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SFist Tonight

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:23 GMT

ART: Showcasing "the various extremes of human behavior and the bizarre worlds that surround them," the one-night show, Bazooko's Circus , will feature 50 dark and experimental pieces by Bay Area artists, including photography, illustration, paintings, film, and other mixed medias, featuring short film It's a Strange World by Hassan Said and music by The Strange Orchestra. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. // Space Gallery (1141 Polk St) // $4, 21+ MUSIC: Ozone Magazine publisher Julia Be

Photographing Your Work Space

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:50 GMT

Photographing Your Work Space Photography: Reid Carr (Red Door Interactive) Photographers usually want to make money out of their own images. But when you appreciate photography and love your specialty, making money out of other people’s photos can be rewarding too. Stephen Searer, a history teacher ...

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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:18 GMT

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Got Your Heart Set On A New Digital Camera?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:15 GMT

You want to have a good camera but you think your budget won’t let you. Worry no more! Here are some tips to have the best cheapest digital camera. These cameras are also good for taking backdrop images. Most of these cameras are also cheap and very friendly for beginners I photography. You can visi ...

Observe Ghostly Looks by Using Digital Infrared Ghost Photography

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:41 GMT

Now there is a good news for you who believe in ghosts or any mystical beings. Digital infrared ghost photography can help you prove the presence of such superstitious things. The common person might not be able to see the presence of ghosts, nevertheless you can make it with this special equipment. ...

PITNB Readers, 070409

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:28 GMT

Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers — Katie sends in a pic of her cute daughter Lucy rockin’ her adorable fluffy pink coat with her little sister Zoe — Heather from New Jersey sends in a pic of her cute little 4-year ballerina Charlotte after she completed her first recital — Geminita sends in a pic of her Etsy team’s first event Haute Pink Bazaar which was held on National Pink Day and raised over $100 for the Alamo Breast Cancer Fou

Sita Sings the Blues: An Inspiration to Warm the Heart

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:11 GMT

Sita Sings the Blues: An Inspiration to Warm the Heart Sita Sings the Blues is an astonishingly original 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by the American artist Nina Paley, primarily using 2-D computer graphics. Sita Sings the Blues was awarded the Cristal ...

10 humor sites sure to make you LOL

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:31 GMT

Written by Jordan Valinsky Bored with Pearl, the cursing toddler landlord demanding rent money? Not amused by those cutesy pictures of cats with the baby-speak captions? Maybe you need some fresh sources of Internet humor. The Web is full of clever blogs and funny sites, including many that collect amusing gags from users and find comedy in real life. Click away from the cats and replenish your list of favorite bookmarks with these 10 new or lesser-known humor sites: Awkward Family

Bruce Weber for Moncler

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:05 GMT

Moncler’s new advertising campaign, photographed by Bruce Weber, with a self portrait ( photo above ), Bruce Weber’s golden retrievers… Design You Trust sponsors: W3 MARKUP - CSS & HTML for Your Designs | LightCMS - Web 2.0 Content Management System for Designers | Wix.com - Create a Free website, Flash website builder & Flash MySpace Layouts | Shutterstock - Over 7 Million Royalty-Free Stock Photos | HypeForType - Online Digital Type Foundry Advertise with Design

New York City – Time Square

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:04 GMT

Photo submitted by © Danielle Kelly [click on photo to enlarge] Personal note Danielle Kelly another view of the new times square. Links : Follow Danielle Kelly on Twitter – @daniellekelly d kelly photography – Homepage 15×100 member Tumblelog

links for 2009-07-04

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:01 GMT

The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 Extraordinary collection of early photographs from the colonization of East Africa. (tags: africa history photography colonialism photos library images historical kenya uganda tanzania britain ) NEXT: latest news, sport and views from Nigeria New online newspaper in Nigeria (tags: africa nigeria news press newspaper journalism )

tylerknott: Happy 4th of July! (via Tyler Knott Photography)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:58 GMT

tylerknott : Happy 4th of July! (via Tyler Knott Photography )

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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:33 GMT

Jason DeMarte’s biography: “Jason DeMarte was born in Louisiana in 1973 but spent most of his childhood in Colorado. Growing up in Colorado’s natural beauty had a profound effect on Jason, an effect that is evident in his work to this day. While Jason has been making pictures since he was 11 years old he was originally interested in biological sciences. After attending school pursuing a degree in science Jason decided he could investigate his interests in the natural world better with Photograph

A Few Tips for Photographing Fireworks

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:17 GMT

Happy 4th of July! I'm not at home and don't have my external hard drive with me or I'd add a fireworks photo to this post. Check back tomorrow for photos (hopefully). It's my sister's favorite holiday and since she's lamenting the fact that she will not be able to see any fireworks tonight I'll be ...

