Posted in Landscape on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Driving south to the next town along the Shepaug River I noticed that in certain places ground fog was hanging above the water and spreading out into the adjacent trees. It was sunny out at the same time and this made a wonderful contrast between the softness of the fog and the sun [...]
Posted in Landscape on Feb 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Lake Waramaug is a spectacularly beautiful lake but the lake itself is only part of the reason, the other part is the landscape surrounding it. Tinker Hill is a round hump that forms part of the southern backdrop for the lake when viewed from the northeast shore. In fog with a sepia treatment [...]
Posted in Social Software on Feb 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
Community Walk is a way to build maps that can be shared with others. It seems to be built on top of google maps but adds a lot of functional and useful tools on top of it.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Above Northern New Mexico. This landscape could be another planet and look, there’s water down there so there’s probably life.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Above California. Somewhere east of Los Angeles pockets of development spread into the desert like viruses. I wonder what the metaphoric antibiotic would be to stop this stuff? No doubt if it were ever found the development viri would mutate and continue spreading.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
Above Eastern California. From above one can see old and new rivers and streams and their washes cutting through the desert, a view in time that would be difficult if not impossible on the ground.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Movies, People, Photographers on Feb 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I was just down at the Bowers Museum in Orange County, California where they have a fantastic Ansel Adams exhibit. If you live in that area and are interested at all in photography, this ought not be missed. I haven’t seen his prints up close since I’ve taken up photography more seriously and I have [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers on Feb 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
One of my long-time flickr contacts Gary Gakout has posted a new series on Arizona sandstone. Outstanding.
Posted in Movies, Photographers on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Magnum on the Oscars: A video montage of classic movie photos
Wow, the images are great as is the soundtrack.
(Source kottke.org.)
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Above Jamaica Bay, New York. Taking off south from JFK Airport we banked east just about to cross over Rockaway beach. Jamaica Bay was partially frozen and the ice and water made a beautiful pattern.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Ideas on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Eric Meyer, a long-time CSS guru who runs and speaks at many conferences posted an essay on forcing gender diversity at technical conferences: Diverse It Gets.
“In my personal view, diversity is not of itself important… ….What’s important is technical expertise, speaking skills, professional stature, brand appropriateness, and marketability. That’s it.”
I completely agree with Eric on [...]
Posted in People on Feb 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. My 91 year old mother found out that both of her carotid arteries were 80% blocked with plaque. This is pretty common for 91 year olds and since it can lead to a stroke they decided to do a carotid endarterectomy.
The surgery went well and she was giving orders and complaining [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Feb 20th, 2007 No Comments »
What ToDo 1.0.2 looks like an interesting new task management program that’s both an outliner and a calendar. I’ve been “tasting” these for years and haven’t found any I like yet. We’ll see about this one.
(Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)
Posted in Art and Design on Feb 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve been collecting scraps and larger sheets of this handmade Japanese paper for a few years now and I thought it might be fun to photograph it.
The paper is stencil-dyed and the process is called Katazome-shi. It’s the same process used on fabric for kimonos and other high end printing jobs.
This photograph is bout 1 [...]
Posted in People, Yoga Photographs on Feb 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. There’s something about yoga poses, both whole and part that’s beautiful and anyone who practices yoga appreciates the beauty in even more complex and interesting ways. This is my wife doing uttanasana (sanskrit: uttana = stretched out asana = posture) with her hands in temple mudra (sanskrit: mudra = gesture). She’s bending [...]
Posted in Drumming, Music, Video on Feb 18th, 2007 No Comments »
V. Selvaganesh is playing the kanjira, Zakir Hussain is playing tablas and there’s a drum set player behind him. This is absolutely incredible and I highly recommend playing the related John Mclaughlin videos you’ll see in related.
The kanjira is a very small Indian frame drum with a lizard skin head and a single jingle. The [...]
Posted in Yoga Photographs on Feb 18th, 2007 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. While in yoga class I had the idea to take some pictures of poses from the viewpoint of the person doing yoga. There’s something about these various views of pieces of one’s own body that struck me as interesting. The problem is, with this pose both hands are on the ground so [...]
Posted in Landscape on Feb 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our small town has a park that includes this pond. It’s been raining a lot lately so the pond is full. Usually it’s more of a swamp than a pond. Either way, it’s a photogenic place surrounded by magnificent trees of all kinds.
This was taken at the same time as this one, I [...]
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Feb 16th, 2007 9 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I took a break from clearing the driveway to walk across the stream and behind the pond to take a picture of the hill behind our house. Our cat used to hunt on this hill and stayed out here for days before we saw her again, taking shelter in caves created by rocks. [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Feb 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Barack Obama’s web strategists have built him a modern web site with connections to both YouTube and flickr.
It’s all good and whether or not he has anything to do with this stuff my guess is he approved it. It will be interesting to see, over time, if this pulls more people into his campaign. It [...]
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