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Looking forward to seeing this Salton Sea documentary Bombay Beach, especially as a sidecar for William T. Vollmann’s Imperial. Southern California culture at it’s nadir. [Link: Bombay Beach]

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I’m not as big a fan of The Onion as I should be, but today (as they often do) they nailed down print media’s desperation with a story titled: Failing U.S. Economy No Reason At All To Stop Investing In Print Media, All Experts Agree. In explaining print media’s remarkable appeal, the entire financial community [...]

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Yes, 2010 was a great year for advertising according to the Pew Research Center’s “Project For Excellence In Journalism” 2011 report. Aside from the sad little newspaper industry everything is up, up, up. Even magazines were up 1.4 percent in revenue. The stat that I found most telling, however, was the percentage change in audience. [...]

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The etnies.com site is running a couple of my Brett Simpson photos from the 2010 US Open of Surfing right here. Kind of cool to see my images up on someone else’s homepage for a change.

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Tired of huffing dead media around for pennies, the US Postal Service has decided that they are going to increase magazine postal rates by 8 percent, according to a story on Media Post. And the old media titans are not happy. In response magazine publishers and industry organizations, including Conde Nast, Time Inc., Bonnier Corp., [...]

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I’m reminded of something I said 16 years ago. . . [Link: BusinessInsider]

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Do old-media titans Ann Moore, Charles Townsend, Jann Wenner, Cathie Black honestly believe that a Youtube.com video of them sitting in their huge corner offices talking about how important magazines are is going to change the media consuming habits of the world? Let it go already. The sooner all these CEOs move on, the sooner [...]

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The possible arrival of Apple’s long-rumored iTablet has old media companies scrambling. They all seem to believe that because the tablet is similar in shape to a magazine that it is going to save the magazine business. A few weeks ago Conde Nast’s Wired magazine presented their vision of what this digital magazine could look [...]

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In a letter to his readers, URB magazine’s founder and publisher Raymond Roker announced that the magazine is taking a break from the print media world. Roker, who has kept URB independent through out its history, explained his reasons for the change than most: To simply blame the prevailing conditions on the financial markets is [...]

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Julius Shulman, amazing mid-century photographer and example for a working life lived right, died on July 15, 2009. He was 98 and still taking pictures. Shulman produced images of buildings — by pioneering architects like Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig — that defined the postwar architecture of Southern California, among other places. The [...]

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