Do You Know Your Rights as a Photographer?
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Unrest and calls for justice are still at a high both within Ferguson, MO and around the country as everybody following the Mike Brown story are asking the same question: "Why aren't our rights being ignored?" Especially in the case of the press and photographers, there have been multiple videos and first-hand accounts of members of the press being directly…
Here’s How to Easily Create GIFs from YouTube Videos
GIFs are the greatest thing on the internet next to free porn and memes. For some, GIF creation comes easy; for others, we rely on GIF creating services. When it comes to creating GIFs out of videos, it's a whole other story if you don't have the source file. Thankfully, one website allows aspiring GIF artists to create endless loops from their favorite YouTube videos.
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Supreme Court Rules Corporations Have Religious Freedom
President Barack Obama's Affordable Health Care Act (nee Obamacare) has been met with so much hate and disdain from both sides of the American political spectrum, but never has a ruling against health care reform been so infuriatingly stupid. This is one of those rulings where you just read a news article and go, "Are you fucking serious?" As part of Obamacare, businesses had to cover…
Photos You Don’t See from the World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup games have begun this week, and although there should be much to celebrate, the streets of Brazil tell a different story. Since the decision was made for Rio de Janeiro to hold this year's grand event, more than a million demonstrators have been hitting the streets to protest against the billions of dollars being spent on sports stadiums while education, housing,…
New YouTube Subscription Service Might Block Independent Music
The next phase in YouTube's growth is near, and it could spell doom not only for the popular video platform, but for independent artists. YouTube is entertaining a subscription-based service, rumored to be called the "YouTube Music Pass," that will offer ad-free videos and downloadable songs to subscribers. However, the company will only feature videos from artists whose music labels have signed…
Independent Short Film WORSEBEHAVIOUR Needs Your Help
20-year-old music video director Peter Collins Campbell is eager and artistically equipped to break into the world of film- what he needs is to go the final stretch with his crowdfunding campaign, which you can contribute to through Indiegogo, in order to financially secure the budget for his forthcoming short film, WORSEBEHAVIOUR.
Many recognize Peter as a heartbeat pumping blood into the…
Hauntingly Beautiful Portraits of Homeless by Lee Jeffries
Photos by Lee Jeffries
Miami, FL... home to so many people with a "rags to riches" story. Yet when Photographer Lee Jeffries traveled there, he quickly found the opposite. After spending so many years devoting much of his time to capture hauntingly beautiful portraits of homeless individuals, who are often overlooked across the globe, he found "riches to rags" narratives instead. Jeffries has…
[Video] Thievery Corporation: “Depth Of My Soul”
Just as I was getting ready for last night's show in Austin, Thievery Corporation released a video for their new single "Depth of My Soul" with guest vocalist Shana Halligan off of their new album Saudade. The new video shows Shana traveling by horseback as she passes by old lovers and remembering the relationships. The cinematic look of the video gives the perfect visual to the theatrical sound…