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Bookmarks for June 19th

By Ed Fladung | June 19, 2009
  • I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel on Vimeo
    1000 frames per second video. ultra slow motion. skip to the 2 minute mark to see the block of jello bouncing (shot at 2500 fps). so amazing. I'd love to see this camera used on a fatty Teahupoo wave from inside the barrel.
  • Al Jazeera English – Focus – Iran on the brink?
    if there is only one article you read about what's happening inside iran right now, politically, read this one. amazing! Mark Levine walks through the different power structures in the government and the potential scenarios for dealing with the protests.
  • Food, Inc. Movie Site and Trailer – Hungry For Change?
    Great trailer, for what looks to be a great movie. That most people won't want to see, because the truth hurts too much. Incidentally, they used to say "you are what you eat". and us gutter punks would chime back "if you are what you eat, then we're all dead meat!" and stick up our two fingers and make the screw face like Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten. The early 90s were a bright, young, innocent time. Now the refrain goes something like "if you are what you eat, than were all highly processed food products" or even "if you are what you eat, then we're all full of shit." that last one is more true than most people know.
  • Asia Times Online :: Divine assessment vs people power
    a huge article on the internal power struggle going on in Iran right now. This is just about election results. It's about a failed system of government and their attempts to stay in power: "As much as corporate media – from anywhere – has been rendered mostly irrelevant. Iranians are deploying an absolute non-stop, 24/7 thriller; a guerrilla communication redux, an ultra-raw version of history in the making via blogs – this is a nation of young bloggers – YouTube and Twitter, battling by all means necessary ultra-slow or shut down Internet, jammed phone lines going in and out, blocked chats, blocked SMS."
  • Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Query Letter Mad Lib
    This is an explicit how-to recipe on the proper way to put together a "query letter" for contacting potential literary agents. good advice, wish i found it first before sending out a bunch of queries. oops.
  • On Assignment: Covering Tehran – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
    images from the Iran election protests taken by 28-year old Newsha Tavakolian, a Times freelanc photographer. These images have a very different feel from the ones we've been seeing from Getty and AP. much more intimate.
  • AgentQuery :: Find the Agent Who Will Find You a Publisher
    trying to find an literary agent to help you publish your blog book? this is a great resource.
  • Shane Lavalette: A Quiet Heaven in Vrindavan, India | GOOD
    beautiful photography by Shane Lavalette taken in India. very quiet photos. something not normally in unison with India. Shane is also the editor/curator of wicked zine Lay Flat.
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Iran’s Disputed Election

By Ed Fladung | June 15, 2009

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Iran’s Disputed Election – The Big Picture – Boston.com

Amazing pictures and in-depth captions and reporting up at The Big Picture. I’ve been following along and I can’t believe my eyes. Huge protests and government backed militias and police squaring off over contested election results from last Friday’s presidential election where based on voter turnout pretty much everyone thought the opposition/moderate/reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi won by a landslide, yet when it came time to call the election, election officials said that hardliner current prez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “won by a landslide”. And from there the protests started.

Power to the people.

This quote seems eerily fitting:

What Ahmadinejad needs right now is Katherine Harris, some hanging chads and Chief Justice Rehnquist. Oh yeah, and a totally docile public. – @AdamIsacson

You can follow protests and news from Iran in real time via twitter hashtag #iranelections. Since all news and broadcasts are being censored, there are hundreds of Iranian twitter users who have taken it upon themselves to cover the protests and subsequent government initiated violence. Here is a Tweet Grid of several people twitcasting directly from within Iran. Twitter is the go-to place to get real-time information and most internet savvy media outlets like the Huff Post are filtering in semi-live curated tweets to their Iran Election coverage.

Relatedly: does anyone still doubt the power/importance of Twitter? If so, go here.

