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Minimal Photography is Catching On
Yesterday, I visited my friend Patrick Rhone [http://www.patrickrhone.net/] and we discussed all kinds of geeky issues over lunch, including photography. After lunch, he published a few [http://minimalmac.com/post/7367856172/all-of-the-above-shots-were-taken-with-an-iphone] great [http://minimalmac.com/post/7356155840/what-we-believe-in-yes-ive-posted-this] posts [http://minimalmac.com/post/7354145084/not-what-we-believe-in-yes-its-real] to
VHE Updates
I’ve started a twitter feed for my first book, The Van Halen Encyclopedia, currently being revised for its third edition. Follow @vhencyclopedia [http://twitter.com/#!/vhencyclopedia] for updates, insider info and news on future versions of the book.
Hypocrisy
Merlin Mann [http://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/81389251425615872]: > Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you’re not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project. This is why I call most things I do around here experiments. I write heated posts on a topic,
New Book: Microstock: From Passion to Paycheck
Professional stock photographer Nicole S. Young has just released one of the more honest assessments of modern stock photography with her ebook, Microstock: From Passion to Paycheck [http://craftandvision.com/books/microstock/]. The 38-page microbook reads like more realistic version of the countless get-rich-quick photo blogs out there. The truth
Maryland Transit Administration Warned: Let Photographers Shoot
The Baltimore Sun reports [http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/commuting/bs-md-mta-aclu-20110531,0,3380358.story] : > “Photography is expressive activity that is protected by the First Amendment,” said ACLU staff attorney David Rocah. “If you are legally present, you have a right to take photographs.” Score one for the good guys,
The War on Photography
Reason Magazine reminds us that photography is not crime, but is often treated as a crime: Lesser photographers rely on freedom of speech and the people who put their lives and livelihoods at risk to make our hobby/profession possible.
Losing a Muse
My most famous critic, Scott Bourne, who poo-poo’d the idea of this site when I first Twittered about it, has now made a complete transformation [http://photofocus.com/2011/05/10/photographers-please-stop-making-excuses-part-ii/] : > When I posted a photo I made with a Verizon iPhone 4, I did so with
My First Web Book
The logical progression of writing on a niche topic these days seems to be: create a blog, establish a following and, if the stars align, write a book. In the spirit of contrarianism and experimentation, I did the opposite with my 1998 book The Van Halen Encylopedia. The idea was