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...camera is likely to fall out of his pocket, but few shutterbugs know how to put their camera to best use. Holiday photos are often more Addams Family than Ansel Adams and usually draw only polite murmurs from captive audiences. Yet an increasing number of photography breaks are helping amateur photographers tap their creative juices. Courses last from a weekend to a fortnight, in destinations from Bhutan, where students learn to capture the color of the Jambay Lhakhang Festival, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...conditions of industrial and social life. Orphanages full of sick children, hospitals and women portrayed as victims of domesticity crowd the walls, the display of the prints diminishing the gravity of their content. However, the attention paid to old social settlements of East Coast cities like Boston and the amateur but vivid documenting of those living conditions rescues this section from being yet another cliché collection of society’s flaws. The gallery as a whole is an interesting yet confusing sample of the depository’s collection and it is questionable why those three categories were...
...abound, bedroom productions snap with digital precision, and even “mix-tapes” (now almost exclusively on CD) don’t have that basement low-fi growl anymore. The talent honed in dozens of dimly-lit teenage bedrooms is spilling out into independent labels, with amateur recordings that have all polish of their big-label counterparts. Even with rising production standards, “The Craft” still sounds positively sculpted. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it has taken their style in a different, colder direction. The album...
...were “science people,” which also means they probably won’t be homeless in two years. The rest of us found our academic happiness—not to mention success—in debating social and moral issues, or in attempting amateur literary and historical analysis. In my first few weeks at Harvard, I did attend an information session about preparing oneself for med school. My parents had suggested it. To me, it was almost for old times’ sake. After returning to my Holworthy suite, I placed the pamphlet...
...urban trends-dates back more than a decade, but the rules of the game are rapidly changing. Over the past three years, an explosion of blogs, podcasts, websites and newsletters has pried cool hunting from the grip of professional marketers, shifting it to the text-message-happy fingers of amateur trend trackers. Some independent sites focus on broad trends and generational shifts in consumer habits. Others home in on specific styles, foods, brands and gadgets popular among trendsetters. jcreport.com, for instance, focuses on fashion, gizmodo.com on gadgetry and needled.com on tattooing trends. The best hubs for travel buzz: superfuture.com...