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The New York Subway Project
Yesterday, when catching up on my Gothamist RSS feed, Arun Wiita's Subway Project struck me as an amazing idea. From the Gothamist article:
In July of 2007 Arun Wiita visited all 468 subway stations in New York City, taking photos around each of them. At one point during the ten days of documenting, he was detained by police, handcuffed and held for 30 minutes. Later in the year he filed a Civil Liberties lawsuit, with an overall goal of changing the NYPD's photography policies.
As someone who is set to move to New York at the beginning of July, this is just as much useful as it is a piece of art. The descriptions of the areas just outside the stop, and the imagery makes it seem as though you're there.
Check out all 468 subway stops at The New York Subway Project.
Save JPG
Save JPG is a site that was started by 15x100, 15 Photographs by 100 Photographers, to try and save JPG in one form or another. (As a side note, 15x100 is a pretty interesting project)
In other positive news, JPG Magazine apparently has had some interest in acquisition. The interest in the site means that it'll survive at least another week, with hopes of much longer.
There's also been some interesting ideas in the comments on the Save JPG site. Comments suggesting that JPG should charge money to post to the site, but remain open to view. Something like this I feel might work, but I'm unsure what you'd actually be buying. Flickr, for instance, is a photo backup solution in some regards with a Pro account. The unlimited storage, unlimited uploads is key there.
But, what else could JPG do to survive? Could JPG turn into a generic photo sharing site, or what about the possibility of taking the community magazine to the next level and let individuals of the community create their own issues? I don't know, but the question of JPG's survival, and the form it survives in, is something I look forward to getting an answer to.
JPG Magazine Says Goodbye
It's no secret that I've been a fan of JPG Mag. I've submitted images on numerous occasions, have subscribed, took part in voting for nearly every theme since issue 7, and have been an RSS subscriber to their blog for some time now. So, it was extremely sad news for me to receive in my inbox this morning an email saying goodbye from the Editor in Chief, Laura Brunow Miner.
JPG had an interesting idea, and unfortunately it couldn't sustain itself. I know I'll miss the community of amazing photographers, and taking part in the JPG experiment. Thank JPG Mag for all your hard work!
You can read the sad post at the JPG blog.
XDRTB
In 2007, Photojournalist, James Nachtwey was awarded the TED Prize, which comes with $100,000 and one wish to change the world. XDRTB.org is his wish.
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PhotographyBB Number 6
This month's PhotographyBB (a free online photography magazine who's quality seems to get better every month) is jam packed full of goodness! It starts off with an article about developing film, talks about black and white, takes you to Australia and then hits the digital darkroom when it turns to an article about Adobe's Lightroom. I think this is probably the best issue yet, and I really haven't started reading.
The War on Photography
Bruce Schneier has some great thoughts about The War on Photography.
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Earthquake Wedding Photos
The Wedding Photography Blog turned me to a New York Times slideshow of photos taken at a wedding during the recent China earthquake.
Phoenix Mars Lander Photos
The Chicago Tribune has a gallery up of photos of the Phoenix Mars Lander, and also some of the photos it has taken from Mars.
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Beard Contest and Photographs
Greyscalegorilla, known mostly for his awesome photoblog, just finished documenting a 4 month long beard contest. The photos he took of them all, make them look like they're in a band.
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