QuickLinks For 2006-12-01

• New stock agency MediaBlitz Images online:
  UK Cambridge-based image library software specialist ThirdLight published a few days ago a case study on their involvement in launching the new BAPLA member MediaBlitz Images, which offers "high quality images at low prices for corporate, advertising, editorial and publication use".
  Related:
  •Third Light Releases Web-based Picture Library System IMS v5.0 (Aug. 29, 2006)
  •Third Light Provides Picture Agencies With Accelerated Image Distribution Tool (Jan. 20, 2006)
  Tags: MediaBlitz Images Third Light

• LaChapelle refuses to work with 'nasty' Madonna:
  Celebrity photographer/director David LaChapelle backed out of directing the music video for Madonna's song HUNG UP because she is "nasty" towards employees ... LaChapelle, who directed the cult film RIZE about dancers in South Central Los Angeles, chose not to put himself in a situation where he wasn't enjoying himself. "I understood that she was not the person with who I wished to collaborate. She is nice when you are alone with her, but when you work for her, she can be very ... nasty ... I didn't want to be tortured ... There is a part of cruelty in her."
  Contactmusic.com.
  Tags: LaChapelle Madonna