Now there’s an idea or two….

The effervescent David Campbell has written a thorough dissection of the New York Times 'pay wall'. Amongst the insights is this paragraph, which makes a lot of sense to me: "The Lens blog......

3D Radio! What’s not to love...

Radio 4 is working with Princeton University to bring us all 3D radio.   I can't wait to see that :)...

Martin Parr to star in next Bond film….

As Q's son. Yep, that sort of makes sense.     "The source also told us that in one scene, Parr presents Bond, played by Daniel Craig, with a DSLR camera that kills people as it......

Jesus shows himself. In an old barbecue..

Well, why not? Makes sense if he's omnipresent. Or was that God? Or maybe the Holy ghost. Blimey it's confusing, always was.   "People will think we're crazy but we're Christians and it means a......

Has The Photographers’ Gallery got a spare £60k down the back of the sofa?.

Surely it has, Surely. It's just been awarded 2.7 million quids to continue it's work over the next three years. Meanwhile, however, Side Gallery in Newcastle, the only gallery in the country dedicated to documentary......

206 arts organisations cut….

For the equivalent cost of this lot..     Ten Apache helicopters. £100 million off 206 arts orgs, including many photography orientated, vs ten Apaches at an average cost of about £10 million each ( Extra......

Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter...

Ernest used to like to use a portable Royal typewriter, amongst others. Happy now?    ...

myNewsBiz needs you…deadline approaching….

"If your dream job doesn’t exist: go and create it."   You've got another week to enter the myNewsBiz competition... If you have 'an idea for a sustainable news product or service which could revolutionise......

Color (be madd)?.

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, I wanna nick your pics... This is a very tenuous connection....between a dodgy 90's band and a copyright grabbing app. I'm not sure which is worse. Yes, I am, and it's not the......

Protectors of sight...

Sophie Gerrard sent me a link. She had casually mentioned to me something she had been working hard on. I told her that if it was any good, I'd whack it up here......

Back to the future….

Irina Werning has a project...and it's a must look.....she has put a hell of a lot of work in...and is producing some beautiful work...plus she's looking for models...Boston in May, Europe in June...I'm......

In Verse: Women of Troy.

Ok, This isn't new. But who cares when it's this strong. As I keep saying to people on training and in lectures....team up...with a poet, a musician, an artist, a coder, a genius, an......

#FF Funky Friday.

Aye, 'tis that time. It's sunny here. And George has just popped in. Got your groove on? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyq-v-hf1U...

The Professor speaks...

Very interesting read over on David Campbell's blog, asking why he has not seen more multimedia from the world's recent events (think Japan, Egypt, Libya). Gazillions of stills images, not a whiff really of......

Death and awards.

Following on from Paul Hansen's award as International News Photographer and winner of International News Image at the Swedish Picture of the Year awards, for an image of Fabienne Cherisma, Pete Brook......

Reality..

Recently captured and released NYT journos recount their time in Libya.. “From the pickup, Lynsey saw a body outstretched next to our car, one arm outstretched. We still don’t know whether that was Mohammed.......

How to apply for a job. Fear and loathing style..

An excerpt from a certain Hunter S. Thompson's application for a newspaper job in 1958. Read the rest, it's magic. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as......

School nonsense, and some fruit..

This has absolutely nowt to do with photography, but I need a vent. I'll give you a pic at the end. I've just been speaking to the head teacher at......

HELLO TO ALL OF YOU AT FORMAT..

And pay attention at the back. Er, that's it. ...

“Antiphotojournalism”.

This looks tasty, definitely up there with a good Thai curry... dunno how I missed it...from the ever intriguing Foam.. If you run the following through here, I'd hit 100%. I don't care.......