Interchangeable Magnetic Photo Cube You Make in Minutes
июня 4, 2010
I was photographing in the last couple of days - please tell me your thoughts:
The picture is striking. It's a snapshot-like photo of an orange Mini Cooper, cruising through the rubble after an Israeli attack, occupants women dressed in black and white attire, formal in appearance. One is holding a handkerchief over her face, as if offended by the odor of the area. Spencer Platt's picture has been published in media worldwide, and won first prize in the prestigious World Press Photo awards. Rather than just representing the struggle of war, however, it has caused controversy wherever it has been shown.
There is a lot more to the story of the photo than the reaction it first gives. That may be one of the reasons that it won, because it reveals that there is a lot more to a war story than impressions can give. Spencer Platt has won numerous awards for his war photography, and it may be that his insight led him to take this incongruous picture.
Looking at the photo on the BBC website, the impression is simple, rich vs. poor. Victim versus worldly wealth. But, it turns out, the people in the car are mostly residents of the bombed-out area. It's not even their car, and the car is no rich person's toy - it has been running medication and supplies to refugees. The photograph draws you in to be further informed about the nature of war in Lebanon.
Beirut is sometimes known as “The Paris of the Middle East,” and even in wartime people are style conscious, as these women show. After the civil war, the city was rebuilding, recreating a center of style and fashion, of shopping and nightlife, as discussed on planetizen.com. Now, it is silent again, and rubble spreads.
The people of Lebanon are nothing if not resilient, and that is one thing the photograph portrays clearly. Even those in the neighborhood who saw the car drive by are heard in a video taken by the women shouting comments, and the women felt compelled to reply “we live here.”
Some photographers, according to the BBC, have commented with disdain on the photograph, comparing it to a mere snapshot. Reactions to the photo show that it is clearly more than that, even if it is not what it seems. It is a litmus test of perceptions and preconceptions of readers and viewers, and also of editors - a Dutch newspaper gave it the heading “The cool people VS Hezbollah.” In this case, the photograph reveals not only a scene from a war, but the minds of the people who look at photographs about the world's wars.
Photographs from the contest in which the photograph took first prize will be part of an exhibition beginning in April.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6385969.stm
http://www.1stlebanon.net/contenu/pictures-lebanon.php?id=18
http://contributors.gettyimages.com/article.asp?article_id=497
http://gettyawards.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=photographers&id=67
http://www.planetizen.com/node/20589
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/
After a week full of clickjacking attacks, we're seeing other dodgy links being spread widely between Facebook users who should perhaps know better.
One that I have seen crop up a lot, is appearing in the status updates of Facebook users with phrases like:
This horrific photo forced photographer to kill himself! http://tinyurl.com/VerySadPhoto
and
This horrific photo forced photographer to kill himself! http://tinyurl.com/HorriblePic
Clicking on links like these can take you to Facebook pages which names such as “Man Commits Suicide 3 Days After Taking This Photo”.
These Facebook pages force you to first “Like” them and then republish the link on your own Facebook page (advertising it to your online friends) before you eventually get to see the photograph.
Just ask yourself this - do you really want to recommend a page to your friends, before you know what lies behind it? For all you know, you could be passing on a link which will ultimately take your online pals to a phishing page or malware.
As it happens, the pages are lying in any case.
The photograph - of an emaciated young girl in Sudan - was taken in March 1993 by prize-winning South African photo-journalist Kevin Carter. Carter did kill himself - but it was over a year later in South Africa, not three days after the photo was taken as claimed by the Facebook links.
You can probably imagine, however, that people would easily agree to publish the link to all their friends - in their morbid interest to see the photo - and thus help it spread quickly.
In fact, it's no surprise that links like these are spreading so quickly and virally across Facebook, when popular pages such as “I like your makeup…LOL JK, it looks like you got gangbanged by Crayola” (currently 1.7 million fans and counting) have republished it to all of their followers.
Sigh.. If only you had to take the equivalent of a driving test before you were allowed to run a Facebook page with that many followers. Just imagine the harm they could do by posting a stupid or malicious link..
So, what's the purpose of these pages about the horrific photograph? Well, if we want to give the creators of these pages the benefit of the doubt, it's possible that they have created them out of curiousity - to see how many people they could trick into “Like”ing their page.
But I suspect there's more to it than that. My feeling is that once a page like this has managed to gather a large enough following, it could be abused for the purposes of spamming, spreading malware and stealing identities.
So you really should take much more care over which pages you agree to “Like” on Facebook. Remember, you should never be bullied into publicising a Facebook page before they have shown you the content you are interested in. After all, if you like what you see, you'll only be too happy to share it with your friends, right?
If you have been unfortunate enough to have been ensnared by this latest nuisance, do the following:
- Remove the update from your newsfeed (so your friends will no longer click on it)
- Enter Edit profile/Likes and interests and remove the “Man Commits Suicide 3 Days After Taking This Photo” page from your list of Pages you like (you may have to click on “Show other Pages”)
- Go to “Privacy Settings” and edit your settings for “Applications and websites” in order to check that you have not inadvertently added any unwanted applications.
Finally, if you're a regular user of Facebook, be sure to join the Sophos page on Facebook to be kept informed of the latest security threats.
Just Jared got their hands on a behind the scenes set photo featuring Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan in the upcoming film “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” aka Eclipse stars Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Taylor Lautner, (My Own Worst Enemy) and Xavier Samuel (Road Train, The Loved Ones).
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Synopsis: In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”.
from: Ellies Site