Category: Blog News

This very simple application allows you to build an iPhone website for your portfolio: SmallFolio.com

It’s a nifty solution and even though I work with the guys who made it I had nothing to do with it. Dang.

HERE. Hot new trend I want to see explode.

Mygazines (here) looks to become a place where consumers can scan and share their favorite magazines, although it looks like there’s some professional scanning going on there. This would be so great if the magazine publishers had actually come up with it but sadly it will probably take this kind of content stealing for publishers to wake up and smell the coffee. There was a fashion magazine scan site (here) that I used to look at once an awhile but it looks like they’ve had their content removed. Is this starting to sound like the recording industry?

Via PDN Pulse.

” …Young journalists are less willing to stay at newspapers because the papers are so slow to change their culture.

Newspapers have a history as top-down organizations where senior management huddles in conference rooms to decide what everyone else will do. Innovative ideas usually die on the vine or in bureaucratic red tape. And that’s frustrating for young folks who want to be change agents at newspapers and make a difference.”

Read about it on MediaShift (here).

A new book published in the UK and out here in September:
“The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art” (Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages, $24.95)
“Willem de Kooning once said of the famed art dealer Leo Castelli: “You could give him two beer cans and he could sell them.”

Read more (here). Via, Gallery Hopper.

Jonathan Saunders got after it and has a magazine available on MagCloud for anyone that wants to see how the printing looks (here).

The short list for the new $100,000 (!) Prix Pictet Award has been announced (here).

The Prix Pictet is a major new global prize in photography that focuses on perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century: sustainability.

If you want to see how someone perfectly balances the editorial and commercial worlds of photography and you’re majoring in a photo program in the final or next to final year then send Chris a resume and cover letter (chris(at)chrisbuck.com) because this is an incredible opportunity for aspiring photographers and photo editors to get their feet wet in this business.

The rest of the details are in the comments.

UPDATE: Position Filled

Telephone Prefix Locater (here).

Update: This one is even better (here).

I’m honestly stunned at how often I have to use this website to figure out where somebody lives.

Barnes and Noble has subscriptions to 500 titles listed (here) in partnership with the Zineo reader, which somewhat crappily reproduces the magazine reading experience on your screen. Well, at least they’re digital. The more interesting thing is the single copies for sale (here) kinda like a virtual newsstand sans creepy dude thumbing through all the skin mags in the corner.
Finally some progress.

“When a photographer records an image, there is a message he or she wishes to convey. Since the photographer cannot verbally express that message to the viewer, it is the photo critic’s job to ascertain whether or not the photographer succeeded at visually expressing that message to the viewer.”
Maybe the photo criticism school is right for you (here). Only $299.

Via, That’s A Negative.

Vincent Laforet wrote a good piece about all the problems facing photographers today (here) but concludes that the possibilities are endless for photographers just getting started.

Dan Stoner of Garage Magazine (here) has an exhibit of photography from the magazine at the 111 Mina Gallery in San Francisco (here). Running July 3 – August 1. Stop by and buy Stoner a drink for me, will ya’.

Photographers can submit photos to appear on their Fall travel cover (here) and the winner will receive a week-long all-expenses-paid trip for two to Austria. That seems quite a bit better then the usual space rates for cover photography. Deadline is July 31st.

Here’s a trend I’d like to see continue. Alan Taylor a programmer and blogger who works at Boston Globe’s website Boston.com cracks a mysterious secret that continues to befuddle online magazine and newspaper editors. People want to look at big cool pictures. See how he did it (here).

Interview with Alan (here), via Rexblog.

I’ve landed a beta invite to publish a magazine on MagCloud and my initial look at everything shows a maximum of 60 pages for an issue at a cost of $12 per issue. Shipping looks to be $1.40 per copy. I also saw Stanford Magazine at $9.60 for 48 pages so it appears that the raw cost will be $0.20/page.

It could cost a penny a page and it wouldn’t matter if the printing sucks so the next step is to get one printed with high quality photography/scans and see how it looks. I’ll let you know what I find out.

The great potential for this technology is that all things that are web based can now offer a hard copy of their content to consumers at virtually no cost (except all the time to design it).

Do you send your promo work out on a CD or DVD? These might interest you: http://www.jewelboxing.com

Ian Parry was a 24 year old photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989.

To honor him his friends and family set up a scholarship where each year a competition for photographers who are either attending a full-time photography course or are under the age of 24 is held. Entrants must submit a portfolio of their work and a brief synopsis of a project they would undertake if they won. The prize is £2,500 towards their assignment. Metro Imaging also offer £500 worth of vouchers to the winner.

Additionally, World Press Photo automatically accepts the winner onto their final list of nominees for the Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam.

Visit the website to sign up (here).