{"id":15686,"date":"2009-01-18T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/01\/interesting-inaugural-bits-from-the-nyt.html"},"modified":"2009-01-18T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:55:41","slug":"interesting_inaugural_bits_from_the_nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/interesting_inaugural_bits_from_the_nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Inaugural bits from the NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The New York Times features an interactive photography portfolio called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/magazine\/2009-inauguration-gallery\/index.html?WT.mc_id=PO-D-I-NYT-AD-BIG-MII-ROS-0109-NA&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\">Obama&#8217;s People<\/a>, offering portraits of key staffers. The audio commentary (via the link below the photos) is worth a listen, describing the subjects&#8217; choices in what to bring to the shoot (e.g. a chocolate chip cookie for David Axelrod).&#160; The separate making-of piece features Kathy Ryan talking about how shooting digitally has enhanced the collaborative aspects&#8211;and maybe the time pressures&#8211;of portraiture.&#160; [<strong>Update<\/strong>: Ellis Vener points out a hilarious &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aphotoeditor.com\/2009\/01\/16\/nadav-kander-and-the-ny-times-magazine-the-real-behind-the-scenes\/\">Real<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aphotoeditor.com\/2009\/01\/16\/nadav-kander-and-the-ny-times-magazine-the-real-behind-the-scenes\/\"> Behind-the-Scenes<\/a>&#8221; take on the shoot, followed by some good discussion in the comments.&#160; &#8220;<em>Blue Steel<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The paper (that term seems more than a little outmoded, doesn&#8217;t it?) also features an excellent overview of the Inauguration Day goings-on via a <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/44th_president\/inauguration?th&amp;emc=th\">3D-rendered map and timeline<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Looking back, another piece depicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/17\/opinion\/17webwhitehouse.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">the changing configuration of the White House<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;d love to be in DC in person, but that map triggers a memory of having gotten stuck on the Metro under the Potomac on a sweltering July 4 years ago.&#160; With Tuesday temperatures due to hover around freezing, maybe I&#8217;m okay with TV after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times features an interactive photography portfolio called Obama&#8217;s People, offering portraits of key staffers. The audio commentary (via the link below the photos) is worth a listen, describing the subjects&#8217; choices in what to bring to the shoot (e.g. a chocolate chip cookie for David Axelrod).&#160; The separate making-of piece features Kathy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}