Imaginative creatures of the sea attend Coney Island Mermaid Parade

June 20, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment 


Imaginative creatures of the sea attend the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island June 19, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.The Coney Island Mermaid Parade takes place every year in Coney Island, New York in mid-to-late June. The Parade is a lively and welcoming ocean-themed event open to everyone.
The tradition of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade began in 1983, when the first event of this kind was conceptualized and organized by Dick Zigun, who is sometimes dubbed the “Mayor of Coney Island”, and who was the founder of the non-profit arts group Coney Island USA. The Mermaid Parade is held in celebration of the beginning of the summer season, and so it traditionally takes place on the Saturday closest to the calendar start of summer, regardless of the weather.

LIFE, America, a visual history

May 7, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment 

Unusual post and shameless promotion. LIFE has always been a mythical picture magazine for me and for several generation of photographers and photojournalists.  After Time.inc closed the magazine in 2007, LIFE.com has been launched in march 2009. The site, a joint venture between Getty Images and Life magazine, offers millions of photographs from their combined collections. They also publish books and … I got a full page in the May issue. Now you would understand I couldn’t resist to put this on bulb. Life+full page+politics (a photo of a rally for Hillary Clinton during the last presidential campaign), this is the perfect equation for me.

About the book: LIFE America tells the story of our country’s extraordinary history in pictures, often contrasting the past and present’the then and now. Before there were the buildings, there was the land’and in the fi rst section LIFE ‘s editors travel the country exploring what was there before the coming of man. From the heights of Denali to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the Virginia coast when it was the exclusive domain of Native Americans to the cave dwellings of the mysteriously lost Anasazi civilization in the western deserts, the land as it once was is reimagined. And then the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the rise of the great cities, the issues’women’s rights, urban unrest, civil rights, child labor, the Great Depression’all are chronicled in the iconic photography of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, and LIFE ‘s own Margaret Bourke White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gordon Parks, and others. The magazine was there to chronicle much of America’s visual history’this book will highlight its storied archives, one of the world’s richest resources of great photography.

My Portfolio on the iPad

May 3, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment 

Since the iPad has been released, I was wondering how my portfolio would look like on the new Apple device. It was a huge disappointment when I realized the Home page didn’t display any of my pictures because of the flash gallery I was using.

Apple and Adobe are fighting over the flash technology since a while now,  and we now know for sure there’s no chance at all we can use flash on the iPad. I couldn’t let my website being out of the “Apple” universe. The device is great and I’m pretty sure a lot of photo editors will use it at home or at the office to consult pro portfolios. I also strongly believe in open standard such as HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript which are going to be widely implemented in our websites in the coming years. So I’ve made different technical improvements to be available on the iPad and to have a cross browser compatibility.

A couple of month ago, I’ve developed a series of WordPress templates for photographers, so I decided to redesign my website around a customized version of the Senseetiv Ying Template which has a JavaScript slideshow on the Home page and a CSS3 style sheet. I also followed the Safari Technical notes to be sure everything was working properly and tested the result on the AdobeLab. The result is great!

If you wanna have that kind of portfolio, please visit www.o2creation.org, or email me at info@o2creation.org for a customized template.

UPDATE: when I read this http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/apple-ipad-reaches-one-million-sold-twice-as-fast-as-iphone/I guess it was the right move…

Premiere of ‘The Killer Inside Me’ – 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

April 28, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment 

Actress Kate Hudson attends the premiere of ‘The Killer Inside Me’ during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival at the School of Visual Arts Theater on April 27, 2010 in New York City.
Casey Affleck poses for photographers on the Red Carpet.
Jessica Alba answers to Entertainment News journalist.

The Story:
The story is told through the eyes of its protagonist, Lou Ford, a 29-year-old deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. Ford seems to be a regular, small-town cop leading an unremarkable existence. Beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, intelligent and depraved sociopath. Ford’s main coping mechanism for his dark urges, however, is the relatively benign habit of deliberately needling people with cliches and platitudes despite their obvious boredom: “If there’s anything worse than a bore,” says Lou, “it’s a corny bore.” (read more on Wikipedia)

Premiere of “My Own Love Song” at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

April 22, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment 

Actress Renee Zellweger attends the premiere of ‘My Own Love Song’ during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 22, 2010 in New York City.

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