Posted in Landscape on Aug 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. I was driving home and it was about to rain but the light was fantastic so I stopped and quickly walked around the meadow at Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust to see if I could catch some of that pre-storm light in my camera. It’s been a wet summer and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places on Aug 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Metropolitan Life is putting Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village — a stretch of 110 apartment buildings along the East River — on the auction block. Read NY Times Story…
My parents’ best friends have an apartment in Peter Cooper Village. We spent each Christmas eve with them when I was very young and we lived [...]
Posted in Ideas, People on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Jan Adkins is the “Explainer General” who designs, writes, and illustrates books making the difficult easy through detailed drawings and clear writing.
His books and work is different from the excellent Dorling Kindersley series in that he uses illustration much like Eric Sloane did.
Source: Cool Tools
Note on the source: J. Baldwin (recommender at Kelly site) was [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites on Aug 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
Flickr just added a map and geotag feature to their organizer. Yes! Great shot - where’d you take that?
You can now drag your photos to the places where you took them on a map of the world. This is version 1 of this feature so it’s a bit crude in terms of integration into the [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Aug 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was at the feed store getting bird seed for our other feeders and because I’m so in awe of Carlos’s hummingbird shots I figured, in honor of him I’d give it a try. So I bought this feeder and hung it up on the gutter outside the living room window. The window [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place on Aug 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Testing out a friend’s Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L. I’ve had and used one before but never on a 5D. Fun. The Kitty was a willing subject. Here she is scent rolling.
Posing.
Ecstasy.
Posted in Ideas on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a bold woman approached him.
“It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”
So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the [...]
Posted in Photo Gear on Aug 24th, 2006 4 Comments »
An S.L.R. Camera With a Built-In Duster: “Canon’s latest digital single-lens reflex camera for consumers shares a feature with many kitchen ovens: it is self-cleaning.”
(Source NYT > Technology.)
Posted in Architecture on Aug 23rd, 2006 4 Comments »
New York City. This was not the best time to be shooting this spectacular building (mid-afternoon) but here we were in Madison Square Park (tripods not allowed in the park by the way) and there it was with sun almost directly above.
I put the 135 on for the next shot and got a hair and [...]
Posted in Places, Social Software on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
onNYTurf) couples google maps with the New York City subway system. This is just what I need for my trips to New York, fantastic.
(Source kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Architecture on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. This is a view across the Hudson River to office buildings in Jersey City that have sprung up as Manhattan pricing has risen. I’m standing in Rockefeller Park at the west end of Chambers Street, the northern boundary of a series of spectacular parks that together form a strip of commercial development [...]
Posted in Photographers on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
“Joe Rosenthal, the Associated Press photographer who captured the enduring image of the American fighting man in World War II with his depiction of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a huge American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, died Sunday in Novato, Calif. He was 94.” Read Story…
Posted in Ideas, Video on Aug 18th, 2006 6 Comments »
Classic Sesame Street video clip on how crayons are made.
(Source kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Photographers on Aug 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
nico.in.the.bus photos is the web site of photographer Nicolas Monnot, one of the most interesting photographers I’ve come across in a while. He has a flickr account as well.
Source: Dale Allyn
Posted in Politics on Aug 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Maine attorney, Arthur Greif wrote an outstanding op/ed in the Bangor Daily News: Say it ain’t so, Joe.
I was going to write something here but Greif says it all, better than I can. Lieberman shouldn’t run as an “independent democrat,” he should run as a Republican.
Posted in Macintosh on Aug 16th, 2006 2 Comments »
Those of you who are about to make the move to a new Macintosh using an Intel processor may want to take note of this. Those of you who have already made the move may also want to check this out.
I had a 15″ G4 PowerBook with the latest version of OS X installed. I [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 14th, 2006 No Comments »
Here’s a youtube video clip of a recent CNN interview with Hersh on his latest New Yorker piece. I think he’s probably right on the money and this explains quite a bit of what just went on: Bush Planned Lebanon War Months Before.
Here’s the New Yorker piece that triggered it the interview: Watching Lebanon.
How much [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Aug 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Om Malik on Six Apart bets that future is MoBlogging (mobile blogging or posting text and photos to a web site from a cell phone).
It’s not the whole future but it looks like it’ll be a part of it. Interesting.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Aug 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. It was a particularly wet early summer, but our irises weathered it well and were starting to open. This particular bud looks like a colored pencil and given the intensity of the color that will eventually blossom from it, it’s fitting that it does.
Note: this is an old image and it went [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 10th, 2006 4 Comments »
Bush Proposes Retroactive War Crime Protection for Policymakers
Says he’s worried about detainees but what about the American people and the rest of the world that isn’t in Quantanamo? I’d love to see the entire administration brought to justice.
(Source Common Dreams | News & Views.)
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