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Bookmarks for June 14th

By Ed Fladung | June 14, 2009
  • Stop Smiling Magazine: VISUAL RESPONSE: GEOFF McFETRIDGE
    "We asked Geoff McFetridge — founder of the Los Angeles-based design studio Champion Graphics and a member of the Director’s Bureau — to offer his impressions on the differences between living in California and his native Calgary. Included here are several bonus questions that did not originally appear in Issue 36: Expatriate"
  • Daring Fireball: Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail
    ok, You're using Apple's Mail app and you have 2 or 3 IMAP email addresses (dot mac, gmail, maybe your own domain) and your inbox is swamped with crap and you're having problems answering emails. This Apple Script created by John Gruber helps you stay organized. You just flag the messages that you know need to be responded to and once per day you run this script. It automatically moves all read inbox mail to archive folders, effectively cleaning up your inbox for you! awesome.
  • Jordy Smith's Rodeo Flip In The Mentawais
    pretty impressive
  • :: andy gilmore :: design ::
    damn! i'm loving this guy's design work. beautiful abstract geometric stuff. awesome.
  • Border Film Project
    Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, we have received 73 cameras — 38 from migrants and 35 from Minutemen — with nearly 2,000 pictures in total. The pictures show the human face of immigration, and they challenge us to question our stereotypes and to see through new and personal lenses.
  • How AT&T Should Handle the Twitter iPhone Price Backlash – Advertising Age – News
    if yer not in the know, Apple introduced a new iPhone 3G [s] this past monday. Of course, when Apple releases a new product millions of people all rush out to buy it. But when you have to buy it with a contract from AT&T things get dicey. When people started seeing the how much it was going to cost them to upgrade all hell broke loose on twitter. This article explains the bru-ha and why AT&T is not doing the right thing. My two cents: AT&T and most telcos are zombie corporations just like GM and Citibank. They don't exist to serve their customers, they exist to serve the interests of their shareholders. and that's it.
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Bookmarks for May 20th

By Ed Fladung | May 20, 2009
  • Photojournalism – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
    The NY TImes' new "Lens" blog has the dopest interface for a photo blog ever. Really nicely designed and perfect for viewing several different series of images. This is now one of my daily visits. Check out the Jacob Holdt series, on racism in America. mindblowing. His "American Pictures" book looks sick.
  • YouTube – Gerry Lopez Shaping Demo
    video of Gerry Lopez in the shaping booth from Sacred Craft Surf Expo 09. amazing! I really wish he took the time to explain, more, exactly what he was doing. and I could do without the music, this is school here folks. pay attention.
  • Dan Baum: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets
    The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, and 12, 2009* "People often ask why I left the New Yorker. After all, I had a staff writer job. Isn’t that the best job in journalism? Yes. Nobody leaves a New Yorker job voluntarily. I was fired. And over the next few days, I’ll tell that story here, in 140 " – great story told in 140 chunks.
  • Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft – WSJ.com
    utterly retarded article on how writers, composers, designers and other content creators whose work is easily copied/duplicated need to fight back with copyright against the faceless masses of copyright breakers. Let's get this straight people: COPYRIGHT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. Copyright is the domain of crumbling, antiquated civilizations. end of story.
  • 007: Daniel Craig | Icon_ology
    some behind the scenes photos of Daniel Craig on the 007 film sets. amazing. dude is classy. definitely Steve McQueen bad-ass style. I think He's easily the best Bond since Connery, maybe better than the original.
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Bookmarks for April 26th

By Ed Fladung | April 26, 2009
  • Look & Sea: A Little Experimentation Never Hurt Nobody
    and even more alaia-madness. these are some guys who are experimenting with various different forms of wooden finless shapes. some of the longest and thickest boards i've ever seen. beautiful rides in this video, it gets really good around the 10 minute mark, some beautiful alaia riding, some true bending of the plank.
  • Under the Sun Surf Film Blog: Alaia Sliding in Cardiff
    keeping on the alaia page, here's some recently past footage of Cyrus Sutton sliding on an alaia, from his blog, which for some reason hadn't made it into my rss folder. that's all changed now.
  • Look at this fucking hipster
    one of my current guilty pleasure websites. kinda takes what the cobra snake was doing and distills it even further. the captions are the clincher. down in mexico hipster fashion is 3 years behind (at least in my neck of el campo) and mostly limited to emo styles. so when i’m feeling a bit too far removed from the big city, I check on this blog. eggcelent.
  • Peter Funch – photographer
    great conceptual photography. Funch plays with the concept of time and the decisive moment in his work, among other themes. [via ncbeets's tweet]
  • How to Save Newspapers (Or, Why the NYT Should Acquire Twitter) – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org
    great article and he's dead on. The New York Times is in a precarious position, either charge ahead full steam or die swimming, like the rest of its peers. The good thing about the NYT is that they are the most forward looking news rag and buying twitter isn't a long shot by any stretch. Very interesting.
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Bookmarks for March 16th

