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Images by Getty

If you’ve ever scouted out stock photography, there’s a 99% chance you have a Getty account in which to find the perfect photo to please your boss. I have always had a love/hate relationship with image houses in general. Don’t get me wrong, there is definitely a place for stock photography as well as sites that sell the work. However, I was shocked to read that Getty makes more money off an image than the actual photographer does. And now, apparently, Getty is licensing exclusive rights to certain Flickr photographs. What the hell?! Flickr is a great resource for creative types as-is, why wouldn’t you just contact a photographer directly and negotiate usage?

I realize that “crowdsourcing” is now an official water-cooler buzzword, but who plans on defending photographers (and illustrators) while image houses continue to run the show?

• Getty blog about Flickr
• Getty+Flickr

Posted on Monday, 16 Mar 2009    Comments
Tags: flickr, getty, photography

Amusing crashes

Dark Roasted Blend is full of interesting, bizarre, and entertainingly candid shots, including car and plane accidents.

Posted on Wednesday, 02 Jul 2008    Comments
Tags: airplane, car, photography

NYC Abstract

^{Photo: Vincent Laforet/The New York Times}
There’s a short-n-sweet photo gallery of Abstract New York over at the NY Times that I thought was interesting.

Posted on Friday, 30 May 2008    Comments
Tags: new york city, photography

EV Lacertae's a star with some serious flare

^{Image Credit: Casey Reed/NASA}
According to NASA, a really small star had an intense solar flare around the end of April 2008. NASA’s Swift satellite captured the flare, which was thousands of times more powerful than any other solar flare observed.

Aside from all the interesting science, the image is amazingly beautiful.

Posted on Wednesday, 28 May 2008    Comments
Tags: nasa, photography, space, star

Dulce Pinzón - Superheroes

^{Photo: Dulce Pinzón}

What is a hero? Dulce Pinzón asks this question and focuses on a very common, unsung hero—immigrants. More specifically, he targets the Mexican immigrant in New York. He’s introduced an interesting juxtaposition of American and Mexican superhero characters and the many different jobs that Mexicans living in New York City perform. As far as their “hero” credibility, Mr Pinzón states how much money they send back home to Mexico. I would argue that these people’s potential “hero factor” increases as they contribute in many other ways aside from sending money to their home country.

On one hand, it’s a politically-charged statement that forces one to think about the current situation of illegal immigration, stereotypes, etc. On the other hand, they’re great photographs by combining a surreal element in a concrete environment, which in my opinion could stand on it’s own.

I think this project is brilliant, really fantastic! Check out more photographs here.

Posted on Tuesday, 18 Mar 2008    Comments
Tags: mexico, new york city, photography, politics

Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers

^{Art: Chris Jordan, Cans Seurat, 2007}

Chris Jordan’s new exhibit Running the Numbers is a thought-provoking piece that brings ordinary statistics to life throught his brilliant use of scale and repetition.

If you’re in New York this summer, you’ll be able to see these images in their native size at the Von Lintel Gallery from June 14 through the end of July.

Posted on Friday, 02 Mar 2007    Comments
Tags: art, photography, politics, visualization

blackthoughts, nowwashyourhands

Pretty girls doing scary things at blackthoughts. While you’re at it, peep the rest of NOWWASHYOURHANDS.

Posted on Wednesday, 27 Sep 2006    Comments
Tags: graphic design, photography, uk

Niemeyer remix

^{Art: Brian Morris}

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói
Fundação Oscar Niemeyer

Posted on Monday, 18 Sep 2006    Comments
Tags: architecture, brasil, niterói, oscar niemeyer, photography

Inside Out: Photos by Migrant Workers

^{Foto: Chouysang Supot}

Photo editor Dorothy Ho writes a beautiful note about her current project which puts cameras in the hands of migrant workers in Singapore in order to see what usually isn’t seen.

She writes…

“Jaded by repetitive news reports, our perspective of the world tends to be narrow and fearful. We live by stereotypes and cliches because it is easier to understand the world through a simple lens…”

Go check out Inside Out for yourself – see if you like it. Link via Daniel Koh at K10K.

Posted on Tuesday, 17 Jan 2006    Comments
Tags: exhibit, photography, singapore

Panoramic head

Check out the story behind this crazy image!

Posted on Thursday, 08 Dec 2005    Comments
Tags: photography

Helsinki fashionista

^{30 July 2005, Fredrikintori}

Ville (20) “Drunkenness and hangover are in fashion at the moment.”

See what normal people in Finland are wearing on the streets over at Hel Looks.

Posted on Sunday, 04 Dec 2005    Comments
Tags: fashion, finland, photography

Cassette tape mania!

After all of the marvelous things the internet does for us nowadays, I still enjoy the fact that it has yet to cease as a viable outlet for our innermost (neurotic?) desires to catalogue absolutely EVERYTHING under the sun…

…like tons of blank cassettes! Check out Not Wild Style’s Cassette Jam ‘05 before the 50 gazillion terabyte Lee Press-On hard drives give us a DVD nostalgia gallery.

Posted on Monday, 17 Oct 2005    Comments
Tags: collection, photography