10,000 Words and Photojournalism

There's some fantastic links in this blog post of the best places to find the best photos.

Happy viewing.

MTV's Gideon Yago putting the smack down on Journalism

Gideon Yago worked with The IFC Media Project to create a series about journalism and how news sausage is made. Should be interesting. Hopefully it's available online!

Testing your awareness, again

I posted a link a while back that the Transport For London did to test your awareness while watching a situation. The campaign is in an effort to remind motorists to look out for cyclists.

Well, I got an email from the creator of the videos and they made a few new ones. I'll admit, the first one I watched, I failed miserably. Dare you to take it yourself.

One more great use of online video and the ability to convey a message. Brilliant work.

This will be fantastic, 10 million times.

Google scores one for their "good" column in my book – though their "bad" column in my book has been franticly growing. In Google's quest to dominate the planet and the moon, they have secured 10 million images from the LIFE collection owned by Time, Inc. to be hosted on their servers.

Only about three percent of the collection has ever been published. Can you imagine the photos that you will be able to see there? From all the greats? I may have to set a timer to limit the amount of time a kill just looking at the greatest visual record of history.

Minority Report meets 2008

Very interesting video showing physical computing and design. And we all thought Tom Cruise was living in a futuristic time.

Anyone have $30K I can borrow?

RED's Scarlet has been unveiled. As were several other versions of the high-end digital video cameras. It will be a few months before the culmination of video capture rates at pro-DSLR resolution goodness arrives on shelves. But I don't care, I just need to find someone with some investment capital.

There's a lot of possibilities coming very soon. Very soon...

A good pair of shoes and...

Alec Soth sent an email to the entire staff of Magnum asking two questions: 1. When did you first get exited about photography? and 2. What advice do you have for young photographers?

There are a lot of responses all over the map, but in the end there is definitely a consistent thread of passion, curiosity and need to be self-motivated regardless of the consequences.

Good find from an up and coming photog herself. You can also download a pdf of the responses here.

The real version of Man on Fire

A photo gallery on NYTimes.com about bodyguards in Mexico. Some good images in a sticky situation. Not only the chances of getting caught up in a shootout but not being able to visually identify the "principal" or his family.