Digital Mini-Labs: A New Frontier
Photo processing was once the domain of service bureaus and harsh chemicals. Mini-lab technology itself isn’t new. After all, one-hour photo labs have existed for quite some time. But, they still required chemicals and a technician to oversee the process, and almost always required the customer to wait at least 24 hours to see their finished photos.
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Wanted: Sudsy Man Coming Out of Washing Machine
It is the paradox of the Internet that everything you could possibly want is out there, but unless you know where to look you will never find it. That is especially true for stock photography – there are a handful of large companies that everyone knows about, but the smaller, more specialized sites can be so narrow that finding them is either a stroke of luck or a random fluke.
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All You Need is Love and Digital Technology
In February 1964 The Beatles arrived in the United States hard on the heels of the band’s first two hit singles, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There." There was near pandemonium at every public appearance on the Beatles’ itinerary. The term "Beatlemania" was born when flocks of adoring fans, most of them girls and young women, were consumed by screaming bouts of celebrity hysteria.
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The Art of Olympic Graphics
The Olympics are one of the few truly global events, that rare opportunity when people from all nations put aside differences for a short period of time and everyone plays nice. While the Games sometimes fall short of that Olympic ideal, they nonetheless attract a monumental amount of interest and huge television audiences in almost every country around the globe.
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