Space Miner
By editor/designer/photography lover Laura Brunow Miner.
I’ve just started a new Tumblr! You should follow for more photography related content from me.
Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia. Children playing with their roosters. Actually it was not a real cockfight because the roosters didn’t wear blades on their feet. Children like to play this game because they almost never have toys in their life. (Photo and caption by Ario Wibisono)
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Alan Taylor did a brilliant job curating the National Geographic Photo Contest on the Big Picture blog. Stunned by the images! This one is my favorite.
Love this photo of a young Florida pageant contestant from Melodie McDaniel’s series “Beauty Pageant.”
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
12 Timeless Rules for Making a Good Publication (from the @Atlantic archives via @alexismadrigal)
I love this photo (by Stephen W Thomson) of our highly civilized and partially feral city.
(That’s a museum parking lot!)
Working on a really cool collaboration with Levi’s for Pictory. Check it out — submit by November 19th!
We want to hear your stories. We want to learn your perspective. We want to know what you think it means to be a woman, through photos or text. That’s why Shape What’s to Come partnered with Pictory, an online showcase for people around the world to document their lives and cultures by submitting a single, captioned image. This week’s Pictory theme, Notes on Being a Woman, asks contributors: submit a self-portrait and tell your story of getting to where you are as a female, and how you may have impacted others. Who were your mentors, what have you learned, and what advice would you give the next generation?
Share your accomplishments, advice and experiences; we want to see a snapshot of your story.
Score some awesome prints while helping Lauren Lemon get back on her feet!
Lauren had every piece of camera equipment she owned stolen from her home. Luckily there is a BENEFIT taking place to help her get it back. Check it out and toss a couple bucks her way if you feel so inclined.
(via laurenlemon)
Some of you may know that I’ve stumbled into hosting creative retreats, in addition to my work on Pictory. Check out the “greatest hits” collection from my last event, Phoot Camp 2010!
Instagram = Insta-favorite
There’s a new photo sharing tool for the iPhone, and it’s catching on quick.
Using Instagram is sort of like micro-flickring. You follow a feed of your friends’ iPhone photo answers to a silent “what are you doing?” question. It’s like Twitter for those who prefer to take information in through images. The fact that it can also record your location makes it a fun way to keep track of where you’ve been.
Pros: As the lowest barrier way to share photos with friends, it helps motivate you to take images again. In my opinion, it’s more fun to scan through images than tweets. The square format fits great in the phone, and the filters make everyone’s images look good (if inauthentic).
Cons: The ease and feedback loop of using Instagram may steer some away from taking “real” photos. (Think of tweeting vs. blogging.) The app saves images at 612x612. The number of processing options (fake lomo and polaroid type treatments) is daunting. The branding (logo, icon, etc.) feels too quirky for a product that could have a lot of mainstream appeal.
The social concept of the app is brilliant and probably has many of us thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that?” I’m excited to see where the team takes it from here — hopefully they’ll expand the focus on the sharing aspects and slim the focus on the kitschy faux polaroid processing.
Download it, and if we’re friends, follow me at LBM!
I’m so proud to be picked as a “Hot 20 Under 40” by awesome San Francisco magazine 7x7! Here’s the write-up mentioning my work founding Pictory and Phoot Camp.
This photo was taken by Cody Pickens and crew, and the blurb was written by Jessica Battilana.
I was so excited about the new 360 Spinner camera when it came out. So I was pleasently surprised when Jen and Amit from Photojojo showed up at Phoot Camp with one to play with! Stay tuned to the Phoot Camp site to see more of these panoramic shots.
Laura Brunow Miner at an after party in the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco for a Pop-Up Magazine performance that had us reading our Pictory captions live on stage while the images were projected on the big screen.
The desktop metaphor was the right interface when no one knew what a computer was.
But the point is, the web kinda hates bounded, holistic work. The web likes bits and pieces, cross-references and recommendations, fragments and tabs. Oh, and the web loves the fact that you’re reading this post in Google Reader.
