____________________[PRO] from-analogue-to-digital-as-it-is

Let's face it: We are very much a creature of habit. We like doing things the old way; we don't want to change unless we are obliged to.

When it comes to digital photography, the same inherent habit kicks in. No matter how much information you gather, or how much the technology has improved considerably over the years, there's still that slight hesitance to make that jump. You somehow feel the "bed of roses" buzz surrounding this phenomenon is not literally what it seems, and that the thorny issues must have been locked away in some dark room. Of course, cost is another big hump along your path.

Well, Ahead went looking for individuals who made that jump from analogue to digital in the hopes of providing readers with a tell-it-as-it-is take of the whole experience. We found three takers, whom we have identified as the casual photographer, the business photographer and the professional photographer. ( Here are their stories, first-hand. - большой и богатый материал, хотя, наверное, интересно только фотографам и всяким user researcher-ам )

____________________[PRO] Vodafone Future Vision

эта блондинка введёт вас в мир удивительных "новых технологий", которые напридумывали себя товарищи из водафона. чего там только нет! например, нет личностных органайзеров, заменой которым стали информационные браслеты:

майкрософтовского интерфейса тоже нет (хотя предлагаемый ещё хуже). зато qwerty (точнее, qwertz) все те же:

а что, это правда, что в немецких досках y и z переставлены? мне, кстати, нравится - на самый первых взгляд - идея сноса цифр влево и в две линейки.

а вообще, там много чего ещё интересного есть; можно даже проголосовать "за будущее".

[PER] alibi witnesses pictured

TIM DURHAM
Skeet shooting, Tulsa, Oklahoma
11 alibi witnesses placed Durham at a skeet-shooting
competition at the time of the crime
Served 3.5 years of a 3,220-year sentence for Rape and Robbery, 2002

потом обнаружилось, что он невиновен.

а вот ещё история

"Clyde Charles served 17 years of a life sentence for rape. The crime of which he was found guilty was an attack on a Louisiana woman in March 1981.

She was at the roadside, looking for help with her car, when a man dragged her off the road, beat her with a lead pipe and raped her. Charles was coming home from a job on a construction site and was spotted hitch-hiking along the same road; he was arrested and later identified as the attacker.

It took him 10 years to gain access to the DNA evidence that eventually cleared him - and when he did, it pointed instead to his brother, Marlo, who had been working on the same site and walking along the same road a little earlier."

фотовыставка Taryn Simon в Gagosian Gallery фоторассказывает о примерно 50-ти таких вот случаях. так и называется - The Innocents.

линк туда стоит на картинке, а под катом - ( небольшая статья, на английском  )

такие вот жуткие истории, с "фотоуклоном".