President Obama just delivered a near hour-long speech on drone strikes and counterterrorism policy. There was a lot there; he announced, among other things, new steps the administration is taking to close Guantanamo Bay, changes in policies regarding drone strikes, and a more lenient policy for the transfer of Guantanamo detainees. He defended the strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and the practice of drone strikes in general, but also acknowledged their limitations. You can read the full text of the speech here (Photo credit: AP) source
The double exposures above are part of a side project by Greek photojournalist Anna Pantelia. To see more of her work, take a look at her stunning Behance portfolio.
Recycle - Double Exposure Portraits Tell Visual Stories
via Design You Trust
Yes, You Can Win This Cinetics miniSkates Tripod
And now for something new: The first ever FJP Photo Contest.
Back in March Peter went to SXSW and met Justin Jensen, founder of Cinetics, a company he started from the MIT Media Lab to create portable cinematic systems. Peter loved what they’re doing and Justin and Co were kind enough to donate the miniSkates tripod as the prize for our first photo contest. (You can see the tripod in action in Justin’s original 2011 Kickstarter video.)
The Contest
The theme for this contest is “Daily Commute”.
You are welcome to interpret the theme however you like but here are some ideas to help get you started:
- the essence of your commute;
- something you notice that you think others pass by;
- motion;
- the places you commute to, from or through;
- the idea of what a commute is;
- something not mentioned above cause we didn’t think of it.
How to Enter
- Take a great photo based on our “Daily Commute” theme;
- Submit your photo on our Facebook contest page;
- Win the coolest tripod on wheels!
Deadline: May 31, 2013
Other things you can do: Share this with your friends.
If this contest is successful we think we can get other companies to come together and offer contest prizes for The FJP community.
Many thanks. Start taking your photos and submit them to us over on Facebook. We look forward to seeing them!
Not Your Ordinary Bookstore
Argentina’s El Ataneo Grand Splendid opened as a theater in 1919, later became a cinema and is now a bookstore.
Images: El Ataneo Grand Splendid, via Atlas Obscura.
stunning.
If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.Roger Ebert (RIP) in Life Itself
Song: “A Movie Script Ending” by Death Cab for Cutie
Headlines like this frustrate me.
NY Times article this morning: “U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%” None of the people quoted in the article actually point to frustratingly slow growth. True as it may be, why say “only”? Think of all the people who aren’t going to read the article, only see the headline and go about their day more hopeless than ever.
"I wade through content and stories, sending links to Read Later, following blogs, creating different-colored Stickies on my desktop, and making fragments of notes in Evernote. The insides of my Evernote account? Oh my. It’s scary hunting in there: those are the half-thoughts and ideas in my brain — and the bits of data and links I’ve collected to support them — all laid out, in a digital filing system of notebooks."
~ On (Un)organized Consumption | Writing Through the Fog Really worth the read from Cheri Rowlands on how she deals with the deluge of content, media, to-do’s and expectations in our tech-saturated world. It’s a topic that’s dear to me: the relentless focus on the now and ‘what’s next’; the absence of care that our favorite tech products give towards the things that have been created and consumed in the past — or perhaps the things that have been displayed but never really acknowledged — before the next wave of news and memes come along. I believe that we’re at the cusp of understanding and parsing the data that comes at us each day. The revolution of the web gave rise to a new breed of creators — we all can be makers of content and stories and data — but the revolution isn’t complete, because the other side of the equation, how we are wired to make sense of and group and understand this exponential increase in information volume, how we can analyze the data more effectively, has largely been ignored. In some ways (shameless plug), the ideas we’re toying with at Imagist reflect my wrestling with this idea: that there’s more to information than the baubles of “what’s new” and the ADD tendency to reflexively consume bits of information that’s no better for our brains than junk food is for our waistlines. (via joshuanguyen) Amen. (via joshuanguyen)
Reading between the lines: Follwoing weeks of research, interviews and rewrites, here is my article about what is being done locally to teach media literacy skills. Do these responsibilities fall on parents? On teachers? On programs like Newspapers in Education? On students? From elementary school to higher education, media literacy remains a critical skill in a world inundated with information — and not all of it true. As one of my sources says, “We have to be people who are pursuing information, who know that truth is not known and that it’s not one single story, one single source.”
Photo by Max Cooper
Shameless self-promotion, minus the shame part.
Alexey Menschikov uses existing cracks on the ground to turn into branches where his street art characters can perch. Here is a nod to SpongeBob SquarePants.
We asked readers to share with us images of packed lunches made for school children across the UK to see their nutritional value.
To take part, simply take a picture of the packed lunch and upload it to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #UKpackedLunch – make sure your location data is turned on by switching on ‘add to your photo map’. Find out more here.
This gallery will be powered by n0tice.com - you can see all the submissions so far at ukpackedlunch.n0tice.com
"After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all."
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Gay Talese’s outline for “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” 1966, written on a shirt board.
If you haven’t read it, read it.
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