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iPad Mini Competition… Just Like and Share!
Enter for the iPad Mini, just "Like" and "Share"!°
So you want to go in the draw for a brand new Apple iPad Mini? Just Like and Share our Facebook page and you will be in the draw to win°. Winners will be drawn on the 28th February 2013 and announced on the icu2 Facebook page, blog and in a private message.
Bonus offer! The WOMO Promo. 25% off* everything, well almost everything.
You must be absolutely wrapped that you didn't get that new website last year! As part of the Happy Customer Program, icu2 is offering all WOMO members 25% off* a new site and the entire range of icu2 marketing services‡. Don't let this one slip, the offer ends on the 28th of February 2012 and is available to only 20 customers! So be quick!
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Offer available to first 20 orders via WOMO
Offer ends 28th February 2013
May not be used in conjunction with other offers
Discount applies to; Websites, Mobile sites, Logo design, Graphic design, Content writing, Google Optimisation.
‡ 25% Discount does not apply to printing or signage services.
iPad Mini Competition open to general public – iPad Mini Competition winner randomly selected by computer on Friday 28th February 2013 and notified by Facebook in addition to being announced on www.icu2.com.au, www.icu2.com.au/blog, www.facebook.com.au/icu2online
iPad specifications: 16Gb Wifi Apple iPad Mini
For more information about this promo visit http://www.icu2.com.au/womopromo or call 03 9940 1424 or email: email@example.com
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Good Flash Banner Animation & Design
Flash banner design and animation can be a very effective and engaging way to get your message across, but how can you stand out and not get lost in the crowd? ICU2 shares some tips learned from some of our more recent Flash banner campaigns for the financial services market.
While in recent years, click-through rates on Flash banner ads may have declined, well targeted and well designed ads can still be very effective.
icu2 enters web design awards
Award Entry View: The Pool Place
Address: http://thepoolplace.com.au
Category: Commercial
Name: Dom Dedic
Telephone: 03 99401424
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Organisation: The Pool Place
Contact: Harry and Kristina Modric
Telephone: 03 9449 5737
When they purchased their business, Harry and Kristina identified the importance of a website in the marketing mix of their newly acquired business The Pool Place. They contracted icu2 to provide;
- Refinement of branding to be implemented on a new website, social and offline media
- Design and development of website on Joomla CMS
- Simple Blog
- Content writing
- Client
The purpose of the website design was to develop a platform upon which the client can start to develop;
- the local brand
- geotargeted online marketing
- an information resource for their clients
Having developed the site we are now at the next stage of the project is to develop content and provide SEO (White hat of course!)
Primarily 30+ market
Wife is crucial in the decision process
Young, ambitious and aspirational
Young, Sophisticated
Combined income of $150,000+
Whilst all the other competitors focus on a "family fun" message, icu2 identified a gap in the market, where young and aspirational new home owners were not being catered to. There is certainly a cross over into the family market, the main message is one of quality, success. Think "Pool Cocktail Party".
The objective of the website was to relaunch an existing brand as a new business. It was important to take this into consideration when developing the online branding, as the company already had achieved some brand recognition. It was important to provide a solution with which existing customers would still identify, but clearly show that something had changed (for the better) at The Pool Place.
Since then the online branding from the website has transferred across online and traditional media including;
- Social media (http://www.facebook.com/ThePoolPlaceMelbourne)
- Point of Sale (http://icu2.com.au/blog/exhibition-display-design-tp/)
- Transit (current project)
Technical Features
– jQuery Slider
– jQuery drop down menu system
– jShopping component
– Gallery
– Blog
– Autoresponders and mySQL database from forms
– Social Media sharing/liking widgets
From a usability perspective, it was important that the website was easy to navigate. In addition to the menu system, the client requested that they could feature specific products on their home page. On this basis an existing component was adapted to the requirement
The main challenge was establishing a unique online brand image that was visually strong enough to be easily identified from the competitors. We were interested in creating differentiation from other fibreglass pool companies who all looked very similar to eachother. This was achieved with the angular styling (referring to the edges of the swimming pools when photographed from different angles), use of colour, form and repeating patterns creates a very unique visual.
The other challenge was in developing engaging written content that was interesting and captivating.
Who does content updates?
Project Team
|Dom Dedic
|Creative Director and Project Co-ordinator
|Sanjay Hadiya
|Mid weight Programmer (Team Leader)
|CSS and PHP coding in Joomla and Worpress.
|Christine Wheeler
|Mid weight designer
|Graphic design, concept development, preparation of art for web
|Andy Roberts
|Aakash Dodiya
|Senior Programmer
|Quality Control, testing and debugging.
|Mohammod Owais Khan
|SEO Consultant
|Keyword Research/Keyword Competitor Research
|Bas Ellenbroek
|SEO Consultant
|Ongoing Onpage/Offpage Optimisation/Copywriting
Name/s on Certificate
Entrant Contact
Name: Dom Dedic
Telephone: 03 99401424
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Have you run validation?
Accessibility Compliance Level
A week gone in a flash
What a great first week to the new financial year. We powered through a whole bunch of brand new work, most notably the commencement of flash design for Enfinium. Seb and Jake both came up with some awesome concepts for the new flash banner campaign, which we will be presenting to our client early next week. Very exciting indeed!
Now get your dancin' shoes on to this weeks Happy Friday track… James Brown – Funky President


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After a bad fall that smashed my airway, I needed septoplasty and also opted for rhinoplasty to fix the cosmetic damage that resulted as well.
My advice to anyone undergoing this type of procedure- do not be afraid to ask questions, read everything provided to you - instructions, advice, limitations, expectations this will help you be mentally prepared for everything. MOST IMPORTANTLY- BE POSITIVE...you will heal faster....trust and have faith in your surgeon. I would not hesitate to go through my process all over again-surgery was worth every single penny!
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A product of Junction City, Kan., Zimmerman was one of K-State's most consistent defenders during the 2010 season. His 69 tackles this year are seven shy of entering the top-five list for a freshman in school history, while he ranks second among Big 12 freshmen in tackles entering the bowl season.
Zimmerman also picked off three passes, including two against Texas, while he returned a punt 41 yards at Colorado, the longest by a Wildcat since 2008.
A Second Team All-Big 12 honoree by the league's coaches and an honorable mention pick as the conference's freshman defensive player of the year, Zimmerman was the first true freshman in school history to earn all-conference honors from the league's coaches.