Yosemite’s Mirror Lake

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:14 GMT

Looking through my photography library and found this great photo of Yosemite’s Mirror Lake I took last year. Taken with my old Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D and a Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 lens. You can also see this photo in my Landscapes Slideshow. Related articles by Zemanta Yosemite National Park: ...

just me, just sling ~: Wedding bells~ling ling ling~

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:06 GMT

We finally signed a wedding package with My Dream Wedding ! It wasn;t the cheapest package around but I really love their photography styles and photo enhancing techniques! Their wedding gowns are nice too =) But yea, … See the original post here: just me, just sling ~: Wedding bells~ling ling ling~

How to Take better Candid Shots

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:05 GMT

Taking pictures of people go into two categories. They are either portraits or candids. Portraits are the photos you take when your subject strikes poses. While the candids are usually when your subject is doing something natural. I would like to focus on taking shots that are candid.With this type ...

Happy 4th! | Feature Photo

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:58 GMT

by James Jordan , seen on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesjordan/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 About the Author: Lotus Carroll Lotus is an outdoor loving, freelance writer with a passion for photography that has never seen a formal lesson. She writes (at her personal website and elsewhere) to keep her mind sharp, her sanity in sight, and her happiness not far out of touch. Her mischievous toddler son keeps her more than busy while her road-touring musi

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (28 Jun - 4 Jul ‘09)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:01 GMT

Weekly Assignment This week’s assignment was f/16 . The goal was to create images with a very large depth of field and we saw some really good uses of it. Our winner this week was Cadira ’s lampshade. The lampshade had a very abstract quality that we liked. The details are nice and crisp and it shows how well f/16 works with close up shots. Our first runner up was rt80639 ’s firework shot. A good firework shot is always impressive, and it’s very timely for this weekend! It provides a gre

Kate Moss does New York Magazine the Spring Fashion issue

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:57 GMT

Kate Moss stripped down and showed off a healthy looking body for the Spring Fashion Issue of New York Magazine. Design You Trust sponsors: W3 MARKUP - CSS & HTML for Your Designs | LightCMS - Web 2.0 Content Management System for Designers | Wix.com - Create a Free website, Flash website builder & Flash MySpace Layouts | Shutterstock - Over 7 Million Royalty-Free Stock Photos | HypeForType - Online Digital Type Foundry Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Tw

Crinoline Flowers

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:41 GMT

Wow, a pretty amazing photo collection by Daryl Banks . Such creativity! More amazing art and design at Scene 360 Illusion Design You Trust sponsors: W3 MARKUP - CSS & HTML for Your Designs | LightCMS - Web 2.0 Content Management System for Designers | Wix.com - Create a Free website, Flash website builder & Flash MySpace Layouts | Shutterstock - Over 7 Million Royalty-Free Stock Photos | HypeForType - Online Digital Type Foundry Advertise with Design You Tru

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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:31 GMT

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Short Is Sweet: Postcards Begat SMS Begat Twitter

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30 GMT

Recently, I’ve noticed something. If you send me an email, the likelihood that I’m going to respond is pretty small. But if you send me a message on Twitter, the likelihood that I’ll respond is much higher. Certainly, part of it is that I get fewer messages on Twitter. But you might be surprised at how close it’s getting in volume when you add @replies to direct messages. The bigger factor for me, is the length of the messages. If I open up an email and see it filled with paragraphs of informa

Photography of 6 High-Speed Photographers | WebUrbanist

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:55 GMT

Photography of 6 High-Speed Photographers | WebUrbanist

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:55 GMT

Photography of 6 High-Speed Photographers | WebUrbanist

imgfave | Captivating Examples of Silhouette Photography /...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:53 GMT

imgfave | Captivating Examples of Silhouette Photography / Inspiration / Smashing Magazine

