As the summer lull of August fades against the snappy cool evenings ahead, the New York art world welcomes what has become known as Armory Art Week. Headed by the mammoth Armory Show at the Javitz Center, an array of satellite fairs adds to the buzz from Chelsea to the Battery and beyond. September 5-7: The Armory Show | Javits Center A cornerstone of New … Read the full Story >>
Film, or digital? Of course everyone’s got an opinion: Until recently, notes NoFilmSchool, film had a technological advantage over digital, but new sensors can match or exceed the dynamic range of film stocks. Yet for some, digital sensors still produce an image that is “too clean.” For that group there FilmConvert, a program that takes info about specific digital camera sensors and determines how to best match the output to mimc the look of different film stocks. Is it a film replacement? Of course not. Read the full Story >>
The Sundance Institute will be hosting a ShortsLab in Los Angeles on September 13 focused exclusively on short-form documentary filmmaking, notes Indiewire. Unlike most of the Institute's other Lab programs, this one is a ticketed event, so filmmakers don’t have to submit an application to attend. There will be a daylong seminar that consists of both screenings and question/answer sessions with prominent documentarians and the Sundance Documentary Film programming team. Price: $75. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
If you’re heading out to shoot some national park landscapes, you may well want to avoid crowds. PetaPixel points to a resource that may help you: Designer and engineer Jordan Vincent used visitor data from the most popular US National Parks create a set of info graphics that plot attendance by type of lodging, time of year, and average temperature. Go here to see all 54 charts broken down by type of park: Mountain, Tundra, Desert, Tropical, Coast and Continental. Read the full Story >>
Breed, an online community of fashion photographers that shares current fashion-photography ideas and knowhow through videos and other media, has released a comprehensive master class on advanced fashion lighting. It includes tutorials explaining 22 different lighting setups, using 3D video of the actual setup, HD video footage from a shoot with the setup, and a walk through camera settings and equipment. At $99 it’s not dirt cheap; but given the amount of info in the package, you might consider it a bargain. Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, April 17 New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium presents: Cento Lodigiani, 7 pm. The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Mike Cloud, painting today, 7 pm. The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, NY, NY Info Marticia Sawin | Playing with Fire: Direct Metal Sculpture in the 1950s, 7:30 … Read the full Story >>
Frieze Week Art Fairs Frieze New York—without doubt the most lavishly produced fine art fair in the city—also brings out the best the city’s galleries and museums have to offer. The annual spring event opens next week, along with some special events around town. Here’s the skeleton: Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, NY, NY 190 outfits from 30 countries. Info/Tickets Public Days: … Read the full Story >>
Les Rencontres de la PhotographieWhile the 4th of July Weekend is a long awaited respite, often with backyard barbeque, fireworks, even a trip to the beach, many in the world of photography are headed to Arles, France for the 47th edition of Les Rencontres. The opening week, July 4-10, attracts photographers, publishers, gallerists and museum people to a nearly indigestible menu of events, with … Read the full Story >>
Are you tired of the content that Instagram’s algorithm dishes up to you? Now you can do something about it: IG will soon roll out a feature allowing users to reshape their feeds with a Recommendation Reset. Instagram will still keep your activity and interest info for ad targeting. But in terms of the content that it recommends to you, which is an increasing amount of what you see in the app, this will give you the option to reset and start over, notes Social Media News. Meta touting the wool as especially beneficial for especially teens. Read the full Story >>
Sony Pictures Television says its new Diverse Directors Program was created to provide "access for highly qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds to potential episodic directing opportunities on scripted one-hour and half-hour SPT series." The program will allow participants to shadow directors working on SPT shows. They will also enrolled in a workshop on directing episode television and attend sessions with guest speakers. And of course they may have a chance to direct. Go here for info. Read the full Story >>
