Great 5-min video narrated by Tom Waits on the artist John Baldessari who is great and who I really need to know more about. More videos like this please.

Full-length documentary on Daido Moriyama, “Near Equal Moriyama Daido” (via American Suburb X).

The Hyères Fashion and Photography Festival starts tomorrow. This little vid will tell you everything you need to know about Hyères 2012. The shortlisted photographers look great (once again) and with exhibitions by Jason Evans and Anouk Kruithof, there is bound to be no shortage of COLOUR this year. Sadly I have not become a permanent jury member and won’t be able to attend this year, but if you can make it, I highly recommend it.

The fifth edition of the Fotobook Festival opens Friday at Le Bal.

Jason Evans’s happy Tokyo accidents in the latest edition of Seesaw magazine.

Ikko Narahara, Tokyo, the ‘50s, 1954-58

I have always loved this image. A show of Narahara’s work opens tomorrow at Taka Ishii’s Roppongi space in Tokyo.

Shoji Ueda (1913-2000) was born 99 years ago today.

Foam magazine issue #30 - Micro is out with a text by yours truly on Masao Mochizuki’s Television 1975-1976 as well as work by Boris Mikhailov, Rineke Dijkstra, Joris Jansen, Stephen Gill, Harold Strak, Corinne May Botz, Christian Patterson and an interview with Sophie Calle.

An exhibition on the development of the Dutch photobook since 1945 has just opened at the Nederlands Fotomuseum. For my money, the Dutch have probably made the most interesting photobooks in Europe over that period so this should be worth seeing. Sadly I don’t see myself making it to Rotterdam in the next couple of months, but I’m told the catalogue is also excellent.

The Curator’s Code is a system designed to make attribution on the web “consistent and codified”… a kind of code of conduct for internet linking. I think the term “curator” is missplaced and I don’t understand why the code was so overly designed, but the idea of trying to promote attribution online is definitely a positive one.