James Brown dance lessons.

Look, I've said before that every day is a school day at the duck. Today's lesson is especially valuable. This lesson could just save your life - if you ever find yourself in a dodgy......

Best and worst..

This body of work has to be one of the saddest and strongest stories ever shown on Burn. Comfy?...

About Time..

There is something wrong with me. I don't really know why I had to do this, but I did. I always find it strangely and fleetingly comforting when the time on my digital alarm clock......

Open Eye – The Missing (BBC World Service and on-line, 19th January).

A sniper's position in a building that was damaged during the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war, situated on what used to be the Green Line, a line of demarcation that separated Beirut into two parts,East......

Laurent on Morel.

'Why did Getty Images continue to distribute and profit from photographs it knew didn’t belong to Lisandro Suero, in the first place, and later on, weren’t even authorised for distribution? So far, Getty Images......

Lovely bones..

Odd. And good. Enjoy. Although I don't know what an elephnat is....a tiny, bitey elephant with wings? I'd like to see a pic of one of them...:) ...

CBS roll over for Morel..

Good work. Another one sees sense. Just that feisty AFP and the behemoth itself to battle now. At the duck we are ignoring AFP's ridiculous and hypocritical posturing. More power to your......

Why y’all so afraid of Flickr?.

I love this picture by duckrabbit reader Ed Sweeney. Cheered me up no end this morning. Thanks Ed. ...

‘Invisibility would be my superpower’.

Great little video about Street Photographer Matt Stuart who comes across as not just a wicked photographer but a top bloke. Thanks to Olivier at BJP for sharing this. ...

True story, Bernard Butler and Me.

When I was sixteen Bernard Butler put me on the guestlist to see Suede at Leicester De Montford in exchange for some home-made (by me) flapjack. Of course he later walked out on Suede and......

“Photography is an incredibly limiting medium”.

Really lovely and inspiring video about Alex Soth. So interesting to compare this with the video of Plankton I put up earlier in the week. ...

Kickstarter: Some more analysis….

... that speaks for itself. Here is my analysis on Towell's his soon-to-get-his-$12,000 project. Towell Kickstarter Analysis Here is the same thing with the most successful project I see on Kickstarter. Other Kickstarter Project......

Black holes and lug holes..

This is a picture of the creation of a black hole at CERN. Ok, it's a simulation, but it's still pretty epic. There's a whole collection here. I want a t-shirt with this pic on. ...

Check this out.

In pictures: Haiti through the eyes of its teenagers ...

#FF Funky Friday.

Ok.....less funk, more groove. But man, what a groove. This one goes out to John, who I know will appreciate it. Blue note rule. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRnZECLr1Y...

‘Stories are being told and retold each moment’.

In the early days, I used to think I could take one picture, and if it were successful, it would epitomize that human being. Now, I think that is an absurd notion because I......

Photofilm – Poisoned whilst deployed – Nina Berman.

A couple of days back I wrote how there's an issue of people thinking that just because they take pictures, sometimes award-winning, that  makes them a journalist. No,  it makes you someone who takes pictures. ...

This is how far you can go in Photoshop...

..and still have people believe it's real. Hilarious, and worrying. The author might have got away with it if they'd cropped it hard and converted to mono...:) ...