Bryan Formhals
I’m the founder of LPV Magazine and the Social Media Manager at
B&H Photo. My interest in photography and digital media has taken me
from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to New York, introducing me to some of the most
creative and intelligent people around.
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- A writer that uses photographs, or a photographer that writes. Or doesn't it matter?
- Media geeks should read RT @niemanlab: Josh Marshall on why TPM is no longer just a website http://t.co/xFeFK2Hw
- me too ladies, me too. http://t.co/1cC1D68Q
- Any night you can connect with the blues or jazz or rock n' roll or Bon Jovi is a good night.
- @alexjdsmith that stinks man. at least you're back home. rest up, get well.
- Having a Red Stripe and writing the intro for @lpvmagazine Issue #4
- @d_abbe i saw his recent show in Chelsea. Interesting stuff.
- "Klout Is Evil, But It Can Be Saved" via @newyorker http://t.co/pqnzLttm
- @EmilyShornick have you tried Viddy? The instagram for video supposedly...
- yikes, had a bit too much fun at @photobram's birthday last night. I guess tomorrow is the day for productivity.
- SoHo is some sort of satire I don't understand.
- McGinley's Grids is a bit better. @ Team Gallery Inc http://t.co/TVXgErke
- McGinley's weird Animals show. Not really working for me. (@ Team Gallery w/ 2 others) http://t.co/l6ztVcDe
- Ending my Chelsea run with Avedon. (@ Gagosian Gallery 21) http://t.co/6zZ824nJ
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1.) Why Your JPEGs Aren’t Making You A Millionaire by Brad Troemel
Interesting piece from Brad, in which he offers his thoughts on why internet artists don’t - and won’t - make money from their work.“Internet artists, for all of their digital-native wisdom, should know better than to think .JPEGs are a viable commodity when they’ve seen multi-billion dollar industries like music, film, and newspapers run around like baffled idiots for the past decade trying to figure out why they can’t sell MP3s, MOVs, and PDFs like they used to in traditional media.”
2.) “C.R.E.A.M.” at Art Micro-Patronage, Now In Excessive Detail! by Will Brand
On a related note, be sure to go back and read Will’s thoughtful review of curator Lindsay Howard’s online group exhibition “C.R.E.A.M.”, written a couple of weeks back for Art Fag City.Found Photos in Detroit
When Italian photographers Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese set foot in Detroit, they had planned to document the fast disappearance of the city’s structure. The tragic tales of modern day decadence and ruin were very much on their minds. But Detroit, in a last gesture of pride decided to reveal itself on its own terms. What they found, streets filled with thousands of polaroids, letters, prints of photographic evidence, police documents, mugshots and family albums, are all on view in their fantastic new book Found Photos in Detroit.
The book is limited to 1000 copies, and can be ordered here. You can also see more images from the project, which was featured in this week’s Newsweek International edition, on our website.
CLICK HERE TO SEE MOREThis is breathtaking. We love this new Newsweek Tumblr. The design is amazing. Amazing enough to bookmark now.
A selection of photos from “Occupied Spaces,” Ben Roberts’s book of photos from inside Occupy Wall Street camps. Click here for the full slideshow.
- How Yahoo killed Flickr
From Mat Honan at Gizmodo, an account of how Yahoo bought Flickr and then frittered away all its potential.
Because Flickr wasn’t as profitable as some of the other bigger properties, like Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Sports, it wasn’t given the resources that were dedicated to other products. That meant it had to spend its resources on integration, rather than innovation. Which made it harder to attract new users, which meant it couldn’t make as much money, which meant (full circle) it didn’t get more resources. And so it goes.
As a result of being resource-starved, Flickr quit planting the anchors it needed to climb ever higher. It missed the boat on local, on real time, on mobile, and even ultimately on social-the field it pioneered. And so, it never became the Flickr of video; YouTube snagged that ring. It never became the Flickr of people, which was of course Facebook. It remained the Flickr of photos. At least, until Instagram came along.
Oh SF, how I love you so. If I were to live in any other city besides NYC, SF it would be. I have visited numerous times, but it was only this last trip that I came across this magnificent vista. How had I missed this all those previous times??
I care more about experience than money. I was at a party once where someone asked me about my work and she said I must make a lot of cash. When I said I give my photos away to the public, she looked at me like I was a fool. She derisively asked, “Why would anybody do that?” and I replied “What did you do last Tuesday?” She said that she came home from work late and watched Law & Order on her DVR. I said, “Last Tuesday I had a four-hour dinner with Augusten Burroughs, and then I photographed him. I didn’t make any money off of it, but it was a hell of a Tuesday night.” Then she smiled and got what I was about.
André-Alexander Giesemann
Insist on engagement. Wrestle with what is difficult. Pretty is boring. Seek intensity.
You’re looking at a prototype Leica 35mm film camera, known as the 0-series. It was one of just 25 produced in 1923 for testing, and only 12 of them are known to have survived to this day. That’s why it’s just set a record, becoming the world’s most expensive camera.
- Naked (1993) dir. Mike Leigh
Louise: So what happened, were you bored in Manchester?
Johnny: Was I bored? No, I wasn’t fuckin’ bored. I’m never bored. That’s the trouble with everybody - you’re all so bored. You’ve had nature explained to you and you’re bored with it, you’ve had the living body explained to you and you’re bored with it, you’ve had the universe explained to you and you’re bored with it, so now you want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them, and it doesn’t matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it’s new as long as it’s new as long as it flashes and fuckin’ bleeps in forty fuckin’ different colors. So whatever else you can say about me, I’m not fuckin’ bored.
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