MLB Increases Its Chokehold: Starts Its Own Online Usage Restrictions…
– Sites can’t post more than seven photos from any game online.
– Audio/video content created at MLB ballparks cannot stay up on a news site for more than 72 hours.
– All applicants for a press credential must provide advance written notice of intent to transmit any non-text material.
I read this last week and still don’t get why the leagues, including the NFL, are allowed to dictate how news content is presented. Hopefully the media organizations will fight this and make the MLB come to its senses. [via Buzz Out Loud]
Photographer Recreates Famous Photos with Legos - Recreations of the work of Ebbets, Cartier-Bresson and more with some clever shots of Star Wars Legos thrown in for good measure. The Eddie Adams Vietnam photo redone with smiling Lego figures is a little creepy.
The photographer’s Flickr stream is worth checking out. I particularly like this photo of Soundwave and Laserbeak.
I figured out that posting images at 500 or 750px isn’t really that useful, so I decided to fire up an old site and make high-resolution versions available so you can use them as wallpaper, etc. The images are available in standard and widescreen resolutions up to 2560×1600. Check out the site here.
Flickr launched its collections feature today.
From the Flickr blog:
What are collections, you ask? A collection is a container into which you can place either sets or other collections, allowing you to create a hierarchy as deep as 5 collections. You can place as many of your sets into a collection as you like, and a set can be in as many different collections as you like.
You can also choose various layout options your pages to display sets, collections and specify the size of the images shown.
For an entertaining photography related comic strip, check out Aaron Johnson’s What the Duck.