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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..
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
David Copperfield Shows HELLO! Around Caribbean Getaway and Introduces Fiancée Chloe Gosselin
Magic News is pleased to report that David Copperfield is getting married. He gave an exclusive interview and photo shoot to HELLO! magazine….
“Once famed for dating the world’s most beautiful women – he dated Claudia Schiffer for six years in the 1990s – he now plays all that down with an "Oh, that was a long time ago. Now I’m engaged and in a committed relationship with Chloe in my mind and my heart.”
And Chloe is clearly just as enamoured of her beau. “I’m so lucky to have found David,” she says. “There are very few people in the world like him. He’s spent more than 30 years at the top of his profession. He’s achieved some extraordinary things.
"People come up to him, tell him they admire him, that he’s a role model for them – and he just smiles, because he’s truly modest. It’s as if he doesn’t realise how smart he is, the talent that he has.”
Few are as dedicated to their art as David, who having grossed over $4 billion is the most successful solo entertainer in history. But it’s not all about the money. “The greatest compliment I receive is when my magic inspires people to go for their dreams – to make magic with their own lives,” he tells us… Read More
On a Beam of Light: The Story of Albert Einstein..
Albert Einstein is one of five people I would have for dinner, assuming I could have ANY five gentlemen from history past. I have long been a fan of THE mind of the 20th century. I was intrigued by both his ability to think far outside the box, and do so while maintaining his quirky style and personality. Some ‘minds’ become reclusive and introverted… not Albert.
‘On a Beam of Light: The Story of Albert Einstein’ is not magical in the sense that magic is the reason for this site. Instead, it is magical in it’s style, magical in it’s illustrations ( Vladimir Radunsky ), and magical in it’s ability to give us insight into the life of a man history may deem the most important of our lifetime.. and do so in a simplistic and entertaining way.
To quote Maria Popova’s story in BRAIN PICKINGS – The story begins with Albert’s birth — a beautiful but odd baby boy who turns one and doesn’t say a word, turns two, then three, and nary a word. Instead, he “just looked around with his big curious eyes,” wondering about the world. His parents worried that there might be something wrong, but loved him unconditionally. And then:
“One day, when Albert was sick in bed, his father brought him a compass — a small round case with a magnetic needle inside. No matter which way Albert turned the compass, the needle always pointed north, as if held by an invisible hand. Albert was so amazed his body trembled.
Suddenly, he knew there were mysteries in the world — hidden and silent, unknown and unseen. He wanted, more than anything, to understand those mysteries…”