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I came across a site called Sample Swap which is a collection of over 12,000 samples available to download for free. The samples are kindly provided by musicians for others to use as samples, and will be of use for those photographers putting together multi media pieces. Just download them and use Garage Band or Soundtrack Pro (on a Mac) or its equivalents on a PC and make up your sound piece. Please be careful not to download anything which sounds like its been taken from a commercial recording as you will not have a license for its usage and will as a result be infringing copyright (the folks that run the site do try and make sure that this stuff doesn’t get posted, but occasionally they slip through).
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press release:
James Nachtwey: Photojournalist
Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war photographer of recent decades. He has covered conflicts and major social issues in more than 30 countries.
Why you should listen to him:
For the past three decades, James Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues, working in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.
Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time since 1984. However, when certain stories he wanted to cover — such as Romanian orphanages and famine in Somalia — garnered no interest from magazines, he self-financed trips there. He is known for getting up close to his subjects, or as he says, “in the same intimate space that the subjects inhabit,” and he passes that sense of closeness on to the viewer.
In putting himself in the middle of conflict, his intention is to record the truth, to document the struggles of humanity, and with this, to wake people up and stir them to action.
He is the winner of the 2007 TED Prize, awarding him $100,000 and one wish to change the world. This was his wish: “I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.”
On October 3, the story breaks … and we would like you to witness it.
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Hyperdrive have launched what they call the world’s fastest memory card backup portable hard drive. The unit’s called the Colorspace UDMA and can download a 2Gb card in a minute (with full data verification).
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I’ve got a new domain which may be easier to remember:
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