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From magazine-land

A few cool things from the newsstands the past couple weeks that you may have missed:

A stark obit-cover from Entertainment Weekly on Heath Ledger. Great photograph by Martin Schoeller from  a Nov. 4, 2005 shoot in New York. I'm guessing, though, that there were some arguments for the Schoeller photo that ran as lede on the inside spread, below:

As far as the cover goes, a bold departure from the norm for EW, but I think they could have taken it a step or two further and been even more successful. How about making the EW flag tiny enough to fit in that white space at the top, rather than overlapping? And popping the Ledger nameline down below his chin? I know, I know: newsstand sales. But still.

And a great spread in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, on this year's breakthrough performances in film, with an unbelievable 28-photo collection of portraits by Ryan McGinley. Among my favorites, the cover with Juno's Ellen Page, above, and Michael Cera, below, recognized for Superbad.

   

A new venture

As I prepare to leave these Far East parts, I wanted to establish some sort of online presence for the little bit of freelance design and photography work that I hope trickles in over the next... well, little while... of my hiatus from the 9-to-5 (or 3-to-midnight, as it were) life.

So, with the help of the brilliantly simple and slick interface offered by Clickbooq, I've set up a site for the little side business I'll call Pine Creative, as a nod to my pine-tree-laden roots. While many of you reading this could probably build a site like this in your sleep, I surely could not, and I can't recommend this Clickbooq thing enough, especially for the photographers among you.

So, have a look if you like. And I'll continue packing up the Thailand life.