This is a great video. Ezra is not only incredibly frank and honest about his circuitous path to bike building but as you’ll see by exploring his site, Fast Boy Cycles, he’s one heck of a creative person who knows how to live his life with grace.
It looks like he’s taken his account off of flickr, maybe as a reaction to yesterday’s fiasco of a redesign change so the images on his site are dead at the moment. He’s an excellent photographer, hopeful you’ll find enough of his images that aren’t embedded from flickr to get a sense of his skill and eye. Check out his cooking videos for a taste of his style. It seems everything Ezra does he does with art and grace, I’m both inspired and humbled by people who live this kind of full life.
As you’ll learn toward the end of the video above, Ezra has cancer and keeps a blog about it: teaching cancer to cry.
The photo sharing site and service that I use, flickr has made a major update to its service and site.
I’ve been using flickr since 2005 and I’ve stuck with it even after Yahoo bought it and let it dwindle. Certainly the amount of time I’ve spent with the old user interface makes it difficult to look at any change with an open mind so I’ll reserve ultimate judgement for a while. But, Yahoo is attempting to bring itself and it’s popular properties back from the dead and this flickr update is part of that process (as is the buying of blogging platform tumblr.
My quick take: Too much information, too tightly packed. Here’s what my home screen looks like now: Richard-.
I hope over time they fold in some customization tools that make it possible to display a bit less information on one’s landing page. We’ll see.
Flickr member weemeeuw took this great landscape image in Zillebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium with his Fuji X100s. The light is wonderful and the image is perfectly composed and exposed. Great work.
Flickr member LBeckons took this great image of the Marina City condos in Chicago on the Chicago River with his Olympus OM-D. I’ve always loved these buildings: bottom part parking, upper part condos. Very futuristic looking and right on the river.
Washington, Connecticut. This patch of moss (polytrichaceae family) is on a hillside in Steep Rock’s Macricostas Preserve which is right down the road from my house.
I visited this patch of moss a few weeks ago and revisited it with the intention of getting a few more shots in focus. I’m very happy with the results.
Flickr member mingthein shot this excellent architectural shot in San Francisco with his Sony RX100. Fantastic framing and processing make this a fascinating image.
Flickr user Homemade has captured a great shot of morning sun rays in Ridgefield, Connecticut (right down the road from me it seems) using his Sony RX100.
Salisbury, Connecticut. Hiking up to Bear Mountain across Paradise Lane we always stop at this little pool of water to check for interesting reflections. Today there was a nice group of frog egg clusters. Looks like they beamed down from another planet.
Bert Stephani does a video review of the Fuji X100s in Brussels. A very nice discussion and tour through the city shooting two women in various settings. His use of a small corded off-camera flash is brilliant.
Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, California. Trying the Sony RX1 out on a group of flowers with a slight breeze. It was cool out so the poppies were closed up but the colors were vivid and there were plenty of unopened buds to shoot. It was tough to get into a group of flowers like this with the RX1′s 35mm lens to get closeups and I longed for my longer macro lenses of years past.
Messing with some wide open, shallow depth of field shots with the RX1. It’s going to take some time to learn to use a 35mm lens to do these kinds of images, I’m used to shooting them at 100mm or longer.
My mother enjoyed these gardens quite a bit. The problem is there are few paved paths and pushing a wheelchair on dirt can be tiring. And, the day we were there it was cool so my mother kept nagging me to hurry up and take my ####ing pictures because she was freezing.
I posted about The Vivian Maier Photography Project before but this video is the trailer for the documentary on her that’s coming out this year. It looks fantastic.
Flickr member Mel Stephens took this great landscape shot on the northern shore of Scotland with his Olympus OMD. It’s a stitched panorama made up of multiple overlapping shots.
Whether or not the DSLR is dead, Zack Arias’s enthusiasm is contagious. Yes, he may be prone to hyperbole but so what? Who isn’t when they love a new gadget?
Dig the dumbek playing that happens at about the 3 minute mark.
This is a great behind the scenes look at Christopher Wahl, one of the top portrait photographers shooting now. The piece by 16×9 is great as is Wahl’s work. The last piece of the show is on swelling ball bearings, another topic unrelated.
This is a wonderful look into the life (and house) of artist Gary Baseman. I’ve been following his graphical work for many years and no doubt some seeing this will recognize certain characters from illustration work he’s done for alternative and mainstream magazines.
The retrospective he’s talking about will be at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles April 25th through August 18th. I’m in Los Angeles as I post this but I’ll miss it on this trip. Next trip in May I hope to see this show.
