Image © Ugo Mulas via WMMNA and GAM di Torino.
I’ve finally done the impossible–read every one of the backlogged posts that have been building up in my Google Reader for the past, oh, month or so. These links are my favorites from the past month. For anyone who’s been keeping up, it might […]
Image via WebUrbanist.
For those who somehow missed it, the Iran missile photo debate. Also, (via Notes…) Errol Morris’s take.
In other foreign visual manipulation news: in Egypt, the news that the news may no longer control the news is top news. That includes visuals and audio.
Art to Go on surveillance. An artist I […]
Image © Luciano Romano/Change Performing Arts, via NYT.
Happy fourth of July! After a week of vacation, I’m back to active duty. In the meantime, a few interesting things happened that are worth noting.
The end of the panorama? Olympus has announced a prototype for a 360 degree camera.
Regina Hackett and Chas Bowie have […]
I’ll be traveling for the next week. I might have enough access for sporadic updates, but until then, enjoy the blogroll and the following links.
More great coverage of PhotoEspaña–this time on landscape photographers–from WMMNA. I found at least two projects I didn’t know about–by Joachim Koester and Simon Starling–that look worth more time […]
Image from “On the Beauty of Absence.”
Theorists have made a fuss for a while now about how the body is “inscribed” or made “legible” by society. Here’s the process in real-time: a new tool allows police to identify suspects based on tattoos, scars, and other visible bodily markers.
Square America is probably the most thoughtfully […]
Image © Harri Pälviranta.
The fastest flash ever created.
Regina Hackett looks at pigeons looking.
X-ray tour of a Greco-Egyptian mummy. (via C-Monster)
A show I wish I could see: “This Side of Paradise” at the Huntington Library in LA.
We Make Money Not Art’s top selections from PhotoEspaña, including Harri Pälviranta’s great documentary work on Finnish barfighting–which is […]
Still from the New York Times.
Tony Schwarz, creator of the masterful “Daisy Ad” that helped LBJ defeat Barry Goldwater and also changed the course of American political campaigning, died Saturday, the NYT reports.
The world of online photography criticism recently got a whole lot richer with the addition of a new online magazine, 1000 Words, and […]
Image © Jonathan Haeber.
Optical illusions, or perceptual illusions? According to the NYT, many of these tricks are due to our brain’s need to predict the future in order to process the present. Deep. (Story here and here.)
Courtroom sketches from the 9/11 co-conspirator trials in Guantánamo.
Snowdon is an example of the type of […]
Image © Rafal Milach.
Great photo selections from FotoGrafia and World Press Photo 2008 over at We Make Money Not Art.
How to make three-dimensional animals from print advertising. Or virtual three-dimensional animals, anyway.
Paul Fusco describes the happy accident that became RFK Funeral Train.
Tattoos and the NBA: “At one time, people got tattoos to be different, […]
The NYT ran a good profile of the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, inventor of Nintendo-as-we-know-it. Most interesting fact from the article: Miyamoto, who may be best known for his signature characters (Mario, Zelda, etc.), considers characters an afterthought in his creative procedure. He prioritizes gameplay, and thinks that people fall in love with his […]
