Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Feb 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. While the snow built up outside yesterday I was warm and cozy inside browsing through my stamp collection which I inherited from my late father and his brother and which they inherited from their father and his brother in law. For what it’s worth (generally, not on eBay) I have a decent collection [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Feb 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Sometimes docked apps don’t want to open your document, even though they may be able to, so you have to coax (okay, force) them to give it a try. For example, let’s say you created a document in WordPerfect for Mac a few years back. if you drag that document to Microsoft Word’s icon in [...]
Posted in Photographers on Feb 13th, 2007 No Comments »
There is a piece on Dan Montgomery in the current issue of Outdoor Photographer and his images are spectacular. Black and white, large format film and incredible scenery and composition.
Images like this really do it for me. Wow.
Posted in Photo Resources on Feb 13th, 2007 No Comments »
George Lepp has an interesting piece in the current Outdoor photographer: Color Saturation In Digital Images where he discusses the urge of many photographers to crank saturation and sharpening to make their images pop more.
Flickr is so loaded with over saturated and over sharpened images it makes my eyes hurt at times. And, if that’s [...]
Posted in Drumming, Video on Feb 13th, 2007 4 Comments »
Note the strap/rope connecting right foot to high hat cymbal. These guys rock.
Sources: James Oligney, palomabay
Posted in Macintosh on Feb 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Monocle 1.0 puts a Spotlight-like magnifying glass on your Mac OS X.4 menubar where you can search the web easily, directing your search to Goggle, wikipedia or any other information source you like. I’m using it almost exclusively for Wikipedia and it rocks.
(Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)
Posted in Music, People, Video on Feb 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
I saw this a while back and can’t get enough of it. These guys are as good as it gets. Amazing.
(Source kottke.org.)
Posted in Places, Video on Feb 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
I can’t get enough of this stuff.
Posted in Music, People, Politics on Feb 12th, 2007 12 Comments »
In 2003, when the Dixie Chick Natalie Maines said she was ashamed that George W. Bush came from her home state of Texas she got in big trouble with their fan base (country music fans who tend to be conservative) but also with the national media who fanned up the event to milk it for [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places on Feb 12th, 2007 No Comments »
A few weeks ago Frontline World rebroadcast a piece they did on The Play Pump, an innovative playground merry-go-round that is both a playground toy for kids and a pump to pump fresh water out of the ground and into a nearby water tower. Watch the video to see the entire segment, it’s quite worthwhile. [...]
Posted in Landscape, People on Feb 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. After walking out to the middle of the lake I set up my tripod and scanned around the shore for ice fishermen with interesting rigs. This is a typical setup: sled to drag it all out there, gas powered auger to drill holes, various short fishing rigs and most importantly, something to sit [...]
Posted in Landscape on Feb 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The big lake down the road from us has finally frozen enough for ice fishermen (and photographers) to walk around freely. You can see a few ice fisherman holes with flags in this image. I walked all the way across and back and it was at least a foot thick everywhere. A few [...]
Posted in Objects, People on Feb 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Brookfield, Connecticut. I had the pleasure of attending an opening at the Brookfield Craft Center of a show called: The Sound of Earth: Ceramic Musical Instruments. I have a background as a potter and clay artist but what was more interesting to me was that the show was curated by Barry Hall, a multiply-talented artist [...]
Posted in Video on Feb 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Wow. Great piece.
Source: David Clark
Posted in Ideas on Feb 9th, 2007 No Comments »
CDC Study Puts Rate of Autism at 1 in 150 U.S. Children
This seems about right when you define autism broadly. Still, it’s alarming when you think about what it means for US education, which is already in bad shape.
Posted in People on Feb 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Bradley Krause was a founding partner in Kinko’s, the Starbucks of copy shops. The NY Times obituary story is fascinating as it gives some history on how Kinko’s started. Krause’s qualifications: he could run an offset printer.
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Above Nebraska. Three circular fields showing through a snow cover which makes them look like pre-historic markings on the earth brought out by a "snow rubbing." Circular or center pivot irrigation is a way of using a robot radial arm to water or irrigate large fields. It requires perfectly flat fields so that the arm [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography on Feb 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Above Arizona. This crater was formed by a meteorite that hit earth about 50,000 years ago is in the Arizona desert east of Flagstaff.
Posted in Photographers on Feb 6th, 2007 No Comments »
At Close Range with National Geographic is a documentary about the National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and it’s extremely well done. His photography is spectacular, he’s an interesting guy, it’s a look inside the life of a successful wildlife photographer and how National Geographic handles his work and him. worth seeing on TV or buying [...]
Posted in Places on Feb 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Quicktime VR panoramas from the Apollo missions to the moon
Wow, this is stunning photography.
(Source kottke.org.)
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