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The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use – Getty Images is betting its business on embeddable photos..

The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use – Getty Images is betting its business on embeddable photos..

Assuming you have a website or blog, this is a BIG deal… The above photo will give you a good idea of how the images will appear.. Get use to it.. cause you’ll see a lot more of ‘em on MAGIC NEWS…

If you go to the Getty Images website, you’ll see millions of images, all watermarked. There are more than a hundred years of photography here, from FDR on the campaign trail to last Sunday’s Oscars, all stamped with the same transparent square placard reminding you that you don’t own the rights. If you want Getty to take off the watermark, you’ll have to pay for it.

Starting now, that’s going to change. Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. For a small-scale WordPress blog with no photo budget, this looks an awful lot like free stock imagery…

Read more at….

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/5/5475202/getty-images-made-its-pictures-free-to-use

http://www.gettyimages.com/

For young magician, being herself is no illusion..

For young magician, being herself is no illusion..

   Kelly Corrigan has written an interesting article for the Burbank Leader..

In all of Burbank, London Ruff may be the only high school girl to beg her mom for a tarantula, only to settle for a snake instead.

But then again, her mother Wendy Ruff may be among the few moms in the city — if any — who is adept at securing her daughter in a strait jacket, only to sit back and watch her escape.

The trick is only part of what London Ruff has learned the past two years while participating in the Magic Castle’s Junior Society program where she performs with fellow young student magicians and receives coaching from successful professionals…

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Q&A: Wes Barker bills himself as a ‘stunt magician’..

Q&A: Wes Barker bills himself as a ‘stunt magician’..

Wes Barker bills himself as a “stunt magician,” and with bits like walking on broken glass while carrying an audience member on his shoulders, it’s an apt description. The 27-year-old Surrey resident, born and raised in Langley, learned his craft — the magic part — while working on lunch and coffee breaks while working for the city. 

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Magician Muthukad makes a Minister vanish…

Magician Muthukad makes a Minister vanish…

Sounds like shades of Copperfield to me…

A Minister pulled off the vanishing act, quite literally, on Tuesday afternoon. Agriculture Minister K.P. Mohanan played the willing participant yet again in one of magician Gopinath Muthukad’s public performances at the Government College for Women auditorium.

The Minister was chained inside a metal cage in full view of the audience. The box was closed, the straight-faced Minister locked inside, and a few dramatic minutes later when the box was opened, Mr. Mohanan was....

Read more at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/magician-muthukad-makes-a-minister-vanish/article5756308.ece