The 2010 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights and Photography “The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.” – The Be Good Tanyas “The fact I have a job means I don’t feel pressured to do something market-friendly. Instead, I get to do whatever the hell I want. I get to do it for my own satisfaction. And I think that makes…
Links for Monday 11/23/09 – William Eggleston show and more
New York Times piece on the Chicago News Cooperative. A piece on Chicago gangs in the New York Times by the newly formed Chicago News Cooperative. The Art Institute of Chicago will exhibit a retrospective of William Eggleston’s work; opens February 27. William Eggleston in the Real World, a film by Michael Almereyda.
Links for Sunday 11/22/09
I’m done scanning and now I’m working through setting up Adobe Bridge to tag and organize my projects. Next step will be to process and proof my latest round of selects. I’m trying to figure out how to do that quickly without having to spend a great deal of time in photoshop. My folder structure is setup like this: scans…
The Battle for Algiers
I rented the Battle of Algiers and was struck by the richness of the black and white cinematography. There was one particular scene that really captivated me. The Algerians were killing police officers and in retaliation, the French blew up a section of the Casbah in Algiers. Here is a screen capture from that sequence of community members pulling the…
Links for Thursday 11/19/09 – News Aggregators, human editors and more
Rodger Kingston has a nice collection of snapshots – The Snapshot Century Richard Woodward’s review of Looking In: Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ Techmeme adds 6 editors; human aided algorithms are more effective than just software.
Links for Tuesday 11/17/09 – Patching Drupal core and more
James Pomerantz is blogging his days in photo MFA Land. Here’s a recommended photography related reading list from his program Image Journal – faith and art. I just subscribed to their feed and am looking into picking up a subscription to their quarterly journal. They have also just released Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image. I noticed my feeds…
Links for Monday
Twelve rolls of film processed over the weekend and I’m almost done editing. Then on to scanning. I have a little work to do to clean up my file management structure. I’m trying to get things organized before they get too far out of control. I’m thinking about utilizing Adobe Bridge to manage metadata. I have a book problem and…
Links for Sunday – 11/15/09; 10:12:31
Scoble on Twitter lists – changing the way he consumes news. War Is Personal, by Eugene Richards – from The Nation. “A good photojournalist is also someone who reads a lot and understands the world at more than a superficial level. And who is sceptical about what’s going on” – Eugene Richards. Lieca’s obsesson with special editons – I have…
Links for Saturday – Drupal updates and more
I needed to update my Drupal installation for The Nonprofit News Network site so I decided to tackle that this morning. I was in a bit of a hurry (first mistake) and so I backed up my sites/ directory first then ran the Fantastico update script (I did the original install with this tool so figured I should use it…
Links for 11/13/09; 11:21:09 AM by MF
From the Business Insider, “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late“. I need to create a nonprofit Twitter list for npnewsnetwork. Insert photo test. I know it is not ready for primetime yet, but I can’t get Lifeliner to “save”. I keep getting this error, “Can’t find a sub-table named “textRouter””.…