Interchangeable Magnetic Photo Cube You Make in Minutes
I taken a lot of Photos in the last months – please tell me what they tell you:
Like Father, Like Son. That's the title of the latest 20-track offering from the New Orleans-bred rap alliance called the Cash Money Millionaires. The group was co-founded by 37-year-old Bryan “Baby” Williams, who also goes by other multiple aliases, including “The Birdman” and “#1 Stunna”.
The actual “baby” of the Cash Money conglomerate is a guy named Lil' Wayne, who, at 24 years old, was the youngest member of the Louisiana-based label. Lil' Wayne (nee: Dwayne Michael Carter) came into much prominence in his own right as an artist, and has been credited with possessing an excellent lyrical cadence that has driven his record sales well into the millions.
But their rhyming skills aren't what has landed Lil Wayne – who also goes by the monikers of “Birdman, Jr.”, “Weezy F. Baby”, “Weezy (something unprintable) Baby” or “Tha Carter” – and the real Baby Baby on the tongues of multiple hip-hop heads as of late.
What has set the email boxes abuzz is a photograph of Lil' Wayne and Baby planting a kiss smack dab on one another's lips. Immediately, the machismo-filled world of hardened rappers and wannabe rhymers explained away the image as something doctored or Photoshoped, reasoning that manly heroes like Lil' Wayne and Baby would never attempt such a move.
Yet recently, Baby finally addressed the firestorm of controversy in an interview with DJ Uptown Angela on Q93, a Clear Channel station in New Orleans, and admitted that the photo only expressed the real father/son relationship that exists between Baby and Lil' Wayne.
“Before I had a child, Wayne and all of them were my children, you heard me?” Baby said, using the same colloquialisms often spouted by other New Orleans native sons like Master P and Juvenile.
“Wayne to me is my son – my first-born son – and that's what it do for me,” Baby told Uptown Angela. “That's my life, that's my love and that's my thing. That's my lil' son. I love him to death.”
Others question whether or not the photo of Lil Wayne kissing baby is a fake move to drive up the controversy quotient for the “Like Father, Like Son” album, or if the photo surfaced from a former Cash Money brother-turned-rival “Gillie The Kid”, who has reportedly taken credit for the release of the much circulated pic.
“Haters – that's just life. I don't even trip off that,” Baby surmised about all the backlash. “I go to the bank in the morning. I can go buy whatever I feel like. So, I don't even set trip off that,” Baby said. “Can't nobody live my life, but me and I don't try to live nobody else's life.”
The final hammer has just fallen at the 17th WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna, Austria, and there's a new "World's Most Expensive Camera"—an 1839 Daguerreotype Giroux (above) was sold for €732,000, premiums included (approximately $899,000 and £622,000 at today's exchange rates). It is the most ever paid for a camera. (Alphonse Giroux was the brother-in-law of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotype—and generally credited as the primary inventor of photography, although the full story is more interesting. Note Daguerre's signature on the camera's label—click on the image to see it larger.) WestLicht expert Michel Auer stated that all other Giroux cameras are in public museums.
Several rare Leicas also achieved good prices at the sale, including #15 of the "0 Series" M3 prototypes—a rare perfect survivor from among 65 M3 prototypes produced, many of which no longer exist—which sold for €130,000 ($160,000, £110,000) exclusive of premiums. (With the lens I just wrote about the other day.)
Mike
(Thanks to Dave)
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Brian Smith, USA, 1959, is most known for his celebrity portrait photography. When looking at his collection we see a vast number of Hollywood stars portrayed by Smith. Recently he has been working on a project called Art & Soul. Portraits of celebrities with personal notes on how exposure to arts positively impacted their lives. These photographs will be collected in a coffee table book and was already presented to the White House to lobby for more funding for the arts and art education.
Times staff writer Zohreen Adamjee interviews photographer Gary Friedman (top) and reporter Nathan Olivarez-Giles about the photographer-reporter dynamic on a project. Gary was shooting pictures in Jay Leno's garage for Nathan's story on 3-D printers.
To go behind the scenes on the steps photographers take before walking into a photo shoot and how they work with reporters to capture the best pictures, click on the arrow below to hear audio of Gary:
To listen to the behind-the scenes clip with Nathan, click on the arrow below:
Be sure to also read Nathan's story on 3-D printers.
Also make sure to take a look at pictures that Gary took in Jay's garage, including the ones that weren't selected for publication.
Deep inside each of us, there is something that makes us want to be remembered. Some people want to leave a legacy behind by doing good works. Many will settle for capturing memories on print (or even digital media as the case applies these days). While there are a few people who would rather not have their photos taken, they are really not that many, are they?
Photos are even more essential for special occasions such as weddings. If you are in the Surrey, UK area, you might want to pay a visit to the blog Chris Mann Photography – wedding & portrait photographer – Surrey UK. Here you’ll read about and see the work of talented photographer Chris Mann. If you are in the market for a photographer, you will definitely appreciate what Chris can do for you to preserve those memories that you won’t ever want to forget.
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