Free blogs: Will the thriving coffee-house dissent of Iranian weblogs help take down the Iranian ayatollahs? (The Times, free reg. required). Let’s hope so — it’s either that, or the Israeli air-force. More from The Telegraph.
Archive for December, 2005
Sign age
Sign age: Press this to release the truffle pigs.
Turning Golden
Turning Golden: A intriguing essay in The Guardian by Jonathan Jones, on the links between Turner’s paintings and The Golden Bough.
British Photography
British Photography: My British Photography: towards a brief historical outline is now at draft version 1.0. (PDF link, 130kb)
Ultra-macro with a Pringles tin
Super-macro with a Pringles tin: Fed up with stupidly expensive camera accessories? Time on your hands, over Christmas? photocritic.org has a choice selection of ultra-cheap DIY projects for photographers.
Land Lines II
Land Lines II: There’s to be a new series of Common Ground‘s “Land Lines” on BBC Radio 4. At 1.30pm for six Wednesdays, starting on from 4th January 2006.
In the bleak mid-winter (new photos)
“T’was in the bleak mid-winter…”: (large version, 165kb) (large version, 150kb)
Dusty industries
Dusty industries: Demos Greenhouse has been ferreting deep into the DCMS web-site, and it seems the UK’s creative industries may not have the growth rate they are commonly said to have.
Fujifilm Student Awards
Fuji: The Fujifilm Student Photography Awards are open.
Freelance, as in ‘free’
Freelance, as in ‘free’: The British Journal of Photography reveals an in-depth NUJ survey on the pay rates of freelance photographers. It also reports the use of free student and recent-graduate labour as undermining the market.
The national canvas
The national canvas: Every painting the nation owns, online within six years. They’re already producing the goods, in terms of a series of books. No, it’s not the result of all those all well-funded 1990s ‘digitisation committees’. The PCF is the result of a few people’s passion, a shoestring budget, and a lot of shoeleather. […]
Is that a paint brush in your pocket…?
“Is that a paint brush in your pocket…?” Creative artists have significantly higher active sex drives than ordinary people, says a new report. Or perhaps we’re just inclined to be more boastful.