Now This is Cool...

Lytro isn’t going to kill current digital photography–it’s just going to be a big, important part of changing it. People won’t forsake their digital cameras and replace everything with Lytro cameras (at least not those that are already in the process of being weeded out of the market), but we’re certain they will be adding it to their lineup. On the surface it might sound gimmicky, but at it’s core Lytro is a new step in the digital imaging evolution, and it’s going to shape the direction camera makers take their products

More disruptive technology on the way.

Hold on to your butts...

It’s a project I did for myself. I wanted to be seduced into a photograph and not make it up,” she said. “And I wanted to take my time.

NOTED: on my Facebook stream via Deborah Weiss.
https://www.facebook.com/dwcreativeconsultant

Well, it’s not like I just stepped into the club and everything started to pop off. It’s been alot alot alot of struggle and getting the angle of my Kangol hat just so and there have been lots of rainy mornings spent getting out of ruts and staying positive and directed. Just tons of hard work. That’s all I can really say. Everyone who you see doing well has worked incredibly hard to get to where they are in their career, they’re all on the grind.

After listening to the gloom all day, this is so refreshing.

File this under shit you can't make up shit.

Seriously.

Fired for working.

That really explains Congress so much better to me.

In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment. Average is over.

Even the terribly ignorant Thomas Friedman gets it.

Of course his solution is to simply send everyone to college.

Yeah Tom, that'll work.

Idiot.

It is not too late to join, you don’t need to have or get special gear, you don’t have to pass a test.

You just need the Intention.

Aliki Braine, Draw Me A Tree Black Out, 2006

At a time when many are mourning the demise of film and traditional photography techniques, an exhibition at this year's London Art Fair, Photo50, introduces a group of artists who are experimenting with analogue in new and unexpected ways...

I think this is pretty significant work. It most definitely should be seen.

On The Walls: Doug Ethridge @ Lightbox Gallery

Doug Ethridge is a photographer who refuses to get pigeonholed into one style, process or approach. He’s constantly reinventing his visions and has most recently created a body of work entitled 27 Mornings In Winter which is on view from January 14- February 7 at Lightbox Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. 

See more here:
http://blog.susanburnstine.com/post/16055648845

Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later.... photographs will reproduce all of nature's colours.

The Obama administration has told a federal judge that Baltimore police officers violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments by seizing a man's cell phone and deleting its contents. The deletions were allegedly in retaliation for the man's use of the phone to record the officers' arrest of his friend. According to the Maryland ACLU, this is the first time the Obama Justice Department has weighed in on whether the Constitution protects citizens' right to record the actions of police with their cell phones.

Now it is time to sue the cops, their commanders, the mayor, the city council, and anyone who ever gave them the idea that they were ABOVE the damn law. Take them for everything they have and send a message...

"Thugs are thugs, and badges are not a 'get out of jail free' card for being one.