I am not crazy about flaunting brands, but I am a wee bit mad about anything remotely associated with Apple (or Pixar).
iPodMyPhoto will take your picture and recreate it as an iPod advertisement for $20. Do you want it on a t-shirt, a mug, Christmas cards, a bill board off of I-84? Your call.
Asia Society has a newly designed, very spiffy web site that is worth a look-see.
Cops in India must sure have it made. What pleasure do they engage in by falsely accusing and then arresting a revered spiritual and religious leader one week and an employee of a multi-national auction company another week?
Is due process in the world's largest democracy a running joke? Someone please tell me what the hell is going on back home. Are civil liberties on a steady decline? I still get chills replaying clips from Ardh Satya.
From Aaron Huey
The mother and wife of every soldier who dies in Iraq gets a Purple Heart. Sgt. David Mitts and SSG. Salamo Tiualuuluu's wives were both pregnant. Nathan Wood was 19. Kyle Eggers had 3 little boys who never knew him. At the memorial for PFC Andrew Ward the priest said “War is the ultimate failure of man.”
These photos tell the story of five Purple Hearts.
CAPTION: At the funeral of Nathan Wood, Marine LCpl age 19, at Christ Church Kirkland, WA. Nathan was killed Nov 9 in Fallujah. His best friend, Garrett Ware, also a marine fighting in Falluja, was injured and sent home with a purple heart. In this image Garrett hugs Rex Wood, Nathan's father. Photography © Aaron Huey
See the rest of this very special project on Aaron's web site.
Via Greg Mironchuk
Applications Now Being Accepted for the 3rd Annual Yarka Vendrinska Scholarship
Mark and Tanya Bohr are pleased to announce the third annual scholarship for emerging photojournalists who demonstrate financial need to continue their careers. The award may be used to attend any of the photojournalism workshops at The Maine Photographic Workshops.
The $2,000 scholarship is offered in memory of Yarka, who was a passionate photojournalist. She was drawn to photograph people often ignored by society the homeless, the aged and the ill. Finding great humanity in her subjects, she attempted to show this through her imagery.
The ideal applicant will not only be interested in photojournalism, but will have demonstrated social awareness in the spirit of Yarka=92s work, which can be seen on her site, www.yarka.net. While the award will be based upon need, the applicant must also provide a portfolio of recent work. Portfolios and proof of need for financial assistance must be submitted in digital format, as the awarding committee is not centrally located. For further information and application forms, see the Maine Workshops scholarship site.
Scholarship application deadline: 5:00 PM on Tuesday, March 1, 2005. The award will be officially announced on Yarka's birthday, April 25, 2005.
To read more about the Foundation, please visit www.yarkasfund.org.
On a minor tangent, friend and fellow photojournalist Robb Hill won this scholarship the first year it was offered. He attended The Maine Photo Workshops on that award and studied under Eugene Richards, the famous documentary photographer, for a week.
Think twice about copying content or code from any web site. Copyscape is here.
Tewfic El-Sawy, a travel and editorial photographer just came back from India and has some really terrific images. One set of images is of Adivasis in Chhattisgargh. The second set is called Sufis of the Dargahs.
Via Larry D. Larsen
Defend your trademark or loose your rights to it forever. TiVo, apparently is putting up a fight and sending nasty letters to newsies around the country to cease-and-desist using “TiVo” as a verb.
“So as you pull up the ZIPPER of your SPANDEX running suit and ride the ESCALATOR down to the TARMAC, keep in mind that these were all trademarks lost to the “genericized” use of the word. Also on that list is HEROIN, formerly a pain reliever registered by Bayer.”
I remember an advertisement in Editor & Publisher several years ago that Xerox paid for. Essentially, it asked that the word “Xerox” not be used as a verb. I also cringing when my mother uses it to this day to mean “copy” something.
