Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington on Vimeo.
I didn’t know Tim Hetherington well, but over the years I’ve spoken to him enough times that the news yesterday of his death threw me. I’ve rarely met a clearer, fiercer, more honest intellect, dedicated to understanding some of the most difficult aspects of the human condition through direct experience without looking away from the ambiguities.
He was also one of the nicest guys it’s been my privilege to meet and I know what a huge empty space his death has left for our shared friends in the Panos and foto8 family. I can’t imagine what that gap feels like for his immediate family but I’m so sorry for them, and for the family of Chris Hondros who was killed with him. My thoughts are with the other photographers who were injured alongside them and the people of Misrata who continue to be injured alongside them.
The video above was made by Tim recently as a reflection on his 10 years of covering conflict around the world and the nature of passing through those worlds and the ones most of us are used to. A deeply personal document, it seems the most fitting, and most troubling, way to come to terms with what is undoubtedly a huge loss.
]]>Made In Queens is a short film by Nicolas Randall and Joe Stevens documenting the BMX-mounted soundsystems built by a group of teenagers in Queens, New York. It was selected for the 2008 Edinburgh film festival.
The film’s promo really seems to fit the subject, with screenings and partnerships with magazines and club nights as a way of touring it.
Not to mention, great photos of bikes loaded up with massive speaker boxes!
Via Adventure Kid
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]]>A collection of portraits by photographer Dave Mead from Austin, Texas of the 2009 World Beard and Mustache Championship in Anchorage, Alaska.
]]>I love this series of train images by Branislav Kropilak. Take the time to browse through the other series on his site.
]]>Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation for The Curve in the Barbican is just beautiful.
A flock of zebra finches cohabit with hooked up electric guitars and other instruments, nesting in and around the gear.
As they do so, they are continually creating sound.
Birds seem to get loops pretty instinctively!
]]>In response to the phenomenon of knowingness that was the Keep Calm and Carry On posters, Matt Jones designed an alternative that wouldn’t take things sitting down.
]]>Rich’s installation uses found materials to evoke the estate’s history of ‘marches, protests and vandalism’. Satellite dishes as police shields is inspired thinking!
Tickets are sold out for the event, but a limited number are on sale on the day (6th March).
Check out Rich’s work at Counterwork and the Market Estate Project here.
]]>Foto8’s Leo Hsu has posted a writeup of commercial photographer Jonathon Worth’s experiment with the business model of Creative Commons licencing.
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