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Ben Hammersley is a British journalist, broadcaster, and photographer, currently based between Florence, Italy, and London, England. Here is his biography on wikipedia.

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This week’s tabdump

February 2nd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
Ignoring, for the moment, at least, the major news in my curiously eclectic worklife - Microsoft and Yahoo about to do an AOL/TimeWarner and spin slowly together into the ground, the art director of French Vogue taking over Interview, the slow defeat in Afghanistan, it’s time for the tabdump of stuff I have on my browser this week. Hurrah, etc. We here at BHDP, as this blog shall henceforth be known here, seem to be getting somewhat obsessive about this particular supermodel, but, hey, this video of David Yurman shooting Natalia Vodianova for Vogue rather shows how she makes her money. There’s not a single frame that’s not a perfect shot. As Slate asks Where did all those gorgeous Russians come from? Still, that’s not to say that we’re all about the classy. Bubblegirls, NSFW, kinda, but still very fetching at times, leads us onto Photographers Limited Editions.com, and the splendid Eugenio Recuenco’s Dreams. While we might try to GTD ourselves to Think Arete, “Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy:” The Autumn of the Multitaskers. Nevertheless, there’s eve more to do and read, not least the new World Affairs Journal, with one hell of an editorial board. And over at the NYT, Nicholas Schmidle is writing about getting expelled from Pakistan: something close to my professional heart for the next few weeks. oh yes. Finally, as per Losowsky’s teasing ways, I too, etc etc etc, with things like this: Hammersley2008-02-0114-14-03

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