Will She Run in 2012?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by webdev

Arguably the best-known photographer of our times, Annie Liebovitz has done an upcoming Vanity Fair cover starring the best-known political impersonator of our times, Tina Fey. This sneak preview is making the rounds of the Internet:

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While Returning to Work After Lunch Today …

Posted on November 25, 2008 by webdev

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Top 50 WTF Moments In Comics

Posted on November 20, 2008 by webdev

hitler-vs-captain-americaJust stumbled across this one. A fascinating site it is. Among other things, I learn that Captain America was fighting the Nazis at least a year before the United States entered World War II.

Back in the 70s, in my SPARC days (more about that sometime), I worked with a cartoonist, Rich, who was a Hanna-Barbera refugee. In his spare time, he was creating comics and turned me on to some really obscure stuff, mostly politically-oriented. I will have to dig that out sometime. Also a note to myself to search (in my infamous basement/garage storage spaces) for my copy of the allegedly first comic book created entirely on a Macintosh. Done in the mid-80s, what was it — Shatter or something like that? While I am at it, I also should resurrect my old photo-based comic strip, done to celebrate the birth of my son. Watch this space.

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UPDATE: 11 November 2008

Posted on November 19, 2008 by webdev

There is some controversy swirling about in photography circles concerning the Callie Shell work (see The Big Picture, Again post of 11/11/08). Some believe it is clearly inspired, if not a direct rip-off (particularly, Shell’s Whistle-Stop Tour piece), of photographer Paul Fusco’s 1968 work on the RFK Funeral Train. Judge for yourself.

Revisit Callie Shell’s work in a Time photo essay (Time.com has a number of other great photo essays worth a long look) on the Obama campaign, including this great view of the Obamas watching Bruce Springsteen perform:

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Ivi and Olivia in the 19th Century

Posted on November 16, 2008 by webdev

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The Moon, Restored

Posted on November 16, 2008 by webdev

Forty-two year old lunar images are being restored and enhanced in aspecial project between NASA and a team of data recovery specialists. Here’s an initial example:

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Also check out:

http://www.moonviews.com

http://nasa.gov/ames

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Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

Posted on November 16, 2008 by webdev

My friend John passes on a link to an amazing post at DesignObserver. Thanks, John, for pointing this out and helping me discover the very wonderful DesignObserver.

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(Wall) Street Art

Posted on November 15, 2008 by webdev

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The Big Picture, Again

Posted on November 11, 2008 by webdev

The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture site keeps on delivering fabulous imagery. This time, Obama.

Also see these remarkable Callie Shell photographs. About Callie Shell, from The Digital Journalist:

Four years ago Time photographer Callie Shell met Barack Obama backstage when she was covering presidential candidate John Kerry. She sent her editor more photographs of Obama than Kerry. When asked why, she said, “I do not know. I just have a feeling about him. I think he will be important down the road.” Her first photo essay on Obama was two and half years ago. She has stuck with him ever since.

UPDATE 11/19/08: There is some controversy swirling about in photography circles concerning the Callie Shell work. Some believe it is clearly inspired, if not a direct rip-off, of photographer Paul Fusco’s 1968 work on the RFK Funeral Train. Judge for yourself.

Click here in case you missed Scout Tufankjian photographs from an earlier post.

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Front Pages

Posted on November 6, 2008 by webdev

See this story from the National Press Photographers Association.

And check out yesterday’s Newseum entry: Wednesday, November 05, 2008. 719 front pages from 65 countries

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