34 Stop-Motion Innovations - Fom Sticky-Note Procrastination Art to Light Graffiti (CLUSTER)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:40 GMT

(TrendHunter.com) The stop-motion innovations we’ve featured range from mesmerziing post-it notes as pixelated, animated images to stop-motion light graffiti that brings frozen light to life against a dark backdrop. This…

Nano picture of an ant head

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:26 GMT

A zoomable picture of an ant head. Amazing details are available, click to see. @ haha.nu Related posts: Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth - A view of the eclipsed Earth from the Mir 27 Crew. This picture is featured as Picture of the Day 20 View from Satellite - Fourmilab.ch (John Walker) has a cool site to let you view the Earth from different satellites. This Largest panoramic Space picture - In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of N

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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:56 GMT

“ Travelogue – One in the Other ” inspired by Andre Cadere, 2008 by Charlotte Moth.

Coincidently

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:47 GMT

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Goes After New York Camera Rip Off Stores

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:36 GMT

Back in November of 2005 I posted a widely circulated blog post about Brooklyn Camera retailer Price Rite Photo. Price Rite Photo had tried to bait and switch me on the purchase of a new Canon 5D and then threatened me when I objected. My blogging helped provide a lot of publicity against these scam artists. The Good news is that this publicity helped get Price Rite Photo shut down as well as national mainstream press about the problem. Subsequent to that I've blogged about a number of these other shady retailers including Broadway Photo who was named today in an article over at the Consumerist about the New York Attorney General finally going after these scam artists.

According to the Consumerist, the NY Attorney General's office announced recently that it has closed down two stores completely, fined seven different shady retailers a total of $655,000 plus $100,000 legal fees, and forced more stores to overhaul their work practices with future monitoring.

More details from the NY BBB here.

The complaint by the Attorney General pretty much accurately described my own experience with Price Rite Photo back in 2005.

“Attorney General Cuomo’s investigation revealed that these seven companies would advertise consumer electronics, such as cameras, camcorders, projectors, and related accessories online at prices significantly lower than their competitors to induce consumers to place orders via the internet. Once an order was placed, the companies would call consumers and try to sell them additional or “upgraded” merchandise at inflated prices. If the consumer refused to purchase the additional merchandise, the companies would cancel the sale or claim the item was backordered for months. If the consumer did agree to purchase the additional merchandise, the companies would send them lower quality merchandise than what was promised, or merchandise that the consumer never ordered in the first place. When customers tried to return the items, they would either be denied or be slammed with undisclosed fees. “

Good work on the part of the NYAG.

Thanks, Eddy!

And the Ants Go Marching One By One

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:01 GMT

Cooliris Just Became The Coolest New Way to Browse Flickr

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:15 GMT

I've been watching Cooliris over the past few years and have been super excited about the technology that they've been developing. If you haven't seen Cooliris yet, let me just say it is the most stunning way to browse photos available on the web today hands down. I have seen no other browsing tool that is as beautiful as Cooliris. When you view a page in Cooliris the photos from the page just float by. You easily move the mouse to browse in a wave like motion across the sea photos and use your scroll wheel or trackpad to zoom in and out seeing photos in their full high res glory.

It's sort of like coverflow for the Mac, but only 100x better.

But as much as I've enjoyed *browsing* photos with Cooliris in the past, in the end I found that experience to be lacking. I want to do a lot more with photos than just browse. I want to interact. And in the past there was no easy way to interact with photos on Cooliris except in Cooliris' own proprietary playground. That was until this past weekend. This past weekend Cooliris released Cooliris v. 1.11 and with this release they've moved the Cooliris experience into a browser tab. What does this mean? This means that rather than having Cooliris take over your whole computer screen and computer, you can now browse using it and fully utilize all the power of your browser.

More specifically, this means that as I browse photos using Cooliris that I can cmd-click (or ctl-click for those of you on PCs) on an image's link page and Firefox (or IE if you're on a PC — joking, folks, joking) will open that photo's page in a background tab. This means that you can use the power of Cooliris to browse, and then select photos as you go that you'd like to fave, comment on, etc. and once you are done browsing they'll already be opened in new tabs for you where you can go interact with them directly.

