A few months ago 14-year-old Julia Bluhm caused quite a stir when she managed to collect over 80,000 total signatures in an attempt to get Seventeen Magazine to put one completely un-Photoshopped spread in each issue. Her argument was that the magazine's readers have a sensitive body image, and constantly seeing unrealistically thin and perfect software-enhanced models wasn't helping the matter.
Check out this unique picture frame by Urban Outfitters. The Sunglasses Photo Frame is a "kooky oversized sunglasses picture frame" that shows your 3.5x2.75 photos through the two lenses. The temple arms work as a stand for the frame.
Video effects team Corridor Digital created this clever short film titled “Photoreal” featuring …
The Onion's Tech Trends has a hilarious satirical video warning of the "insidious" Internet scams through Kickstarter: bad projects that guilt people into donating in order to fulfill a life-long dream.
Today's dose of inspiration comes in the form of two videos for the price of one. Both videos feature well-known and well-respected photographer and photojournalist Steve McCurry -- the man behind the unforgettable Afghan Girl photo that graced the cover of NatGeo -- but each offer a different sort of insight into his world.
Indiana university historian Patrick Feaster recently discovered a record featuring the voice of Emile Berliner -- inventor of the phonograph. Created in 1889, the record is likely the oldest in the world. What's interesting, however, is how Feaster managed to obtain it: through a photograph. That's right, Feaster discovered an image of the disc preserved in an old 1890 German magazine from the same year and then was able to recreate it by scanning and analyzing the photo.
We’ve shared photos of photobooth marriage proposals before, but how about a video? After …
Music photographers in the UK have organized a boycott of indie band The Stone Roses reunion concerts (to be held this weekend) over a contract that they say is unfairly strict with their image rights. All press and music photographers are familiar with the typical restrictions that come with photographing an event or band, but the Stone Roses have asked the photogs to "assign to the Group, with full title guarantee, all Rights in perpetuity throughout the world..." A request for which the band was going to allegedly pay only £1 according to the first draft of the contract.
After seeing hashtags for a TV show featuring a "Psychic Wayne" all over Twitter, Irish student Alan Rice decided to see what all the fuss was about. Of course, within a few minutes he had already decided that the show was, in his words, tripe. But after watching a little while longer he noticed something else: the pictures of the other off-air "psychics" that people could call looked a lot like stock photos.
We've all been there. Anybody who has ever done any work in the creative industry has had to deal with clients who have no understanding of basic business practices, or photography, or a little thing called payment. The above video was put together by the website Clients From Hell, where creatives can go and upload their most entertaining horror stories anonymously.
In both still photography and video, camera work should generally be invisible to viewers, allowing them to focus on …
Brazilian artist André Feliciano creates beautiful gardens that look rather ordinary from afar, but step a little closer and you'll notice that each individual flower is quite peculiar: it's shaped like a camera. Feliciano's colorful displays feature hundreds or thousands of tiny plastic cameras.
The latest photo to go viral on the web is a photo about photos. Lost photos, that is. Earlier …
On Saturday night at the United States Olympic trials, sprinters Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh did something the sport …
A 22-year-old Houston artist named Uriel Landeros made news this past week after walking into Houston’s Menil Collection museum and vandalizing a priceless 1929 Picasso painting titled Woman in a Red Armchair. A fellow museum patron captured cell phone footage of Landeros spray painting the word "conquista" onto the painting using a stencil. The painting was rushed to the museum's conservation lab for an emergency restoration, and Landeros was just arrested and charged with two third-degree felonies.
H.Y. Leung recreated the special white edition of the Leica M8 rangefinder using …
Musicians, and all creative types really, often cross over into other creative endeavors that may or may not have anything to do with the field they're famous for. It was only a few weeks ago that we featured a video of musician Moby talking about how much he loved photographing LA architecture. And today Leica has put together another of their "Leica Portraits," this one on soul musician -- and, of course, photography enthusiast -- Seal.
Do professional photographers belong in delivery rooms? More and more of them are showing up there. The New York Times has an interesting piece on the rise of birth photography as a up-and-coming niche:
Raymond Depardon is one of the greatest living French photographers in the world, so when the new French President François Hollande was elected into office, Depardon was chosen to take his presidential portrait (seen above). The idea was to frame him as a "normal" guy, in stark contrast to his predecessor who had, quote, an "American-style presidency." Unfortunately, regardless of the intent and photographical skill involved, the photo has been both widely criticized and mocked since it was unveiled on June 4th.
Security camera clips that make the news usually show bad things, but Coke decided to “look at the world …
Back in the days before every photo was tagged and shared with family, friends and strangers alike, a photograph was a rare, prized possession. In the Civil War era it wasn't uncommon for soldiers to carry a small tintype of a family member into battle, and if they died, sadly so did all of the information about that photo. That's why the Museum of the Confederacy needs your help.
Nikon found themselves at the center of a controversy this last weekend after they decided to cancel a sensitive photography exhibit without giving a reason why. The exhibit, a photographic documentary on the theme of "Comfort Women" (Korean women used as sex slaves during WWII in Japan), was put together by Korean photographer Ahn Sehong and set to start on June 26th at the Nikon Salon in Tokyo -- until Nikon cancelled it.
In his series of overhead photographs title Car Poolers, Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena takes a different kind of look at the impact cultural issues like overgrowth are having on his beloved country. The series shows more and more workers who are catching rides into town in the backs of pickup trucks, and even though for them this is simply a means to save money, Cartagena sees them as "silent contributor[s] to the preservation of our city and planet."
Light painting photography is going more and more mainstream. A light painting photography team from San Francisco …
This video points to a pretty horrific, disturbing future if the scourge known as Vertical Video Syndrome — VVS …
Luke Pierre Barats of the sketch comedy duo Barats and Bereta spent a …
General consensus seems to be that a picture is worth a thousand words, in which case Ben West and Felix Heyes' unique take on the dictionary, complete with 21,000 entries, metaphorically contains closer to 21,000,000 words worth of content. That's because their dictionary doesn't hold a single word, only the first Google image search result for every word you might find in your regular Webster's.
Here’s a funny short clip from the HBO TV show Veep in which …
We've heard of camera manufacturers dipping into unrelated fields before, and we've also seen some pretty interesting marketing stunts, but in the early 90's Kodak had already done both... in a colorful, cuddly sort of way. Back then, as an either desperate or creative ploy to get kids into photography, Kodak came out with the Kolorkins: a set of colorful, collectible stuffed animals.
Have you ever walked out to your car and seen someone abysmally parked next to you, or up on the sidewalk? Even if they aren't blocking you in specifically, didn't you wish there was a way -- other than leaving a less than professional note -- to let people know that the owner of this car is a jerk? Well, the people over at the Moscow Newspaper The Village decided to takle this problem (which is apparently much worse in Russia) head on by designing and releasing Parking Douche, an Android app that publicly shames bad parkers.