Opposition to Digital Economy Bill grows in UK
We’ve covered the Digital Economy Bill (DEB) here before, when we saw photographers protesting its possible effects on orphan works.
Now opposition is growing, and growing fast. And for other reasons.
We’ve covered the Digital Economy Bill (DEB) here before, when we saw photographers protesting its possible effects on orphan works.
Now opposition is growing, and growing fast. And for other reasons.
Fred Licht, California-based photographer of buildings, people and things, has an intriguing hobby: he makes his own lenses.
Fred is one of the Wonderful Machine collective, a nationwide collaborative project by photographers in cities around the US.
His lens-making hobby was highlighted recently on the Wonderful Machine blog – a site worth watching because it aggregates and highlights some of the fabulous work being done by members of the team.
In Neil Binkley’s blog post, Fred is quoted saying:
“My desire to explore optics as a creative tool began with my longstanding interest in 19th century photography. Many of the images from that period have a distinct “look” (as well as other sensibilities) and I began by purchasing lenses from that period of time. I quickly realized that this was not giving me the look that I wanted and I began to research the field of photographic optics. It turns out that nearly all of the lenses that we use today (with the exception of zoom lenses and a few other formulas) were designed in the 19th century and have not really changed.”
If Fred’s antics in lens experimenting aren’t enough for you, go explore the Homemade lens group on Flickr, where there are nearly 600 more people interested in mixing up their own optics.
Jobaya is a self-funded startup based in Cardiff, South Wales, that aims to offer a pay-per-view streaming video-on-demand service in the UK later this summer.
It’s a little different from video streaming services you may have encountered elsewhere.
Jobaya’s target audience is people on the move, who wish to watch video content on a whim and in bite-sized chunks.
Google announced last week that it has purchased Picnik, creators of an impressive in-browser photo editing webapp.
Flickr users will probably be familiar with Picnik, which is an embedded function for paying users of the photo sharing site.
Recently-launched Movie Monitor is trying to do something a little different. As movies move swiftly towards online distribution direct to the consumer, Movie Monitor aims to track what’s available to watch and where – and let consumers get to the stuff they want quickly and easily.
We asked Movie Monitor boss Andrew Nicol to explain a little bit more about what the site is for and where it’s aiming to be in future. Here’s what he had to say.
Arielle Emmett has written a sombre and thought-provoking piece for the American Journalism Review, discussing the role and impact of graphic photojournalism in the wake of the recent Haitian earthquake.
With natural disaster and war comes violent and bloody death; in some cases on such a scale that it’s hard to take in.
