Gettin' Anchory: Suffering the artists for our art

Welcome to Getting’ Anchory, a semi-regular feature where Anchor Management (see what he did there?) rants about the aspects of popular culture that get him riled up, to appease the demon monkeys that live in his head. Also, to make fart jokes.

Jonny Craig, who is blessed with the voice of a drunken angry angel, is the front man of Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa and has a solo album out. Although you’ve never heard of him, you should. Go YouTube it, I’ll wait. Last week it came to light that Jonny Craig has been offering fans Macbooks via his Twitter account, but never delivering on the computers. Although the exact number is unknown, over twenty fans have claimed it had happened to them with proof. This fanned the flames of discussion between fans. Does Jonny’s scamming mean they should never listen to his work again? Or do they give him support, no matter what he does? Now this is nothing new for Jonny, who had been kicked out of DGD before because of his problems with drugs. But since he has the best voice this side of Michael Jackson (deal with it), they took him back in, hoping to recapture their early sound and success after much internal struggles within the band. He promised he had bettered his life and fans wanted to believe him. Just a few days ago the record company, a week away from his band’s album release, has issued a statement he would go into rehab and all the duped fans would get their money back. Instead of a glorious return to form, the band would have to settle for touring without their front man and getting all the press they didn’t want.

Slothshots! 2:Sports

After a week off we come back to checking out the world of photography in Slothshots.

The superbowl occurred last weekend and I thought it would be topical to focus on sports photography for this post. One artist in particular has captured some of the most iconic moments in sports ever. He is often regarded as the greatest sports photographer in history. We will be focusing on Neil Leifer in this post and 8 of his most compelling pictures. Enjoy.

SlothShots! 1: A little bit of History

"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."

- Ansel Adams

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

The quotes above are from two of the most renowned photographers in the world. I will be showcasing some of their work in future post but for know I wanted to post those quotes because to me they sum up photography better than I ever could. Photography has many meanings; to a mom it captures the memories, and the stories she will tell to others, in the future; To an artist it’s a vehicle to communicate the story the mom might tell but without the mom being there. So where do I start on a subject that has only been around for 200 years but has had many advances and voices to guide it to what it is today? I’m not sure. Let's start from the beginning!

Many scientists attempted to create photographs but failed on one aspect, making the picture stay once it was developed.

The first photograph ever is by a man named Niepce. It has an exposure time of 8 hours! 8 hours!