Posted in Architecture, Places on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. While downtown to see Doubt I strolled down the block to see Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, home of the LA Philharmonic. The night lighting on the stainless steel skin of this amazing building was striking but there still wasn’t a lot of light for handheld photography. I shot anyway [...]
Posted in Architecture, Ideas, Places on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Last night my mother and I went to see Doubt at the Ahmanson Theater at the LA Music Center. She can’t drive at night or on the freeway anymore (she’s 91) so she hadn’t been to the Music Center in a while.
We got there early and the entire plaza that houses the [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Sep 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Above The Great Lakes. The great thing about taking off from the east coast at 5:30 pm and flying west is that you’re flying into the sunset which means you get to follow it for a while. Here we’re flying at 38,000 feet and there are numerous layers of clouds, each different and each showing [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
Source: Common Dreams
Posted in Politics on Sep 29th, 2006 2 Comments »
Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq: “A new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author, describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.”
(Source NYT > Home Page.)
Posted in Food, Our Place on Sep 28th, 2006 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. After a summer of rain and odd weather where we thought our garden would be a failure it is now pumping out tomatoes of all kinds daily. There are only so many fresh tomatoes we want to eat so when we’re overrun we peel them and cook them down into sauce and freeze [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Sep 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I’m fascinated with the shape of the package that holds the petals of this cosmos flower bud. How this and other plants evolved so that their buds open without destroying the petals is a wonder to behold.
Another view of the same image.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in People, Places on Sep 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Space tourist Anousheh Ansari is posting photos from the International Space Station on flickr.
Dang, now I want to go up. I wonder if they’d allow me to take all my gear? I’d throw up before all over my gear before I even took off.
(Source kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Landscape on Sep 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Most clear mornings the corn field across the road, which is now completely harvested, creates ground fog which slowly burns off as the sun comes up and warms the air. By the time I got dressed and ran across the road with camera and tripod it was almost too late and I was [...]
Posted in Photographers on Sep 24th, 2006 7 Comments »
“While shooting some pictures for saxophonist, Steve Treseler, this little boy, Isaac, decided he wanted to see what was going on.”
One of my flickr contacts, Steve Korn, a professional drummer took this shot. I love it, one of the better images I’ve seen on flickr in a while.
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Sep 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A few paces up the road from the last shot you come across our little place. L-R: wood splitting area, vegetable garden surrounded by fruit trees, saltbox garage with kayaks on racks in the back, saltbox house. Behind all of this is a stream running from right to left and after crossing the [...]
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Sep 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. It’s heavily overcast and wet today and walking down our road, just before our house the forest is dense with heavy underbrush, small trees, vines, and larger trunks. This stretch of woods looks and actually is so impenetrable that I might as well be deep in the Amazon jungle.
Another view of the [...]
Posted in Art and Design, People, Tools on Sep 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
My good friend Leavenworth Jackson, one of the most well-known rubber stamp artists and designers in the world, is having an open studio next month in Berkeley, California.
Her stamps are some of the most interesting and beautiful around and if you’re in the area I highly recommend dropping by.
You can download her current catalog in [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Sep 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was trying to shoot squash tendrils in our vegetable garden and was having no luck so turned my attention to some grass that had grown unchecked between the squash runners. Even something as common as grass gone to seed, when lit right, can be interesting, to me anyway.
Another view of the [...]
Posted in Creatures, People on Sep 21st, 2006 No Comments »
An incredible video clip of David Attenborough talking about the lyrebird.
Camera shutter! Chainsaw. Gad.
Source: David Darling
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Sep 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
Michael Rogers, a columnist for MSNBC takes a look at how technology is affecting literacy in What is the worth of words? Will it matter if people can’t read in the future?
This may not be the definitive thinking on this subject but it’s a fascinating subject and worth thinking about. I can say without a [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Sep 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Warren, Connecticut. This bud contains a group of spectacular purple petals and the stamen sex organs of the cosmos flower and will open into something much larger than itself. Somehow this reminds me of the recent martian landers that land as a small pod and then unfold into complex machines with solar “petals.”
Another view [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Sep 19th, 2006 4 Comments »
Moo is a printing service linked to flickr that makes printing small business card size cards of flickr images easy and fun. Great UI on the site. The first ten cards are free for anyone with a flickr pro account (good hook).
Even though I can make cards easily on my own printer I’ll definitely use [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Sep 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Fission 1.0 is an audio editor for Mac OS X that works with all kinds of sound files. For anyone doing podcasts or sound recording of any kind this looks like a nice, simple and inexpensive product. It’s a Universal app that works on PPC and Intel Macs.
(Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape, Places on Sep 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. When the weather starts getting cooler flora of all types feel it and begin their seasonal change getting ready for colder weather. On this south facing rock foundation wall, the ivy is changing from green to a beautiful red while the moss will change from green to a muted brown. The ivy leaves [...]
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