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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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LA Originals
Photographer Estevan Oriol and artist Mister Cartoon turned their Chicano roots into gritty art, impacting street culture, hip hop and beyond.
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Back Problems
I’ve had some back problems, which I’m treating with pills.
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The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.
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Norman Ornstein, a political scientist specializing in congressional matters at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me that he has known every Senate Majority Leader in the past fifty years, and that McConnell “will go down in history as one of the most significant people in destroying the fundamentals of our constitutional democracy.” He continued, “There isn’t anyone remotely close. There’s nobody as corrupt, in terms of violating the norms of government.”
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-ChiefDunleavy vowed to do this without any painful spending cuts. Once in office, he launched a dramatic assault on the state’s public sector. A year ago, his administration announced a budget proposal that included the restored dividend—about three thousand dollars—but not the retroactive amount, which was paid for by more than a billion dollars in cuts. It reduced funding by more than forty per cent for the University of Alaska system and by three hundred million dollars for the state’s Department of Education. Safety-net cuts included a ninety-per-cent reduction for homeless services, a decrease for Medicaid of more than a third, and the elimination of programs such as adult Medicaid dental benefits, cash assistance to the elderly poor, and public assistance to Alaskans who are blind or have disabilities. A number of essential services were also gutted, including the Alaska Marine Highway System, a network of ferries that provides a transportation lifeline to dozens of coastal communities unconnected to the state’s road system.
Why Alaskans Are Trying to Recall Their GovernorBy the last week of February, it was clear to the administration’s public health team that schools and businesses in hot spots would have to close. But in the turbulence of the Trump White House, it took three more weeks to persuade the president that failure to act quickly to control the spread of the virus would have dire consequences.
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the VirusDeath Stranding had made me contemplate every exhausting step. At many points, I reflected that if I didn’t have to finish the game in order to write this article, I would have quit. But I’m glad I didn’t — because I would have missed out on one of the most beautiful and unsettling experiences I’ve ever had in a game.
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Burning Cell Towers, Out of Baseless Fear They Spread the Virus
“You know when they turn this on it’s going to kill everyone,”a woman said of 5G in a recent video on Twitter, as she confronted technicians laying fiber-optic cables in an unidentified British town.
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
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Candela Podcast : Matt Stuart
Street photographer Matt Stuart discusses his coverage of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, the wake-up call that was a plastic bullet whizzing past his head at a Hong Kong protest, how to balance creative work with work that puts food on the table, and much more.
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April 8, 2020
The day when they shut down the restaurants. That’s when I started photographing COVID-19 obsessively. An editor
directedme to a row of restaurants downtown.It was so quiet on the street that day. Very few people were out. It felt real. I photographed the empty dining room of a Mexican restaurant, complete with that framed Día de Muertos presiding:
Alamexo Mexican Kitchen, temporarily closed due to COVID-19 I haven’t stopped documenting the impact of COVID-19 since that afternoon.
I started photographing every empty business and restaurant, school or church that I could find. The sheer size of the economic impact is beyond my comprehension. Impacts more cruel are approaching fast.
At this point the photos blur together. I have taken so many.
Like a jaded collector, I only notice when I get something different, Now certain shots of these empty and dark establishments will stand out for a moment, like the church I hadn’t seen before or the bar that announced they had removed all alcohol from the building or the beautifully simple reception area at a place thathookshooked you up to an IV for, “total wellness.”Everything I’m doing is from my car or my bike or the street. I’m not going inside anywhere, anymore.
In the car I’ve got a 400/2.8 lens on my lap. Somehow I’ve gotten used to its weight (10 pounds)
– its presence has become natural. Also in use is a 70-200 lens and a Leica Q. My Leica M and new 21/1.4 lens have been sadly put away for now. There are very few ultra-wide shots to be made.Yesterday I biked 31 miles around the city. On the bike I carry a Nikon with a 70-200 and a Leica Q. No bag. Both cameras are on my shoulder and ready to shoot. The new bike is a game-changer for my photography- the RadMini.
The RadMini I can cover so much ground on this bike. It’s like I am flying.
Let’s talk about speed.
There was an old line photographers said when hating on photographers who used zoom lenses:
“I’d rather zoom with my feet.”
Like most photography sayings it’s a good thought but doesn’t hold up to reality. Its real message is obscured.
The thing a zoom lens gives me over a prime lens is speed of movement. Speed can be the most important thing when photographing a fluid situation.
You can’t always “zoom with your feet” in photojournalism. Sometimes you’re locked in position. Other times running across the room for a photograph would be bad form or even insensitive to the situation. And even when you can zoom with your feet, you can’t run as fast as I can zoom. When I zoom in from 70mm to 200mm I’m teleporting myself over great distances, instantly.
The bike is another tool to boost my speed. Riding through the city, I see shots in the distance and get there quickly. If I see a different angle I can adjust on the fly. If I need to be across the street, it takes a couple seconds.
In the first two weeks on the bike I’ve made many photographs that wouldn’t exist otherwise. It’s a secret weapon.
When someone tells you, “I’d rather zoom with my feet,” or some other nugget of photo wisdom they are almost always telling you this:
Think about what you’re doing.
Now that is great advice.
The goal is simple: great photographs.
