Finally, Friday – May 29, 2009
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| A weekly report from Gary Gardiner of Gardiner NewMedia |
The Week That Could Have Been
Proving That It’s Knowing What To Do With What You Have
 The names might have been Smith and Phelps instead of Woodward and Bernstein if two New York Times reporters had followed up a hint from FBI director L. Patrick Gray that President Nixon was aware of the Watergate break-in and the dirty tricks campaign being run against the Democratic party by Donald Segretti. What happened to the original notes and recording is a mystery to both men. Eds note: Donald Segretti’s first appearance in a Tampa, Fla., courtroom was my first out of town trip for the Orlando Sentinel where I began my newspaper career.) [ New York Times ]
Another Sign of Newspaper Problems.
The Associated Press has offered buyouts to 263 employees offering $500 for each year of service and an enhanced retirement benefits package. An AP insider says it’s unlikely union-covered employees will take the bait of the greater retirement package with a yearly buyout much less that the contract’s requirement. Severance pay in the contract is equal to a week’s pay for every year of employment. [ PDN Online ]
When Sex Become A Commodity
Playboy is searching for a Sugar Daddy. It says all it needs is $300 million to keep 83-year-old Hugh Hefner’s iconic publication out of the financial gutter and allow the patriarch of mens magazines to continue his lavish lifestyle. The only thing that is down at the Playboy Mansion is the company’s value after increased losses in the most recent quarter. [ New York Post ]
Print-On-Demand Customizes Obama
 It’s only $35 for 202 pages of Obama and you can add your favorite photos for several pages in this print-on-demand book from Day in the Life and America 24/7 photographer Rick Smolan. Using HP’s digital printing technology, the book is available only through Amazon. HP recently began a beta run of a print-on-demand magazine product being used by Gardiner NewMedia for sports magazines for the Arnold Sports Festival. [ PDN Online ]
Google is “The New Frontier”
Historian and critic Simon Schama offers a Turner Thesis for the new century. He tells Newsweek that the latest chapter of American history has ended and new entry titled Google begins the newest venture in modern politics that may redefine what it means to be American. “The new frontier has to be conceptual and digital. We have to rely on the nimbleness of our wits,” he told the magazine. [ Newsweek ]
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Photo News
Newsweek Scales Back White House Photo Coverage
Awkward Family Photos
>Twenty Photo Sessions That Should Never Have Happened
Twitter News & Tweets
Poker Tweets
Al Roker Tweets Jury Duty
Huffington Post Tweet Primer
No Twitter TV
Facebook News
Facebook Gets Russian Investor
Smoke-free Facebook
Bye Facebook – Permanently
Viral Videos
Dealing with Clients
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This communication is from Gary Gardiner of Gardiner NewMedia. It’s a freebie. Enjoy it but remember where it came from. Gary wants to be your friend.
(Published Friday, May 29, 2009)
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Finally, Friday
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| A weekly report from Gary Gardiner of Gardiner NewMedia |
Where’s the Inspiration?
The Insanity of Inspiration.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about the most important skill a photographer can possess in order to have a successful career. After crunching the numbers and analyzing the empirical data the evidence is clear; success doesn’t rely on skill as much as it relies on inspiration; the paranormal event that fuels the creation of brilliant images that is totally unreliable in its visitations to your career.” [ APA National ]
A Different Way To Think About Creative Genius
All creatives dream. Photographers, writers, designers, musicians, dancers, chefs… dream of doing something so phenomenal that the whole world suddenly knows about it. We dream. We practice. We work. We think. When we’re lucky, we truly create. What is the nature of creativity? Where does it comes from? Where does it go? [ Pixsylated ] Eds Note: My apologies to Pixsylated who I failed to properly credit for this posting.
