Posted in Our Place, Trees on Feb 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Early morning light on our photogenic little swamp maple which is showing signs of spring. 22 degrees F out this morning so this was shot through a sliding glass door.
Posted in Macintosh on Feb 27th, 2006 No Comments »
He Helped Build the iPod; Now He Has Built a Rival: “When Samsung decided to mount a challenge to the Apple iPod, it turned to a team of programmers led by Paul Mercer, a veteran Apple Macintosh software designer.” (Via NYT > Business.)
Posted in Ideas, Politics on Feb 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television: “A new study taps into a trove of data from the 1960′s to argue that when it comes to academic test scores, parents can let children watch TV without fear of future harm.” Who cares about test scores, what about world view, attention span, the ability to [...]
Posted in Drumming on Feb 24th, 2006 2 Comments »
SongTrellis has a wonderful collection of African, Afro-Cuban and Swing rhythms done in midi which makes them easier to download and hear on a variety of browsers and OS’s. The rhythms are broken into parts and you can hear them in various tempos. Very useful collection.
Posted in People, Reading on Feb 23rd, 2006 5 Comments »
Our friend Tom Hunt came over yesterday on his way home from school. He teaches English at a prep school near here. Poor fellow has to wear a jacket and tie every day. Anne and I have known Tom for twenty years, he’s a very close friend of ours who lives a few towns away. [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, Photographers on Feb 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
One of my flickr contacts, a, has posted an image of a fly fishing reel. I love this. It’s great in sepia (note to self-try other nerdy design shots in sepia), it’s a wonderful representation of the fact that fly fishing gear is as nerdy as camera gear, maybe more so, and it’s a nice [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on Feb 21st, 2006 10 Comments »
A few of us are looking into what the best printers are for various kinds of photographic print jobs: large archival prints, note cards, and everything in between. There are great reviews of numerous printers and then less than great reviews of the same printers. The exact definition of “archival” seems to vary from place [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Feb 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Live Design of ABS is the step-by-step process of styling each element of a web page. Step through the design process by clicking each successive step. Very useful.
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Feb 19th, 2006 No Comments »
For more Andy Singer Cartoons as well as books, visit andysinger.com.
Posted in Objects, Our Place, Trees on Feb 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Took my bunny slippers off, bundled up (it was 20 degrees F when I took this with wind) and got out back with the tripod. This is closer to what I wanted yesterday. Still not quite it but closer. I love this new 300mm lens (Canon 300mm f/4 L). I’ve yet to use the IS [...]
Posted in Music on Feb 19th, 2006 No Comments »
The Stones Rock 1.5 Million in Rio Days Before Carnival. It takes audacity to come into the city that is home to the world’s most famous Carnival just one week before that bacchanalia begins and play any style of music other than samba. But the Rolling Stones have never lacked for swagger, and on Saturday [...]
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Feb 18th, 2006 No Comments »
We had a freak snow squall this morning and then the sun came out very brightly. I’ve had the thought to shoot these old, dried up apples for a few days before I prune the tree and I’ve been waiting for the light to be low enough to give them some dimension. Too lazy to [...]
Posted in Flowers on Feb 18th, 2006 No Comments »
My artist friend in Berkeley has orchids everywhere: window boxes, in pots on tables, outside in her garden. Because her house and garden are spare (she likes clean, open spaces) these complex flowers are an interesting contrast and fit in nicely. I was too lazy to set up the tripod. Stupid me. This flower was [...]
Posted in People on Feb 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Mamen’s daughter Aisha doing a solo dance during the finale of the children’s performance of the San Francisco Russian Festival. You go girl!
Posted in Architecture, Places on Feb 17th, 2006 No Comments »
While visiting an artist friend in Berkeley who I had not seen in 20 years (can you image?) I shot this roof vent on her neighbor’s house through her kitchen window.
Posted in Objects on Feb 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Before Mamen’s dinner party the chairs were stacked on the edge of the room to make space for setting the tables. As some of you may know, I have a fetish for chair legs.
Posted in Ideas, People on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
The Gladwell Effect is a fantastic piece on Malcolm Gladwell in The New York Times with included MP3 sound bites. Well worth reading and listening to (the sound is not just the writing spoken, it’s more so don’t miss it). When Time magazine and other media outlets declared an attention-deficit hyperactivity epidemic in America, Gladwell [...]
Posted in Social Software on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Flickr: Photo Synthesis Flickr Architect Cal Henderson provides a snapshot of the popular photo-sharing Web site and its beginnings. Source: Manish Kothari
Posted in Our Place on Feb 16th, 2006 6 Comments »
I was sitting here, minding my own business and when I reached for my tea there she was. I’ve not seen her in a while and figured all of you who knew her in months past might like to say hi. She lives in various places on my desk. I sprung into action and got [...]
Posted in Architecture, Macintosh, Places on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
This is the main building at Apple Computer, Inc.’s campus in Cupertino, California. In the gift shop there were t-shirts with the text “I visited the mothership.” I’d have bought one but there were only extra large sizes left. Mamen and I have a common friend in the iPhoto group at Apple and given that [...]
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