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On Thursday, I got the call to do a feature on Jeremy Lin. On Monday, he became the first Asian-American on SI’s cover since…yeah.
Story here.
Sweet!
See the winning photographs from the 2012 World Press Photo of the Year awards
For photojournalists it is the creme de la creme—an award they all secretly, or publicly covet. And, invariably, it comes with huge personal risk, because following the news often means placing oneself in harms way. Here are some of the winning pictures, more at the link. (Photos: New York Times/Corbis/Reuters)
I don’t even know what to say about this.
Unbelievable.
Blake Griffin does things that nobody else can do.Blake destroys Kendrick Perkins with a crazy poster slam.
(Video from @jose3030)
(Source: imsofashionable)
Chris Bosh slips the screen and packs it over half the Atlanta Hawks defense.
Bosh just can’t seem to stay on his feet after he dunks on someone.
Today marked the day that Kris Humphries was vaulted into the laughingstock of the NBA.
Before I get into the whole Kris Humphries fiasco, I wanted to share some observations from the game.
- Our offense needs a lot of work. It seems like we picked up where we left off last year. When Carmelo…
life:
It has been 30 years today since the AIDS virus was officially recognized.
In November, 1990, LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man, David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths. The haunting image of Kirby’s passing (above), taken by a journalism grad student named Therese Frare, became the one photograph most identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic that, by then, had seen as many as 12 million people infected.
(see more — The Photo That Brought AIDS Home)
Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the singer’s death.
A total of 292 people were arrested early this morning when LAPD shut down the Occupy L.A. camp.
Photo: LAPD officers arrest an Occupy L.A. protester at the encampment Wednesday. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Occupy Baltimore. These are photos by Brent Williams of signs seen at protests in Baltimore. The first two are both from the same man, a victim of homelessness, who came to take part in Occupy.
You can follow Brent Williams here on Tumblr.
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