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Justin Bieber Inspired Game App Takes Stab at Aggressive Paparazzi

2012-02-08T07:52:00.000-05:00

RC3, Inc. today is pleased to announce the release of Joustin' Beaver 1.0, their new mobile gaming title for iOS and Android devices. Joustin' Beaver allows Justin Bieber fans to help their favorite pop star poke fun at the overbearing and aggressive paparazzi by defeating "Phot-hogs" and picking up "Otter-graph seekers". The single-player arcade-style adventure game is an homage to teen

LiLo being sued by paparazzi photographer

2012-01-11T09:39:00.000-05:00

Lindsay Lohan is in yet another legal tangle as a paparazzo has filed a lawsuit against her alleging he was run over by her car in January 2010. This latest incident comes close on the heels of the lien filed by the IRS, which means they could go after her property if she fails pay her tax dues. According to Tmz.com, a legal claim has been filed against Lohan by photographer Grigor Balyan

James Hetfield lashes out at paparazzi

2011-12-29T00:12:00.000-05:00

Metallica front man James Hetfield hit out at members of the paparazzi in Uruguay over Christmas, allegedly hurling stones at the snappers after they failed to leave his vacationing family alone. The rocker was taking a break with his wife, Francesca, and their kids in the Punta Del Este region of the country when he reportedly lost his temper with local photographers tailing him as he took a

CameraTrace Emails You If Your Stolen Camera is Detected On The Internet

2011-12-28T14:29:00.000-05:00

Looking for a lost camera on the web by searching for its serial number in uploaded photos is nothing new (see Stolen Camera Finder), but GadgetTrak’s new CameraTrace service takes it one step further. For a fee of $10 per camera, the service will actively monitor the Internet for your camera’s serial number. If it ever pops up in a photo uploaded to popular photo sharing services, you’ll get

Where Have All the Photojournalists Gone?

2011-12-23T21:09:00.000-05:00

In the middle of last month, Jack Womack, CNN's senior vice president of domestic news operations, sent around a memo to staffers. It was not the kind of memo people like to get right before the holidays. "We... spent a great deal of time analyzing how we utilize and deploy photojournalists across all of our locations in the U.S.," wrote Womack. "We looked at production demands, down time, and

E.L. Woody: King of the paparazzi

2011-12-15T13:38:00.000-05:00

Graying and grizzled, E.L. Woody still had the legs to stake out Arnold Schwarzenegger during the ex-governor's recent love child scandal. But all's not well in the 31-year reign of the self-described "King of the Paparazzi." Loathed by some A-list artists and loved by audiences for his revelations about celebrities, Woody, 65, has long been one of Hollywood's most controversial players in

Judge: Blogger Is Not a Journalist

2011-12-09T09:04:00.000-05:00

Woman ordered to pay $2.5M for online defamation In what could end up being very bad news for outspoken bloggers across America, a federal judge has decided that a blogger was not acting as a journalist when she accused an Oregon lawyer of acting unethically and illegally as a trustee in a bankruptcy hearing. The judge denied Crystal Cox's request for legal protections customarily offered to

Katy Perry Photos at Center of $3 Million Paparazzi Showdown

2011-12-06T21:53:00.000-05:00

Celebrity photography agency Mavrix has gone after yet another company in its tenth copyright infringement lawsuit in the past two years. Katy Perry is at the center of $3 million legal showdown between celebrity photo agency Mavrix and CraveOnline Media, a company it accuses of pilfering copyrighted images of the singer and profiting off of them on its websites. It is the tenth such

Paparazzi reluctant to have the media focus turned on them

2011-11-25T22:46:00.000-05:00

One of the UK's biggest paparazzi agencies has itself become the target of a media frenzy after a week in which a succession of witnesses at the Leveson Inquiry turned the spotlight on to those behind the camera. Big Pictures, notorious for its employees' dogged pursuit of celebrities, was in a state of lockdown yesterday after being named this week in celebrities' complaints to the inquiry

Kevin and Jennifer Mazur Injured in Car Crash That Kills Woman

2011-11-18T16:20:00.000-05:00

A Lindenhurst couple sustained injuries after a car driven by a Selden woman hit the couple's SUV early Friday morning at Montauk Highway and Great Neck Road in Copiague, police said. Suffolk County Police said Kevin Mazur, 50, of Lindenhurst, was driving his 2007 Cadillac Escalade eastbound on Montauk Highway just east of Great Neck Road at 2:40 a.m. when he was struck by a 2007 Chevrolet

Demi Moore allegedly attacks photographer

2011-11-01T08:16:00.000-04:00

Demi Moore wouldn’t let a little thing like the break down of her marriage get in the way of having a good time this Halloween. According to US Weekly, the 48-year-old mother of three was in a "festive mood" at actor Mike Meldman's Halloween bash in Beverly Hills on Friday, partying with the likes of Cameron Diaz, Eli Roth and Todd Phillips. "She was having fun, [and] she drank," a source

