Spoon Featuring Eggleston Image on Cover of New Album

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Cover of Transference featuring Eggleston's Sumner, Mississippi, c. 1970

If you want to create an iconic album cover, just use an Eggleston image. One of my favorite bands, Spoon, will be testing this theory for the cover of their new album, Transference. Via Stereogum.

Picture Black Friday

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Shopping is pretty much the last thing I want to be doing at dawn, but every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving millions gather in the early morning to save precious pennies on stuff they probably don't need. Shoppers are fevered with anticipation and crazed with deal-lust. Retail stores push this frenzy by making the door opening an event--a doorbuster!--and in the current economic climate this can lead to physical violence and death.

Enter Picture Black Friday:

Picture Black Friday is an open call for photographers throughout the U.S. to go out and produce images that document Black Friday- how you see it, on your terms. Imagine this project as an open assignment: you have freedom to approach this event from any angle you wish, returning with single images or even a mini-project that documents Black Friday like no other media outlet will.

I will be spending Black Friday on the road shooting for Stranded, but will be judging the contest along with Mr. John Saponara, Rev. Jake Stangel, Dr. Jörg Colberg, Sen. Stephen Frailey, Rep. Brian Ulrich, and Jon Feinstein, Esq. (That's a lot of dudes.) Details about the contest, including how to submit work, can be found on the Picture Black Friday site.

Meshes of the Afternoon

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Meshes of the Afternoon is groundbreaking avant-garde film from 1943. It was directed by the great Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. If it feels vaguely familiar to you it may because it was a major influence on David Lynch and his films Lost Highway and Inland Empire.

Doc Ellis & the LSD No-No

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Say No to Violence Against Women

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© Nan Goldin

UNIFEM, the United Nations development fund for women, just launched a global call for action to end violence against women and girls. The facts are staggering: up to 70 per cent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime. The UNIFEM campaign, Say NO - UNITE to End Violence Against Women, allows you to take immediate action or create and organize your own action.

I've decided to create my own campaign called Photographers Say No, and use the power of social media to harness our little community of photographers and photography lovers to raise awareness and contribute to the tally of actions.

Here's how you can help:

1. Visit the Photographers Say No page and take action

2. Tweet the following message: Say No to Violence Against Women. The stats are staggering: http://j.mp/1lRD2U Please RT to join campaign #photosayno

3. Blog about this campaign and post a link to Photographers Say No page or use http://j.mp/1lRD2U to direct people to facts about violence against women

4. Email 50,000 of your closest friends and tell them about the campaign

5. Post a link to this post on your Facebook page or on your blog

Thanks!