Everybody knows that twitter is limited to 140 characters. The character limit was determined by Friedhelm Hillebrand, father of modern text messaging, who came up with 160 as the ideal number needed to convey… something. When the deciding committee looked at postcards and found most of the messages were around 150 characters, the 160-character limit was born (twitter [...]
Deep Background on Duke Ellington
http://www.openculture.com/2010/04/record_making_with_duke_ellington_1937.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93W1Cgy9e9A http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/08/03/128960586/ellington-interviews-strayhorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4YdERiF0sA
Color Reversal Transparencies (aka “slides”)
Kodak has announced: “Due to a steady decrease in sales and customer usage, combined with highly complex product formulation and manufacturing processes, Kodak is discontinuing three Ektachrome (color reversal) films.” This means that, after 77 years, the Great Yellow Father is no longer in the business of making slides. ‘Tis a pity: slides can’t be beat [...]
Anna Clyne
“My passion is collaborating with innovative and risk-taking musicians, film-makers, visual artists and, in particular, choreographers. Creating new works through a fluid artistic dialogue has consistently fuelled my art-form from new perspectives and has maintained a fresh and exciting creative environment. Inspired by visual images and physical movement, my intention is to create music that [...]
Videos, videos, schmideos.
Errol Morris speculates incisively about truth, art, and propaganda: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/dec/26/errol-morris-photography-video Joseph Herscher perpetuates a revered tradition and keeps it fresh: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/nyregion/brooklyns-joseph-herscher-and-his-rube-goldberg-machines.html?_r=1&hp It’s the big Seven Seven for E. Aron! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPHiCCbcsHE
An end-of-the-year Top 15 (+21) List (as well as 20 or so “MIA”)
Surf this; find something that you can use: http://lpvmagazine.com/2011/12/top-photography-websites-of-2011/ …and surf these for what remains: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-memoriam-photoblogs-2011_26.html
W. o’ W.: Richard Benson
“Traditional chemical photography is an extraordinarily flexible field, which, even as it disappears, has hardly been touched.”
W. o’ W.: Ralph Eugene Meatyard
“Painting is the tougher of the two mediums to use at first, but photography becomes the hardest after you have been at it.” “I never will make an accidental photograph.”
Putting Things into Perspective; or, I Second That Emulsion
Associated Press has become the latest entity to ring the death knell for film, citing that manufacture is down from a one-time height of almost a billion rolls a year to only five million (about half of which, apparently, is shot by those of us at BFHS). Two comprehensive and lucid responses put this into perspective: [...]
A Public Service: Links to Online Magazines
My preference runs to the experiences of gallery shows, monographs, and artists’ lectures; still, what a smooth way to investigate so many current portfolios (at least in this online format: see http://photodevoto.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/best-weblog-disclaimer-ever/). Brew a pot and take the phone off the hook. http://www.1000wordsmag.com/ http://www.ahornmagazine.com/home.html http://www.americansuburbx.com/ http://www.didemag.com/ http://www.fstopmagazine.com/home.html http://www.flakphoto.com/ http://www.fractionmagazine.com/ http://www.landscapestories.net/ http://www.lapsusmagazine.com/index.php http://www.lensculture.com/ http://www.loom-mag.com/ http://www.mooncruise.com/ http://www.photo-genetic.com/ (almost [...]
