America the Gift Shop
23 Sep
It’s Cheney shredding secret papers. Wow, I’d totally buy one of these.
Archive | September, 2008
books and prints
11 Sep
Ber Murphy’s Sleeping Giant is one of the more awesome Blurb books that was entered in their self-published book contest, but it didn’t win. Unfortunately I don’t like the top winners much at all. The list of honorable mentions is overwhelming, but I liked Joe Johnson’s Mega Churches. Well, liked as much as a 15-page preview warrants.
Every Tuesday and Wednesday, 20×200 releases batches of original art prints for sale online. You have three choices. Small (8×10) prints come in editions of 200, at $20 each, medium (~17×22) prints are sold in editions of 20 at $200 each, and the 2 large (~30×40) prints are $2000 each.
A pretty standard trash the dress sunset shoot, but at about 2:30m, there is a kite mounted G9 set up!
vacation
8 Sep
I especially liked his project on Dutch vacation housing tracts:
The series shows tourists’ Socialization in Dutch vacation house parks. The decision of many people to chose the standardized copy of their everyday home, lined up a hundred times next to each other, as their vacation destination, in the most precious time of year, seems absurd. Nevertheless, holiday house tourism enjoys an unbroken and growing popularity.
48 slim
5 Sep
Candace Gaudiani
From 48 States through the window of a train. Not too memorable individually, but good together.
I’ve decided on a white and black theme for the website, but I’m not sure if I can do it without Flash, if it’d look awkward. Is it possible to have non-essential Flash elements in an otherwise HTML website? Or does everything have to be in a package? Maybe I should buy some decent books after all…
An unexpected application of photography: the photo diet.
films and computers
3 Sep
I winged a last minute essay for Utata Speaks: The Blind Tourist. I should do something more in-depth for Chinatown though – history, stats, personal stories. Add that to the damn list…
In that vein, the annual UN film festival is coming up in mid October, and there’re some interesting looking films this year – climate change and the Inuit (Belonging), domestic waste as an ecological problem (Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home), family farmers (Good Food), US coal use (Kilowatt Ours), Chinese youths (Young and Restless in China), conservation in Africa (Milking the Rhino), and water politics (Flow). The schedule hasn’t been announced yet, but I’m looking forward to seeing some of these!
MEMORY
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What people really want: film vs digital, longform vs shortform
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
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Chris Jordan on fear, inspiration and living fully
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
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Subsidizing art, subsidizing yourself
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
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down with artspeak! (or, don’t let yourself go)
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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the byline
This is what Hans Rosling says of global development in the documentary I linked to earlier. I want to dig a little deeper into this issue. I’d say that most of the photo world has done a fairly terrible job of making this point. All the images of development are somehow read as “look at [...]