Walker, an Olathe, Kan., native, finished the season with 47 stops, including 38 over the final four games, which were the most by a Wildcat freshman in any four-game stretch since 1996. He carded a career-high 12 tackles and picked off his first career pass at Missouri, while he also had an 11-tackle performance against Texas and a nine-stop effort at Colorado.


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Oscam kills 3D headaches
OSCAM stands for "optimized stereoscopic camera control for interactive 3D". A paper from Thomas Oskam working for ETH Zurich and Disney Research Zurich (Switzerland) has been published in ACM Transactions on Graphics. Available for 15$ (or 10$ for ACM members), the paper describes a realtime method that can be implemented in a graphics card and reduces the stereoscopic disparities to an acceptable level in real time for any 3D content on any 3D screen, be it small or IMAX-size.
The OSCAM paper presents a controller for camera convergence and interaxial separation that specifically addresses challenges in interactivestereoscopic applications like games. In such applications, unpredictable viewer- or object-motion often compromises stereopsis due to excessive binocular disparities. We derive constraints on the camera separation and convergence that enable our controller to automatically adapt to any given viewing situation and 3D scene, providing an exact mapping of the virtual content into a comfortable depth range around the display. Moreover, we introduce an interpolation function that linearizes the transformation of stereoscopic depth over time, minimizing nonlinear visual distortions. We describe how to implement the complete control mechanism on the GPU to achieve running times below 0.2ms for full HD. This provides a practical solution even for demanding real-time applications. Results of a user study show a significant increase of stereoscopic comfort, without compromising perceived realism. Our controller enables 'fail-safe' stereopsis, provides intuitive control to accommodate to personal preferences, and allows to properly display stereoscopic content on differently sized output devices.
Thomas Oskam has many video demos of his past work on his web page.
Original paper
Buy the OSCAM paper for 15$ at the ACM Digital Library.
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Both campaigns have problems with debate moderator Candy Crowley
posted at 12:59 pm on October 15, 2012 by Howard Portnoy
There is not much that President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney agree on, but one common bond has emerged. Neither campaign is particularly thrilled at the prospect of CNN reporter Candy Crowley's moderating their townhall-style debate on Tuesday.
TIME's Mark Halperin explains:
While an early-October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns suggests that CNN's Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday-night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested that she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. As Crowley put it last week, 'Once the table is kind of set by the town-hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, "Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?"'
The two campaigns have independently contacted the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) to voice concerns that Crowley's taking a too-heavy hand in steering topics could skunk the debate.
In the format as envisioned by the CPD, questions—all from undecided voters—are to be decided on in advance. Each candidate gets two minutes to respond, after which another two-minute discussion period takes place. The CPD document outlining the format states:
In managing the two-minute comment periods, the moderator will not rephrase the question or open a new topic … The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits, and invite candidate comments during the two-minute response period.
Clearly Crowley's insertion of "X, Y, Z" flies in the face of those expectations.
As for debate preparations, Obama spokesperson Jen Psaki is pushing back at the notion that the president was unprepared for the first debate because he failed to cram seriously. If true, this should be encouraging to the Romney camp, which can hope that Obama—who is threatening to be "more aggressive"—does the same level of prep and turns in the same lackluster performance.
Another claim that Team Obama is walking back is that the president immediately after the first debate in Denver believed he had won. "Obviously, the president was disappointed in his own performance," campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. "He didn't meet his expectations. He knew when he walked off that stage … that he's got to be more energetic."
For its part, the Romney camp has its work cut out for it. Scott Conway of Real Clear Politics notes that the debate format will be new to candidate Romney. An unnamed senior Romney aide is quoted as saying:
He's done his share of town halls, but a town hall when you're debating is different than a town hall that's yours. It's a town hall where you have only two minutes to answer a question versus a town hall where you can have an honest conversation with somebody about an issue. It's just different. All of these town halls he's done [so far] aren't really typical.
But the GOP nominee has prepared for the debate in part by making impromptu stops at fast-food restaurants and other small venues, which offer face-to-face, unscripted encounters with average Americans.
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Lake Powell Fishing Report
June 24, 2014
Lake Elevation: 3607.25
Water Temperature 71-76 F
By Wayne Gustaveson of Wayne's Words
The last fish report was not very exciting with mundane fishing results. Since then two major events occurred. First the wind quit blowing hard in the afternoons. Second the Summer Solstice on June 21 had a dramatic impact on Lake Powell as the lake started BOILING! I suppose the striper boils were not really caused by the first day of summer. Regardless, going fishing is now terribly exciting once more.


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ABC News gives forum to right-wing press critic
Blog ››› ››› ERIC BOEHLERT
Who claims the media has thrown away all its credibility by fawning over Barack Obama.
The column, by a tech writer named Michael Malone, has been all the rage online for the last week, with practically every conservative writer with an Internet connection linking to the piece and hailing it as the unvarnished truth about the press and the campaign; about the media's "bewildering" "bias" as Malone calls it.
Now abcnews.com had decided to give Malone a truly national platform with a "Special to ABC News" column. And yes, we're still searching abcnews.com for a voice from the left sharply critiquing the media performance during the campaign season. We'll alert you as soon as we find it or when someone at ABC News sends us the link.
That being said, what's worth noting here is that Malone's now-viral column is pretty much loony.
After a long-winded preamble about his deep love for journalism and something about the war in Lebanon, and how, according to Malone, he was, "one of the first people in the traditional media to call for the firing of Dan Rather" (oh good), he finally gets down to a specific example of how the press has thrown away all its credibility by going so easy on Obama.
And here it is: "Why..haven't we seen an interview with Sen. Obama's grad school drug dealer?"
I kid you not. Malone thinks journalism is a joke because Obama's drug dealer from grad school hasn't been interviewed this campaign season.
He then goes on for many, many more paragraphs prescribing how to fix journalism, although Malone did a dreadfully bad job documenting what's wrong with it in the first place. Minus the missing drug dealer, that is.
Like I said, the effort is pretty loopy. But because right-wingers turned it into a blogosphere hit, ABC News thought it was a good idea to reproduce the column on the widely read abcnews.com site.
