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Online photo editing: PXN8. I am still figuring this one out but it looks way too cool.
Snaps Magazine December's theme is Whatever – it's just that whatever you want to send in. Keep it somewhat clean though. Send in anything before January 1, 2006. Send your photos to snapsmagazine@gmail.com.
Jason Taylor is a Delhi-based photojournalist. Sometime last year, he mailed me a CD of his most recent work, Driven, “an exhibition of photographs revealing the solitary and nomadic existence of North India's truck driver population, the nature of their complex personal relationships, and their vulnerable position on the fringes of society, where the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections are becoming increasingly important issues.”
Driven is the culmination of a 5-month sojourn with the truck drivers and was supported by the Naz Foundation International.
Today is World AIDS Day. I felt it only timely and appropriate that Jason's work finally gets published here on Tiffinbox. You can send Jason your comments and feedback directly by emailing him at nomad_is [at] hotmail [dot] com.
Mallika Dutta, Executive Director of Breakthrough.tv, emailed me a link about their campaign. Mallika, as a part of a panel this evening at the Rubin Museum of Art, will discuss AIDS in India, with particular focus given to the Himalayan region. The panel discussion begins at 7 pm and goes through 9 pm. There is a $10 fee.
Slate, the award-winning online magazine, announced today that it will partner with Magnum Photos to launch “Today's Pictures,” a daily feature offering readers a look at the best of past and current photographs from the internationally acclaimed photo agency.
Each day, Slate will offer a selection chosen by editors of photographs from the Magnum collection. The feature will also include innovative multimedia presentations of special photographic series covering a range of subjects.
Om Malik enjoys Rana Dasgupta's new book, Tokyo Cancelled. I think Dasgupta has a funky website as well.
Some terrific wallpapers for your computer screen
Would you like the choice to refocus your images on something other than what you originally intended? A Stanford Univeristy graduate student may have just the ticket. Check out: Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera
Rishi Singhal wrote in to invite me to a show organized by Ithaca Fine Chocolates which selected artists working in different media.
Rishi was one of the 5 photographers selected this year. Following is the reception info:
Art Bar Gallery
124 State Street on the Commons, Ithaca, NY
Opening Reception: Ithaca Gallery Night
Friday, December 2, 5:00-8:00 pm
Via Mahesh Bhat
Reza, the Paris-based, Iranian photojournalist writes:
Dear Qasim [sic]
Your action brings in my mind a Persian saying :
“All the darkness of the world together can not extinguish the light of a small candle”
Yes the world and it's decision makers has forgotten many devasted nations, but all is needed in this era of communication and media is one person like you, “one small candle,” that will break all the darkness.
Great work , continue.
All my thoughts with you and Keshmiri people .
Warmest regards,
Reza
Reza is talking about Asim Rafiqui's dark and gripping images from those areas of Pakistan affected by the earthquake.
In Asim's own hand:
Dear friends,
The tragedy in Pakistan's northern areas and Kashmir continues to unfold though less in the media's eye today than perhaps a couple of weeks ago. Regardless, the situation remains dire and a major donor conference is about to begin to address the threat of the coming himalayan winter. I am continuing my work here in Pakistan and some of my initial images of the situation are now online here.
(Select top picture to see the full set – images are being uploaded every few days)
This is still a work in progress and I will be in the Kashmir region for another couple of weeks at least. Please feel free to share the work with your friends as a way to keep this issue on their minds and in their hearts.
Nothing I write, nothing I photograph can capture what I have seen here. I am currently working in Balakot. The only way to describe that city is to image what an urban center would look like if a giant road rolling machine drove over it. 7 seconds that have devasteted over 3 million people, killed nearly 20,000 school age children alone, and thousands of bodies are still lying under rubble.
More soon,
Asim
A few days back I blogged about how little has been said or done about the earthquake disaster in Pakistan and India. I suggested sending in your donations to SAJA's Reporting Fellowship program so that news events such as this will not be a distant memory in our psyches because the networks have moved on to other juicy stories. But the situation in South Asia is worse than I even imagined.
Katherine Allen sent me a note that I am republishing here:
Dear Friends and Family,
We are very concerned about the lack of mobilization for financial support for the survivors of the horrific earthquake in Pakistan and India on October 8. While we all received many requests and appeals for the Tsunami and Katrina tragedies, we have not received one request for this terrible disaster.
The earthquake killed at least 50,000 people, injured more than 65,000 people, and left more than 3,300,000 people and rising homeless, more than 3 times the number left homeless by the Tsunami disaster. Many say the worst is yet to come. Another 500,000 are not expected to make it through the winter.
We have researched some organizations and sites and encourage you to DONATE NOW! We hope by making this easy for you, you will join us in responding to this critical need to get supplies to people before the harsh winter weather sets in.
Here are four choices that all take donations on-line:
Association for the Development of Pakistan
Association for India's Development
For a brief slide-show of the destruction and those affected, please go to the following site and click on the earthquake movie.
Thanks for joining us in supporting these organizations that are responding
to this terrible tragedy.
Katherine Allen
Carolyn Gabel-Brett
Tollie Miller
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Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon has a blog
Mike Davidson hatches Newsvine. I am curious. Very curious. But he hasn't unwrapped it all the way. Patience grasshoppa!
Finally a renaissance in Hindi movies
Precious little has been mentioned here on Tiffinbox about the devastating earthquake to hit parts of Pakistan and India. I have been swamped at home and at work and have had little time to blog about anything. But when I have come up for air, I have read the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman (aka. CSS God), who says that not much is being done to help a whole lot of people who will be in deep shit this winter. What are you doing about it? What will I do about it? Money and effort, as Zeldman writes, may be what is necessary. Arriving from a journalism background, I would rather support the South Asian Journalism Association's reporting fellowship initiative so that journalists continue to report from South Asia well after the mainstream networks have left the scene.
The Worldwide Adobe Photoshop Competition
Change Me: The Power Of Imagery To Create Change This is a rockin' site where you can get involved. Your participation actually raises $500,000 for DATA (Debt, Aids and Trade in Africa).
PhotoshopTV. The folks who brought us Photoshop Radio are now dabbling online television. Pretty darn cool!
On the weekends, particularly on my drive into work, I listen to Weekend America
I really want to launch a “BLOG OF THE WEEK” feature here on Tiffinbox, but I now rarely stumble upon blogs that I like or have the time to read with great passion. There are some exceptions and I will list those out to you folks to sample from now on. Starting this off is Sean Coon's blog called connecting*the*dots. Clean design, simple writing, interesting stuff all around. And, no, he didn't pay me to plug his site. In fact, I don't even know him. Any more blogs you recommend we read?
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Get your Penguin Classics Library for a mere $8,000. That is for over 1,000 books. If you ask me, it's quite the bargain. Now to kill my television and have “nothing better to do” as one New Mexican woman put it.
