According to Matthew Ingram, writing in GigaOm, Instagram, is coming under fire from critics for taking photography away from the professionals and putting it into the hands of untalented amateurs. The critics appear to be slamming the users of the service for sharing the banal elements of their...
Andreas Gursky is the photographer behind the world’s most valuable contemporary photograph, but in some of his most recent work Oceans (2009-2010), which can be seen at the Gargosian in New York , instead of photographer, he plays the role of digital manipulator. Inspired by a flight map he...
The computer printer has to be one of the dullest and least interesting devices there is. People have nothing, but resentment for their printers because they seem to do the least interesting work accompanied, by nothing but problems. They are poorly made from ill-fitting plastic components, they...
Photo by Jake DobkinLast Sunday night at Union Docs in Brooklyn- three accomplished NYC street photographers, Clayton Patterson, Matt Webber and Jake Dobkin, each with a different perspective on the art, presented their work and participated in a panel discussion. Clayton Patterson and Matt Weber...
Back in October 2008 we wrote about JR. Now he's all over the media because he just picked up the TED prize- awesome news.Here's what we wrote back then. JR is creating an impact in the street space with such scale and imagination that it puts advertising to shame. His massive portraits are of...
Levi's new "work" campaign is being brought to life with a series of workshops around the country, the latest being a photography workshop in Wooster Street, New York. The brand has been deliberately elastic with the idea of "work" allowing it to stretch from manual graft to the more creative...
Ikea isn't a grocery store, so the idea of a cook book seems absurd, but when it's called "Homemade is Best", the idea makes a lot of sense. Great brands don't just tell people what they do, they elevate themselves onto a higher plane that transcends the rational world. In this case, Ikea isn't...
While digital technology might be all the rage and expanding at a rapid pace, it's always interesting to see how people are looking for an alternatives. A couple of great examples:Lomography is a company that's pushing and promoting the creativity of analog photography and doing a fantastic job....
Laura Brunow Miner knows photography and photographers, she's spent the last few months building a truly unique site, Pictory. This is a site that showcases the best in photography and is organized around creatively interesting themes. It's the perfect site to be viewed on large displays and...
Pixish is a new site from the mind of Derek Powazek that's all about helping creative people get their work published. The role of the site is to help "clients" connect to a creative community and source the precise images they are looking for. It's an alternative to the time consuming and...
One of our designers at BSSP, Vince Montelongo, just got back from Tokyo. He attended Design Week and took shots of other interesting stuff. Here are his photos.Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.Posted by Ed Cotton
A few years ago, the creative career path was characterized by a rigorous process that defined the creative journey; years spent at art school and toiling in a low paying job that could only be gained through access to the right people. Although its become something of a clich�, but the...
Bill Tancer of Hitwise recently presented some interesting stats on participation levels on Web 2.0 sites, his research found that only .16% of all YouTube visits were to upload video and only 0.2% of Flickr visits were to upload photographs. As we are in the “Participation Age” there...
Joerg Colberg's Conscientious blog has a series of links to photographers who take portrait shots of video gamers in action. It's a fascinating look at the power of gaming and how it can drag mind, body and spirit into an immersive experience. These people look like they are being controlled by a...