These are the pictures the media has refused to print. This is the real face of what is going on around us, while they prefer we live with our eyes glued to the tv sets and their euphoric version of reality.
http://www.battlespaceonline.org/
To quote my friend Omar in NY:
“…a dear friend of mine set up this exhibit in
NY. He lives in the apartment downstairs and called me
to the basement to show me the rough edit before he
took it to the gallery. And so in my own rush to pack
and get going on my own trip the next day, I was the
first person to see these images together, for
whatever that is worth.
It brought tears to my eyes (the Luke Wolagewiecz
picture in particular) Also the picture of the boy
with the blood on his face and staring straight in to
the lens of the camera struck me as an omen too of
foreboding of the real upshot of the ‘winning the
hearts of minds’ that we hear about. 
That is what is
coming back at us. And coming back at us with a
vengeance.
The whole project was born out of his and other conflict
photographers frustrations that newspapers and
magazines would not print the photographs in the
exhibit or worse yet recaption the images to to other
ends. I kid you not.”
Fuad Kamal, April 25th 2008 |
Posted in Photography, Print
According to this article from Macworld look’s like the $300 million HP invested into the Print 2.0 venture has quite a bit of meaning in their future strategy. We developed the HP Print Studio, a fundamental component of Print 2.0, using Adobe Flex…
Fuad Kamal, November 8th 2007 |
Posted in Flex, Print, RIA
Thanks to Jeff Witchel & Layers Magazine for this tip. In my InDesign projects I had always been annoyed by not knowing how to insert pages without screwing up my entire layout, especially where I had very large graphic elements on the pages. Here’s a feature I wish I knew about back then:
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Adobe InDesign CS3 Tip – Why Would You Want to Allow Pages to Shuffle?
One of the choices under the Pages panel Options menu that is checked by default is “Allow Pages to Shuffle.” Years ago, when I first started using InDesign, my first reaction to this choice was, “What is shuffling and why would I want my pages to do it?” As I began to play with the feature, I quickly realized what this interesting choice of words was all about. If pages are allowed to shuffle and a single page is added before a particular spread, all pages “shuffle” forward in the rest of the document so that the even numbered pages become odd numbered pages to the right, and the odd numbered pages move down to become the even numbered left-hand side of the next spread. So “shuffling” maintains order in spread pagination. But what happens if this default is unchecked? You can create spreads with more than two pages (a gatefold spread in a magazine for example). So, if you need to make your spreads wider than two pages, simply “unshuffle” your document’s pages.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider.
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Fuad Kamal, November 6th 2007 |
Posted in Design, InDesign, Print
HP Print Studio, a flex application I was technical lead on, went live. It was a pretty cool project, with a rather large group of developers. There was a significant amount of flex/flash integration, which you will be able to imagine once you see the amount and level of animation in the site. We utilized Cairngorm and Flex 2.01, though I believe there will be a lot to be gained from Flex 3 in the upcoming stages (that’s right, this is just ‘phase 1′ – there’s a lot more to come). On the back end we used .Net and WebOrb for .Net to Flex communication. I was pretty surprised and impressed to have the CEO of WebOrb respond directly to our tech support requests from them.
Also, there is now a demo of Pronto! at Communigate’s web site. There is also a Beta download at O2 Apps but unfortunately not only does it not work with the latest release of AIR, but Communigate’s official stance is there will not be another Beta release – the next release will be the ‘fully baked’ version. For those of you who missed it, Kevin Lynch, Chief Software architect for Adobe did a demo where he dragged financial data from another AIR application into an email message he was composing in Pronto! The CEO of XIF also did a demo of Pronto! on Day 3 of MAX last year, alongside another demo by the guys at Cynergy. I think there were a total of three such demos that day, so two of them being from companies in D.C. is a pretty cool market indicator, I think. Then again, I’m biased as this is my area I suppose. Anyway, Pronto! was the first Flex application I ever worked on; we started on it when Flex 2 was still in the first alpha release…
Fuad Kamal, October 31st 2007 |
Posted in AIR, Adobe, Adobe MAX, Flash, Flex, Print, RIA
