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Photo: Wiz Khalifa

2011-11-30T12:07:00.000-05:00

“I just wanna ride in my ride with my top down, And smoke weed with my niggas”

Equipment: Lytro Camera

2011-11-21T10:00:00.000-05:00

The mythical Lytro ($400-$500) camera has officially been unveiled boasting the groundbreaking camera tech that has grabbed everyone's attention for the past few months. If you're not familiar with Lytro, the camera essentially takes the perfect picture. And because the camera captures all the light and field data there aren no blurred images and you have complete control of the photo with the ability to focus anywhere in the image after you've taken the picture. The camera comes in three sizes: 8, 16, and 32GBs, and features a f/2 8x zoom lens and a 1.46'' touchscreen display. Link

Equipment: LomoKino Super 35

2011-11-18T10:00:00.000-05:00

While the industry is still trying to figure out the digital future of film and television, Lomography takes it back to the analog days with the launch of the LomoKino ($80), an analog movie camera that shoots 144 frames on a single roll of 35mm film. Lomography is also releasing the LomoKinoScope where you can load and view your films. Link

Photographer: Giles Duley "Becoming the Story"

2011-11-15T11:10:00.001-05:00

GILES DULEY
The British photographer speaks to about his new exhibition and life since becoming a triple amputee after his accident in Afghanistan earlier this year.

During the 90s, Giles Duley was a fashion and music photographer taking pictures regularly for Vogue, GQ and Esquire. For the past decade however he’s been travelling to places like the Ukraine, South Sudan and Angola working on self-funded projects concerning real humanitarian issues.

In February this year however, Duley was blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan and was left a triple amputee, losing both of his legs and his left arm. Undergoing a traumatic recovery where it was unclear whether he'd survive after contracting a lung infection too, he is now adjusting both physically and emotionally to his new life. Duley is not a victim though, and while he doesn’t consider himself brave, it’s clear that he won’t be defined by his injuries.

Duley demonstrates an unwillingness to give up on what he believes people need to see and intends to finish what he started. After only 9 months of rehabilitation Duley is preparing to go back to Afghanistan and continue working on his project photographing injured civilians. Opening this week though is his exhibition at the KK Outlet Gallery, called 'Becoming The Story', it's his first step in disclosing his time there as well as showcasing other examples of his powerful and emotive work.

Please click here to read the full article: Giles Duley

Dazed & Confused November Issue: Photography Special

2011-11-15T11:04:00.001-05:00

PHOTO SPECIAL

A unique, visually led 20th anniversary issue concentrating on documentary and reportage photography, with exclusive images from Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Rankin & Damien Hirst and Ryan McGinley

A special issue concentrating on documentary and reportage photography, and going behind the camera with the photographers who shoot for the magazine. Includes exclusive images from contributors such as Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Rankin & Damien Hirst, Ryan McGinley, Will McBride, Manuela Pavesi and many more. We also ask Danny Fields, the man at the heart of the Lower East Side scene of the late 70s, to open his private photo stash; Hackney-based photographer Stephen Gill talks about his audio portraits; while Chantal Regnault remembers covering New York's voguing and drag ball scene of the 80s.

Exhibit: Hedi Slimane's California Song x MOCA

2011-11-15T10:58:00.001-05:00

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, opens a new exhibition this Saturday (12th Nov), presenting the work of Hedi Slimane, titled ‘California Song’. The show centres around the photographer’s ‘California period’, a time in which he extended his explorations of urban youth culture and artistic communities through installations of photographic essays, exhibitions and publications. In recent years Slimane has built up a global reputation first appearing on our radar as designer for Dior Homme. Since then he’s documented emerging musicians and artists, brought out publications about British punk-rock and even become synonymous with the term ‘online photo diary’ by establishing and popularising the technique with his own diary created in 2006.

Equipment: Red Scarlet-X

2011-11-15T10:00:00.000-05:00

If you're planning to put a camera on your wishlist this season, your choices just might have become a bit harder. Panasonic just announced the GX1 ($700-$950) and many are calling it the sequel to the highly acclaimed GF1. The Micro Four Thirds camera features a 16 megapixel sensor, high speed AF, a touchscreen with touch to focus, and ISO sensitivity up to 12,800. Link

Film: EAMES - The Architect and the Painter

2011-11-14T13:22:00.001-05:00

"The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life - from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age - has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work."

Watch in HD at Apple.com

Equipment: POLAROID Z340

2011-11-14T13:04:00.001-05:00

Looks like Polaroid still believes in instant film after all. The company is introducing the Z340, a new camera ($300) that is everything you loved about the Polaroids of yesteryear with modern digital camera technology thrown in the mix. The camera uses 3x4 Zink inkless film that prints in full color under a minute and a 14 megapixel sensor impresses just as a much with its digital camera capability. Link

Source: Acquire

Equipment: Panasonic Lumix GX1

2011-11-11T10:00:00.000-05:00

Equipment: Canon 1DX

2011-11-05T13:31:00.000-04:00

Canon is unveiling its latest flagship, the full-frame, fire breathing, 18 megapixel 1D X. The 1D X ($6,800 body only) boasts three DIGIC processors, 61-point AF, ISO sensitivity up to 204,800, 12 fps shooting (14 fps in JPEG mode), 1080p 24/25/30p video, and compatibility with their Wi-Fi enabled wireless file transmitter accessory. Link

Photo: Terry Richardson x Tyler the CREATOR

2011-11-04T13:02:00.000-04:00

RESPECT ....

