World Press Photo.
| Founded | 1955, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
|---|---|
| Origins | Netherlands |
| Key people | His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (Patron), Pieter Broertjes, former editor-in-chief de Volkskrant |
| Area served | Global |
| Focus | Photojournalism |
| Method | Nonviolence, Funding, Contest, Education |
| Website | www.worldpressphoto.com |
World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest.
The awards ceremony is held in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. After the contest, the prizewinning photographs are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over a million people in 40 countries. A yearbook presenting all prizewinning entries is published annually in six languages.
In addition to selecting the World Press Photo of the Year, the contest determines winners in the following categories:
- Spot News
- General News
- People in the News
- Sports Action
- Sports Features
- Contemporary Issues
- Daily Life
- Portraits
- Arts and Entertainment
- Nature.
Another primary objective of the organization is to support professional press photography on a wide international scale, to stimulate developments in photojournalism, encourage the transfer of knowledge, help develop high professional standards in photojournalism and promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information. It organizes a number of educational projects throughout the world: seminars, workshops and the annual Joop Swart Masterclass.
2004-2005.2006Winners.
EXTREME SPORTS
An extreme sport (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a popular term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherentdanger, and that are counter-cultural. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear or spectacular stunts.
The definition of an extreme sport is not exact — for example, although studies show that road cycling ranks as the sport with the highest number of injuries,[4] it is not considered an extreme sport because it is not counter-cultural[citation needed]. The term’s origin is also unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games.
X GAMES logo
Algunas paginas para mayor información.
- X Games
- Encounter
- Extremity Games
- Extreme tourism and adventure travel
- Gravity Games
- Urban Exploration
- Ekstremsportveko
- Fuel TV, a channel dedicated to extreme sports
History.
The origin of the divergence of the term «extreme sports» from «sports» may date to the 1950s in the appearance of a phrase usually, but wrongly, attributed toErnest Hemingway. The phrase is
- «There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.»
The implication of the phrase was that the word «sport» defined an activity in which one might be killed. The other activities being termed «games». The phrase may have been invented by either writer Barnaby Conrad or automotive author Ken Purdy.
In recent decades the term extreme sport was further promoted by X Games, a multi-sport event created and developed by ESPN.
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- X GAMES logo
The first X Games(known as 1995 Extreme Games) were held in Newport, Providence, Mount Snow, and Vermont in the United States.
A history of the sports was published in 2004. Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme. The book provided an overview of the history, culture, and business of the sports and included interviews with athletes, company owners, and marketers.
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola, Jr. (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression «15 minutes of fame.» In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.
The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the «bellwether of the art market.» $100 million is a benchmark price that only Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-August Renoir, Gustav Klimt and Willem de Kooning have achieved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
BARÇA el mejor equipo, en linea!
Ningún equipo deportivo del mundo tiene más fans en Facebook que el FC Barcelona. El Club ha convertido esta red social en un elemento más de su estrategia de comunicación que le pone en contacto con sus seguidores procedentes de los cinco continentes.
Dídac Lee, responsable del Área Tecnológica del FC Barcelona, explica que la página está escrita en tres idiomas y que siguen más de 11,5 millones de personas.
Es obvio que el Barça como fenómeno global tiene una fuerza descomunal en todo el mundo, pero las cifras se consiguen con un plan estratégico que considera las redes sociales como un activo más del plan de comunicación del Club. Por tanto, toda acción que realizamos en nuestras redes sociales está pensada y cumple un guión concreto en el que se intenta implicar a todos los departamentos del FC Barcelona; afirmó Lee.
BARÇA
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