Douglas Levere NYC Photographer Transplanted to Buffalo
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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A blast from the past. I still remember almost all the words.
Can you save an aging American photographic film company? If you have hundreds of millions of dollars you can be the owner of a wonderful technology that has lived a wonderful life. You have the oppertunity to nurture this product into the old age home.
For a 5 minute history of the company and where it is now watch this video by photographer Michael Blanchard.
But seriously… I love Polaroid film. But, that said I have not used it for several years now. I do have friends that use it as a mainstay of their work. There is my friend Ellen Carey, she has used the Polaroid 20×24 camera for some wonderful work over the years. I don’t know what she and her fine art peers will do.
So what can you do if you don’t have the millions needed to save the company? Go to http://www.savepolaroid.com/ and send a letter in a campaign to get Fuji Film or Illford to license the Polaroid technology.
Even allowing for the culturally-ravaged, post-wardrobe-malfunction neo-fundamentalist, sexual dystopia we live in, the decision of Jordache to Photoshopically amputate Heidi Klum’s nipples is a profoundly bizarre one.
What were the possible logical processes that made this happen? Did they think no-one would notice? How could this make any sense? Unbelievable.
San-Zhr Pod Village, by photographer Craig Ferguson, is a project that features images of an abandoned pod development in the small Taiwanese town of San-zhr. These images have a post-apocalyptic flavor that seem like they are right out of a dystopian novel, and as Craig explains, the truth is no less bizarre: “I first heard about this [place] a couple of years ago, but it was only recently that I was able to get out there. The complex was left in its unfinished state because no amount of redevelopment will bring people to the area due to superstitions about ghosts, and it can’t be demolished because destroying the homes of spirits and lost souls is taboo in Asian culture.” We are glad that Craig braved the ominous warnings to produce these incredible images, and we think you will agree.
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I love the work of Lucio Santos, on his blog. Below is Santos’ work on a “Cellular House. Lucio “Have you been to Taiwan lately?” I see some inspiration here.
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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