When the poet William Butler Yeats [above, center] had his portrait done by John Singer Sargent in 1908, he said, “I wore a velvet jacket to remind myself how important he is.” Yeats, a lynchpin of the Irish literary scene, was one of many luminaries in the arts who was awed by Sargent’s gift for capturing the essence of those who withstood his compelling … Read the full Story >>
Photographers continue to search for technology to help them track images online. Yesterday we noted the new service Imgembed, which, like the Stipple service, allows you to embed digital info onto your images. Marksta, an app designed by photojournalist John D McHugh that we mentioned earlier this year, is meant to streamline the process of watermaking images shot with iPhones. The British Journal of Photography reports that the app has been updated, allowing photographers to add IPTC metadata to their images. Read the full Story >>
Planning a video project that you hope goes viral? Think about targeting an audience that is young and female, notes Adweek, which reports on the results of a new study of video and photo sharing done by the Pew Internet Project. While overall sharing of videos via services like Instagram and Snapchat have risen over the past year, the study shows that those sharers skew female, and that women are far more likely to share videos they find elsewhere on the Internet. Read the full Story >>
The first time I encountered work by Howardena Pindell was her installation featured in the 2006-07 exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, at the National Academy of Design, New York. Her radical feminism has squarely located her painting and photo-based work in the realm of protest and although she has exhibited widely and regularly since the 1970s, Pindell has had … Read the full Story >>
If you photograph plants with your iPhone, why not also learn what they are? You don’t even need a third-party app; instead, you can use a feature called Visual Look Up, which was introduced last year along with iOS 15. “When you open a photo in the Photos app, look for the blue ‘i’ icon underneath. If it has a little sparkly ring around it, then you can look up more information about the subject of your photo. Tap the ‘i’ icon, click ‘Look Up,’ and you’ll immediately get some info about the plant in your shot,” notes DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
The Big League Film School has put together an online cinematography-training event called the Big League Cine Summit, which runs for three days, beginning December 10, advises DSLR Video Shooter. The event features 10 top cinematographers, including Camille Marotte, who will talk about using Adobe After Effects to create the film look you want, and Ryan E. Walters, who will talk about product lighting. Go here for more info. The price for all this? Zero dollars. Read the full Story >>
Submissions for the 2015 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship are open through September 30, 2014. Now in its fifth year, fellowship program assists emerging documentary editors by developing their talent with free classes at New York City's Manhattan Edit Workshop, full access to the SXSW film festival and more. Schmeer, the editor of documentaries such as The Fog of War, was killed at age 39 in a hit-and-run accident on January 29, 2010. Go here for more info and here to apply. Read the full Story >>
The controversy over the endangered Mmane trees of Hawaii goes back to the 18th century, when goats and sheep were released on the Big Island. (Go here for more info.) In his video Hawiian Tree Bones, photographer Gary Yost uses the skeletons of the trees as a metaphor for, as he puts it, “how outsiders have crushed the native Hawaiian ecology.” The beautiful vid was shot with a 650 nanometer infrared conversion and is hauntingly soundtracked with an old Hawaiian chant,"Ku'u wahine i ka ua 'Ulalena." Read the full Story >>
Did you make it to the recent American Illustration-American Photography Big Talk symposium? Or to the big party to celebrate the winners of the AI 31 and AP 28 competitions? We hope so. If you didn’t, you can pore over the winning work at the AI-AP website. PPD will also be following up to find out what AP 28 winners are up to now. But in the meantime, it’s time to start looking ahead to 2013 and the AP 29 competition. The call for entries is now official, and all the info about deadlines, eligibility, and whatnot are available online. Start making your plans now. Read the full Story >>
How do highly success artists stay creative, on a daily basis? A new book called Creative Block looks for answers in a number of interviews. The Huffington Post digests the info into 19 rules, the first of which is this: Let go of your idea of “perfect.” Also: Don’t be afraid to silence your inner critic. And find your mantra: "I keep repeating my mantra, a quote by Charles Horton Cooley: 'An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one,’” says Germany-based photographer Matthias Heiderich. Read the full Story >>
