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PhotoShelter Hosts First Luminance Conference in New York

Next week PhotoShelter will be hosting Luminance 2012, a fresh new conference that will bring together leading voices from across industries to answer the question: What’s next for photography? This two-day conference will feature two dozen top speakers from a variety of organizations that help to create, consume and define photography in a myriad of ways. Each speaker will present a 20-minute TED-style talk on a topic relevant to their area of expertise. A brief Q&A will follow each session. Photographers, technologists, designers and those who care about the direction of photography are encouraged to attend. Conference Details Date: Sept. 12 - 13, with kickoff events on Sept. 11 Where: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York City Registration: www.photoshelter.com/luminance/register. Speakers PhotoShelter recently finalized there speaker roster with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, who will discuss his role capturing some of the most iconic images from the International Space Station, as well as…

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Read more about the article Apple’s Billion Dollar Storytelling

Apple’s Billion Dollar Storytelling

Apple's victory over Samsung in a recent smartphone patent brawl netted the company over a billion dollars in damages and, more importantly for Apple, might have strategically slowed the rise of the Korean tech juggernaught that today provides phones to 26 percent of all U.S. mobile subcribers according to comScore. But what clinched Apple the win, one of the largest patent awards ever on record? Storytelling, according to juror interviews by the Wall Street Journal. For Samsung, the story it had to get across was that Apple's patents weren't as crucially innovative as Apple claimed them to be, and Apple had to tell the story of a Samsung copycat. "The Apple lawyers were better at presenting their case," juror Manuel Ilagan said to the Journal. Of particular strength was a visual that showed Samsung phones before and after the iPhone came out. The Journal quotes presiding juror Velvin Hogan to say that it seemed…

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charity: water September Campaign for Rwanda

This September, charity: water is celebrating its birthday by bringing water to everyone in one country--Rwanda. The Rwandan people overcame the darkest time in their history, and together, rebuilt their nation. Now, they're working to give clean water to everyone. Help charity: water raise $1.7 million to give clean water to every community in the Shyorongi and Ngoma sectors of Rwanda. The people of Rwanda are rewriting their story. And it starts with clean water for everyone. Learn more and donate at www.charitywater.org/september/. Also, check out 5 Questions with Scott Harrison, Founder of charity: water on the Official YouTube Blog. Smile at the Man Who Did This To You Jonathon Torgovnik and Jules Shell co-founded Foundation Rwanda, an organization that brings support to woman who bore children as a result of rape during the 1994 genocide and their children. Watch Jules Shell at TEDxScottAFB tell the remarkable stories of Annet and Agathe…

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Read more about the article Production and Social Media Internship at Talking Eyes Media

Production and Social Media Internship at Talking Eyes Media

Production/Social Media Internship Talking Eyes Media (TEM), a non-profit production company, seeks a Production/Social Media Intern for the 2012 Fall season (September – December). Talking Eyes Media is an award-winning organization that produces documentary films, multimedia, books, and exhibitions on various pressing social issues. TEM is currently in production for its latest project Bring it to the Table, a webisode series aimed at exploring the roots of American political beliefs and helping to depolarize the nation’s political dialogue. This internship provides a unique opportunity to work in an innovative and creative multimedia production company and gain experience in multimedia, social media, and communications. This position requires a two to four day per week commitment in our New Jersey office. (Talking Eyes Media is based in Montclair, NJ, located a block away from a NJ Transit station and 35 minutes by train from New York Penn Station.) This position is unpaid but offers…

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Read more about the article Discover a Bigger, Badder New York with Narratively

Discover a Bigger, Badder New York with Narratively

Discover Narratively It’s no secret that New York is saturated with top-notch media outlets. But in such a fast-paced city, many of those outlets have no choice but to focus on the 24/7 cycle of breaking news, politics, entertainment and gossip. Countless blogs and websites repeat these stories over and over, but few have the time, resources or interest to undertake high-quality feature reporting. As a result, great human-interest pieces about New York are hard to find. Narratively, a new digital publication, is here to change that by running the bigger, badder, weirder, sadder, uplifting and intoxicating stories about New York that average news headlines don't cover. Narratively is devoted to telling original, true and in-depth stories about New York, with plans to expand to other cities. It aims to slows down the news cycle. Each week, Narratively will explore a different theme about New York and publish a series of connected…

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