Big List of Links to Mid January

Some more wandering about in the dark, this time along the Quayside after a last look at Parrworld. May do some tips for this: it’s too, too easy though, so if you do want them, please ask…

Also dropped in for a look around Hirst’s Pharmacy. The most interesting thing about it is how liked it is by the curator there. (What’s the name for the room guardians at Baltic? They’re not curators, are they?) She talked most enthusiastically about the viewer’s reactions to the piece, how people talk to each other about the drugs they’ve taken, the illnesses they’ve conquered. The honey in bowls on stools in the room is apparently a comment on traditional medicines, but what comment we don’t know. She’s been doing that particular job for 3 weeks now, so it’s gladenning that she likes it. Also, it no longer smells of formaldehyde, thankfully.

Anyhow, here they are, my big list of links saved to delicio.us from end December to January 18th:

• KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White – About Charles Moore – “Charles Moore didn’t plan to photograph the civil rights movement. In September, 1958, he was a 27-year-old photographer for the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser. When an argument broke out between the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and two policemen, Moore was the only photographer on the scene. His striking pictures of Dr. King’s arrest were distributed nationwide by the Associated Press, and one was published in Life magazine. A new career had begun.”
• FM 100 Hue Test – Online colour challenge. Give it a try – excellent for showing your acuity with judging hue.
• Yvette Hawkins – Paper sculptor, blogger, based in Newcastle (I think). Lovely.
• e6 processing, C41, BLACK and WHITE Professional Film Processing by Digitalab – SPECIAL OFFER ON FILM PROCESSING at ONLY £2.99 per roll/sheet until March 31st, 2010
• Letters of Note: Your pal, John K. – How to answer your fanmail.
• Dennis Stock – RIP. Click through to see a slide show of his Magnum portfolio, inc THAT iconic photograph of James Dean.
• ECtHR judgment in Gillan and Quinton v. United Kingdom rules that UK stop and search powers are a violation of the right to privacy [S44 stop & searches] “..are not, therefore, “in accordance with the law” and it follows that there has been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention. In the Court’s view, the safeguards provided by domestic law have not been demonstrated to constitute a real curb on the wide powers afforded to the executive so as to offer the individual adequate protection against arbitrary interference”. There’ll be an appeal, and meantime, nothing changes.
• Harvey Benge: Paul Graham – Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult – “It’s so easy it’s ridiculous. It’s so easy that I can’t even begin – I just don’t know where to start. After all, it’s just looking at things. We all do that. It’s simply a way of recording what you see – point the camera at it, and press a button. How hard is that? And what’s more, in this digital age, its free – doesn’t even cost you the price of film. It’s so simple and basic, it’s ridiculous.”
• Stealing is easy: being original is hard – meish dot org: life, unfolding – Meg on finding one of her pictures has been lifted and re-presented by the thief as their own. Very common. Nice piece, thanks Meg.
• Durham Birding – Page 458 – BirdForum – Cold weather we’ve been ‘avin’ for this time of year?
• Its a bit choppy at Seaham 10/01/2010 – North East Sea Angling : NESA – Fishermen taking photographs.
• UV Light Box – Home made UV light box needed for making gum bichromates.
• Detainee 063 – This is the interrogation log of Mohammed al-Qahtani. It is being published in real time: each entry will appear exactly seven years after it was first recorded. The interrogation took place at Guantanamo Bay. All times are GMT-5.
• DMCA Lawyer Referral – Online Plagiarism Copyright Infringement – Copyscape – tool for checking where your content might be ending up
• The Through the Viewfinder photography of Pete Ashton – Pete Ashton’s £100 per year subscription club. Lovely idea. Hope it works.
• Manchester Photography.: Fair Cop? – “Now I like a bit of Banksy, as much as the next man but this sort of graffiti is no better than a dog pissing up a wall and I’m not sure we should worry if some photographer wants to risk ‘getting his collar felt’ just to snap his mates doing it……”
• Aric Mayer Studios: A Constellation of Thoughts – Blogging “is very much as if we are poking around in a massive unlit warehouse with a flashlight.”
• ASBO for photographer who snapped grafitti ‘art’ – News – getreading – Reading Post – Two year ABSO for photographing graffiti?
• Vlad goes flash « Vladography – Debra Broughton and her journey with her 503cw
• Riley and his story - Monica Haller: Onestar Press – Phone camera and p&s from inside Abu Ghraib
• Static Electrical Machines – Why don’t we use static electricity, is there a good reason?
• The 2009 Photoblog Awards – Best American Photoblog – Valerie Cochran on the list for her Your Waitress blog. Best of that bunch by far. Hooray.
• NUJ – National Union of Journalists – £5,000 in damages for 8 hour imprisonment for doing his job.
• of tomes and tombs: memory traces by cary markerink (part one) | Mrs. Deane – writings on a photobook.

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