail of the larger image, belive it or not. How is it done? 
The Gigapan mount above, read on from the Gigapan website.
We are beta-testing prototypes of the Gigapan robotic mount, which attaches to your small digital camera to create a fast and easy-to-use high-resolution panorama capture device. We are growing the beta process and are negotiating concerning general release and sales of the Gigapan camera. You will be able to purchase these low-cost robotic mounts and take several hundred or thousand images at a time to create panoramas with one billion pixels and more.
You don’t need specialized GigaPan hardware to take your own panoramas. If you have lots of patience, a high-quality digital camera, and a good tripod (or very steady hand!) you can take hundreds or thousands of overlapping, zoomed-in pictures for a gigapixel-scale panorama, then use off-the-shelf stitching software to combine the images into one very high-resolution panorama for upload.
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“Summary: During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe “attack dogs,” Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered — the journalists’ teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe’s hair moved further back on his head.”
Summary from mediamatters
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An extreemly moving audio and photo piece about photographer Paul Fusco’s trip on the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train to carry his body to Washington DC. The images will be part of an exhibition “R.F.K. Funeral Train— Rediscovered,” at Danziger Projects in New York from June 6 to July 31. His book, “R.F.K.,” will be published by Aperture in September.
From the New York Times.
“Paul Lacy, 50, has lived in Brooklyn for all but two years since 1983. He has worked as a factory night watchman and an apprentice furniture maker. Now he does freelance page layout for publishers of science and technical books. But Mr. Lacy’s real passion — like that of so many New Yorkers who are defined as much by their hobbies as their day jobs — is street photography. He has just published his first book, “Brooklyn Storefronts,” a collection of 75 color photographs of small, independently owned stores throughout the borough.”
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Charlie Rose gets a black eye. No, one of his guests did not take a swing at him. He was walking down 59th Street in New York City and “tripped” in a pothole. His reflexes told him to save his new state of the art, Mac Book Air, rather than to protect his face from the ground. More at Salon.
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Stern waited 46 years to revisit the Marilyn Monroe “Last Sitting”. Somehow this has become the New York Magazine cover story.
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A strange sight at Grand Central. A couple of hundred people, indistinguishable from the 500,000 commuters who pass through the midtown station each day, suddenly freeze. They were part of an improv group which has put on this public event before, but never in such a theatrical space. A cop was asked what was going on: “I have no idea! That is the craziest shit I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’m a cop!” (Click play to start the clip.)
Time stands still in New York City’s Grand Central Station.
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“The Falling Soldier” by Robert Capa
The discovery has sent shock waves through the photography world, not least because it is hoped that the negatives could settle once and for all a question that has dogged Capa’s legacy: whether what may be his most famous picture — and one of the most famous war photographs of all time — was staged. Known as “The Falling Soldier,” it shows a Spanish Republican militiaman reeling backward at what appears to be the instant a bullet strikes his chest or head on a hillside near Córdoba in 1936. When the picture was first published in the French magazine Vu, it created a sensation and helped crystallize support for the Republican cause.” Quoted from the New York Times
LEFT PHOTO, ABBOTT, SEVENTH AVENUE LOOKING SOUTH FROM 35TH STREET, MANHATTAN, 1935
RIGHT PHOTO, LEVERE, SEVENTH AVENUE LOOKING SOUTH FROM 35TH STREET, MANHATTAN, 2001
I guess this is only big news for me, but my Nelson Tower South image that is selling at IKEA is not not just available in the UK anymore. You can now find it at your local US IKEA. You will have to go to the store as yet it is not available online. Below, I have included a view of the pair of images as displayed in my book New York Changing rephotographed from. The Abbott on the Left and Levere on the Right.
I love good graphics. Here find another good New York Times political graphic. Follow the link for more info from the AIGA Design Archives about it.
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