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DISCUSSING THE STATE OF THE BRITISH MEDIA WITH IAN HISLOP
Sebastian Meyer Founded Iraq’s First Photo Agency
Iraq is pretty much the worst place ever. But it makes for some great photos.
See our interview with Sebastian, and some of his photos here.
WANT TO BUY YOURSELF A CAREER AS A MUSIC JOURNALIST?
Earlier today, someone alerted me to something called Guitar Media Magazine. I’d never heard of it before, but I had a look at their website and it has lots of interesting articles about stuff like Stone Sour recording a new album and some guitars that are so beautiful they’d “probably make Tom Morello jealous as shit”. It also has some empty forums where people don’t gather to talk about diatonics and scales and other stuff I haven’t cared about since I “completed” guitar when I was 16. Anyway, the strapline of the site boasts that the magazine is “100% FREE to read”. But Guitar Media Magazine hasn’t always been 100 percent FREE to write for.
Be a gig reviewer and go see artists such as Joe Bonamassa, Guns N Roses, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Rush, Joe Satriani and many more as a member of the Guitar Media press team
We are charging an annual fee for this membership at £49.99 GBP or for US applicants its $79.99 USD (Other currencies will be calculated upon giving your payment details)
Things changed drastically when the two planes flew into the Twin Towers in New York on September 11th 2001. I had just unpacked my first state of the art Nikon D1X camera and wondered if I had spent all this money for a good reason. I’d been working the streets as a paparazzo and it was now time to move on up the food chain and try my luck at working for the big news agencies.
Read the rest of this article here.
A lot of people lost their eyes to shotgun pellets, and it’s common to meet people in the square with patches such as this over one eye. One policeman was caught on video apparently being congratulated by a superior for being good at hitting protesters in the eye. Revolutionaries made a ‘Wanted’ poster for him and covered the city in it.
Read the full article here
BRITAIN WENT ON STRIKE BUT OCCUPY GOT TO WORK
It’s the morning of Wednesday 30th November, the day of Britain’s biggest strikes since the 1930’s. I’ve been up since an ungodly 5.30AM smashin Red Bulls’, blinking a lot and feeling like a troglodyte. We’ve got an appointment to catch Occupy LSX wreak havoc at Liverpool Street station, weirding out the early morning commuters. Brushing off the “it’s too early for this shit” I hurry down the concourse, fully expecting the mainline London station to be transformed into a rope-swinging anarchist jungle jim.
Read the full article here
DISPATCH FROM CAIRO: THE PAST FEW DAYS IN TAHRIR
For six days, or 144 hours, Egypt’s loathed police and the young vanguard of the country have been fighting pitched battles in the streets, as the country burns, chokes and bleeds its way towards a (some would say second) revolution.
DISPATCH FROM CAIRO: THE PAST FEW DAYS IN TAHRIR
For six days, or 144 hours, Egypt’s loathed police and the young vanguard of the country have been fighting pitched battles in the streets, as the country burns, chokes and bleeds its way towards a (some would say second) revolution.
IS EGYPT ON THE VERGE OF A SECOND REVOLUTION?
Last week, traders in Cairo’s Tahrir Square were selling chintzy pharaonic souvenirs and the odd t-shirt alluding to the Springtime ousting of Hosni Mubarak. Now, they’re back to flogging scarves, gas masks and safety goggles.
On May 24, 2011—the same day Brazil’s Parliament voted to decrease logging restrictions in the country’s Forest Code—married environmental activists Zé Cláudio Ribeiro and Maria do Espirito Santo were shot to death outside their house in the Amazonian state of Para.
After the beatings and tear gas baths in the middle of the night, early yesterday morning Occupy Wall Street migrated to Sixth Avenue and Canal Street.














