August 2009
The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to... →
Job Insecurity Leads To Health Problems In US... →
Southern California’s Faces and Places Photo... →
Deadline August 21, 2009
Who Lives There - Wilfred Armster Structure Moves... →
How to make a MacWorld magazine cover →
via Peter Belanger’s blog
Time lapse photos from taking the picture to layout in InDesign.
Lament for a Dying Field - Photojournalism →
via nytimes
“Jean-François Leroy, organizer of the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival, which runs in Perpignan for two weeks beginning Aug. 29, pointed to a declining emphasis in the media on serious subjects — what he called the “disease of the press” — as another problem.
“Photographers are producing plenty of great stuff, but now the media seem interested only in celebrities,” he...
Radio Shack rebranding to ‘The Shack’? →
What a mistake. Let’s take a well know and financially viable company and change the name to The Shack.
Call the company and complain: (817) 415-3011
That’s the HQ switchboard so, be nice.
Itineraries - Worst Part of a Trip May Be Booking... →
So true. Dear (reliable, honest) travel agent, please take my $25 and deal with it for me!
via NYTimes
VII Photo Agency →
“VII derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency. Designed from the outset to be an efficient, technologically enabled distribution hub for some of the world’s finest photojournalism, VII has been responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of the images that define the turbulent opening years of the...
Solitude by Art Director Robin Risser. Larger version here.
Shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II VLSR, 50mm, 35mm, and 50-200mm Canon lenses. Dolly was a table saw rail! Budget: zero. Inspiration: Painter Andrew Wyeth.
Wait for the outdoor scenes. Some nice French landscapes.
Here is his web site. Click on Motion then the second image icon and watch Schwitters’s These too. (Mostly just...
Tailfins of 1959 →
from nytimes