July 2009
“Blanket objective for any new photography zine/mag/blog: “We promote and expose emerging talent from around the globe.”
—Twitter / La Pura Vida Gallery: Blanket objective for any …
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What really got my hackles up was rather sophomoric post by Mr. Colberg today about what a photograph is as it compares to a photo-illustration. This post showed me that he is swimming in unfamiliar waters. He could have easily referenced the Reuters handbook on what is accepted digital processing. It is very clear, probably too clear for Mr. Colberg.
The lack of an ability to comment on this post directly, save for emailing him, also gets to me. How is this really a discussion in this day and age in the blogosphere? I am not always a fan of comments, but in this case, I wish they were there.
I have been tweeting some of my initial reactions to these posts, but since he Mr. Colberg abandoned twitter for tumblr (a platform without comments). I wonder what type of dialog he is striving for.
” —words on photography > by Tom Leininger
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Dear Magnum Blog readers,
In recent weeks we have been working behind the scenes on new interactive channels for the Magnum Photos website. One of the main focuses is building stronger community portals and creating a more engaging experience with our website. The greatest asset of Magnum is the high standards of quality in regards to our content, and showcasing this work on the blog can be very limiting, so as an online destination we want to offer more to our audience and build a strong community portal. We would like to bring you better ways to view new work and engage with it on a regular basis so we will be reformatting the blog and building coherent photographer channels to integrate the community with activities beyond blogging and we are looking forward to a more productive and mutually beneficial discourse. While we do this we ask for your patience and understanding. Soon there will be so much more for you to enjoy on our website.
” —Magnum Blog / The Future of the Magnum Blog - the photo blog of Magnum Photos
Magnum is going to go all social network-ey on us. Should be interesting. I imagine the LENS blog and Burn Magazine have influenced what they’re working on. What I’m most interested in will be their new money making features. Online courses? Mentorship? VIP access?
Edgar Martins: Douchebag Artmumble Of The Month →
jmcolberg.com
(and Part II.
Note: I actually quite like his work. And I don’t give a shit about the controversy surrounding his digital manipulation, or even his hypocrisy, but reading his tedious clusterfuck of squid-ink artspeak non-explaining the affair made me want to gouge my own brain out. Try to survive this:
“These photographs are no more commentaries than observations. They are meta-photographs.
They deploy the metaphor of struggle between poetic failure and the promise of success to suggest a place uncertain of its future.
However, as Peggy J. Bowers correctly argues, metaphors are closer to fiction than reality, thus inviting a line of questioning at odds with Journalism’s preferred figure of speech: the metonymy.”I’m sorry for all the suicides I just caused by quoting that. But at least they’ve gone on to a better place.)
“The Internet is a tough town, we have noticed before. Well, not a town; a fat cluster of towns pushed up against each other, organized (obviously) by language spoken, but still a place where you can easily hop from village to village. OMG it all sounds like that movie Avatar, which, by the way, according to Comic-Con attendees who saw a hefty chunk of it, will blow your mind.”
—The Entire Problem With the Internet is Persona, But Really What’s So Different Now? | The Awl
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Harrell Fletcher: What makes something—a piece of art, a film, a book, a bowl of soup, a song, a walk—really good, in your subjective view? Maybe the question is, if you had a set of things that you considered good, like the list in the previous sentence, is there a quality that they share that makes you like them? Or is the goodness different in each case?
July: I think there are a few categories of cross-genre good, but here is my favorite: At first you hate it. And then suddenly you expand, you grow, and the book, the bowl of soup, the song, the walk, becomes a prized thing—the first example of your new, smarter self.
” —Miranda July - Page 2 - Interview Magazine
“This research has important practical implications. It suggests that there are several simple steps we can all take to increase creativity, such as traveling to faraway places (or even just thinking about such places), thinking about the distant future, communicating with people who are dissimilar to us, and considering unlikely alternatives to reality. Perhaps the modern environment, with its increased access to people, sights, music, and food from faraway places, helps us become more creative not only by exposing us to a variety of styles and ideas, but also by allowing us to think more abstractly.”
—Increasing creativity and psychological distance
