Camera on a Segway (via Lighting the 2012 Olympic Flame - In Focus - The Atlantic)
Source: The Atlantic
Web-documentaries made easy
A web documentary is more than just a traditional, linear documentary transposed online. In addition to audio and still and moving images, a web documentary features multimedia tools that facilitate viewer interaction. “Web documentaries are clusters of information,”
Web Docs still isn’t the perfect term, but I’ve heard worst (ie: multimedia).
Source: drewvigal
So who is the lucky guy who gets to scour the globe looking for the world’s next supermodel? Steven Baillie earned the title ‘The Purveyor’ while working for modeling agencies and various magazines, including GQ, Complex, and Playboy, traveling to dangerous and exotic countries searching for brand new “it” girls. (by The Purveyor)
Source: vimeo.com
The FJP: Gage Skidmore: How one teenager gives the GOP its Flickr close-up
You don’t know him, but you’ve seen his work: The rise of Creative Commons has leveled the playing field for bloggers, giving many the opportunity to illustrate stories with free-to-use images that are at times comparable to wire photos. But the quality varies,…
Undervaluing his work and devaluing the industry at the same time…
Source: shortformblog
From The Dispatch’s “Look Back” blog comes this story and photo from Sept. 21, 1927:
“Marie Finnell, 30 West Fifth avenue, who is employed as a model at the Lazarus store was among the first to pose before the photomaton, the new automatic camera installed at the Lazarus store. The machine takes eight pictures in eight seconds and turns out the completed product in eight minutes. Three photomatons will be operated at the store with an attendant at each machine to explain its operation to subjects. The Russian who designed the machine, was paid one million dollars for his invention.”
Source: dispatch.com
Another from the drive home #thunderstorm #columbus #ohio #skyline (Taken with instagram)
Source: sportspage
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