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By Carlos Miller
On this Fourth of July, while most of you will be taking it easy, I will be working my weekend gig at NBCMiami - not that I am complaining.
And while we celebrate freedom and democracy, we should also understand that we are not technically [...]
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There is something perfect about this screen shot I happened to save from the video formally introducing Sarah Palin at and to the RNC.
In quitting the governorship today, Palin positions herself where she likes (and, at this point, probably needs) to operate -- which is as far from [...]
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The beauty of Getty photographer John Moore's image of Schwarzenegger's press conference/photo op as he blasts the legislature while upping state worker furloughs and issuing tax refund, bank and vendor IOU's?
...Yes, what about the children?
(The NYT piece has another Moore image, this one conveying [...]
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A telling image as the U.S. military withdraws from Iraqi cities in favor of large and discrete operating bases.
The symmetry between human and sculpted hands draws a (historical) parallel between America and BushCo., with its imperial aims, and the hands and designs of [...]
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The Washington Post produced a 10-page special section previewing the 2009 AT&T National. The cover illustration is by Meredith Bowen.
The doubletruck folds into a map-like event guide. The Post's online hub for the golf [...]
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Photo by Michael Wolf
Photo by Michael Wolf
By Carlos Miller
The New York Times photo blog posted an incredible collection of photos by Michael Wolf, who specializes in cityscape photography.
The photos of the buildings he takes are riveting with their [...]
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Number of comments: 6 By Carlos Miller
You have to wonder about the IQ of some officers. Or at least the maturity level.
Here you have an officer who is 52 years old; a 20 year veteran with the New York Police Department who moves down to Florida and gets a job with the Tarpon [...]
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Number of comments: 2 By Carlos Miller
Miami Beach police are beginning to release more details in the pair of shootings that occurred four days apart last month.
If you remember, one officer was involved in both of them. I’ve been following this closely on NBCMiami.
Today, police acknowledged that they are not even sure [...]
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 Michael Cina - Cofounder, YouWorkForThem
Michael Cina is the cofounder of the renowned design studio YouWorkForThem and currently runs the Minneapolis, MN studio. He has experimented with many forms of design and is well known for his remarkable typographic work that can be found [...]
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Admit it. Your seven-year-old nephew could out-HTML tag you any day and you think that a Cascading Style Sheet is something with a thread count. That's where the Mediabistro mothership comes in. They've asked us to tell you about the upcoming weekend course in [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
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Admit it. Your seven-year-old nephew could out-HTML tag you any day and you think that a Cascading Style Sheet is something with a thread count. That's where the Mediabistro mothership comes in. They've asked us to tell you about the upcoming weekend course in [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
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 Photo by Lars Pryds Oulu Finland was the site of SNDScandinavia’s annual workshop - Oulu24 from May 14 to 16. Why the 24? A whole lot of sun! It was light almost around the clock. Oulu is located in the northern part of Finland, about 75 miles [...]
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Staying on celebrities for a minute, Architectural Digest cover model, Brad Pitt, has released a slew of new house designs for his Make It Right project which builds houses to replace those damaged or destroyed by the flooding in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:59am EDT
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(Photos: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
What do you get when you combine America's History Channel-stoked fascination with all things World War II (admit it, you're not immune to the charms of grainy Hitler footage) with the burgeoning national pastime known as [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:03am EDT
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Returning to another story from days past: first, way back at the start of last year, we told you about a rumor that Sarah Jessica Parker's production company was planning a reality show/competition about the contemporary art world. Then, this April, we informed you about the [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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Following up on a story we told you about back in early January, the clothing company Benetton has either picked the worst time or the best time to unveil the shortlist of their Designing in Teheran architecture competition, which will result in two new towers [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:01am EDT
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NBC Sports/msnbc.com has scooped up Pro Football Talk and the partnership debuted this week. The first-day traffic was double PFT's previous best for the date.
PFT - author Mike Florio's gossipy news feed on the NFL - has been around since 2001 but this certainly [...]
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After a two day gap in his Iran coverage, Toronto tweeter faramarz posted this shot on his flickr site. His caption:
"...calmly walking away after they break into your home and do as much damage as possible."
What's instructive about this photo -- besides the tension and [...]
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It's bright. It's arty. It's rainbow. It's stimulus dollars for the 'hood rather than bailout bucks for the banksters. ...And, he's smiling.
After a bit of a rocky start, the Tim Geithner reboot hits pay dirt.
(image: our friend, Mario Tama/Getty Images caption: NEW YORK - JUNE [...]
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The people have spoken, and they liked the old Hartford Courant, before the paper's hasty redesign last summer in the wake of significant staff cuts. And the paper has listened, reverting to the traditional horizontal placement of the nameplate and scrapping the wee ".com" that the redesign [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:49am EDT
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"I have always been interested in finding that place where it's not narrative anymore. Narrative tells you what to think. I'm trying to create an image of my truth that other people will look at and say, 'Oh, that looks real. I know that.' I just [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 11:33pm EDT
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Number of comments: 13 By Carlos Miller
How bad does it get when you have to call 911 on a cop who is responding to a noise complaint?
It happened in San Diego County last weekend when a deputy responding to the noise complaint appeared “out of control” with a “raged look in his eyes.”
And [...]
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In probing interviews, she reminds the world just how much design matters. She wrote the book on how to think like a great graphic designer. And now, it's official: UnBeige favorite Debbie Millman is the president of AIGA. She replaces outgoing president Sean Adams, who will remain [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
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We've covered a little bit of that "video games as art" movement from time to time, that desire in the industry to try to make games more emotionally touching, like films often have the ability to do. Now comes an interesting piece about Jason Rohrer, perhaps [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
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Some fun bits of funny from our sister blog Agency Spy who found this series of very humorous reactions to the Cannes Grand Prix-winning campaign for Wrangler by the agency Fred & Farid and photographer Ryan McGinley. The campaign itself features half-naked attractive people in [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 10:04am EDT
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Perhaps as a way of gloating in front of Prince Charles by essentially saying there's nothing he can do to touch the 2012 London Olympics' architecture plans, or maybe just to try and patch up some of the "Does the UK have an architectural future?" talk [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 8:02am EDT
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Starbucks, the ubiquitous coffee chain who has struggled this past little while now that not as many people find spending five dollars every morning on coffee mixed with milk, have decided, along with their recent moves to make their offerings more healthy, to update their image [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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Craig Robinson has put together a pretty cool site dedicated to his love for creating sports graphics - Flip Flop Fly Ball. Lots of fun ideas there (and the pixel portraits are great, too).
Thanks to Martin Gee for the link.
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