Canon U.S.A. Introduces The New Canon EOS-1D X Digital SLR Camera

2011-10-18T15:47:00.003-04:00

Canon has announced a new DSLR today combining the 1D and 1Ds line of DSLRs into a single camera: the EOS-1D X. This beastly DSLR is an 18-megapixel jack of all trades. It’s full frame, but still shoots 14fps using 61 autofocus points and a 252-zone metering system. ISO can be boosted up to a whopping 204,000. There’s a large 3.2-inch LCD screen on the back, and a futuristic optical

The Self Esteem Act: Parents Pushing to Pass Anti-Photoshop Laws in the US

2011-10-17T22:17:00.000-04:00

A Lancome advertisement featuring Julia Roberts caused a stir back in July after it was banned by the UK for being too “Photoshopped”. Now a couple in the US are trying to bring stricter regulation to the United States. Seth and Eva Matlins, founders of Off Our Chests, have started the Self Esteem Act: We’re asking for support to pass federal legislation requiring advertising and editorial

Goksin Sipahioglu, founder of Sipa photo agency, dies

2011-10-05T10:59:00.000-04:00

Goksin Sipahioglu, photojournalist and founder of the renowned Paris-based photo agency Sipa, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the company he helped create and led for three decades announced. Born on December 28, 1926 in the Turkish city of Izmir, Sipahioglu launched Sipa Press in 1973 with his US journalist wife Phyllis Springer and the agency went on to represent some of the world's best

Johnny Depp Compares Photographing by Paparazzi to Rape in Vanity Fair

2011-10-05T09:33:00.000-04:00

Depp's comments got the attention of RAINN.... Johnny Depp graces the cover of the next issue of Vanity Fair, in which he gives an in-depth interview about being a big star. He discussed the paparazzi and the fact that he feels violated when being photographed. He likened the experience to rape: "You just feel like you're being raped somehow. Raped… it feels like kind of weird .. just weird,

Paparazzi a necessary ‘evil’ or just plain wrong?

2011-09-26T09:35:00.000-04:00

The debate over whether the tactics used by paparazzi is ethical rages on, and in the film industry, the lucrative practice has gone overboard on many occasions. What the paparazzi do achieve in wondrous ways is to get controversy on camera, but most often at the expense of their subject, and their safety. The flip-side to that coin is that celebrities should expect it because they are in the

Long Beach Police Department’s hunt for photos with “no apparent esthetic value”

2011-08-23T14:54:00.000-04:00

The Long Beach Police Department’s hunt for photos with “no apparent esthetic value” quickly became national news last week. Here’s a news segment in which Alyona Minkovski of RT speaks out against the erosion of photographers’ rights in the United States: I understand that the Department of Homeland Security has a job to do, but we can’t just automatically assume that any photographer out

Anne Hathaway's Paparazzi Rap On 'Conan'

2011-08-17T10:29:00.000-04:00

Appearing on "Conan" Tuesday night, Hathaway went hardcore and busted out a rap verse -- "In the style of Lil Wayne" -- that slammed on the paparazzi that have been chasing her down for years. Though it sounds unlikely that the normally sweet-as-sugar actress could ever get intense like that, just listening is believing.

2011-08-16T15:28:00.000-04:00

John Cleese Plays Detective To Get Persistent Paparazzo's Name

2011-08-09T20:35:00.000-04:00

John Cleese has asked for the help of his Twitter.com followers as he attempts to identify a photographer who followed him home on Tuesday (09Aug11). The funnyman was ticked off when the paparazzi caught him shopping and decided to stay on his trail - and so he snapped the guy, posted the picture online and asked fans to help him get the guy's name. In a series of tweets, the Monty Python star

Artificial photos: A protection algorithm

2011-07-31T00:15:00.000-04:00

Undercover reporting in hostile environments and totalitarian regimes comes with a number of problems – the biggest of them all? Remaining anonymous. The ability to discover who took a published photo, just by looking at it, has put photographers at risk. But now they have a defence mechanism. A trio of computer scientists have conjured up a photography breakthrough. It involves a new piece of

Microsoft Finally Adds RAW Support to Windows Explorer

2011-07-26T20:18:00.000-04:00

Great news for PC users: Microsoft has finally released a free codec pack for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that allows you to view and work with the RAW files of more than 120 different cameras directly in Windows Explorer. Simply download and install the codec pack to get started.

Getty Images could sell celebrity photo division WireImage to Reuters for more than $300M

2011-07-26T19:44:00.000-04:00

Word of a major business deal in the photojournalism world has celebrity lensmen's tongues flapping faster than their shutters. A source tells us the stock photo agency Getty Images is in discussions to sell its celebrity and entertainment photography division, WireImage, to Reuters if the price is right. Photographers for the two companies and some of the social subjects they often

Why Citizens Must Fight For Their Right to Point Cameras at Police

2011-07-22T14:45:00.000-04:00

Here’s a short clip from the talk show Stossel where American libertarian journalist Radley Balko talks about how cameras — especially mobile phone ones — are a powerful weapon against tyranny, and why laws should protect our rights to use them

2D Photography Rube Goldberg

2011-07-19T09:42:00.000-04:00