The Online Photographer features Romanian photographer Petrut Calinescu.

Ken Fisher of Ars Technica claims that 40 percent of Ars readers are running ad blockers.

I only block Flash advertising with ClickToFlash, but I do keep Readability close by.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

—David Bowie in What I've Learned Esquire interview.

Via Tlön Society.

Steven Heller's commentary on the evolution of Olympic pictograms since their appearance in 1936.

Via DF.

I've seen Yang Yongliang's works exhibited at the 40th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, and — even if they look like Chinese shui-mo hua from afar — boy they're techno and detailed when you get close!

Moments when they're astonishing, the life, the light reaches 50 faves on Flickr. Thank you all.

Meet me at Visual Playground: Friday, March 26.

P.S. An important something is in the works.

20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History. Oldboy aside, the long take in I am Cuba (#12) left me speechless.

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop turned twenty.

I am a Photoshop user since version 2.5 and I still remember how amazed I was when 3.0 introduced the layers. Wow. I think that was—for me, at least—the biggest leap in the history of graphic software.

Cristina Garcia Rodero's Between Heaven And Earth at Magnum in Motion. Play it full screen.

Thanks, Iancu.

Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009. It's a circus.

Todd Hido "isolation and anonymity in contemporary suburbia" (Wikipedia) — relax and let it sink in.

"Settling into his chair and resting his fingers on his keyboard like a concert pianist, Butler began his attack."

—Kevin Poulsen in One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards at Wired.

This reads like a novel.

Belgium's ad agencies — including JWT, Ogilvy, BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann and local shops — started a one-week virtual strike to protest the way clients conduct pitches in their country. Read the open letter to clients, running across their home pages, from one agency's site to the next.

So, yes, MTV has changed, but so have those of us that turned to MTV before YouTube for the latest music video, and it’s probably best that we all just go our separate ways.

—Armin Vit in MTV: More TV, Less M identity review.

Apple uses simple store updates to manipulate the media and create free buzz and excitement around the brand in the same way that its annual product releases have become national news events.

It's iGenius.

—Abe Sauer in Apple Brand Will 'Be Right Back' at brandchannel.

Paul Allen has it. OMG, it even has a watermark! Watch.

• Designed in 1989 by the American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (awesome name!) for the private use of the New York-based Cheltenham Press.
• Redesigned in 1902 by the American Type Founders' influential Morris Fuller Benton.
• Adopted as a headline typeface for The New York Times around 1906.
• Digitized in the 70s although with contestable results.
• Reworked in 2003 by Matthew Carter for The New York Times.

Read Know your type: Cheltenham at idsgn.

Hi, ha, ha, ha, haa, haaa, ha. Yeah.

Via the Longboard.

50 stars and shields of LAPD at the LA Times Magazine.

Via the Longboard.

George Lois is an American Art Director, designer, advertising leader and author best known for the for Esquire Magazine which he produced as a consultant from 1962 to 1972, never actually being an Esquire employee.

What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock.

—Fraser Speirs in his post Future Shock, a wise comment on "the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad."

The times they are a-changin'.

Via DF.

J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91 obituary at The New York Times.

Remember way back to January 2007, when the iPhone was announced? Oh Internets, you wailed and gnashed your teeth endlessly. No 3G network? No MMS? No apps on the iPhone? No replaceable battery? Oh, your complaints were endless. You were sure that the iPhone was doomed because it didn’t meet all your requirements.

—Michael Pusateri to the those folks criticizing iPad before seeing one in his Message to the Internets regarding the iPad.

Dear Internets, remember the times when new stuff was exciting?

Oh Internets, you grew jaded and blasé.

This is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.

—John Gruber on Apple bragging about making their own CPUs, their annual revenue and their size compared to companies like Sony, Samsung, and Nokia in The iPad Big Picture blog post.

Apple iPad.

It might be the future.

Blogs covering live the Apple 'latest creation' event:

• Engadget
• Gizmodo
• Macworld
• SlashGear
• The Apple Blog
• Ubergizmo

Also:

• Appletell
• Gdgt
• iPhoneFreakz
• Macduck
• Technologizer
• The Washington Post/Faster Forward
• Wired

If you follow a source not on the list, please share the URLs in comments. Thank you.

My own fascination—and professional interest—with the Apple tablet is how convinced I am that it will be what my friend Andrew DeVigal, of The New York Times calls “the game changer”.

—Mario R. Garcia in his Apple’s Tablet: today is D day blog post.

It’s not easy. Print still has a tangible, innate value. The web does not.

If the stars align, Apple could unleash a device that’s sexier than reading a magazine.

If they did it right, publishers like me might finally be able to sell something digital that people would actually buy.

—Derek Powazek, the editor and publisher of Fray, in his blog post What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow.

Images taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are way cooler than some science fiction movies.

Look at this one.

This will be the most important thing I've ever done.

—Steve Jobs on Apple tablet, allegedly, as per TechCrunch's report.

It's that big.

Have you seen CNN's 360˚ panoramic video of Port-au-Prince, Haiti? Think 360˚ feature films.

Via Kottke.