But only if more people sign up! Seriously, we’re really keen to see as many people as possible come out for Le Fabuleux Chamantrois. More people means more awesome photos from the photo contest, more questions that you may not have thought of during the Q&A’s, more people to meet and share a drink with, more cameras to try out, more everything. Oh and tacos. Tell your friends, get yourself to Berlin, we’ll make it worth your while.
See the event here on Facebook
And go here to register.
The French are so much more sophisticated and well-mannered than the rest of the world, and not just because of their berets and baguettes and head-butts. Here’s a great example, when this double rainbow appeared over Amboise, in the Loire region of France, did the French lose it and make a video where they screamed “Oh mon Dieu! Qu’est-ce que c’est? C’est un arc-en-ciel double! C’est trop intense! Le chien sera démentiel dans la poêle!” No no, instead of making a garish video full of typical American excess, they simply photographed the double-rainbow, made a postcard and went back to shrugging and smoking Gauloises’ at the café.
C'est quoi ça? Un arc-en-ciel double? Ennuyeux. Oú sont mes cigarettes?
Related: Entertaining 404 page introduces me to Website I will never join
In keeping with our weekly air travel posts, here’s a great blog entry in the New York Times by Christoph Niemann where he illustrates high and low points from his plane ride from New York to Berlin (via Heathrow).
© Christoph Niemann
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A fella named Michael Shaugnessy scanned a whole bunch of awesome vintage colour photos of Europe (marked as being from the Institute for Color Photography, Carl Weller, Berlin/Verlagsanstalt für Farbenfotographie, 1906) and put them in this snazzy little gallery on boingboing. I was trying to pick a fave, but it turns out I’m quite fond of all of them because the photos have this look and feel that is just like how I imagine or remember these places to be in my head. Except for Pisa, because I went there at night. A great touch is the “geo-coded” gallery where you can browse the photos by using a map. Oh, and the photos are believed to be public domain.
You can tell this photo is old because the Charles Bridge is entirely devoid of grumpy Czechs trying to sell crappy paintings to drunken Englishmen.
I also really like these “then and now” comparison galleries… but unfortunately most of the “then” galleries are related to war or oppression, like this Berlin Wall one, or this gallery of World War 2 wreckage. I’d like to see some then and now photos of places in Europe that don’t involve artillery or soldiers.
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Ok, via the Bundle Hunt promotion, but we get semi-top billing in the article because our photo collections are the most expensive (and therefore the best). But we’re there all the same. How exciting!
Click here to read the article.
Since our last shop update, buyers can now purchase single photos without credits, without registration, and we like to say “without hassle.” In the interest of making sure no one overlooks or forgets that we have this option, we’ve put a little floating note on the photo detail pages. Click the little x in the corner and you’ll never see it again. We’re going to watch the Instant Buy closely over the next little while, and if you have any questions or comments about it, please let us know.
Check it out. Photos are now available for Instant Buy. Close the note once and you'll never see it again.
All photographers will notice a new check box on their Preferences page. As per Paragraph 4.4. in the new Photographer License Agreement checking this box allows us to use your photos for promotional purposes. This helps us to promote Photocase, and makes it easier for us to create advertisements for your photos. If you don’t want us to use your photos, just uncheck the box.
The check box is pre-checked, if you don't want to take part, simply uncheck the box.
If we do use any of your photos in the future, we’ll always let you know when, where and how it’s being used.
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La Chamantrois 2010
So, here’s how it looks. On September 4th, we’re inviting everyone to Berlin for some talking, some laughing and some relaxing. Food and drinks will also be involved. Here’s a few photos from last year.
Here’re some of the details:
Where Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin
When 4th of September 2010
Mucho Importanto Registration closes August 27th 2010
From 13:00 – 22:00, or 1pm to 10pm
To sign-up and learn other important details, click here
We also made a Facebook event page, which you can marvel at during your spare time.
We’re looking forward to it!
This 404 page for blippy.com was highly entertaining, so much so that I went to their homepage because I was all “what does it mean?” and holy crap they want me to give them my credit card number so they can track all my credit card purchases and share them with other people? That’s too intense.
Alternate title: It’s so nice out, why am I inside.
The iPhone Photo Blog has an amazing article about the longest exposure photos ever made. And we’re not talking piddly little hour long star photos, nor are we talking about days here, but years.
The article starts off with a 6 month colour exposure of a bridge by a photographer named Justin Quennel, a pinhole photographer who clearly spends all his time taking photos because his website is, how do I put this nicely… not good. In any case, the photo is quite something when you think about the fact that the shutter was open for 6 months. But prepare to have your socks blown off, because Michael Wesely, a Münchner who now lives in Berlin took a series of photographs that had exposure times of over a year… I linked his website, but you can skip the visit because it’s the first photographer website I’ve ever seen without photos. I guess there’s a trend here.
Leipziger Platz, Berlin © Michael Wesely
You can see a book review of Wesely’s book, Open Shutter, here, or buy it here.
The NY Times has a great feature in their Magazine section called Contraband.
These images are from a set of 1,075 photographs — shot over five days last year for the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband’’ — of items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport. The miscellany of prohibited objects — from the everyday to the illegal to the just plain odd — attests to a growing worldwide traffic in counterfeit goods and natural exotica and offers a snapshot of the United States as seen through its illicit material needs and desires.
I couldn’t decide which photo to use as example, (deer penis? bottle of meat? Cow hoof bottle? Lard? there are so many!) but I decided to go with “plastic pitcher of salami.”
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