Jun26
A couple of weeks ago, I took note of Barney Hoskyns’ essay on his Rock’s Back Pages site (and managed to spell his surname wrong: sorry, dude) about the increasing tendency of large corporations to ask freelancers to just donate their work. Not just large corporations, either: start-ups and independent projects seem to think it’s fine
Jun05
(Note: in solidarity with the Sun-Times‘ photo staff, no graphics accompany this week’s post). The story’s almost a week old at this point, but it’ll be hard to top for sheer stupidity. Last Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times announced that they’re firing their whole photography staff. Right: every single one of them, including 1982 Pulitzer
Apr08
Some people have all the talent! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted a very tall unicycle resting against a lamppost. The thing must have been close to 2 meters high – at any rate much bigger than I am. My astonishment was all the greater when my friend called out ‘look’! There, on
Feb27
Next week, The Ward Report will be reporting from Brooklyn; the next two weeks from SXSWi, which ought to make for some entertaining reading, given some of the boneheaded digital culture that’s always on display there. This week, though, we’ll clean up some of the stuff that’s been lying around the desktop here in a
May25
For over four decades, photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark has explored various of aspects teenage lust (the title of a photo series), subculture and anxiety in his generally controversial works. Clark doesn’t keep a “proper” distance to his subjects, being “one of the gang” as the age difference between him and the people he shoots