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help me finish fixing my running toilet
trying to fix a toilet where the tank was constantly running. I bought the new flow valve unit that controls the water filling the tank and want to replace the whole thing since the old one broke near the bottom (brittle plastic or something)
problem is I can't figure out how to remove the plastic that is left. See picture.
can I just start breaking all the plastic and hope what's in the screw hole will break? should I try to break up the seal and go at it that way? thoughts?
any help is appreciated. figured someone here had this problem and has an answer.
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remove big nut under tank its where water supply hooks up...may need a wrench for inside so it don't turn....remove all old stuff...:yes:
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LX3 owners: Is the LCD module aligned correctly?
Panasonic, please correct this problem ASAP.
Virvatulet wrote:
I have been using my LX3 for almost two weeks now and I'm generally
quite happy with it. But I have noticed that the LCD display is
misaligned in relation to the camera body and protective window.
The LCD module behind the window is both at an angle and not in the
middle of the window aperture. To check whether the LCD module is
tilted, just press the menu/set button and compare the line pattern
on bottom to the window aperture edge.
This is not a big thing but it has started to bother me more and
more. Also, I feel that this affects my photography as horizon might
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common issue with early batches?
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This is the week that will never end.
I swear, the short weeks are the worst. Especially since we're snowy and for whatever reason, school hasn't been canceled or even delayed. Yesterday all of Fort Carson was on a "phased arrival for non-mission essential" whatever but the kids still had to be at school bright and early.
Lucky for me, I have one kid that goes to a school within walking distance. So he'll either walk with his friends or I'll walk with him. But then the other one's preschool is a good drive away. So I called the secretary yesterday morning and said, "I'm not driving in this."
And she said, "Excuse me?"
And I said, "My kid's not coming to school."
And she said, "Ummm….."
So. We skipped preschool yesterday. Rebels.
At least I called, right?
A few weeks ago, when we made our family trip to IKEA, I tortured my husband (who is doing a strict Paleo diet) by pointing out every sign for their Swedish meatballs. Neither of us have ever tried the meatballs but the pictures were enough to make us both sad that we couldn't have any.
And I'm not gonna lie, I've been thinking about them ever since.
So I made these Paleo ones which really wasn't that hard since meatballs are just balls of meat. So pretty much Paleo to begin with. There's no bread crumbs or anything like that but they have a great texture regardless. And the sauce has coconut milk instead of sour cream or regular cream or whatever typically goes into Swedish meatballs.
If I put these in front of you and left out the fact that they're Paleo, you'd never know. You get no hint of the coconut milk. They really taste like traditional Swedish meatballs. And you could totally mash or rice some cauliflower so you have something to absorb all that delicious sauce.


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Ellen Riojas Clark, Ph. D.
Ellen Riojas Clark, Professor of Bilingual Education, holds a Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Texas at Austin. She recieved a M. A. in Bicultural Bilingual Studies from The University of Texas at San Antonio and a B. A. in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education from Trinity University.
Courses Spring 2006
Research Interests
As the Research Coordinator for the Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE), Dr. Clark's role has been to define the research agenda and protocol for concept papers and research project awards designed to provide new insights of issues associated with the education of Latino and low-income students at the K-16 level. Within this function she is in charge of a process to allocate $47,000 yearly to UTSA faculty and doctoral students.
She served as Co-PI for the Rockefeller Foundation Project: Knowledge, Culture, and Construction of Identity in a Transnational Community: San Antonio, TX. ) that looks at what constitutes transnational identity. This ethnographic study looks at experiences with Mexico/Mexican/Mexican American culture that focus on family, education, work, social and cultural life, and how the aspects of living in two cultures might form identity.
Specifically, her research areas are:
Creative Activities
Dr. Clark served as the Educational Content Director for a nationally acclaimed Scholastic Entertainment PBS children's cartoon series. This sixty-five episode program Maya and Miguel is focused on promoting the value of a culturally diverse society and bilingualism.
Other creative activities include the writing of book reviews and travel articles for the general public in the local newspaper. These reviews with the byline of Las Dos Abuelas and Abuela Ellne/Maria travels to… have generated great interest, provoke intellectual challenge and discussion, and most importantly, interest in reading. Teachers use the articles to promote cultural literacy and to stimulate reading with their students.
Dr. Clark has developed and presented many graduate summer institutes that focused on Latino literature and culture, multicultural education collaborative approaches, curriculum development, cooperative learning and restructuring schools for language minority students at UTSA over the years. These have included the 1999, 2001, 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes Derrumbando Fronteras/ Breaking Boundaries: the Inclusion of Mexican American and Latino Literature and Culture in the Classroom for which she received major NEH funding. Other signature events that she has co-chaired were: the University Conference on Multiculturalism in the United States: Multiculturalism and Democracy: Strategic Alternatives that brought speakers such as Carlos Cortes, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Cornel West, and Jorge Klor de Alva and Luz: Education through Art - Orlando AB. This event included an art exhibit, workshops, and student programs structured in collaboration with the Columbian artist, Orlando Botero, traveled nationally and internationally.
Awards and Grants
Over the years she has received the following:
Professional Service
Dr. Clark has served as a Division G program chair for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for several years and served on many of AERA committees. She was one of the founding members of AERA's Research in Bilingual Education and the Hispanic Research Issues special interest groups. She served on the Editoral Advisory Board for the Bilingual Research Journal and the TESOL Journal. Dr. Clark has served as aNational Science Foundation and American Society for Engineering Education panelist for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program and is presently Co-Editor for the Hispanic American Biographies project, Volumes 1-IV. (Fall, 2007). Brown Publications.
Ellen is an active member of the National, State, and San Antonio Area Associations for Bilingual Education and many other professional organizations.
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Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) Research
Maya & Miguel http://pbskids.org/mayaandmiguel/flash.html
PBS Parents Maya & Miguel: Diversity in Language and Culture
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Android powered TV Box Retro Gaming
So, you have your new Android TV Box or if you are thinking of getting one.
You are looking at all of the features that your Android TV Box can do. One lesser known feature is Android TV Box Retro Gaming.
Yes you can can play current games via the Google Play store staright to your TV which is another great feature of an Android TV Box but via the help of an emulator you can download and roms you can download. You can turn your Android TV Box into a retro haven for Sega and Nintendo.
If you long to play the classics like Mario or Sonic again, as the newer ones just don't cut it, then this is perfect for you. The Roms you download are all the original games, most have on screen instructions so picking it up is a breeze.
We have collated links for a selection of Roms for you on our downloads page. Simply click the link below.