This is exactly the feature that I was waiting for from CoolIris to begin using it full time as my primary way to browse photos. No more crappy little thumbnail pages from flickr, or even their small photo sized alternative, now simply load up your favorite photostream or search term or group pool or set and browse with full high res large sized glory while still being able to easily load images you'd like to interact with in background tabs. The Cooliris view for sets even looks far better than Flickr's own slideshow view.

Once you find a page on Flickr that you want to browse, simply click on the little CoolIris icon as you hover over a photo and it will launch a Cooliris version in a new tab.

Cooliris has also made some additional enhancements for Flickr including giving you the ability to make a hyperlink of a Cooliris view of a particular set/stream/pool etc. and then share that with others. To see what I'm talking about feel free to click on this Cooliris view of my 10 faves or more set on Flickr. Pretty damn slick huh? Want to fave a few of these? You know you do Just cmd-click on the go to photo page when you select a photo and it will load it in a background tab for you.

You can get and install Cooliris here.

A video of how Cooliris works here. Cooliris' blog post announcing the new version here.

Nice work Cooliris. Congrats on the release!

Oh and once you install Cooliris definitely go fave diving in some of your favorite Flickr user's streams. Emma's favorites knock my socks off. Go see them here.

365 Portraits, The Book

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:25 GMT

In 2007 Photographer Bill Wadman traveled around the United States and Europe with a single mission. Each day he photographed, edited and posted online a different portrait of a different person. It was a mammoth effort meticulously followed that resulted in one of the most authentic collection of portraits I've ever seen. The result, entitled simply 365 Portraits is a significant and beautiful collection of images. I was honored to have been included as a subject in Bill's Project and think the photo that he took of me is one of the best I've ever seen. While Bill shot some famous people in his book (like Astronaut Buzz Aldrin) I found some of his most compelling portraits to be those of everyday people as part of their everyday lives. Here are some of my favorites:

Land Surveyor A.J. MacBrien
A nude of Sarah Lizbet
Teacher Barrie Mann
Writer/Poet Sarah Herrington
Lover and Contrast of Graph Paper Regina Sampels
Racer Beth O'Brien
Photographer Smoothdude
Baby Jonah Max
Octogenarian Hiker Betty New
Singer Songwriter Jocelyn Ryder
Overthinker Alexis Levinson
Video Blogger Ze Frank
Editor of Poz Magazine Regan Hoffman
Workaholic Amy Prole

Bill has now finally released his book of these portraits. The book will be an initial limited edition run of 500 numbered and signed copies. The book is hard cover with about 250 pages showcasing these amazing portraits and Bill is selling them for $120 each. There is a July 20th pre-order deadline. Here is your opportunity to own a unique and interesting early edition work of art from an emerging American photographer and to support an artist directly as well. I just ordered mine 30 minutes ago. Congrats on your project Bill and congrats now on the book — a remarkable work and a labor of love for sure.

Kling: Spain do more than Flamenco

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:35 GMT

Over the summer months herds of British sun-seekers typically flock to bathe under Spanish skies, where warm weather and sunshine is usually a little more stable than it is over here. Spain might be an ideal sun spot, but thanks to outfitters like Kling, it's becoming a fashion hot spot too. You're going to love their clothes, I can tell. Kling are adept at merging colours and shapes. Here you can find clothes that stand out from the crowd; from t-shirts with billowy arms to retro sun dresses, there seems to be something for every taste.

Summer's Here!

Even though it is summer, it's worth having a gander at the autumn and winter collections too, not just because it's good to plan ahead, but because their seasonal collections have amazing titles such as ‘Spring 09: I love mornings' and ‘Winter 08: The Coquette'. Kling offer more than just clothing because they help you to style your look too. They offer weekly deals where you can buy the Total Look, and if you don't know just how to wear your new Kling clothing, all you need to do is drop an email to Emma the stylist who will ‘work out your look'. Keeping things simple but stylish, there's also a section of the website where ordinary folks, like you and me, can send in our pictures and become international supermodels (don't laugh). So if your holidaying in Spain this summer, make sure you seek some shade in a Kling store – oh and take some extra spending money too.

Red and spotty has never looked so good