Category: Blog News

The user experience needs to be fast, easy, and rich — “like reading a magazine,” Larry has said.

via Official Google Blog

[Mary Ellen] Mark had earned his trust a year before by simply enduring some subtle abuse during the making of The Missouri Breaks, for which Brando’s rule was that set photographers must always ask permission before shooting him. Every time. And the answer was always no.

via Los Angeles Art+Books.

I do believe in the power of bearing witness, but I see it more as responsibility to ourselves… I do have a real problem with the assumption that photographers can change the world by telling these “truths”.

More (here).

“…in-house designers are trying to overcompensate for the normally uninspiring art and photography that alumni magazines routinely have to work with… The key is to use cheap art in smart ways.”

DJ Stout, Pentagram.

In journalism, my workplaces often felt like rooms filled with balloons, enormous and fragile egos rubbing and squeaking up against one another until, inevitably, several burst with a bang.

In journalism, all too often perception helps people get ahead. One editor’s star performer is another’s nightmare.

via  NYTimes.com.

Public clients hire public agencies who go through rounds and rounds of strategy and rounds and rounds of creative. 50% of the time (a best guess based on my own experience), projects die. The other 50% results in garbage that any agency could have come up with in an hour (again, a best guess based on my own eyeballs).

I believe we’re about to embark on a new era of entrepreneurial marketing. Yes, it is out of necessity. But frankly, I’m excited about it.

via Please Feed The Animals.

My advice? Get re-skilled. Keep your photographic aspirations but try to get a trade like film editing, web-design or accounting.

Soon we’ll all be amateur photographers with real money-making jobs on the side that we don’t tell our colleagues about. We need to get over the snobbery attached to that.

Honestly I think he’s kidding… he tells the WPP off for not paying him to write the piece as well.

via World Press Photo.

Photoshop was something I resisted using for years, but I’m now pretty good with it and clean things up and sometimes remove things and such. But I would never use it to try and make a dull photo interesting — which we now see a lot of.

via strobist.blogspot.com

These salvage photos are fantastic (go here). I’m not sure if it was commissioned for someone… big mistake if it wasn’t. I’ve seen plenty of chatter about the salvage but having a professional photographer on the scene makes all the difference.

Thanks, Jonathan.

Brilliant photo essay in the New York Times Magazine (here) by Paolo.

Blurb.com’s revenue has gone from $1MM to $30MM in two years. Self publishing is apparently insanely profitable and still growing.
According to this twitter feed: Media is Thriving.

Via, Media Memo.

Source Interlink and Anderson News distribute 50% of the magazines to newsstands. According to this story they are giving up the business because it’s not profitable and magazine publishers refuse to pay a price hike (here). In this story Source Interlink denies the rumors (here).

President Obama says to the gaggle of photographers assembled before him for the “pool spray,” a very brief photo opportunity. This one, in fact, lasted 30 seconds.
Video on the caucus blog (here).

Thanks Ilja.

Maybe you can help, maybe you can write about it or maybe you can just send him good vibes.

Read about it on Cameron Davidsons blog (here).

The Girl Project explores the lives of American teenage girls by putting them behind the camera to document themselves. Using disposable cameras, girls 13-18 photograph their lives as only they know and understand it.