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I guess one of the behaviors of the new genre of subscriber/reader driven content and publishing in the magazine industry is the inevitability of covering the same topic more than once. ;-) JPG Magazine , which did a story (including interviews) on Camera Tossing in it's formative youth ( Issue 6 ), has pushed another Camera Toss article amusingly titled Get Fresh With Us: "Toss Your Camera" in Issue 16 . Apparently JPG thinks seconds are fresher than firsts? This one however takes the form of a very brief photo challenge posed to it's readers/photographers online, and a selection of voted/edited picks of the result. Basically it's the magazine version of my "Pool Picks" postings except with JPG contributers being the "pool", and without really providing any instructive context, history, or origins for the readers and contributors. Ironically there was a user contributed howto article on the subject linked from the challenge pages, b...

The first major publication of the concept on the Asian continent, that I am aware of, was in DC Photo Magazine (Hong Kong, China) this month. There was some initial confusion in the interview/images process, where it took a while to explain that many of my earliest examples they were interested in publishing did not exist at resolutions higher than 640x480. They eventually became aware of the relationship of this technique to cheap equipment, and that the sizes available were somewhat to be expected due to this. In a month or so I'll put the PDF's of this article online for Chinese visitors, but I'll wait till this issue has left the shelves.

Camera Toss on Die Zeit (www.zeit.de) , originally uploaded by clickykbd . Last week (4-26-2007) Die Zeit published a 13 page online gallery and article on the subject of Camera Tossing. They spoke to many and included a diverse range of photos from the community. Interesting side story to this publication... Die Zeit is a respectable German news outlet, comparable to America's "New York Times". They had actually been interested in the subject of Camera Tossing a while back when I had the exhibition in Hamburg last year. A reporter came to the opening I had a chance to speak with her in person. She loved the subject... but I later learned that no story was going to be published because "Die Zeit" had backed away from the topic... deciding that it was "too trendy" for their audience. I admit it was being parleyed into a very trendy subject... but most of that was the fault of the German media itself, especially programs such as Polylux. ...

The Zurich newspaper " Tages Anzeiger " contacted me last week requesting a photo for publication along with their article about Camera Toss. I haven't seen the printed version yet (they are sending me one) but you can read the text of their article online. Published Feb. 22nd. And hating to put anything on this blog that doesn't include a photo. Here's a particularly nice daylight camera toss, subtle motion effects, but you'll still notice the differing blur directions caused by the previously mentioned focal plane sensor distortion ... if you look really carefully. Canary Wu Originally uploaded by tossthecam

Coming Soon! Originally uploaded by heather . A pretty extensive feature on the camera tossing technique and phenomenon was included in this issue of JPG Magazine which is finally shipping . Included was an interview from myself, comments from the community, photos by myself and community members, and they even re-published a version of the Camera Toss HOWTO . From JPG's website about issue 6: There's magic in mistakes. There's something special in the spontaneous. Because it's in those moments when photography becomes more than just a document. It becomes something real. This issue of JPG is about your best "Oops!" photos. Whether it was faulty settings, old film, the random photo on the last frame of film, or the last photo a camera ever took, this issue features some of the finest slip-ups, freak-outs, and happy accidents ever captured on film or pixels. We're also joined by featured photographer Rion Nakaya , who shares some of her favorite serendip...

toss Originally uploaded by boxcrown . JPG Magazine is building an issue on the topic of "Serendipity" in photography. Camera Toss has a place as a feature and they are conducting interviews with the community. The question for the community is simple... Why do you Camera Toss? . The answers are more diverse than you might think. With gorgeous results like the above by boxbrown , I can't imagine any valid reason NOT to throw my SuperSampler into the air. Of course I myself don't own one of these neat little cameras, but I am starting to want one. ;-)

With my premiere exhibition in Hamburg, Germany , alot of other media sources found the topic worthy of dicussion or treatment... here is a synopsis and some links (this is probably a very incomplete list)... Online News: Spiegel Online (again) Being an official sponsor of the exhibition, they contributed a second article on the topic shortly before the opening event. The turn out was wonderful and feedback even better. link to their follow-up article Television: RBB | Polylux An extremely popular news magazine, wanted to put together a very entertaining piece and was present at the opening event filming. I played into their desire to create something entertaining, had fun doing it, but wish the treatment had been a little more serious. Watch the video Television: RTL/RTL2 | Unknown Program Interviewed me in the gallery and covered the second event at the gallery, a party and judging of the photography contest submissions. I have not seen their piece yet and don't have a link ...

