Figured I’d take advantage of the time while waiting for the water to boil to make coffee. Tip: don’t hand-hold macro shots before drinking coffee.

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I got stung by 5 bees yesterday while mowing the lawn. I went inside to clean up my wounds and came back outside with camera to see about capturing one of these viscious guys but instead, got a flower just after one had left it. In all honesty, I wasn’t sure if this flower was [...]

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From Intel to Health Care and Beyond: “Intel’s Andrew S. Grove urges the health care industry to adopt some of the same practices as the microchip industry.” Andrew Grove was the CEO of Intel and helped found it and build it into the most successful chipmaker on the planet. Grove is one of the great [...]

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There are numerous pictures of the flooding going on in India up on flickr, here’s a great one by StinkyShoes of a flooded train station as an example. The great thing about flickr at times like these, as opposed to a news source, is that it allows regular people to post, comment, and do it [...]

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The Birth of Google: “Larry thought Sergey was arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. But their obsession with backlinks just might be the start of something big. By John Battelle from Wired magazine.” This is a fascinating account of how these two guys found each other and came up with new ideas and techniques for [...]

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Study Says Popular Herb Has No Effect on Colds: “Echinacea, the herbal supplement used by millions of Americans, neither prevented colds nor eased cold symptoms in a study.” (Via NYT > Home Page.)

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Banksy is a renegade British artist who does amazing stuff, inside and out.

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While cruising an East Village neighborhood near a restaurant I was meeting some people at I came across a small, very old cemetery in the middle of a city block. A very nice looking dog was intently looking through the iron fence at… …a pigeon sitting on top of a tombstone. The pigeon wasn’t too [...]

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David Kuckhermann has an excellent web site with information about frame and other hand drums. He has online lessons, audio and QuickTime movies and is coming out with a DVD that looks like it might be a great source of information. His technique pages alone and the QuickTime demos of all of the various strokes [...]

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Indy Charlie is using flickr in a blog-like way more than almost any other photographer/flickr member I’ve come across. Her commentary and comment threads are fantastic. She takes great risks in her photographs and it really pays off. I’m trackin’ her…

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minato in Japan has a wonderful array of food shots that are visually stunning and mouth watering.

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The Op/Tech Super Classic Strap is a terrific replacement for the straps that most camera manufacturers ship with either high end prosumer cameras (Canon G3, G5, G6) or DSLRs like my Canon 20D. It could also be used for binoculars or anything relatively heavy you want to carry over your shoulder or around your neck.Here [...]

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My 4 year old granddaughter used to ignore me taking her picture but now I have to go through all kinds of shenanigans to get her to not pose. Ice cream did the trick tonight. Focus is less than perfect. I’d have to anesthetize her to get her to stay still. One she heard the [...]

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A stack of Smart Cars in Melbourne City, Australia. Martha, this one’s for you.

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Virtual Street Reality is a collection of the artist Julian Beever’s realistic 3D perspective drawings on sidewalks. This is quite amazing. (Via SimpleBits.)

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All over Connecticut (probably all of southern New England) daylilies of various colors and varieties are in bloom. The ones we have came from one of my students at The University of Southern Maine (hi Tom) over ten years ago. He gave us two pots and we planted them and now they’ve spread into thirty [...]

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Paul Pena is a blind jazz guitar player from San Francisco who found out about Tuvan throat singing (overtone singing) scanning on his short wave radio. Genghis Blues is a documentary about Paul’s discovery and his subsequent trip to Tuva to compete in the World Throat Singing Contest. Incredible.

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Joy Brown’s house, studio, and even this kiln shed are are all built in the tradition of Japanese architecture. She lived in and studied ceramics in Japan for many years. I’ve been to Kyoto, this could be shot there but in fact it’s right up the road in Kent, Connecticut.

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Joy Brown lives and has her pottery studio five miles up the road in Kent. I’ve known her for a while now and while I met her through her ex-husband (we drummed together) I now consider her to be a good friend. Because I have a background in ceramics, hanging out at a successful, working [...]

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This is a portion of my art book collection: a variety of photo books by famous photographers. I love these books and I’m starting to browse through them again. New York in the Forties Great Feininger book of black and whites of New York City as it started to really bloom. Note: Dover has interesting [...]

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