01.30.08

Read the Fine Print

Posted in Rants, Work, advice, art direction, photography at 5:20 pm by India

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Creative Commons licenses are a wonderful thing. Without them, I’d probably be unable to do my job, so I am extremely grateful to all who apply a CC license to their photos.

All, that is, except people who mark their work with a CC license and then get huffy when someone actually uses it.
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01.11.08

Pulchritudinous penmanship

Posted in Inspiration, Work, art, books, photography at 2:06 pm by India

“1860 Warsaw 1″ by Zeva Oelbaum, 2006

We posted a lovely gallery today at Nextbook.org: yeshiva students’ scribblings on their textbooks’ endpapers, photographed by Zeva Oelbaum: Biblical Marginalia. Click the “View Gallery” link under Eve M. Kahn’s byline to see the slideshow.

I guess they didn’t have that rule that one of my schools did, which if I recall correctly was that if you marked up your school-issued textbook, you had to pay for a new one.

Shown above: 1860 Warsaw 1 by Zeva Oelbaum, 2006.

09.18.07

The Power of Books

Posted in Inspiration, art, books, photography at 11:31 am by India