Stunning test video shot by David Coiffer with his new camera (a Photron SA2...from the future maybe?) is delicious super slo-mo eye candy. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/3830864]
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My friend Pooja recently accidentally broke her camera. No worries, she said. She bought a new one. When I saw her new camera I gave her my honest opinion. I told her that I thought it was aggressive, maybe too aggressive and it didn't seem very practical. See:
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Alan Sailer's Flickr collection of his amazing high speed bullet photographs. It's a must see explosion of colors, literally.
Merry Christ-BAM! Clear Christmas bulb with water.
Jello. (Yummy.)
Paintball blast. Gangsta.
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I really vibe this black and white taken by New York photographer Andrew DiSalvo. I'm constantly impressed by graffiti artists extraordinary ability to tag seemingly impossible places to reach spaces in the urban landscape, which makes this photo so beautifully jarring to me.
I love that his set of tools includes the following analog camera, an Olympus Stylus Epic.
Boston Globe's Big Picture has a photo gallery depicting the current economic "Great Recession."
Hotel property manager Paul Martinez kicks in a tenant's door after no one answered the knock during an eviction February 26, 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The tenant said that he was laid off from his job in a retail store two months ago and had fallen behind on his rent payments at the low-budget hotel. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A RE/MAX Central bus advertises tours of foreclosed homes March 7, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The real estate group began giving tours for prospective buyers three times a week in February 2008, in an effort to clear inventory of foreclosed properties. They have seen a steady decrease in foreclosure listings since the summer of 2008 in the Las Vegas area. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Thousands of unemployed Chinese graduates flock to a job fair in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on March 7, 2009. China vowed to help train one million graduates in the next three years to boost their qualifications, and promised loans to business that hire graduates, as unemployment continues to grow. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Stephen Mallon has some amazing photographs of the retrieval of US Airways Flight 1549 from the Hudson River.
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Vice explicates the epidemic of posing which has "swelled into a grotesque titan of pouting, winking and the faux salute" thanks to Facebook.
The “from above” As Jonathan Swift taught us, everyone looks better from above. Fewer chins, less coke nostril, bigger eyes. And so it is that every single photo has a weirdly truncated arm going off the side of the frame as the poser holds their camera a good three feet above their upturned faces, like a chick waiting for their mother to vomit down their gullets.
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This famous photograph was taken in 1951 by an American photographer Ruth Orkin. Orkin describes the photo in this brief sound clip. A copy of it hangs on the wall of my neighborhood pizzeria, which I always stare at while waiting for them to reheat my "Grandma slice."
New York Times photo essay on Department of Sanitation workers who clean up Times Square after the ball is dropped. This is what's going on in my head right now:
Photo by John Dominis, 1951
African-American student Virginius B. Thornton receiving tolerance training before picketing. 
Jeff Bridges' photo diary during the shooting of Iron Man is a real treat for any fan of the movie and/or the actors and director involved.
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Shooting a photo from the same eye level of your subject can sometimes produce really wonderful photographs.
Photo by Abigail Seymour
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This photo published in LIFE magazine (later appropriated by Andy Warhol) which was snapped by Robert Wiles on May 1, 1947 captured young Evelyn McHale after she jumped from the Empire State Building's observation deck. The magazine's caption read:
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure.
Max Page examines in the New York Times the allure of the Empire State Building, especially its presence in popular entertainment. From McHale's suicidal leap, Page extrapolates:
In the image of this sleeping beauty, I saw not only unrequited love but also the skyscraper's sheer gravitational power.
The woman's fall was an homage to the Empire State Building, grisly performance art for the symbol of the modern metropolis, and vivid evidence that because of the building's size and pre-eminence, it has been a target for destruction by creators of popular culture over three-quarters of a century, and a place that could also, in turn, destroy the soul.
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