The April 2006 issue (28) of mooncruise*, an online magazine featuring photography and music by international artists, is now up and ready for viewing.
PHOTOGRAPHY by: Cynthia Edorh, Adriene Hughes, Elena Getzieh, Emiliano Granado, Igor Ken, Ione Saizar, Jan Hoeft, Juao Coraçäo, Yu-fei Lin, Mark Peter Drolet, Matthew Holloway, Monica Menez, Satu Palander, Sonja Müller, Tread, Worapong Sunthornrohit
MUSIC by: Au4
mooncruise.com (requires Flash 6)
The idea is that on the first Saturday of each month, you have 120 minutes to shoot a roll of 120 film. You then upload the results to the 120 Challenge group on Flickr (free Flickr membership required).
While I can shoot a roll of 120 in 120 seconds, the fact that every frame is uploaded makes me very selective about what I shoot and makes me at least consider the continuity of the sequence, which is generally not on my radar at all. It pushes me out of how I normally shoot, which makes for a really interesting experience.
Darren of One Stop Under writes:
"Edwin Leong over at CameraHobby.com has done a nice roundup review of several fine art matte inkjet papers from Crane, Legion, and Moab.
"I like the way Edwin has published two sets of results – one titled ‘Technical, Nitpicky and Anal-Retentive Comments’ to keep the pixel peepers happy, and one titled ‘Aesthetic Comments after I Power Slammed the Technician Out of the Way’ for people who just care about how their art actually looks."
Couldn’t have said it better myself (so I didn’t).
Read the roundup at Camera Hobby
Via One Stop Under
"On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbral shadow, which includes the northern two thirds of Africa, Europe, and central Asia…"
Heaps more info, including times and maps, from NASA.
Obviously, this looks like a pretty sweet photographic opportinuty. Bust out your freaky optics, and mind your eyes!
Note to North Americans: we won’t see any of this, so keep your pants on.
The BBC writes:
"Actor Paul Newman has joined calls for the legislature in [the US state of –Nicolai] Connecticut to pass a law protecting image rights.
"Newman is among a group of actors backing a bill banning the use of a person’s image or voice without consent for up to 70 years after their death.
"…
"…added that the bill could prevent parodies of famous people and restrict filmmakers from using old footage…"
Continue reading at bbc.co.uk
70 years??
Some members of the NYC Social group on Flickr have started a "a photocentric, photolicious podcast featuring interviews with New York City Photoheads".
While the Web site, newyorkflickr.com, is still a little rough around the edges, don’t let that stop you from listening to the engaging first eposide, which features a photo and history stroll around Greenpoint, Brooklyn with Moufle.
You can subscribe to the podcast directly or through iTunes or podfeed.net.
"On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: ‘ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!’"
Edward Greenberg of StockPhotographer.info writes,
"The Act contains certain anti-speech aspects which will directly affect illustrators, photographers and others.
"It will serve to eliminate the current protection for non-commercial speech currently contained in the Lanham Act. It will prevent businesses (artists)and consumers from invoking famous trademarks to explain or illustrate their discussion of public issues.
"For example, using the phrase "Where’s the Beef" could be actionable. Although you might use it in a non-commercial way, the (very) famous Wendy’s slogan when used to comment might not be protected by the fair use exception…"
Continue reading the article, which provides further explanation and contact info for who to write to to express your concern. Please check this out and take action—it has potentially catastrophic effects for artists as well as free speech and fair use in general.
Via Boing Boing
"Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion’s fireball growth to be recorded on film. The exposures were often as short as 10 nanoseconds, and each Rapatronic camera would take exactly one photograph."
Intro with photos and another gallery from Simple Thinking, and a few more from Nevada Surveyor.
Via digg
Sean Scanlon of bluedot has written an open source Perl script that will add camera make and model EXIF fields to JPGs.
EXIF is a standard for embedding exposure-related metadata such as camera make, model, lens focal length, shutter time, f/stop, etc. in image files. The data can be searched by image management databases, remind you of how you shot an image when you’ve long since forgotten, and many photo sharing sites like Flickr display them for uploaded photos. Dead useful! The hitch is that while digital cameras automatically add this info to every shot, you’re generally out of luck when it comes to adding this info to film or print scans. This script allows you to do that, and that’s why this script rocks.
Thanks, Sean!