Posted in Ideas, People, Photography on Jun 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
The Arrow Of Time On June 17, every year, a family takes portraits of one another. This is the series from 1976 through 2008. Note that Nicolas gets married in 2008 and starts his own series. Great idea, I wish more people did it. [via Digg]
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Jun 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned Political revolutions are often closely linked to communication tools. The American Revolution wasn’t caused by the proliferation of pamphlets, written to whip colonists into a frenzy against the British. But it sure helped. This is an excellent overview of how Twitter helped and possibly hurt the demonstrations going [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places on Jun 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Photo Journal: Inside Yangon, Myanmar This is a spectacular collection of images by Aliece Alisha of the old capital of Burma (Myanmar).
Posted in Photo Sites on Jun 19th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Dance around the world. Incredible, especially #7, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater members Antonio Douthit, Glenn Allen Sims and Kirven Boyd. Picture by Andrew Eccles.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers on Jun 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Picasso: Drawing With Light Wonderful historic images by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili of Pablo Picasso drawing with a flashlight, captured with a long exposure. One of the great things about Picasso is that he got it, he understood what he was doing even though this was long before the digital world so he didn’t see [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism on Jun 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
Showcase: Kashi, Kashi, Kashi This is an incredible slide show of triptychs by Ed Kashi. Watch full screen and listen, the commentary is brilliant. The groupings and rationale(s) for them equally brilliant. Ed Kashi has a book of these triptychs out: Three.
Posted in Collections, Objects, Photographers on Jun 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Lens Culture has a collection of photographs by Andrzej Kramarz: Rzeczy (Things). Collecting things is the first part of the process, after that there are many possibilities for using them in artwork. Very much reminds me of the work of Joseph Cornell and of my recent post on scrapbooking. And, even though these are generally [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism, Social Software on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
About the Lens Blog An update on the now one month old New York Times Lens photoblog which is excellent.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Social Software, Video on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Great TED talk by Clay Shirky on how the internet and social networking via the internet is revolutionary.
Posted in Social Software on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter This is a great post on things that many twitter users have known for years but it covers everything from history of the company to how to get started, protocols, how to deal with social networking and more. Great overview. [via Glenn Hilton]
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Social Software on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran? Joshua Kucera speculates on how misinformation can pass through Twitter at the speed of light. The same “neutral” technology that makes it possible to track many points of view also makes it possible for misinformation to distort the aggregate view or feel of all of [...]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Israeli Settlements in the West Bank. This is one of the best photo documentaries of the Israeli settlement situation I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing what pictures can do with few words. This is an incredible collection of images, one of the best The Big Picture has put together to date (IMHO).
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Ideas, Photography on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein I was looking through the excellent photographs of Laurie Lambrecht at lens culture: Inside Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio and images like “Bathing Beauties, stencils,” and “Naples” made me wonder if there is a connection between what Roy Lichtenstein did with period graphic images and what Shepard Fairey did with the photograph [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Humor, Opinion on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Which (art) student are you? Chuck Dillon has done a great set of drawings depicting the various categories of art student he sees at the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia. In my day there weren’t this many sub-species (that I know of). But, each school attracts different breeds. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion on Jun 17th, 2009 3 Comments »
The Palm Pre is out and it’s doing well. It will no doubt cut into iPhone sales and for good reason, it’s a well designed new smartphone with a physical keyboard and a great new OS. One feature of the Pre that caught many people’s attention is the fact that it can use Apple’s iTunes [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Iran’s continued election turmoil Incredible images of growing demonstrations in various cities around the world.
Posted in Photojournalism, Politics, Stories on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Bank Failure Angers Both Victims and Supporters A photo essay on the failure of New Frontier Bank in northeast Colorado.
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Darwin and art Slide show on Charles Darwin’s theories affecting the art world from an art history perspective. All art has a social context and this is a useful discussion of the influence of Darwin’s then new ideas on the art world happening when he was first publishing.
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Cyberwar guide for Iran elections The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter. [via BoingBoing]
Posted in Movies, Places on Jun 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
Sonja Sharp for Mother Jones: Bollywood for Beginners. Fantastic overview of Hindi cinema with videos. Wow, this is a time suck but it’s quite a great overview and worth exploring, even if you’ve seen much of this before. The commentary is excellent. [via Boing Boing]
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