The New York Times' nifty Flash tool for before and after affects

It’s used in T Magazine‘s The Moment blog and the reader comments are overwhelmingly positive. A great use of Flash, imo.

Kudos to the propeller-heads at NYT.com.

A behind-the-scenes peek at Maybelline's 2010 calendar shoot with photographer Kenneth Willardt

Check this out: “V” magazine’s video of the Maybelline calendar shoot. Dallas native and former winner of the Fashion Dallas/Kim Dawson Model Search, Erin Wasson, is featured.

I recently finished shooting four days of runway fashion at NorthPark Center’s Fashion at the Park. NorthPark launched their first show this past spring, and it was a huge success, so this autumn show was a no-brainer.

Once again I had the opportunity to work for Evans Caglage, a veteran of 20-plus years shooting runway shows in Milan, Paris and NYC. A senior staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News, Caglage has photographed virtually every supermodel to strut the catwalk during the past two decades.

His relationship with the Kim Dawson Agency during the past 25 years has allowed him to work with Erin Wasson, Chandra North, Angie Harmon, Bridget Hall and recently, Ali Michael.

NorthPark has done a superb job of creating a Fashion Week-like experience, according to Caglage, “From inside that tent, you’d never know you weren’t in Bryant Park.” Caglage took a week’s vacation from his newspaper job to manage a team of four photographers responsible for shooting editing and posting images from all 19 runway events as well as the parties before and after each show.

Using PhotoShelter Caglage’s team uploaded 1,572 full-res images (average jpeg image size: 35 to 45 megabytes), during the four-day event and as of this writing, more than 1,542 images have been downloaded. Caglage requested a big pipe for image uploading, to avoid backups between shows, and the 350-kilobit line did the trick. Images were available for download within two hours of the end each show. The downloadable files are available, by password, only to the fashion media.

In the interest of full disclosoure, I was working for Caglage who, for this one-week period, was working for NorthPark, but I must say that NOBODY does an event like NorthPark. Nancy Nasher was at all but a couple shows and her influence was evident in every detail.