LIFE Comes back to Life? (with help from Getty?!)

If the Post says it, you gotta believe it, no? This is very interesting:
“The Life name is getting a new lease on life.
After having shut down three times as a magazine, the Life title isbeing resurrected as part of a joint venture between Time Inc.

John Clang: nyc 64.1ºn 21.9ºw

John Clang’s got my number: I’m a New Yorker, but right now, I’d rather be in Reykjavik. Clang’s project, nyc 64.1ºn 21.9ºw, abducts New Yorkers (right off the street!) and plops them down in an idyllic environment far from home.

You May Have to Watch it Twice, Indeed.

Best ad I’ve seen in a long time.
UPDATE: I found some info on the agency that produced this ad– turns out it came from production company Paranoid and creative/directing collective The Vikings.
Here’s a Q&A I found with The Vikings, at creativity-online:
What were your objectives on this project?

The One in Which: I Turn the Bride into a GIF

Righto, I’m aware you may need Transderm Scope to view this image below; suffice it to say: I shot a wedding this weekend, and I’m playing with GIF-making.

Obviously I haven’t quite mastered the tween in Image Ready, but I amused myself nonetheless. Try your hand at it with a tutorial here.
ps.

Phillip Toledano: America the Gift Shop

Regions destabilized while-u-wait!Neon, Glass, 20″x30″, 2008
Phillip Toledano is not only one of the most productive photographers I know, but he creates beautiful and unusual project spaces for many of them. I wrote on Shoot!

Miss Prisoner of the Year

I woke up in the middle of night after dreams of Sarah Palin, andrealized that in my subconscious I had placed her into a photo essay Iran years ago as a photo editor at nerve. She was a beauty queen in thePrisoner Pageant in Bogota, and she was glorious. So now I will share some of these with you.

Ms. Palin’s Verbiage is Verbage?

verbage spelling, jargon /ver’b*j/ A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word “garbage”. Compare content-free. More pejorative than “verbiage”. 

Oh, she amuses me so.

Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar

Dima and Sergey, Ukraine, 2006
Another photographer I recently found through Aperture is Michal Chelbin. Here are three from the series Strangely Familiar. This work is just so, so good. Perplexing and gorgeous.
Angelina with her Father, Israel, 2005
The writing about the work is really strong, too.

Eugene de Salignac, October 7, 1914

I was at Aperture Foundation on Tuesday to see a panel about collecting photography, and I haven’t been able to get this image out of my mind since.

Dazed and Confused Magazine

Has a flickr photo stream.
These are my two favorites.
(it annoys me when people use unnecessary apostrophes)
photo by Henrik Vibskov

I guess these two wanted some privacy.
see ‘em all.