The Future (?) of Journalism in the Age of Youtube
The amateur IS the journalist and the amateur is everywhere. All the time.
January 15th, 2009, a plane crash lands in the Hudson River. Less than ten minutes after the crash, a man named Janis Krums snaps a photo of the downed plane and uploads the photo to Twitpic. As the ferry boat heads to the crash site to pick up survivors, Krum’s photo becomes the defining photo of this event, running on the front page of newspapers around the world.
Two Excellent iPhone Apps for Photographers: CameraBag & Pano
I don’t openly shill for any kind of product. Never have, never will.
On the other hand I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t share two iPhone camera apps that dramatically improve your iPhone photo quality, (especially when you want to upload photos directly to a blog or Flickr account.)
iPhone + Cycorder= future of journalism?
Over the last few days I have come to re-affirm a deeply held belief: The end of the newspaper era is the beginning of decentralized news reporting, where ‘timeliness over quality’ is the rule of the day. I have always believed in the Media Singularity which is the ultimate outcome of increasingly cheaper technology combined [...]
Taking better portraits: Sonia. Capitol Hill, Seattle WA
A few days ago, I met up with a girl I photographed during the first annual all-girl alley cat race. At 3pm, Sonia walked down the stairs behind me and we met again. I recognized her instantly as the girl I nicknamed ‘Duran Duran’ at the race. She was dressed in a vintage prom dress [...]