Retro gaming Android TV box
So What is a Rom?
A ROM is essentially the game itself. It stands for Read-Only Memory, but it has come to indicate the file used for playing a game. Only download those which you own a physical copy of. We don't endorse any ROM downloading, and you take matters into your own hands when doing this.
When searching for ROMs, be sure that no websites try to download anything other than .apk file (on Android). All ROMs should be .zip files, and you shouldn't need to unzip them, just select the zipped folder with the emulator. File types such as .exe or .apk or programs that run on your PC or Android device and can be harmful.
Older games will likely be smaller in size, newer games will be larger.
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I have used DPLF for years and even though I have recently changed to SPI epoxy which I much prefer I do not think the PPG is a bad product. I am in the middle of repairing some bubbles in the crease of my 36 Ford roadster door that was painted 4 years ago. The door was stripped to bare metal, primed with DPLF, primed with K36, sealed with DPLF and painted with Concept? In order to determine why it failed I took a razor blade to it yesterday to determine at what level it failed.
I was amazed to find the bubbles go all the way to bare metal. All layers of paint have good adhesion. To my surprise the metal is perfectly clean and shiny.......Too shiny. THIS FAILURE IS MY FAULT. When I stripped this door I treated it with RustMort and wire brushed the crease area. There is no doubt The failure is the result of me failing to neutralize the acid and/or polishing the metal to the point the paint had no tooth to bond to. Add to this it was painted in a very cool shop.
The point I am trying to make is these modern materials work by chemical reactions and depend on the proper procedures being followed. That includes temperature, preparation, Mixing ratios etc, etc. Rarely is a failure due to the product being bad even though I wish I could blame it on the paint.
John H
So the rest of the door didnt have any adheasion issues,it was just at the body line???
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text: Colin Morgan: "It's great to end Merlin on a high" The star of the fantasy drama, who beat Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch at the National Television Awards, thanked fans for their "fantastic support" Comments Written By James Gill 8:21 PM, 23 January 2013 Colin Morgan says that although Merlin is no more, he's proud to have ended the series by winning the National Television Award for Best Male Performance. "It's been a five year journey for ourselves, so it's a huge honour to end on a high after that and get the recognition from the fans," he said after collecting his award. Morgan pipped both Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock and Matt Smith in Doctor Who to the gong, and claims that his award was down to the support of the Merlin series' fans. "They're very supportive," he said. "We got to experience that when we went to comic book conventions – fantastic support." Fans of the fantasy series will be disappointed to learn that there's little chance of an onscreen Merlin reunion for the cast. "I don't think that's going to happen, but who knows? We're definitely going to stay friends though," said Morgan. He also explained how he was enjoying the challenge of his new TV series Quirke in Ireland alongside Gabriel Byrne – although he still wasn't allowed to use his native Irish voice. "Although I'm working in Dublin, I'm still not using my own accent! Hopefully I'll get to use my own accent soon," he said. Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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When Ari Ne'eman walked onstage at a college campus in Pennsylvania in June, he looked like a handsome young rabbi presiding over the bar mitzvah of a young Talmudic scholar.
In truth, Ne'eman was facilitating a different kind of coming-of-age ceremony. Beckoning a group of teenagers to walk through a gateway symbolizing their transition into adult life, he said, "I welcome you as members of the autistic community." The setting was an annual gathering called Autreat, organized by an autistic self-help group called Autism Network International.
Ne'eman's deliberate use of the phrase "the autistic community" was more subversive than it sounds. The notion that autistic people — often portrayed in the media as pitiable loners — would not only wear their diagnosis proudly, but want to make common cause with other autistic people, is still a radical one. Imagine a world in which most public discussion of homosexuality was devoted to finding a cure for it, rather than on the need to address the social injustices that prevent gay people from living happier lives. Though the metaphor is far from exact (for example, gay people obviously don't face the impairments that many autistic people do), that's the kind of world that autistic people live in.
Now, as the first openly autistic White House appointee in history — and one of the youngest at age 22 — Ne'eman is determined to change that.
In December, he was nominated by President Obama to the National Council on Disability (NCD), a panel that advises the President and Congress on ways of reforming health care, schools, support services and employment policy to make society more equitable for people with all forms of disability.
Ne'eman spoke to Wired.com in July in his first interview with the media since his appointment.
Growing up in New Jersey as a kid with Asperger's syndrome, Ne'eman struggled with an inability to parse the social cues that most "neurotypical" people take for granted — such as the little smiles, ironic eye-rolling and other forms of nonverbal expression — which made him the butt of endless bullying. Instead of being able to attend a good school in his hometown, Ne'eman was forced to attend a segregated school for special-needs kids located more than an hour from home, an experience that the bright, aspiring policy wonk found immensely frustrating.
Shortly after graduating high school, Ne'eman launched a national organization called the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, which helps people network with one another to gain access to crucial support services and fight for their civil rights. Ne'eman's nomination to the NCD was hailed as a milestone by groups like the American Association of People with Disabilities.
His nomination proved controversial, in part because some self-proclaimed allies of the autistic community think national dialogue on the subject should focus primarily on finding causes and cures so that autism can be prevented in future generations.
In March, the editor of an anti-vaccine website called The Age of Autism challenged Ne'eman's ability to serve the needs of more profoundly impaired autistic people. "Do the highest functioning with the community," wrote Kim Stagliano, "have a right to dictate the services and research that should be available for their less fortunate 'peers?' I don't think so."
Some of these online attacks escalated into threats. One anonymous emailer to a federal agency in Washington wrote that "assholes like Ari Ne'eman" should "have their tongues cut out" for suggesting that autistic people need respect, civil rights, and access to services more than they need pity and a cure. This conviction has made him a leader of the emerging neurodiversity movement, which Ne'eman sees as a natural outgrowth of the civil rights, women's rights, and disability rights movements of the late 20th century.
In the wake of the controversy, an anonymous Senate hold was put on Ne'eman's nomination. While this hold was in place, he was unavailable to talk to the press. But just before the coming-of-age ceremony at Autreat, the hold was dropped, and he was finally able to take his seat on the council. Now, Ne'eman says, he's eager to clear the air about what he really believes about autism, neurodiversity, the controversy over his nomination, and what autistic people really need.
