David Schonauer
STASH Friday March 4, 2016
London animation director and designer Daniel Binns (aka Mr. Binns) and Bristol studio director Arthur Cox have teamed to create a moving
short about post-natal depression, using what Stash calls “a complex palette and simplified character design to conjure a powerful mix of melancholy and hopefulness." Called Mike’s
Story, the short was made as part of a series interview-based films on the subject. The animation tenderly and efficiently brings the narrator’s story to life. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Monday November 17, 2014
What does porn look like in 2014? That’s the question to be considered next February when the new NYC Porn Film
Festival opens at Secret Project Robot in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, notes the Huffington
Post. The fest, billed as a DIY “exploration of sex, sexuality, gender identity and porn-economics,” has issued an open call for entries. What are the organizers looking for?
“Homemade films! Art films! Shorts! One-minute clips! Performances! Talks! Discussions! Ideas! Everything porno!” says programmer Simon Leahy in an interview. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday June 10, 2025
After World Press Photo suspended Nick Ut's credit for the iconic Vietnam War photo known as Napalm Girl, journalist around the world have reacted strongly. Three former chairs and jurors of the World
Press Photo Contest-James Colton, David Burnett and Maria Mann- wrote an open letter to World Press Photo opposing the organization's decision. The letter was signed onto by 400 other professional
photographers. … Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Wednesday August 5, 2015
If you’re looking for insight on how to have a brilliant career as a cinematographer, you’re in luck: Indiewire has the highlights of a two-hour Q&A session in which seven noted
DPs—Bill Bennett, Patrick Cady, Peter Levy, Paul Maibaum, Peter Moss, Haskell Wexler and George Spiro Dibie—spoke to students at Australia's Queensland University of Technology. (You can
see a longer transcript of the discussion released by the American Society of Cinematographers.) Among the issues raised:
how to make it in the industry, how to collaborate with gaffers, and how to work best with actors. See
also: Filmmaker’s interview with legendary DP Roger Deakins on his most difficult shots. Read the full Story >>
CNN Tuesday July 1, 2025
President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday there is a “buyer for TikTok,” adding that announcement would come in “about two weeks,” which is the time frame he often uses to build news-cycle suspense. He identified the buyers only as “a group of very wealthy people,” notes CNN. “I think I’ll need probably China approval, and I think President Xi will probably do it,” the president said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Trump has instead signed three orders delaying a congressionally mandated TikTok ban.
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YouTube Wednesday November 13, 2013
“I took well over 100K photos to make this video,” notes Matthew Vandeputte, a photographer and film editor based in Sydney,
Australia. He adds, “It’s the piece I’m most proud of so far,” and he should be: The time-lapse video, made over the course of a year during a round-the-world journey, racked
up some 300,000 views in less than a day after it was posted it to YouTube, notes Fstoppers, which features
an interview with Vandeputte. “I try to think of what ‘storyline’ I want to tell,” he says of his masterful editing. Read the full Story >>
Politico Monday April 23, 2012
Noted New York Daily News photographer David Maisel caused a flap when he alleged that the New York Times paid sources for scoops in the Secret Service hooker scandal. Maisel
tweeted, “NY Times still has key players locked up. Money talks." The Times scored the first interview with a woman at the center of the scandal, while the Daily News later
published a photo of her. Maisel has since apologized and deleted the original tweet, although several other allegations remain in his Twitter timeline. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Wednesday December 18, 2013
Roger Ballen's photographs make your nightmares look quaint, notes the Huffington Post, which spotlights the noted South African artist’s latest exhibition, "Asylum." The new work probes the
dark regions of subconscious fear: “I've been working in a place I call the ‘Asylum of the Birds’ building,” says Ballen in an interview. “If you think of the
Psycho house from Hitchcock's movie, it's sort of that type of building.” Like a house in another Hitchcock film, this one contains a disturbing population birds flying around. Read the full Story >>
Palm Springs Photo Festival Tuesday October 23, 2012
A scheduling note if you’re planning to attend the PhotoPlus Expo, which gets underway on Thursday in New York City: PDN is teaming with the Palm Springs Photo Festival for a three-day portfolio review program, where you’ll be able to get feedback on your work from top industry pros like
Howard Bernstein, director of the Bernstein & Andriulli agency; Alex Arnold, deputy photo editor of Travel + Leisure; and Christina Cahill, deputy director of Reportage by Getty Images. There are
still available interview times, so register now. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday April 24, 2013
The film At Any Price, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday and opens in limited theatrical release today, represents an almost total departure for its director, Ramin
Bahrani, notes the NY Times. Bahrani’s acclaimed earlier films, including Chop Shop and Man Push Cart, are small-scale works that star mostly unprofessional actors and track
immigrants at the margins of cities. The new movie, which features actors Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham, is a Midwestern farming tale with car chases—but, as Bahrani notes, no chickens or
