The making of a Pulitzer winning photo

A video and story behind the making of a Pulitzer winning photo.

Ryan Spencer Reed, photojournalist and contributing photographer to the Darfur/Darfur multimedia exhibit

It was real nice to meet and hear Ryan Spencer Reed, photojournalist and contributing photographer to the Darfur/Darfur multimedia exhibit, spoke when he was in Calgary opening the exhibit. As I blogged previously, I found some the following videos in Ryan’s site,

1. Quicktime slide show with beautiful music of some photos by Ryan
2. An video interview of Ryan set to some of his photos

In the following video, Ryan tells the story of how one of his photo was used by Newsweek very differently in its international edition and in its American edition. To me, it is a telling story of how US media are tailoring their story to their own national interest.

Here is my interview with Ryan where he shared with us his emotional experience in taking pictures in Sudan, and what can actions can people in the west take to stop the atrocities in Darfur (SudanDivestment.org).

Darfur/Darfur Calgary opening night - videos

As promised in a previous posting, I’ve finally found some time to process and post the following two video clips of the opening night.

• Maryam (a Darfurian in Calgary recently visited Darfur) speaks at DARFUR/DARFUR opening night.

• A short video clip of the Darfur/Darfur multimedia exhibit on the outdoor wall of Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

Adobe Photoshop Express Beta

Worth trying out the online and free Adobe Photoshop Express Beta. It stores up to 2 GB of images, with some limitations.

[via dpreview]

Links: 2008-03-26

1. Jim Cramer is still putting random words in random order
2. Companies that use Gmail abroad break the law because PATRIOT makes it possible for US spooks to spy on Google
3. Photos from rotting Chinese theme-park in Orlando - a series of 200+ rather sad pictures
4. Wing On, Hong Kong’s Great Department Store
5. India's Tata Motor to Buy British automakers Jaguar and Land Rover for $2.3 Billion
6. Ta, Ta, Jaguar
   

Links: 2008-03-13 Capital of Google Earth, Luxor Ad, Blackstoned, Nikon D300 review, Tall tale, WP vs MT

1. Nanaimo, BC - the Capital of Google Earth
2. Luxor Highlighter - neat ad
3. Blackstone-d: Behind a Monster IPO Flop - a report
4. dpreview of Nikon D300
5. Tall tale by Malcolm Gladwell - program starts at 45 minutes
6. An interesting war of words between WordPress and Movable Type

$1 camera stabilizer - Really Cool

Don’t believe my words. check out this amazing video, “$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera - Lose The Tripod“. This one is so simple and useful that I may go out and build it!

[via Cory Doctorow]