Wired.com: Much of the national conversation about autism in recent years has centered around statements by celebrities like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey who claim that autism is caused by vaccines and other environmental factors, and can be cured by things like special diets, behavioral interventions, and alternative medicine. Is that the most productive conversation we can be having about autism as a society?
Ari Ne'eman: No. There's a disturbing lack of attention to science in that conversation, but the problem goes deeper than that. What we have is a national dialogue on autism without the voices of the people who should be at the center: those who are on the [autism] spectrum ourselves. Instead of focusing on things like quality of life and civil rights, the autism community has been distracted by narrow questions of causation and cure.
Going back to the dark days of Bruno Bettelheim and "refrigerator mothers," the focus of the conversation has been on placing the blame for autism, and on trying to make autistic people something we are not and never can be: normal. This focus on a cure has prevented us from actually helping people. There's been a lot of progress in the disability rights movement over the past 20 years, but people on the spectrum haven't benefited from it because those representing us at the national level have been focused on causes and cures.
We need to stop making autism advocacy about trying to create a world where there aren't any autistic people, and start building one in which autistic people have the rights and support they deserve. That's the goal of groups like ASAN, Autism Network International, and of the neurodiversity movement as a whole.
Wired.com: The most prominent and well-funded autism advocacy group in America is Autism Speaks. Is this group not doing its job?
Ne'eman: The core of the dispute between autistic people and Autism Speaks is a problem that's very common in the disability community: organizations that claim to speak for disabled people without including them in the conversation. Groups like Autism Speaks have taken tremendous amounts of money out of local communities, but haven't included the people they claim to be serving in their decision-making structure. Promoting fear of autism and pity for autistic people may be good for their bottom line, but it actually hurts us in our efforts to have the kind of lives we deserve to have.
Autism Speaks raises lots of money through their walks for a cure, but only four cents on every dollar goes to services for autistic individuals and families. That's surprising and concerning, given the kinds of challenges that people are facing in today's fiscal climate with state budget cuts leading to the gutting of services. Instead, the money goes to advance Autism Speaks' research and advertising agendas.
Obviously, funding autism research is very important. There's a lot that could be done to significantly improve autistic people's quality of life. But instead, groups like Autism Speaks have been prioritizing things like developing prenatal tests to detect autism in the womb. That doesn't help the millions of autistic people who have already been born. Very few of us wake up in the morning and think, "Have they developed a proper mouse model for autism yet?" Instead, autistic people and their parents worry about finding the educational and support services that they need.
Wired.com: Many Wired readers work in the tech and software industries. How could they help improve the lives of autistic people?
Ne'eman: If we put one-tenth of the money currently spent on looking for causes and cures into developing technologies that enable autistic people with speech challenges to communicate more easily — so-called augmentative and alternative communication [AAC] — we'd have a vast improvement in the quality of life for autistic people and their family members.
We've already seen some very promising tools for AAC and other assistive technologies start proliferating on the iPad and the iPhone. But Medicaid won't pay for such dual-use devices, despite the fact that having an AAC app running on an iPad may be much cheaper and more functional than carrying around a dedicated AAC device. That should change, because AAC devices are currently too expensive and often not versatile enough to be used in a diverse set of circumstances.
Second, I'd love to see research into ways of using social media to improve access for disabled people. If there was some kind of web-based tool or mobile app that enables people to flag buildings with "very good" or "very bad" access, it could spur a lot of positive social change.
Finally, there should be websites or apps that enable disabled people to rate their service providers and record their experiences, like the websites that already exist for college students to rate their professors. The internet has proven to be very important for autistic people, because it's given us a chance to connect with each other and start to form a culture of our own. We've barely begun to tap the potential of handheld networked devices to assist with the kinds of deficits in executive functioning and life skills that many of us on the spectrum face. Mobile devices and apps could be very helpful in improving prospects for employment and education across the whole life span of autistic people — not just when we're kids.
Wired.com: The news of your appointment to the National Council on Disability was greeted with praise from groups like the Autism Society of America and the American Association of People with Disabilities, but also stinging attacks. On one site, a mother of two autistic kids compared you to a "blind surgeon" who would be unable to do an effective job on the council. Were you surprised by the intensity of these attacks?
Ne'eman: I was, actually. The level of prejudice was pretty shocking. Some people relied on outrageous but all-too-familiar stereotypes to claim that it doesn't make sense to have an autistic person on the National Council on Disability, such as the bizarre notion that autistic people are emotionless sociopaths. The weirdest accusation was that I got the appointment because my parents are Israeli — a reminder of the anti-Semitism that lurks behind many types of conspiracy theories.
But I think other people raised understandable concerns, and I want to engage with them. After my first meeting with the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee at the Department of Health and Human Services, a woman told me that after hearing me talk about the dangers of over-prescribing psychiatric medication to autistic kids, she felt more confident that my work on the council will be relevant to her kid's life.
For anyone who's wondering if my service on the council will have a positive impact on the life of their child, I invite them to take a close look at what we're trying to do. I think they'll be pleasantly surprised. My intention is to be a voice for the issues that matter for all autistic people and our families, such as services, support, and education.
Wired.com: Some of your critics suggest that as a "high-functioning" person with Asperger's syndrome, you present an overly rosy picture of life on the spectrum. You work in D.C., do a lot of public speaking and networking, and are obviously capable of things that someone who lives in a wheelchair or can't speak cannot do.
Ne'eman: I know quite a few people in D.C. who use wheelchairs, and I know people who use AAC devices and work in public policy. Some of my mentors fall into those categories. So while I'd agree that there are many things I do that some other autistic people can't, I wouldn't say that it's the fact that I'm not a wheelchair user or an AAC user that makes that the case.
I recognize that I'm fortunate in many respects and am able to do things that some other autistic people can't do. But I would also point out that these things didn't — and don't now — come easily to me. I've been fortunate to be able to count on the inclusive culture of the broader disability-rights movement to help support me.
There's a strange idea out there that neurodiversity advocates think that autistic life is all flowers and rainbows, but I don't know anyone who thinks that way. Most of us have had deeply personal experiences of social isolation, bullying and abuse, lack of support, discrimination, and plenty of other problems. But it's much more productive for us to focus on how we can improve people's lives than to keep presenting people as pitiable burdens.
No more pity. It doesn't help anybody.
