• Ads of the World
  (tags: Advertising design marketing ads)

• Nature’s Conception – The Gates of Hell
  Oh man.. I’d LOVE to get a chance to take photos like these.
  (tags: art Photography storms clouds)

When I saw this photo in a post on Signal Vs. Noise I immediately thought it wasn’t just a random candid or journalistic photo but actually an art piece. I thought thought that someone had taken a photo of a scene from a children’s book. This isn’t a completely ‘out there’ thought – there is an artist who has taken children’s drawings and recreated them as photos. (see: Yeondoo Jung’s “Wonderland”) But it was a nice feeling, seeing this photo. It reminded me of a book I had when I was little called The Little House (by Virginia Lee Burton). The book was wonderfully illustrated and I really wish I had it still just to look at. For now you’ll just have to check out the “Look Inside” feature on Amazon.

The real story behind this photo is a sweet one.

*And looking at the comments at SVN, others saw the book connection too.

• Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations – Boing Boing
  Not the best move for AP, that’s for sure.
  (tags: copyright journalism blogging ap media article)
• The Associated Press: AP to meet with blogging group to form guidelines
  Maybe this should have been done before the crazy quoting policy was released into the wild?
  (tags: copyright journalism blogging)

* Update on that second one – apparently the group AP plans to meet with is not a group that really represents bloggers or the beliefs/integrity/etc of blogging in general. I thought something was fishy when I saw an AP link on the MBA’s website…

Messy, messy, messy. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.