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duckrabbit
David White
Ciara Leeming
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Madeleine Corcoran

Man Bites Snake …does he really?

This will give you nightmares.

But do you believe it?

The bit about the snake escaping by slithering under the door seems a slippery tale too far … or am I being cynical?

Comment:

VAL

hmmm… entertaining… that snake must have been pretty hungry if you ask me… and also remarkably ignorant in the [...]

Audio slideshow: Remembering Hillsborough

As a Liverpool fan I can barely watch this BBC audio slideshow by Paul Kerley.

I wish it went a bit deeper into the events of that day twenty years ago, when 96 people were crushed to death at a football match. The cover up by the South Yorkshire police continues to pain the [...]

So What Do You Think?

duckrabbit is sick of the sound of his own voice, banging on about this and banging on about that! Its time our lovely and loyal readers did some of the work.

Actually I’m going to be blunt (just for a change). Photographers appears to live in a slightly sycophantic world. This is worrying. I say [...]

3 day Multimedia training for under a grand … must be crap

or maybe not!

I can’t recommend these people because I’ve never met them, but for those wanting to be plunged into the dark and murky depths of multimedia this course is certainly worth checking out. They have some fantastic people giving the training from the looks of things and are serious about what they do.

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I’m going to use this next time I give media training

on how to deal with an investigative journalist.

Priceless.

Ouch – duckrabbit multimedia competition update

David White just ordered duckrabbit into his office and gave him the mother of all bollockings. I’m so upset I’m thinking about quitting (again).

Apparently I’ve completely screwed our multimedia competition up (see earlier post) by not including a clause in tiny, tiny, Chinese writing, hidden deep on a page that nobody can see which [...]

“To love each other nakedly”

If you haven’t seen Days With My Father, then you are missing what I believe is one of the greatest artistic achievements of the digital age.

Actually its so much more than that.

I read on the front page that the subject of the work has just passed away.

So much more than a ‘subject’. [...]

duckrabbit is running a multimedia photography competition

Yeah.

All you need to do is send in $50, and if you can really bothered you can also send in a short film, video. But if you haven’t got a short film video don’t worry you can just send in $50 (so you have the prestige of entering), or even better $200 so you [...]

“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo,

then its a street photo.”

duckrabbit was blown away by the Bruce Gilden audio slideshow that I featured in a post earlier this week.

I was getting a feeling from his photographs that suggested a real antagonism between himself and the people he was photographing. To me it appeared that he was in some way [...]

Citizen reporting finally delivers

For newspapers and media outlets user generated content is problematic.  Many have been slow to get their heads round the possibilities of web 2. But here is an example that I find incredibly inspiring because of its ability to deliver amazing diversity of opinion and response.

Mainstream media is now starting to do many of [...]

Hey journalist scumbag, shoot video else we’ll fire you

at duckrabbit what you see is what you get

OK so one half of duckrabbit has never heard of Bruce Gilden. The other half probably knows him too well!

Its true, I (Benjamin) make no claims to having knowledge of photography or photographers. I’m a specialist in sound.

In some ways though I hope that is one of this blogs strengths. I take everything [...]

Adam Westbrook blog – a British perspective on multimedia

British Journalist Adam Westbrook’s blog is a cracking place to start if you want to see a more British take on the multimedia side of things.

That guy is clearly wired up right as this fascinating post on the media’s multimedia response to the G20 summit shows. Click on the text to follow:

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Oi … Sound is not a second class citizen

You can’t get away with crap pictures so why do you think you can get away with crap sound?

Just recently I’ve heard some appalling examples. Examples that give you no choice but to either switch off the sound or change websites and hope that the sound doesn’t follow you.

Something else I’ve noticed people [...]

Mastering multimedia

Colin Mulvany is a much loved multimedia producer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. He’s also the voice of the blog ‘Mastering Multimedia’ which duckrabbit wholeheartedly recommends.

I just came across this photo of his in the on-line magazine The Digital Journalist and it stopped me in my tracks. You just have tokeep looking,

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“What is happening in America?”

“Things are going to get worse …”

This Magnum in Motion audio slideshow is straight out of the bible. It speaks with the zeal of a prophet.

Its raw.

Damn Bruce Gilden there is electricity and power in your photographs. Nothing has come close to capturing the anger and the loss and the confusion and [...]

Jack Picone Photography Workshops

Jack Picone is

1. A great bloke

2. A great trainer

3. A great photographer

I spent some time in Kenya with Jack last year and it was real pleasure. I watched him train first hand and can recommend his courses.

Alternatively if you’re looking to go to another part of the world also [...]

Late, late, late, late, late, last night

I was hanging with a very good friend, Paul, who is an extraordinarily talented singer songwriter and storyteller.

At about 2.A.M I decided to introduce him to Nick Cave, so I rang him up, but he was in bed and gave me an earful for getting him up. Damn, another celebrity friend down the drain. [...]

My student’s work…awesome.

As Ben mentioned below, I have been out this week working with disadvantaged teens and NEETS (not in education, employment or training) running a documentary photography course. Unfortunately I only ended up with three students, when I was supposed to have six, but no matter…I was able to spend more time with the three students [...]

Be warned this Guardian video is depressing

I can’t recommend that you watch this video of an Afghani woman being flogged. Its very disturbing. Truth is it’s not that different to what goes on behind closed doors in the developing Western world, where women and children are often beaten with impunity.

I should know I was beaten regularly as a child growing [...]