Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sunday Links

+ It's Easter and what better way to spend Easter than looking for "virtual" eggs at W+K London. Yes the staff at Wieden + Kennedy using Mircosoft's Photosynth technology has made a virtual version of their London office and hidden six eggs. Each egg has a number and when put together the right way will provide a phone number. First caller gets a pair of Nikes among other prizes. (BTW : Only works with PC and Intel-based Macs.)

+ The Orange Lounge, a satellite venue of the Orange Country Museum of Art located at South Coast Plaza is closing down after five years.

+ CNET talks to Chuck Westfall, technical adviser for Canon's professional products marketing division about the merging technology of video and stills in Canon's 5D MKII and Rebel T1i

+ "The state of mind required to shoot film is one of heightened, intense concentration and analogous to the mindset required for Zen meditation. It’s pure zen in fact. You are truly living in the moment, electric with anticipation, open to life unfolding before you.

The state of mind when shooting digital is more relaxed, more easily distracted. It’s more like everyday life, nothing that special is required."

- Doug Menuez Zen of film vs. digital gratification

+ Photo Business News & Forum remarks on how Getty Images lost the NFL licensing deal to AP.

+ ArtBabble.com launches. Think of it as YouTube for Art.

+ LA Times today profiles Daniel Wheeler underwater art photographer who currently has a show at Duncan Miller Gallery

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