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Director of Photography, Rob Haggart.

Industrial Color Helps Photographers Shoot The RED One

“Clients select a shot list from the time code, and then we deliver the related RAW files or processed tiffs.”
I had the opportunity to ask Steve Kalalian, President and founder of Impact Digital about his new venture IC Motion, which was founded to help photographers deal with the RED camera. I think there’s a lot [...]

Assistants, Upload Your Light Tests

This website where assistants can share their light tests is so inside baseball, but that’s what makes it great (here).

Mr Toledano will see you now

Excellent video interview over on WTJ? with Mr. Toledano.

VII Adds Photographers to Network and Mentor Programs

Lynsey Addario, Ziyah Gafić, and Seamus Murphy have been invited to join VII Network and  Adam Ferguson to join VII Mentor Program. He will be mentored by Christopher Morris.

Ryan McGinley - Jeans Photographer

From the sad but true and kinda funny category:
Levi’s is debuting an new advertising campaign shot by Ryan McGinley that looks very similar to a print campaign for Wrangler also shot by Mr. McGinley that just won the top prize at Cannes. Read about it over on Creative Review (here).

I’d say it’s a case of [...]

David Maisel’s Library Of Dust on Flyp Media

There’s a story about David Maisel and his Library of Dust project over on Flyp Media (here). Flyp is a multimedia magazine and really worth checking out to see what you think about a story that combines photographs, text, audio and video. I think it’s pretty cool and liked the video of David talking about [...]

Fortune’s Homage To Kodachrome

Fortune magazine dips into the archive to pick out 20 great images shot on Kodachrome (here) after Kodak announced it was going to discontinue producing the film.

Light breakfast - David Sykes Photography

This latest piece of personal work is all shot in one shot on 5×4 transparency. I commissioned a model maker Ridley West to make a giant plate that we could attach to the wall and with the help of Jennie Webster who sourced some amazing balloons this shot was the result.
via David Sykes Photography News.

NYTimes Advocates Stealing Photos From Flickr To Decorate

Yes, really. In a story entitled “Flickr as an Interior Decorating Tool” (here) Sonia Zjawinski says the following:
Through these bouts of procrastination, I’ve often found stunning photographs, so much so I’ve gotten in the habit of printing faves out and framing them. If a user offers the original resolution for download, don’t let that [...]

Ten Things I Have Learned - Milton Glaser

1. You can only work for people that you like.
2. If you have a choice never have a job.
3. Some people are toxic avoid them.
4. Professionalism is not enough or the good is the enemy of the great.
5. Less is not necessarily more.
6. Style is not to be trusted.
“… the point is that anybody who [...]

Sad And Strange, Wired’s EIC Accused Of Plagiarism

Over the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” for a review, The Virginia Quarterly Review discovers passages lifted from Wikipedia (here). The real irony here is that you wouldn’t be allowed to write for Wired if you ever used Wikipedia as a primary source.

Cannes Lions, Press Grand Prix

FFL Paris won the press Grand Prix for its Wrangler campaign shot by Ryan McGinley
(here)

Michele McNally Answers Readers Questions on Talk to the Newsroom

Some good questions coming in for Michele McNally over on the NYTimes website. I reprinted a couple I like here but there’s still time to send her a question and more to read ( here).
Ms. McNally joined The Times as director of photography in June 2004 and was promoted to assistant managing editor in July [...]

Jeff Goodby: ‘We are Becoming Irrelevant Award-Chasers’

We’ve created a system that rewards work that is increasingly unknown to anyone outside the business. We have become connoisseurs of esoterica. And in the process, we’re becoming more about us, and less about changing the world.
Read the rest on  Advertising Age.

Alert: Help Fix Microsoft Outlook So It Doesn’t Wreck Email Campaigns

Microsoft have just confirmed they plan on using the crippled Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position and no background images. Not to mention the long list of bugs [...]

Electronic Fine Art Displays

This is a guest post by Olivier Laude.
I have been staring at hi-res scans of my 8×10 work on my Apple 30″ inch LCD display for a number of years now and wondering why the same displays have not yet been made to accommodate large display sizes. Thin museum quality LCDs, LEDs or better yet, [...]

How Is It That The Economist Is Not Only Surviving, But Thriving?

The Atlantic has an excellent story (here) on retooling the newsweeklies to compete in the internet economy.

In the digital age, with its overabundance of information, the modern newsweekly is in a particularly poignant position. Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting [...]

Reader’s Digest Moves Right of Middle-America

“They are brands that may not be considered cool by the often elitist and self-absorbed standards of New York media,”
via- NYTimes.com(here)