Olympic Photography

Five ways photographers are changing the way we see the London 2012 Olympic Games

Capturing the sport of this year’s Olympics is a corps of skilled photographers. Though the iPhone has proven an impressive tool for following the action, these lensmen and women transcend the everyday spectator’s capabilities with some unconventional techniques, from live-streaming underwater cameras and 3 billion-pixel images to a vintage field camera with 100-year-old lens. Here, five examples of innovations in Olympic photography that have us …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun, an LV waffle maker, a flock of umbrellas and more in our look at the web this week

This Week’s LAB is Sponsored by Dos Equis 1. Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker Artist Andrew Lewicki’s newest creation is a full-blooded child of capitalism. Featuring Louis Vuitton’s signature LV-and-lily print, Lewicki’s waffle maker promises to make your breakfast prettier, if not more expensive. Unfortunately, for now not even an Amex black can buy you this prototype. 2. Matchbook Ever wondered what your favorite book would …

The New Yorker at The Yale Union

A never-ending road trip, House of Style on MTV, the Olympics and more in our weekly look at the web

An elegant Portland space that once housed mammoth industrial laundry machines, contemporary art space the Yale Union is honoring “The New Yorker” this summer with a carefully arranged collection of back issues that features some 200 Saul Steinberg drawings and the words of last century’s most iconic journalists.