cows. Read the full Story >>
Vimeo Friday July 24, 2015
Ryan Gillis’s animated short Palm Rot, fresh off the festival circuit and now available online, has impressed the web with its cinematic visual flair and mysterious narrative about a
crop-duster named Bill who discovers a crate floating in the Florida Everglades. In an interview, Gillis tells Short of
the Week that when he started the project—his thesis film at the University of Southern California—his goal was simply to capture “all of Florida’s hot, trashy
beauty.” The strange story emerged later. Read the full Story >>
The Times of Israel Tuesday July 12, 2022
A software engineer working for Google has created program that uses artificial intelligence to scan through hundreds of thousands of photos from World War II to help identify victims and survivors of the Holocaust. In an interview with The Times of Israel, the engineer, Daniel Patt, 40, noted that he worked on the software as a side project but is being joined by a growing team of engineers, researchers, and data scientists. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, website, there is no single list identifying the victims and survivors of the Holocaust; research to find individuals' stories has required following leads on minimal information, adds Mashable. Read the full Story >>
The Lost Angeles Times Wednesday October 24, 2012
Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American
Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in films and television in the 1990s, has died from cancer at 72, reports the Los Angeles Times. “Wounded Knee restored our dignity and pride
as a people," Means said in a 2002 interview. His acting career began when he played Chingachgook in Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans. He also appeared in Oliver Stone’s
Natural Born Killers. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday August 24, 2016
“I’m not responsible for anything like social media, am I? Tell me I’m not,” says photographer Nan Goldin in a New York Times interview. With Goldin’s acclaimed
“Ballad of Sexual Dependency” work now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Times wonders
if today’s culture of compulsive over-sharing can be traced to the intimate diaristic work of the photographer — a thought that frightens Goldin. “It can’t be true,” she
says. “But if it is, I feel terrible.” Read the full Story >>
Sony Alpha Rumors Thursday November 7, 2024
In September, Tamron announced the 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens, a move that looked like a return to the production of fast primes for the company that has lived exclusively in the world of zooms for the past several years. But, noted PetaPixel recently, the new lens may be the exception, not the rule. In an interview with French publication Phototrend, spotted by Sony Alpha Rumors, Jean-Christophe Thiry, President of Tamron France, said the launch of the 90mm was “romantic” because it ” it embodies the entire history of the brand.” Tamron, he said, intends to stick with zooms.
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TIME LightBox Tuesday March 5, 2013
Saul Leiter, a giant if somewhat overlooked figure of 20th-century photography noted for his pioneering color work, is finally receiving his due, notes Time’s LightBox blog: New exhibitions
include a slideshow projection (with original transparencies) at the Milwaukee Art Museum; a new book, Early Black and White, to be published this summer by Steidl; and a recently completed
documentary film about the artist by Tomas Leach, In No Great Hurry. Leiter himself talks with the blog about his early work, his color work, and his talent for indifference. Read the full Story >>
FullMetalJacket.com Thursday October 4, 2012
More good news for admirers of Stanley Kubrick in general and Full Metal Jacket in particular: Actor Matthew “Private Joker” Modine, who released a well received memoir about
the making of the film seven years ago, has adapted his book as an iPad app, and it’s just gone on sale. Start sh#@ing Tiffany cufflinks now! “A young man from Apple named
Adam Rackoff asked if he could turn it into an app with sound effects, an original score, and all the images and personal letters from Kubrick,” says Modine in an Adweek interview. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday January 9, 2025
Just a few days ago the internet was filled to the brim with news that Meta was planning to fill Facebook and Instagram with AI-generated users that would exist on its platforms, just like real
humans. At least that the vision described by Connor Hayes, the vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta, in an interview with the Financial Times. Meta hoped the … Read the full Story >>
Interview Tuesday July 23, 2024
The work of David Armstrong, the iconic New York-based fashion photographer of the early 2000s who died in 2014, is celebrated in the latest issue of MATTE Magazine. This marks the first time the images have been seen in print since Armstrong’s death at age 60, notes Interview. This work was selected by co-editors Vince Aletti and Matthew Leifheit, “[W]hen you look at the pictures in the magazine, they don’t look like fashion. They just look like David’s pictures,” says Lisa Love, co-executor of Armstrong’s estate.
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FILMMAKER Thursday March 13, 2014
The PBS documentary series POV and The New York Times are launching a collaborative effort to simultaneously show documentary films online, reports Filmmaker. The first film in the series, Dan
Barry and Kassie Bracken’s half-hour The Men of Atalissa, which was produced by the Times,
kicks off the series. Along with the film, which tells the story of a group of mentally disabled men who endured decades of abuse, the Times will run an article about the men by Barry, while POV’s website streams
an interview with both Barry and Bracken. Read the full Story >>