By Ed Fladung | March 16, 2009
  • The Charreada (Mexican Rodeo) « license to Still
    local vallarta homie, oregonian transplant and nasty lensmen Nate Cordova has some sick photos up on his newish photography blog from a three day charro rodeo event in Vallarta. Not your average shots. His compositions and skill in editing his picks is amazing. Peep the "fallen bull" one and just under it, the "pink hooves" one. whoa, nice photos! Go check Nate out and say hi.
  • NAVIS | PHOTOGRAPHY
    gorgeous photography. really nice color work and image treatment. these are actually all digital photos. awesome work!
  • Photo Editor's Corner | SurfingMagazine.com
    Interesting anti-canon rant from Surfing Mag Photo Editor Peter Taras: "I hate Canon. So much in fact that from time to time I write their help desk and just spat "f–k you, f–k you, I hope you guys rot in hell." And I’m generally a happy guy." – I generally agree with his viewpoint. I've had the mirror on my 5D come unglued twice. Each time it's costed me over $200 in shipping fees to repair and takes over a month.
  • Dana Goodyear
    really beautiful minimal website design for New Yorker Mag staff writer and poet. i'm really feeling the handmade approach here. handmade + minimal = super awesome.
  • Flickr and Getty Images Launch Their Flickr Stock Photography Collection | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
    Thomas Hawk gets down to the nitty gritty with Flickr/Getty collection. good and bad.
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Bookmarks for March 11th

By Ed Fladung | March 11, 2009
  • Wildlife thrives at Chernobyl – Telegraph
    Awesome photo series with nice, short descriptions. Synopsis: major nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. Everyone evacuates. 20 years later, wildlife is thriving and returning back to their normal hunter/prey routines. Go nature!
  • How To Develop A Facebook Page That Attracts Millions of Fans
    if you're a small business that sells a product or service directly to consumers Facebook should definitely be one of your major focus points along with Twitter. This articles helps you understand the why and how.
  • Product Planner – View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More.
    ok, so you have a great idea for a website or web application and you have to organize it out so other people can understand your genius. Your now in the area of flow charts and site maps. This is called "Information Architecture" and it's language, unfortunately, you don't speak this language, and the tools are confusing. Product Planner is a site that not only helps you create these things, but they show examples of popular services you probably use every day. amazing! [via Konigi - the ux mastah]
  • userfly — instant web usability testing
    amazing web app that records your users' movements. simply by cut n pasting their js call into your page header. super simple. and the user playback is smooth fast and insanely addictive. This is a great tool for larger sites. for blogs like mine, it's painful watching a bunch of people come in to the site, scroll up and down and then close the page in 10 seconds or less. But still, very addictive. and you get 10 free captures. great way to hook you into the paying service.
  • WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?
    iconic photographer/artist/writer/documentarian Glen E. Friedman started a blog not too long ago. and as to be expected, it's an awesome read. time to go to school, kids.
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Bookmarks for January 30th

