nice ‘life in pictures’ slideshow on the life of enigmatic painter (one of my all-time favourites): the recently deceased lucian freud, i especially like the lower image here by ‘david dawson’; shot with an analogue camera but even on closer inspection it still looks like an oil painting in itself…
if you are interested in a bright and hard working intern for the period september to november (or christmas), i would glady recommend my own ex-intern ‘pollie’, without hesitation… see her new online portfolio here
and then give her a call before it’s too late and someone beats you to it…
that the ‘minnesota mining and manufacturing company’ changed it’s name to 3M seems logical when you know it, maybe some of the other origins of brand names might be a surprise, the site is a real sight for sore eyes but still worth a quick look
…these images might still have visual information within the image, or other clues, that could enable a system — either completely automated or using automated and human processes together — to make a guess about where the image was taken. The best case for intelligence analysts would be a fully automated system. This way they could suck in images from a terrorist website, download them off of captured cameras or cell phones, or scan them from hard copy, and feed all this through the system and get locations of where the images were taken. With more and more images being created in our world every day this automated approach is going to be crucial…
really interesting article from ‘wired’ on what military intelligence is doing with the help of google and all of that other data we all put online everyday, privacy issues? forget it…
nice little illustrated poster series for ‘bos’ theater productions, with a nice ‘inky fingers’ linocut feel to them… made by communication agency ‘they’ and hanging around amsterdam this week