Invasion of the Shutterbugs
At a time when people in all kinds of careers are looking for a Plan B, there’s one that’s already teeming with dabblers: photography. Amateurs with digital cameras are hanging out shingles, offering to shoot portraits of people, pets and, even more challenging, weddings — skimming business from professionals while, some say, knocking off their style at lower quality. [ Crains - Chicago ]
Playboy Plans ‘Radical Changes’ to Print Model
 During its quarterly earnings call Monday, Jerome Kern, Playboy Enterprises’ interim chairman and CEO, said the company is considering “radical changes” to its print business model. The publisher reported a $13.7 million net loss during the first quarter of 2009, compared to a $4.2 million loss during the same period in 2008. Revenues for the period were $61.8 million, down more than 20 percent from $78.5 million during the same period last year. [ Folio Magazine ]
Obama Girls Used With Murdered Kids Story
On Wednesday, a story featured on the Washington Times website about murdered Chicago schoolchildren was inexplicably paired with a photo of President Obama’s daughters. The two girls are not mentioned in the story, and aside from having at one point been schoolchildren in Chicago have no connection to it. [ Huffington Post ]
Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft
Imagine a city of many millions of people who support themselves and their families solely by arranging words, images and sounds, or in the industries that make this work available to others. They neither farm, fish, mine, manufacture, manage, heal, teach, build nor defend. But what they do influences most everything, shapes politics and governance, provides a conception of our time, forges the culture such as it is, and stamps the imprint of the present for history to judge. Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down. [ WSJ ]
This Week In Newspapers
American Press On Suicide Watch [ New York Times ]
Bad Day For Newsrooms And Democracy [ TruthOut ]
David Simon On The Downfall Of American Newspapers [ MediaBistro ] |
Photo News
A conversastion with Amy Stein
CBSNews.com – Redesigned with More Photos
Arnold in 1985
Bill Jay – RIP
Linsey Addario Injured in Pakistan
Lessons 46-50
Flight 1549 Photos Published With Airlines Logos Removed
What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs?
Twitter News & Tweets
Twitter’s On Fire!
Photographers on Twitter
Canada Gets Twitterized
NASA Tweets
Facebook News
ADL urges Facebook block Holocaust-deniers
Facebook Virtual Payments
Facebook Face.com photo scans
First Verified Facebook App
Facebook Easter Egg
Viral Videos
Apple Elimination
MOMA: I see
Stride: Heirloom
NBA: Shaq
Transform :: A short film for Scott Kelby
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(Published Friday, May 15, 2009)
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 It was a bad week for newspapers, radio, and TV
Suburban News Files Bankruptcy – Business First
Baltimore Sun cuts third of newsroom – Baltimore Sun
Slouching Towards Oblivion – Maureen Dowd, NY Times
Tribune slashes 18 senior editors and newsroom managers – Poynter
Newspaper Death Foretold by Warren Buffett!!! – Slate Magazine
Who Will Survive? – According To Vanity Fair
Even Radio Takes A Hit – Yahoo Finance
What’s Next For News
Useful predictions about American journalism to 2020. [ Xark.com ]
 Ratings Don’t Tell the Whole Story in Broadcast Anymore
With less than a month left to go before this season ends, four of the five major networks find themselves attracting fewer viewers than this time last year. It’s a particularly disappointing state of affairs because many observers thought it would be easy for the networks to improve over last season, when repeats and reality shows replaced original episodes of shows whose seasons were shortened by the writers’ work stoppage. [ TVWeek.com ]
 Video continues to change the game
Hulu.com, the Web site that offers TV shows and movies, was the third most-watched Internet video destination last month, overtaking Yahoo! Inc.
Hulu, whose owners include News Corp. and General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, showed 380 million videos in March, compared with Yahoo’s fourth-place 335 million. [ Bloomberg News ]
ABC to Add Its Shows to Videos on Hulu
Three of the four big broadcast networks now own stakes in Hulu, the popular video Web site. Under a deal unveiled Thursday with the Walt Disney Company, Hulu says it will add ABC shows like “Desperate Housewives” to its Web site by late summer, pending regulatory approval. ABC Enterprises, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, announced Thursday that it would join NBC Universal, which is owned by General Electric and Vivendi, and the News Corporation, owner of Fox, as a partner in the joint venture. [ New York Times ]
 Old Master’s Mexican Suitcase Photos Reveal New Insights
When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay. [ New York Times ]
"I don’t believe there would have been a Copyright Act if there hadn’t been a Barbara Ringer"
 Barbara A. Ringer had just graduated from Columbia University law school in 1949 when she joined the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. Within a few years, she set about revising an archaic set of laws that had been in place since 1909 — before the invention of television or commercial radio, before copying machines and the modern recording industry, let alone cable TV, home computers and the Internet. [ Washington Post ]
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Photo News
Rediscovering Marilyn Monroe
There are photos of Arnold amd Maria here
Here is NOT Air Force One Statue of Liberty New york Photo
White House Now On Flickr
Esquire Mag Cover From Video Shoot
Twitter News & Tweets
What is #followfriday?