Many of the bad things that autistic people struggle with are things that happen to us, rather than things that are bad about being autistic. Why is that an important distinction? I remember reading a blog post from a parent who pointed to two news stories. One was about a mother who had murdered her autistic child because she couldn't deal with the fact that he wasn't normal, and the other was about a school aide who had abused a child. And the blogger said, "This is what autism is like. That's why we need to find a cure."
I find that kind of thinking despicable: One would think the fault there isn't with autism, but with abusers and murderers! As long as we confuse bad things that happen to autistic people with what it means to be autistic, we're not going to be solving the problems that autistic people face in any meaningful way.
Wired.com: What are the goals of the neurodiversity movement?
Ne'eman: The neurodiversity movement takes the concepts of self-determination and equal legitimacy that we as a society have applied to differences of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and other disabilities, and applies them to the fact that people are born with different types of minds as well. Instead of asking, "How do other people think we should be?" we're asking, "What do we want for our own lives?"
The goals of the neurodiversity movement coincide with the goals of the broader disability and civil rights movements. We have a lot of solidarity between us. When a hold was put on my nomination last spring, I was grateful to have the support of groups like the American Association of People with Disabilities and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. What we're all trying to do is in the grand historical tradition of people fighting to achieve equal opportunity and control their own destiny.
When the Child Study Center at New York University launched its "ransom notes" ad campaign in 2007 — which defamed autistic people by depicting autism as a criminal who kidnapped your "real" child — the whole disability community fought alongside us. I think it was Ben Franklin who said, "We must all hang together or we'll surely hang separately." Right now, we're trying to put that into practice in the disability community with coalitions like the Justice for All Action Network, a collaboration of the country's leading self-advocacy groups.
Wired.com: What role do gatherings like Autreat, where autistic people create their own social space, play in fostering respect for neurodiversity?
Ne'eman: For a group of people who are socially isolated and ostracized, it's necessary to have access to a culture in which we can socialize with others on terms that make sense to us, free of rules of conduct like having to make frequent eye contact or indulge in small talk. Having access to our own culture makes it easier for us to go out into an often very hostile world and face it with more confidence, with the knowledge that our differences and challenges are not things that make us wrong, just different.
Much of our time in the broader world is lived with a certain amount of fear. Day-to-day life in a world built for neurotypical people can be like walking through a minefield. There are a lot of social rules that we don't understand, and tremendous consequences inflicted on us for violating them. Coming to a place like Autreat, designed by and for autistic people, feels like coming home. Being able to visit places like that gives us the base of confidence and strength that we need to then go out and change society to become more welcoming for all types of people.
Wired.com: For much of the 20th Century, autistic people were culturally invisible, confined to institutions or behind walls of social shame created by the misguided theories of people like Bettelheim. Now autism is much more visible. Clare Danes just won an Emmy for playing Temple Grandin, the autistic author and animal behavior expert. Books portraying autistic people, such as Marc Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and John Elder Robison's Look Me In the Eye, have become bestsellers. How do autistic people feel about this cultural shift?
Ne'eman: It's better that people understand a little bit more about what autism is, but at the same time, it's only a limited step forward. Now autism is considered an appropriate subject for "very special episodes" of popular TV shows. But you still have to have some kind of savant skill, or astonishing success story, to be worthy of representation in the media.
People shouldn't have to learn about autism from Temple Grandin, John Elder Robison, or Ari Ne'eman. People should learn about autism by virtue of the fact that there are autistic people in their schools, workplaces, and communities. We'll know we've really made progress when having autistic people in your life seems totally unsurprising.
Wired.com: What advice would you give to neurotypical people who want to become effective allies of the autistic community?
Ne'eman: At the political level, watch where your money is going. There are a lot of well-meaning people who think they're helping us by donating to Autism Speaks or other groups looking for a cure. It would be better for people to get involved in their local communities and ask tough questions like, "Is my school inclusive? Is my workplace willing to hire autistic people and other people with disabilities?"
Wired.com: What do you hope to accomplish in Washington?
Ne'eman: All across the country, we have hundreds of thousands of people on waiting lists for access to community services. People with disabilities don't have the support we need to live independently, be employed, and participate in civic life. Instead, because of a bias in the way Medicaid is structured, many of us are segregated in institutions, which offer a much lower quality of life to disabled people at the same time that it works out to be much more expensive. It's easier to get states to pay for an institution than to get them to allow people to access services in their homes. Making community services more accessible would be a huge game changer for all kinds of people with disabilities.
Passing one particular piece of legislation — the Community Choice Act — would accomplish that. The Community Choice Act would make it so that states would be required to pay for supports and services at home or in the community, but it would actually save money, because institutional placements are very expensive. There's no reason not to do this.
Wired.com: In May 2013, a revised version of the so-called bible of psychiatry, the DSM-5, will abolish the diagnostic category of Asperger's syndrome in favor of folding so-called Aspies into the larger category of people with autism-spectrum disorders. Why are some Aspies up in arms about this?
Ne'eman: There's a lot of misunderstanding surrounding the DSM-5. The Asperger's diagnosis is being combined with other autism-spectrum diagnoses into a single diagnosis. I've heard people worry that because the Asperger's diagnosis is being eliminated as a separate category, those people won't have access to services. That's just not true.
The DSM-5 will simply recognize the fact that often what determines whether a person is diagnosed with Asperger's, autism, or PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified) is which doctor they see. Even when doctors are capable of accurately diagnosing someone on the spectrum — and many are not — there isn't a uniform medical opinion about which diagnosis people should receive. This isn't just a matter of semantics. There are states that will pay for services for people with a diagnosis of autistic disorder, but not for people with Asperger's or PDD-NOS, even if the individuals have precisely same needs. That's the problem that the DSM-5 is intended to solve.
Wired.com: Though you criticize groups like Autism Speaks for focusing on a cure, if someone offered you a pill to wake up tomorrow without autism, would you take it?
Ne'eman: That's an intensely silly question. How can I draw a line around one part of my brain and say that this is the autistic part, and the rest of me is something else? That way of looking at autism is predicated on the strange idea that there was or is a normal person somewhere inside me, hidden by autism, and struggling to get out. That's not reality.
As a society, our approach to autism is still primarily "How do we make autistic people behave more normally? How do we get them to increase eye contact and make small talk while suppressing hand-flapping and other stims?" The inventor of a well-known form of behavioral intervention for autism, Dr. Ivar Lovaas, who passed away recently, said that his goal was to make autistic kids indistinguishable from their peers. That goal has more to do with increasing the comfort of non-autistic people than with what autistic people really need.
