Op-Docs | Dismantling Detroit …
Lately, it’s been hard not to notice all of the articles and hype about Detroit making an artistic and hipster comeback… see, for instance, Is Detroit the new Brooklyn and Detroit Pushes Back With Young Muscles and yet… we should not lose sight of just how bad things have been there (and probably still are)!!
NYT Sunday Magazine… The Lives They Lived issue with Ira Glass
A New Fashion Image for Urban America… via the NYTimes
Ouigi Theodore (shown), the founder of the Brooklyn Circus, a retro-urban fashion boutique and label, has cultivated a unique style that has won him applause not only among the fashion pundits of Brooklyn, but also from streetwise fans as far away as Europe and Japan.
Last year, the label produced a photo shoot featuring friends and employees in the streets of San Francisco and Brooklyn, which will be published in an upcoming book called, “The Brooklyn Circus.”
See more photos here…
Read the article here…
I’ve been a lifelong photographer. I love images; I believe in the power that they posses and I have great respect for those who make them.
However, over the years, I’ve gotten a little frustrated with my photography… wanting to do more with it but never quite sure what that meant.
I love dramatic portraiture and even editorial fashion photography but, I’ve never had the time or, more importantly, the access that’s necessary in order to really pursue either.
I was at a point where I was finally willing to accept that I was never going to be an Irving Penn or a Richard Avedon.
And, that may still be true… but, at about that same time, I had my first encounter with the New York Times project, One in Eight Million.
The first time I saw it, I sat in silence and watch segment after segment… lost in the incredible beauty of those black and white shots and the unbelievable power that the audio brought to them. At one point, I said out loud… “That’s it… that’s what I want to do”!
That was what then served as the catalyst for me to begin this journey… and to take these courses. “Decisive Moment” is no longer the mantra… it has a new name… “Journalistic Storytelling”.
Do I agree with Brian Storm? Hell, Brian Storm is my god! My modern day Irving Penn!
However, to be a little more specific… I propose that you could watch the Marlboro Marine project on MediaStorm with the audio turned off… but, in so doing… there is no way possible that you would get the same experience… the same story… the same meaning… that you get when you watch the project with the audio on. The images are excellent and they can stand on their own… however, it’s when you see them in series, over time and in conjunction with the audio that you really get the whole story.
Yes, I believe that in order to do this type of work, you will need more than just your expertise with the equipment and your eye for the moment. You will need to engage with your subjects to a new and possibly uncomfortable degree in order to gain their trust and the true depth and meaning of their stories.
Technology has empowered us to go beyond the old limits of any one medium…
“It is one of the most exciting times in history to be a young journalist. You have an almost limitless palette of storytelling tools, an audience unbound by physical borders and the most powerful communications technology ever developed at your disposal.” Brian Storm, President — MediaStorm
Image by Richard Termine for The New York Times…
Critic’s Notebook
Does Fashion Make Good Theater?
Beautiful image by Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times…
Fantastic article, Does Fashion Make Good Theater, by Charles Isherwood
“Still, as a matter of contemporary anthropology, Fashion Week illuminates, through a magnifying lens, the state of American culture in ways that a lot of theater does not. The relentless production of images reflects the obsession with self-presentation that has made the explosion of social media such a significant development. For the media-savvy younger generations today, after all, if you are not disseminating your image as widely as possible via Facebook and your personal impressions via Twitter, you are fading into oblivion.
The corollary of this idea — even more striking a facet of the fashion world — is that in contemporary America celebrity is not only a virtue, it is practically the only ideal we all share. Spend a few days pushing your way through the flashing cameras and the video crews at the fashion shows and you begin to feel that you will become famous by osmosis. It’s both mildly intoxicating and disturbing.
The fashionable world may not be holding a mirror up to nature, as Hamlet suggests good theater should, but it is definitely holding a camera in somebody’s — in everybody’s — face.”
Bill Cunningham and his foot fetish…
Everyone has a story… and Bill Cunningham’s is a great one. If you ever have the opportunity… I highly recommend that you see the documentary - Bill Cunningham New York. You will enjoy it!!
In the meantime, check out his foot fetish on the New York Times
New York Times / Ball State University… Emerging Media Course - NEWS 130, Multimedia Design.
Final Project, Chart 2
Adobe Illustrator
New York Times / Ball State University… Emerging Media Course - NEWS 130, Multimedia Design.
Final Project, Chart 1
Adobe Illustrator
New York Times / Ball State University… Emerging Media Course — NEWS 130, Multimedia Design.
My professor didn’t like my timeline assignment… but, I did… so there!
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