Numbers Can’t Begin To Describe Twitter’s Impact
MTV Gets Social Networking
Sarah Palin begins to Twitter
Creatively Minded Branding On Twitter
Facebook News
Facebook executive considers California Attorney General campaign
Over 35 and on Faceboook
Enjoy the laughter
What better way to capture the charm and innocence of a child than to plunk him down amid the coarse trappings of a life lived in pursuit of wealth [ Link ] |
This communication is from Gary Gardiner of Gardiner NewMedia. It’s a freebie. Enjoy it but remember where it came from. Gary wants to be your friend.
Photographer Dorothea Lange is honored for her innovative spirit
‘You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.’
– Dorothea Lange
Three-quarters of a century has passed since Dorothea Lange looked into the eyes of a migrant mother and captured the despair and determination of a depressed nation.
Today, Lange will become the second photographer inducted into the California Hall of Fame at the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.
Lange will join contemporaries Ansel Adams and writer John Steinbeck in the hall established in 2006 to honor legendary people who embody California’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history — inductees as diverse as Ronald Reagan, César Chávez, Jonas Salk, Amelia Earhart, Walt Disney and Willie Mays.
Modesto Bee Story by Ted Benson
Is that Obama in a mullet haircut?
From the Reuters’ Blog
Blog Guy, please continue answering questions about photojournalism. I was wondering, what do photographers do when people they cover are out of sight?
Good question! They shoot pictures of each other trying to shoot pictures, like these guys trailing President-elect Barack Obama. These are always popular shots.
But why are they trying so hard?
I gather there’s a serious shortage of Obama photos, despite the fact that we’ve taken roughly 720 million pictures of him this month alone. See, there is always a chance he’s changed his appearance. You know, a mullet haircut, a tattoo, a handlebar mustache, some of those plastic hillbilly teeth…
You spend millions of dollars just waiting for Barack Obama in plastic hillbilly teeth?
Hey, pal, back off! When YOU’RE the shooter who gets those hillbilly teeth in your zoom lens, you’ll understand what it’s all about!
Maxim Solomon Exhibit in Israel
Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of Maxim Salomon’s photojournalism is the shortness of the period this fantastically creative – and difficult – man produced his most important body of work.
The lion’s share of the journalistic work on display at the Eretz Israel Museum exhibit “Maxim Salomon: Reportage, 1947-1957″ was shot for Uri Avnery’s sensationalist tabloid Ha’olam Hazeh, where Salomon worked for only one year, and the Israel Defense Forces weekly Bamahaneh, where he worked for the next five.
Even if you grew up in the decades when magazines like Life or the British Picture Post brought the world into your home each week by way of powerful photo essays, you may have long since forgotten the sweet anticipation that accompanied the moment when you opened up an issue and began to page through it to see what surprises it contained. Walking through the small Dekel Pavilion at the museum, where the Salomon show will be up until the end of the year, you may feel a similar feeling of excitement, and also participation, as still photographs – especially when they come without the texts that originally accompanied them – often demand the active use of the viewers’ imagination, if they want to understand the story being told.
GA Magazine | Eretz Israel Museum | Haaretz.com
In Ike’s Wake – A Photo Book
The staff at The Beaumont Enterprise collected its photos from the impact of Hurricane Ike into the book “In Ike’s Wake” with a portion of the profits to benefit relief efforts from the September 13, 2008, hurricane that caused heavy damage in southeast Texas.
Ike, the costliest storm to hit Texas, slammed coastal areas from Houston to Louisiana, sending storm surge through communities in southern Orange and Jefferson counties and felling trees and damaging homes throughout East Texas.
The first printing of the book is more than 11,000 copies. Customers who pre-ordered the book will also receive a companion DVD with hundreds of additional photos and video shot by The Enterprise’s staff.
Father Inducted In Hall of fame – A Surprise
On Oct. 16, 2008, Kayte Elsea’s father, William Townsend Godsey, was posthumously inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame, though Elsea almost didn’t know about it.
In September, Elsea’s daughter Vicki was given a clipping announcing her grandfather’s new honor, but the family had never heard anything about it.
“I didn’t know that they had a photojournalism hall of fame,” Elsea said.
Katye Elsea’s plaque marking the posthumous induction of her father, Townsend Godsey, into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame.
(Sydney Stonner/Democrat-News)
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She called the Missouri Press Association, she said, and found out that they had tried to contact Godsey’s family months before but had only gotten in touch with a nephew.
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