A sneak preview for the readers of this blog, some photographs exhibited as a portfolio in my upcoming exhibition in Hamburg, Germany . The 3x23 gallery has indicated a limited edition exhibition book containing these images may be produced. If you would be interested in purchasing such an item do not hesitate to add yourself to a subscription list via email: info[at]m2[dot]ag . Portfolio Selections... Images Copyright © 2005 Ryan Gallagher

Appearing in their online edition and printed magazine. A columnist reporting on coming trends recently contacted me, and his piece was printed on January 14th, 2006. Read the online edition . It was a bit disconcerting to see my name in the printed column under a page title of "The Next Big Thing". Who'd have imagined this interpretation? For me this piece was a wonderful thing though, as it contained the first real printed criticism from someone in the photography industry, a quote from the photo editor of The London Times itself. It is quite priceless, you'll just have to read it (and I don't know what he was shown). There was still a bit of spin provided by the author, which upset some of the camera toss group members, but overall I thought it was an informative and thoughtful piece. No photos were printed as it was just an editorial, so unless someone followed the url to this blog, it is probably difficult to imagine.

A television debut, throwing cameras as an intentional way to take photographs, and growing trend, according to Deutsche Welle's European culture variety program "Euromaxx". It was aired in three languages and something on the order of 96 countries. The German version can be viewed online: www.dw-world.de/dw/episode/0,2144,1735863,00.html (click" video on demand" and scroll to about 7:20 in stream) The camera crew and journalist tailed our relatively new member lehmio around Hamburg, Germany as he sought out interesting subjects and talked about the concept. It was obviously written as a pop culture human interest story, and in that sense it was a great piece, but admittedly both lehmio and myself were disappointed that they opted to edit out the details about where, how, who, and when of it's origins, and perhaps where it might be headed? Thus, journalistically speaking, it did leave a bit to be desired, but they say "there is no such thing as b...

Happy new years! And to celebrate, my photography and the camera toss community was in the news again! DiePresse.com , an Austrian news website, ran a story and photo gallery on January 1st 2006. Welcome Austrian visitors! Hope you enjoy the creative photography. link to the article link to the gallery

Blog vs. News Blog wins this round! Is mainstream media really this desperate for content that they would rush a story to press without using/reading the interview they requested? Apparently so. I was recently contacted by Nathaniel West, a staff writer for a newspaper group in Illinois, Mattoon Journal Gazette, the Charleston Times-Courier and Decatur Herald & Review. He requested an interview , which turned out to be an email questionaire. I replied giving him a very detailed perspective into Camera Toss and how it all got started, why people are doing it, etc etc. A wonderful foundation upon which to write an article, a better perspective than even the Washington Post got, which interviewed me by phone last month. Then he published before receiving it, or even reading it (apparently). Less than 30 hours had elapsed. I realize we live in a short attention span theatre these days, but I'd hoped that at least reporters would read interviews, ones they themselves reque...

A fellow community member was interviewed today for Deutsche Welle Radio's "Update Europe" program. Thomas Lewis (_nod) is living in the UK and has a reputation for his aerial self portraits, specifically the one that made the cover of Sunday Source in the Washington Post this weekend. He has a quite a few other photos on this blog too including this photoset and the one in this post . Unfortunately I do not have a transcript or link to the online audio broadcast of that story.

And when it rains it pours! Welcome Der Spiegel (online) readers! Their article published today . Ryan Gallagher

Just a short note to welcome all the Washington Post (printed and online) readers! A story about Camera Toss ran on Sunday Dec. 11th 2005 .

So our activities are getting enough coverage that I should probably be indexing the notable ones on the blog. Here is the first "print article" that showed up, a major canadian newspaper ran a story. The highlights are quoted here... Finally, Art befitting a Throwaway Society By IVOR TOSSELL Friday, November 4, 2005 Page R31 read the entire article One of the purest joys of photography is discovering that even the rankest amateur can do something artistic if he or she leaves the shutter open long enough. Even in this age of digital manipulation, where software lets you sepia-tone pictures faster than you can say "tasteless," there's an analog joy to capturing the blur of a car's taillights at night. It's a timeless genre. But what, you ask, if your subject is stationary? Helpful as ever, the Internet has an answer: Ditch the tripod, press the shutter button, and throw the camera. Then, if it survives, post the results on-line to show everybody. This...

So yes, apparently we were the blog of note yesterday highlighted on the blogger home page and user dashboard pages. Welcome all new visitors and thank you for all the wonderful comments and your own blog postings about us. Those interested in submitting their own camera tossed pictures should read this post to find out how . The main thing to know is that this is the "official" blog of the flickr photography community called Camera Toss . I created both and seem to be responsible for inspiring this madness with my early efforts. There are quite a few of us now months later and thousands of dollars in photographic equipment put into deliberate jeopardy! There are many ways to view the images, the blog is just a highlights and announcements forum. Read the Camera Toss group description to find out more. This is actually the second round of serious hype camera tossing has received, but the first round for the blog itself. So thanks blogger! Camera tossing seems to be ...