Lovaas also experimented with trying to make what he called effeminate boys normal. It was a silly idea around homosexuality, and it's a silly idea around autism. What if we asked instead, "How can we increase the quality of life for autistic people?" We wouldn't lose anything by that paradigm shift. We'd still be searching for ways to help autistic people communicate, stop dangerous and self-injurious behaviors, and make it easier for autistic people to have friends.
But the current bias in treatment — which measures progress by how non-autistic a person looks — would be taken away. Instead of trying to make autistic people normal, society should be asking us what we need to be happy.
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9th April 2006, 02:16 PM
Greetings. Found a nice car to add to my small collection - ('87 9K turbo & '80 900T 5-door w/16V transplant). I would appreciated suggestions on where to start in diagnosing low turbo boost in the '92 2.3 turbo. It feels much slower than my daughter's '93 9K CS Turbo/2.3, and my boost guage goes only 1/3 into the yellow....nowhere near the orange. I've checked as many vacuum hoses as I could find without crawling underneath yet. It has Bosch plugs, near new, but I've ordered the NGK which the book calls for. The TCS light is on, but the car is obviously not running in the "limp home" mode....it starts and drives just fine, except for the low boost. Also, the Air Cond. does not come on, and the cruise control does not work....(indicator light does not come on, either). I have checked the clutch and brake pedal cut-off switches. Does anyone know where the cruise control unit is located on the '92? On my '87, it is located on the right side, in the housing containing the cabin blower. Does the '92 rely on vacuum to operate also? Thanks for any help out there.
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i was driving on the highway at 80 and noticed the engine sputter for a moment...my exit was 1/2 down the road....i got off and the car completely died...this was all after a 45 min trip...the car sat for hours then i took the same trip home without any problems except for a rough idle when i came to slow down, and when in park...car has 155,000 miles on it so i replaced all the plugs (even the stupid ones along the firewall!) i cleaned the throttle body (took a whole can of cleaner! :( and i took out the AIC i believe its called? the thing that goes into the throttle body that your supposed to only use electrical cleaner on...after all that when parked it idles rough between 650 and 750 reving up and slowing down...i pulled some codes, but have no clue as what they mean...i looked at the sticky but it looked like russian to me :( please HELP! the codes are
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- Retiring OSS Principal Mike Safek looks back on remarkable finale to long education careerPosted 3 days ago
- Local group plans rally Friday in response to ER closures at Oliver hospitalPosted 3 days ago
- Town cleans up debris as lake levels slowly return to normal; residents reminded to leave sandbags in placePosted 3 days ago
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Model railroad gets approval to stay in industrial park
The owner of one of the top tourist attractions in town has received unanimous support from members of Town of Osoyoos council to ensure the Osoyoos Model Desert Railroad can continue to operate in the town's industrial park for many years to come.
Poul Pedersen, who operates the popular tourist attraction with his daughter Lotte Mendes, sought to solidify the zoning status of his business in the Buena Vista Industrial Park by applying for site-specific rezoning.
Council unanimously passed giving first and second readings to Pedersen's request and made it clear they will be passing his request in the near future.
In a letter to council, Pedersen wrote "our business is manufacturing and selling of wood products and a train model display. We are open year round from Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. … and attract thousands of people every year from around the world, so we think we are a real asset to the town."
A recent newspaper article described how the "Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad offers North America's largest Marlin train layout with 40 computer-operated trains travelling along two kilometres of track. The attraction was rated No. 1 in the Okanagan Valley and No. 9 in all of B.C. by Trip Advisor."
Pedersen and his daughter own the property that houses the model railroad, the wood manufacturing operation and an accessory residential suite.
The property is zoned as general industrial M1 and there are similarly zoned and sized properties to the south and north and eight heavy industrial business properties to the west are home to South Okanagan Concrete.
The M1 zone permits a number of uses such as manufacturing, processing and finished products, animal hospitals, storage, offices and storage buildings, repair and sale of tools and small equipment, building supplies and garden shops, said Alain Cunningham, the town's director of development and planning.
"The zone does not include a tourist attraction as a permitted use and the current zoning bylaw does not define any such generic use," he said.
Both an industrial development permit and building permit were issued in 2001, but only made mention of the industrial part of the building being intended for woodworking and it was not until 2003 that the model railroad attraction was opened to the public, said Cunningham.
Since then, business licenses have described the nature of the business as "painted wood products", though in 2001 the business name on the licenses did change to Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad," he said.
While it has never been formally recognized as a permitted use on the property, staff proposes this administrative oversight be rectified by approving site-specific rezoning for this particular business, he said.
"Restricting this use to the subject property will protect against any further incursion of tourist attractions into our limited industrial land base," he said. "Also, if the model railway ever ceased operating, the property could only be used for industrial uses and an accessory residential suite."
In should be clarified that zoning a single property differently from surrounding zoning patterns may be appropriate in some circumstances with churches and corner stores being approved in residential areas being common examples, said Cunningham.
Site-specific zoning should be avoided when a small parcel of land is singled out for privileged treatment of the owner against "the public interest" and when it isn't in accord with Official Community Plan (OCP) policies and would negatively impact surrounding properties, said Cunningham.
"These concerns do not apply in this case because the model railroad use benefits the community by drawing in many tourists and local visitors, is consistent with economic development sustainability and commercial policies in the OCP and should not adversely impact on surrounding businesses," he said.
The building was inspected recently and found to be "generally up to code for its public access use."
Mayor Stu Wells said the Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad has been operated in an exemplary fashion from the day it opened and approving this rezoning application was an easy decision.
Coun. Sue McKortoff agreed.
"I'm very happy to support this," she said. "It has been a top tourist attraction for the last 10 years."
Before council officially approves the rezoning application, a public hearing must be held. It will be held on August 12. All details will be revealed through newspaper advertisements in the Osoyoos Times in the next couple of weeks.
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Andrew Glaze Named Poet Laureate of Alabama at Age 92 November 8, 2012: Congratulations to Andrew Glaze, recently appointed to the poet laureate post in Alabama. From AL.com: Glaze, 92, is the author of eight books of poetry and has published two collections of selected [...]