2011-11-02T12:58:00.000-04:00

Photo: Janet Jackson

2011-10-15T19:42:00.000-04:00

Photo: Jill Freedman "Street Cops 1978 - 1981"

2011-10-14T02:31:00.000-04:00

Higher Pictures opens the season with Street Cops, 1978 - 1981, an exhibition of vintage photographs by Jill Freedman.

Street Cops captures a wild period in New York City history where junkies, drunks, prostitutes and lunatics openly walked the streets. This remarkable body of work is the result of Freedman on foot patrol and riding in the police cruisers of the Ninth and Midtown South Precincts, which included Alphabet City and the raunchy blocks around Times Square. Street Cops shows an intelligent empathy towards the police and their attitudes of like-mindedness.

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Photo: Bruce Davisdon "Subway"

2011-10-14T02:18:00.000-04:00

Bruce Davidson: Subway
Exhibition

Opening reception:
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, October 4, 2011–Saturday, October 29, 2011

In 1986, Aperture first published Bruce Davidson's Subway—a ground-breaking series that has garnered critical acclaim both as a document of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City as well as for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. In Davidson's own words, "the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks, and closed off from each other."

Accompanying the third edition of this classic of photographic literature, Aperture Gallery presents the iconic color images that move the viewer through a landscape at times menacing, at other times lyrical, soulful, and satiric. The images include the full panoply of New Yorkers—from weary straphangers and languorous ladies in summer dresses to stalking predators and the homeless.

Bruce Davidson (born in Oak Park, Illinois, 1933) is considered one of America's most influential documentary photographers. He began taking photographs when he was ten, and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Yale University School of Design. In 1958 he became a member of Magnum Photos, and in 1962, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the civil rights movement.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Exhibit: Pieter Hugo "Permanent Error"

2011-10-14T02:11:00.001-04:00

Pieter Hugo’s new series, Permanent Error, depicts Agbogbloshie, a massive dump site for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital city, and the locals who burn down the components to extract bits of copper, brass, aluminum and zinc for resale. Tons of outdated and broken computers, computer games, mobile phones and other e-waste are shipped to the area as “donations” from the West, under the guise of providing technology to developing countries. Rather than helping to bridge the digital divide, the equipment is transformed into noxious trash threatening the health of the area’s inhabitants and contaminating the water and soil.

Info: www.yossimilogallery.com

Hours:Tuesday–Saturday 10 am–6 pm

Gallery Location:525 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
P: 212-414-0370

MUSIC: CMJ 2011 Music x Parties Line Up

2011-10-12T14:11:00.000-04:00

Over five nonstop days and nights, the world’s most important platform for the discovery of new music, CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival, invades New York City with over 1,300 artist performances and dozens of cutting-edge films.

CMJ fills more than 80 of the city’s greatest venues, nightclubs and theaters with over 120,000 fans, music industry professionals, college radio tastemakers, bloggers, press, filmmakers and musicians.

Attendees have access to over 70 panels, seminars, Q&As, nighttime parties, meet and greets, mixers, film premieres, special events and exclusive areas like the Exhibitors’ Loft and Artist Lounge.

CMJ 2011 will once again be headquartered at New York University’s Greenwich Village campus, just steps away from dozens of downtown Manhattan venues.

Festival Info:http://www.cmj.com/

NOTE: To RSVP to any of the listings below please click th elink and you will be direted to: http://www.myfreeconcert.com/blog/cmj-2011-unofficial-event-listing-and-schedule

Pre-CMJ Parties
CMJ doesn't officially start until the 18th, but there are some huge pre-parties starting on the 13th.

Saturday, October 15
Midtown Manhattan
Little Dragon (DJ set) w/ Free Magic and Faso (FREE w/ RSVP, hour open bar)
Lower East Side
Publicist, Shams, Jonas Reinhardt (DJ set) (FREE)
Williamsburg
Fred Falke, Anorak, JDH and Dave P (FREE w/ RSVP)
Brooklyn (non- Williamsburg)
The Creators Project 2011 New York (FREE w/ RSVP)
Queens
Real Estate (FREE)

Sunday, October 16

Brooklyn
The Creators Project 2011 New York (FREE w/ RSVP)

Monday, October 17

Nightime:
Midtown Manhattan
Chiddy Bang, Walk the Moon, Boy & Bear, The Young Evils, and more (FREE w/ RSVP)
Lower East Side / SoHo
Around the Campfire with Storychord (FREE)
Alamo Racetrack (FREE)
Williamsburg
The Babies, White Fence (FREE)

CMJ Parties

Post-CMJ Parties

More TBA as listings come in.

