Posted by on under mark siegel, graphic novel, huds, editorial director, labor of love, memoir, mermaid, comic, photographer, doctors | 
Mark Siegel, the editorial director of the remarkable graphic novel publisher FirstSecond, has begun serializing his comic "Sailor Twain, or the Mermaid in the Hudson" on the web. This is Siegel's labor of love, a wonderful and weird comic that he's been working on for five years now. It's damned exciting to find it online! Sailor Twain (Thanks, Mark!) (Disclosure: I am currently in contract negotiations with FirstSecond for a graphic adaptation of one of my stories) Previously:The Photographer: gripping graphic memoir about doctors in Soviet ... Three Shadows: haunting and dreamlike graphic novel of love ......
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Posted by on under 1880s, samurai, photograph, photographer, photography, japan, images |
This photograph, as incredible as it may sound, was taken more than a century ago. The photographer was Adolfo Farsari. The images he captured, of a bygone world, are breathtaking. Farsari's story...
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Posted by on under penguin couple, digg, penguins, penguin, photograph, pose, photographer |
A pair of penguins appear to have posed for their picture to be taken by photographer Adam Foster.
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Posted by on under boing boing, joshua brown, five boroughs, nick carr, wrecking ball, dors, coney island, derelict, last winter, uncertain future, popular culture, aces, mass market, scout, shame, photographer, 1970s, twilight, developers, blog |
Coney Island is one of those places that has an outsized profile in the American imagination, but it's seemed to exist since the 1970s in twilight, halfway between a glorious past and an uncertain future. That's some of what photographer Joshua Brown saw on a visit last winter. Now, prompted by yet another round of rumors that developers are readying the wrecking ball, Nick Carr's great "Scouting NY" blog has taken a long look at the beleaguered beach resort, including a tour through the magnificently derelict Bank of Coney Island. (Carr's a location scout, which explains why he seems to be all over the five boroughs; the bank pictures, though, come from another scout, whose identity Carr is keeping to himself.) Over at Kickstarter, meanwhile, filmmaker JL Arsonson is fundraising for a documentary called "Last Summer at Coney Island." He's down to a 96-minute cut and is rounding up donors to help him bring it home. (Full disclosure: I'm one of them.) What do the three have in common? An affection for Coney Island as it's been -- down at the heels, sure, but authentic in itself, and a window into a kind of mass-market popular culture that our big cities are ever more willing to bulldoze. It seems like every spring brings fresh rumors of Coney Island's demise. It'd be a shame if this year they finally came true....
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Posted by on under peasants revolt, luscious lips, google, subhead, forearms, crowley, accolade, crowns, techcrunch, spades, denny, nerd, makeup, photographer, yahoo |
This month's Wired UK magazine has pulled out the stops and put
Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley on the cover. In spades. Crowley is pictured wearing a crown and is dubbed "The New King of Social Media". The subhead is "Why Google, Yahoo and Facebook want to unlock his world." That's a pretty big accolade and, indeed, Crowley
has written a long explanation about how the cover story and shoot came about. He says "not to nerd out, but this is the stuff that Little Denny College dreamed big about back in 1997 (for real)... so I'm pretty happy with it :)" As you can see, the photographer made him wear some makeup "but I think my luscious lips and forearms are photoshopped," says Crowley. Not everyone is happy with Wired's angle, but more of that parade-raining later. Meantime, here's Crowley's take:
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