Cool Stuff, Feb 13 – Feb 21, 2012

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

• This week, we start off with a bit of inspiration, thanks to PRI’s Ira Glass.
  Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
• Lighting geeks, this one’s for you. PocketWizard has a new model of their popular radio trigger out, called the Plus III. Here’s David “the Strobist” Hobby’s take, and here’s Joe McNally on the new radio triggers.
  

  The new PocketWizard Plus III

• The ACLU has an amusing video out on the rights of photographers. Worth a look, in case you weren’t up to speed on photography and the law.
• Well, we knew that photographers used Photoshop, but this? How can I ever believe that BodyBuildBlasterMaxPro 3000 actually works now?
• PopPhoto has released their test results of the new G1x compact from Canon.
• Ever wonder what goes into picking the cover of a magazine? Newsweek shows you nine options for their most recent issue’s cover that didn’t make it, and the one that did.
• Looks like it’s photo theft season. Almost £1M worth of photo gear was stolen from the CVP (a British retailer). Then, in Dublin, Ireland, thieves pulled off a van heist, stealing roughly £100,000 worth of Nikon gear.
• Let’s end this week’s Cool Stuff with a laugh: Kai Wong (no relation to our own Alex Wong) does a humorous video about training a total noob as a photographer and trying to pass him off as a pro.

That’s it for this week’s Cool Stuff. If you have something you think should be included, let us know! Email us at blog@borrowlenses.com.