Sunday, October 23

Daytime:
Lower East Side
The Young Things, Apollo Run, The Shake, and more (FREE)
Queens
Idiot Glee, Nicole Schneit (Air Waves) (FREE)
Nightime:
Williamsburg
Yvette, Baby Lips, V Ultra Lounge, ATM (Ted Mcgrath of Antimagic) (FREE)

Info: CMJ Music x Parties List

Architecture: Open House New York OHNY

2011-10-12T13:09:00.000-04:00

9th Annual openhousenewyork^® Weekend October 15 & 16, 2011

WELCOME

To celebrate the city’s architecture and design, the 9th Annual openhousenewyork Weekend will once again unlock the city, allowing New Yorkers and tourists alike free access hundreds of sites talks, tours, performances and family activities in neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. From private residences and historic landmarks, to rooftop farms and sustainable skyscrapers, OHNY gives you rare access into the extraordinary architecture that defines New York City, while introducing you to the people who make the city a vibrant and sustainable place to live, work, and play.

Mission & History

Mission
openhousenewyork® (OHNY) promotes a greater appreciation of the city’s built environment; broadens public awareness by exposing diverse audiences to distinctive examples of architecture, engineering and design; educates and inspires discussion of issues of excellence in design, planning and preservation; and showcases outstanding new work as well as structures of historic merit.
History
Inspired by his volunteer experiences with Open House London, Scott Lauer founded openhousenewyork in 2001. The organization began as a small grassroots non-profit dedicated to educating the public about New York City’s architecture and design. It is now known locally, nationally and internationally for its free Annual OHNY Weekend—an unparalleled citywide cultural event in October that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places, many not usually open to the public, in neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs—and its ability to open doors, providing unique opportunities to learn about, explore and experience NYC’s built environment.
The Annual OHNY Weekend was launched in 2003 as part of New York City's first Architecture Week which was co-founded by OHNY. With the help of 300 volunteers, the first Annual OHNY Weekend included 84 sites throughout New York City’s five boroughs, and was attended by 45,000 visitors. Since the inaugural year, the event has grown exponentially, increasing its outreach and audience participation; the number of sites, talks and tours; and developing additional thematic and interpretive programming such as sustainablenewyork which focuses on green sustainable building and active design, promoting physical activity and health through design.
Building on the enormous critical and popular success of the Weekend, OHNY added podcasts, in-school workshops and year-round programs in 2006, launched its first OHNY Weekend Family Festival in 2008 and later formed openhouseamerica™, a national initiative to dedicated to inspiring, engaging and educating the public about architecture, design and cultural heritage.
OHNY is a member of the Open House Worldwide, a global network of Open House events. The 12 official members include Open House London, openhousenewyork®, Open House Dublin, Open House Tel Aviv, Open House Jerusalem , Open House Melbourne, Open House Galway, Open House Barcelona, Open House Slovenia, Open House Chicago, Open House Rome, and Open House Helsinki.

Other related Open House events and cities include:
Denver, Colorado, Doors Open Denver
Lowell, Massachusetts, Doors Open Lowell
Niagara, Ontario/USA, Doors Open Niagara
Ontario, Canada, Doors Open Ontario
Scotland, Doors Open Days
Swansea, Wales, Swansea Open House
Toronto, Canada, Doors Open Toronto
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Doors Open Milwaukee
United Kingdom & Ireland, European Heritage Days

Link:OHNY weekend

Books: Banksy - Myths & Legends

2011-10-12T12:57:00.001-04:00

Compiled by Mark Leverton, Banksy - Myths & Legends shares all stories (great and small) related to Bristol's most thrilling art export. Some are cheeky. Others brazen. A few may be a load of bollocks. However, one thing is for sure, all the stories are totally larger-than-life.

Music: Slick Rick Red Bull Music Academy

2011-10-11T13:15:00.001-04:00

Photo By: D-Nice Photography

Musice: Mobb Deep x Black Cocaine

2011-10-11T13:11:00.004-04:00

Photo: Lupe Fiasco

2011-10-11T13:07:00.002-04:00

Source: John Ricard

Photo: Method Man

2011-10-11T13:04:00.002-04:00

Exhibit: Dzine "The Beautiful Struggle" x Gestalten Space x Berlin

2011-10-10T12:52:00.000-04:00

Chicago-based Dzine, born Carlos Rolon, brings his ghetto baroque art to Berlin for a solo showing at Gestalten Space. The Beautiful Struggle finds at center a work inspired by the artist's residency in Curacao. "Voodoo" is a mixed-media work incorporating the Szwaybar bike. A staple of the region's youth, these bikes are heavily decorated symbols of style and individualism. Complementary photographic works document the power of the bike and the showmanship associated with customization.

The Beautiful Struggle is on view through October 16, 2011.
Gestalten Space, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophienstraße 21, 10178 Berlin.