By Ed Fladung | January 30, 2009
  • The Place We Live
    amazing web presentation of people talking about the neighborhoods they live in. really nicely done interactivity.
  • The Photo Marketplace That Never Launched: Flickr Stock
    awesome article with screenshots of Flickr Stock. I can't believe they torpedoed this project. so dumb. prolly the dumbest thing flickr has ever done – and I love Flickr. there must be some business reason behind it. like dealing with a million people trying to sell their dumb camera phone shots or royalty licensing or payments or something. The getty thing makes me a bit uneasy.
  • FlippingBook
    pretty nicely done flash page flipping thingy. something like 50 Euros.
  • :: The Playlist ::: Will Smith and Steven Spielberg remaking "Old Boy"
    "Spielberg and Smith were operating from the graphic novel source, which, without spoiling things, doesn't feature the absolutely demonic twist of the film, and is considered by manga fans to be significantly weaker than the movie it inspired. In other words, Smith and Spielberg are near-guaranteed to be ditching one of the greatest endings of any recent film in favor of a pedestrian chase story." – in case you haven't seen it, "Old Boy" has one of the rawest, most non-Hollywood endings of any movie I've ever seen. Great film, but definitely twisted.
  • the wonderful world of angie rex
    this blog is super nice for an occasional dose of visual art inspiration. it's curated by Sunshine Fox and has a fashion slant to it, but only slightly so. it's like peeking into where high-art fashion designers get their inspiration. i hope i didn't butcher that description. just got check it out. it's a nice change up.
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Bookmarks for January 27th

By Ed Fladung | January 27, 2009
  • Francis and the Lights
    your new favorite band. these guys are awesome. and they have most of their records as free downloads. Check out their version of "Can't Tell Me Nothing", a Kanye West cover. so good! [via Chances with Wolves]
  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com
    absolutely stunning set of pictures of GW Bush chosen by three news photographers. These images are iconic. Forget the negatives and the positives of his administration, and just let these images wash over.
  • The Cosmic Machine – EventBox
    very interesting all-in-one social networking app. currently connects to twitter, facebook, google reader, flickr, reddit and can take in any rss feed. right off the bat, as a twitter client it lacks multi-column view. But for a beta app, this thing is promising. But for my money, I don't like the email-app paradigm where it's all about unread/read items. makes me feel like my job in life is to mark things as "read". viewing twitter/flickr/facebook etc.. is better enjoyed as a passive experience. marking things as "read" is annoying to me.
  • My Wordpress Cheat Sheet
    a really nice list of wordpress code snippets. a nice reference, but also helps de-abstract how Wordpress operates. relatedly, I wonder how long it will be before Automattic builds something like this directly in to WP.
  • Meet Teahupoo: Tim McKenna | Surfer Magazine
    a sweet audio-guided slideshow of surf photos taken by Tim McKenna at Teahupoo in Tahiti. Some really beautiful imagery here. and his sense of humor is appreciated wrt the first slide.
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Adrees Latif wins Pulitzer

By Ed Fladung | April 9, 2008

How I took Pulitzer-winning picture – by photographer Adrees Latif | The Guardian UK

Latif just won the Pulitzer for the above photograph of japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai (of APF), as he lays dying, videoing Burmese troops attacking protestors, after just having been shot. Nagai later died. Latif weaves a lucid context for the photo in the Guardian article.

On a side note: this hits close to home for all the obvious reasons but also for the fact that recently I’ve been helping my homie Isaiah Seret on a psa campaign for the situation in Burma and the FREE BURMA movement. Isaiah is writing, directing, producing and editing several spots and I’ve been handling art-direction and on-screen graphics for a few of them. Too early to show, just yet. Isaiah’s campaign hits the subject matter from several different angles, each one more creative than the next. It’s a watershed project for him, and I can’t wait to see the entire campaign assembled.

[via A Photo Editor]

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The Marlboro Marine

By Ed Fladung | November 18, 2007

marlboro marine

The Marlboro Marine is an excellent web/flash based mini-documentary produced by Media Storm and The LA Times on a soldier who went to Iraq, instantly became famous in a ‘war defining’ photo and came back only to find his life fall apart from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Heart-breaking story and really beautiful photography. [via Micah Walter]

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Robin Schwartz

By Ed Fladung | November 3, 2007

robin schwartz

Robin Schwartz explores our relationship with animals. Her photography is gorgeous. go take a look.

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