For Friday: The Old and The New.

Generally Fridays will be reserved for some discussion about gear or photo technology, but I got a little carried away this afternoon, so we’ll do both old and new. Apologies.

In the new technology realm, there’s news of Wired Magazine’s partnership with Apple; check out a demonstration of what could very well be the future of magazines. I learned about this from Miki Johnson of Resolve, who teaches us many things. Here’s what she thinks of Wired’s display:

“Interesting to see how a mag is actually designing for the iPad, not just CGI constructions. I have to say, I’m a little underwhelmed. They are still using the old page structure…they basically look like PDFs…with some added functionality, not really rethinking the way stories are told in the non-linear online environment.”

How about you, reader, does Wired’s ipad notion underwhelm you too?

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Next, I received an email from the ladies at Contact Collective- Anna Stevens and Emily Graham. Not only was their Depressing Picture of the Day depressing indeed, but they introduced me to a most poignant body of work. (Not this one- this is the depressing one.)

Adrian Ensor

Bob and Terry

Brian Dowling, BDI

Debbie Sears, Metro Clerkenwell

Gordon Bishop Associates

Kevin Markwick, Bayeux

Klaus Kalde

Lee Williams, Rapid Eye

Mark Foxton, Primary

Mike Crawford

Mike Spry, Downtown Darkroom

Nick Jones, Photofusion

Pascha, Roy Snell

Peter Guest, The Image

Robin Bell

Roy Snell

Sharon Easterling, Downtown Darkroom

Tom Smedley, Metro Soho

There are more. Do any of you have shots of your darkroom? Send them in and we’ll post them.

Have a great weekend!