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Big-name ad-agency folk face off against wind machine for Creative Week

May 23, 2012 – 11:01 am

This via Adweek‘s AdFreak: “For Creative Week, GE and BBDO New York created a nifty holographic installation called ‘Throttle Up’ that invites visitors to build a jet engine piece by piece. To promote it, Socialistic captured some super-slow-motion footage of well-known ad people taking some jet-engine-caliber wind to the face.” Among those who throttled up [...]

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Pro Photo Daily’s Weekend Update: the best iPad portfolio for photogs, Brooklyn’s Photoville, pinups, and more

May 21, 2012 – 2:56 pm

. written by David Schonauer Was Theft of South African Photog’s Work An Attempt to Silence Her? Burglars stole more than 20 hard drives from award-winning photographer Zanele Muholi, who has documented the lives of black lesbians in South Africa. PDN Pulse Which iPad Portfolio App Is Best for Photographers? Be sure your portfolio app [...]

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American Photography 28: Art Streiber

May 21, 2012 – 7:47 am

American Photography recently announced its picks for this year’s highly anticipated photo book and online portfolio, and we’re pleased to note that five Stockland Martel photographers were chosen: Kwaku Alston, Craig Cutler, Nadav Kander, Art Streiber, and Walter Iooss. I’ll be posting the images of theirs selected for AP28 all this week, along with highlights [...]

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Doug Menuez’s “Fearless Genius” selected for this year’s Visa pour l’Image photo fest

May 15, 2012 – 3:14 pm

. Congratulations to Doug Menuez, who has been invited to exhibit photographs from his “Fearless Genius” body of work, which documents the rise of Silicon Valley from 1985 to 2000, at the venerable Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France, this fall. Find out more about the festival, scheduled for September 1–16, [...]

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John Midgley to speak at See Change conference tomorrow

May 15, 2012 – 1:57 pm

. The 2012 See Change conference kicks off tonight in Minneapolis, an event “intended for curious creatives to refresh their talents with innovative ideas and imagery.” And our own John Midgley will be among the speakers presenting at the conference tomorrow, along with legendary art director George Lois, photographer Tim Mantoani, and design firm Aesthetic [...]

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Pro Photo Daily’s Weekend Update: the efficacy of Kickstarter, photo layouts from the Art Directors Club Annual Awards, and more

May 14, 2012 – 2:46 pm

. written by David Schonauer Why Kickstarter Is the King of Crowdfunding (Infographic) In 2011, some 30.6 million Kickstarter visitors pledged $99.3 million in support of projects. It works…it really works. Mashable Cameras + Xbox 360 Kinect = “The New Aesthetic” A community of artists creating a new hybrid technology-based art is getting noticed. BLOUIN [...]

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TGIF!

May 11, 2012 – 8:20 am

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PhotoShelter’s upcoming photo conference to take broad view of industry, draw speakers from tumblr, Hipstamatic, Blurb, and more

May 7, 2012 – 10:12 am

. Celebrity and entertainment photographer Michael Muller will be speaking at Luminance, a photo conference organized by PhotoShelter—which specializes in photographer websites and marketing tools—and taking place this fall in New York City. The two-day event, scheduled for September 12–13 in New York City, is aimed at “photographers, technologists, designers and those who care about [...]

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Doug Menuez’s “Fearless Genius” exhibition travels to China

May 4, 2012 – 4:08 pm

. Doug Menuez is really on a roll with his exhibition “Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1995–2000.” The show, which made its debut at the Moscow Photobiennale last month (read about it on here, on Doug’s blog), will be mounted in China on May 23rd as part of the 9th China Photographic [...]

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Celebrity DJ May Kwok to spin at “CC52: The Exhibition”

April 26, 2012 – 11:53 am

. We’re thrilled to announce that May Kwok, who is something of a celebrity in the competitive DJ world, has signed on to spin at Craig Cutler‘s upcoming show, “CC52: The Exhibition,” May 10 at Industrial Color. A native New Yorker, May has worked at some of the hottest events in the downtown scene, with [...]

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