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A pair of red glasses, a guitar and the head full of dreams of fame … Montmartre here I come. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.4, 1/4000, ISO200
It is already week 2 of the Street Photography Now Project, so if you haven't register yet, there are still 50 weeks of instructions for you to participate in. Give it a try, submissions for this instructin end on Thursday night. Also, I will try to reflect on these assignments and give you some feedback of my shooting around the theme. Do not hesitate to do so too, it is always interesting to read about other's experiences and this whole project is a learning experience.
Unless you are very lucky or go to the zoo, your chances to see an elephant in a corner of the street in Paris are pretty low. Therefore I decided to look out for dogs for the last couple of days and I did learn quite a few things :
– dogs are small in relationship to humans, so one needs to get close, actually very close in most cases. That is not easy as you can't anticipate the animal's reaction.
– you have to willing to go low, as low as the ground to get to the same level as your subject. Indeed, shots from above will result in pictures with no depth and therefore it will be very difficult to include the surroundings. Thus be ready to look silly as you crawl on the ground.
– talking about surroundings, this is a street photography excercise and there is often a very fine line between a portrait and a street shot. If the picture is only about the dog, lacking any interaction with its surroundings, then it most probably will fail as a street photography picture.
– I started with the 60mm focal, then went on with the 35mm, to finally use exclusively the 24mm today. I found long focal to result in many chopped head and little surroundings. I found the 24mm to be the most effective though it meant getting even closer to the dogs.
– full frame sensor is not an advantage here. Indeed when getting very close (less than 1 meter), I had troubles to get large depths of field, even with a 24mm lens. So many of my shots had the animal partly in focus while the surroundings were blurred. It is part of my style but it does mean that the surrounding will often have substantial blur.
– manual focus was a nightmare. Dogs are like kids, they change tempo, path and love to turn their head inexpectedly. I even had to whistle a few times to get their attention.
All in all it was fun, except for my encounter with that big fellow below . He attempted to jump on my face yet I am ot sure whether it was to bite or lick me. But well, no risk no picture I guess. I still haven't decided which picture I will submit. And who knows, maybe I'll cross path with an elephant tomorrow on my way to work…
Leica M9 with 24mm Elmarit at F2.8, 1/250, ISO200
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/500, ISO200
Leica M9 with 24mm Elmarit at F4, 1/180, ISO200
Next to the Opera a waiter « takes a breath » at rush hour. (click on picture to enlarge)
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A reader (temporarly stuck in his house due to illness) asked me if I could write a list of street photography books that I would recommend. I have therefore added a page with a 10 books listing, all with a quick synopsis and what can be learnt from them regarding street photography. They are not necessarly the very best out there, but they all taught me a lot.
Yet meanwhile we talk about books … somecruise in Saint-Germain in the most beautiful car with an open view on Paris. What else ? (click on picture to enlarge)
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A group of friends wanders on Les Champs-Elysées dressed up for an event. A girl sits, grabs a cigarette and suddenly stares at me. Was it an angel look … or a devilish look … or an angel with a devil look ? I still haven't figured it out. (click on picture to enlarge)
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The Photographer's Gallery and the authors of the 'Street Photography Now book' have launched a great initiative for the next 52 weeks. Basically, you will receive instructions weekly based on a quote of a contemporary street photographer. You will then have 7 days to take a shot in relationship with the instruction and post it to their Flickr Group. I usually never participate in contests but I think this is, above all, a great learning experience and challenge. So for all of you that love the street, register and make sure you get your first photo in by tomorrow. Click here to discover the site.
Instruction #1 is « If you can feel the street by looking at a photo, it's a street photograph » by Bruce Gilden.
My submission for this instruction was the shot « In hope of good news » posted earlier this week. I couldn't resist the bad joke ;) If you'd like to share your shots with me, add me as contact on Flickr, my nickname is also yanidel. I'll gladly discover your own interpretations !
Half scrutinzing and half in admiration, the eyes of a draftsman lock on their target and forget about the world around it. (click on picture to enlarge)
Talking about eyes and to follow up on the manual focus series, here is a great link to a test that compares the Canon 5DII, Olympus E-P1 and Leica M9 in various situations. It seems that manual focus cameras are still kings in low light conditions ;)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/1000, ISO200
At first, I thought he was moving. But tonight I realized he was hosting the Yves Saint Laurent fashion week show. Here they were, the world's most beautiful girls just across the street and … I wasn't invited. (long sigh). (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.4, 1/250, ISO200
Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F2, 1/4, ISO200 (tripod)
For those of you that have been following this blog for a long time, you probably have noticed by now that I do like to invent stories around many of my pictures. Indeed, some scenes inspire me so much that tales immediately pop up in my mind. That logically brings up the question of whether it is a legitimate act to transfigure a street scene and turn it into a fantasy.
Gary Winogrand provided a great answer to that by saying « A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera saw a piece of time and space. » That made things pretty clear to me here, and to put it into other words; as descriptive as a picture might be, its interpretation is only a viewers fantasy. This leads me to the fact that when ones writes a fantasy, he must make sure that the story has a close link to the elements depicted in the photograph. Otherwise, the text and picture wont blend and the fantasy will fail.
As an example, the following picture taken in Saint Germain shows a woman walking in the street with no other identifiable event. A potential text could be a woman walks in Saint-Germain and think about her past loves. While the picture might be aesthetically pleasing, such a story is simply not credible and weakens the picture. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.4, 1/250, ISO200
Meanwhile, the picture below depicts a women riding a bus whose sides are covered with an ad featuring a mans mouth and two cards. A potential story could then be In the game of poker, the most dramatic grin often hides the best bluff. Here the text directly alludes to the three main elements of the picture. A surrealist scene obviously, but this is also what fantasy is about.
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Bicycle Builder Inspired By Big Wheels and Recycling
Gregory's 'Bigkidbikes' span from adult sized versions of kids bikes to custom pedal powered vending carts.
Gregory deGouveia from California is a bicycle builder. He hasn't gone with the crowd and focused his attention on fixie bikes though. Gregory's 'Bigkidbikes' span from adult sized versions of kids bikes to custom pedal powered vending carts. From the nearly ten different bike models he's designed and constructed, we've picked out two favorites.
The 'biGger wheel' (above) is an adult sized version of the classic Big Wheel. Gregory's version operates in much the same way and he's included gears and a handbrake.
The 'kitten' bike is based on recycled car tires Gregory found in a dumpster. He'd always wanted to build a bicycle using car tires. The finished version is made from square steel tubing and has solar powered headlights.
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