Posted in Photo Printing on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Eric Chan has a useful article: Getting Started with Inkjet Printing that covers printers, paper, ink types, color management, calibration, profiling, and more.
Eric Chan is a Visiting Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where he conducts research in computer graphics.
[via Red River Paper Blog]
Posted in Macintosh, People, Video on Aug 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
This is a wonderful speech. Jobs is far from perfect but he’s got the secret sauce for sure. Or maybe he is the secret sauce. Whatever analogy you draw, he adds the secret sauce to most things he touches.
Posted in Social Software, Video on Aug 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
Google has assembled a Gmail collaborative video out of the short video clips that folks sent in.
We asked you to help us imagine how an email message travels around the world. All it took was a video camera, the Gmail M-velope ( ), and some creativity — and, wow, did you get creative!
Get a [...]
Posted in Photographers on Aug 28th, 2007 No Comments »
red-green-blue is Craig Hickman’s collection of excellent photograhers’ portfolios.
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Social Software on Aug 28th, 2007 13 Comments »
Yahoo plea over China rights case
Yahoo is being sued by the World Organization for Human Rights for sharing information about its users with the Chinese government.
The information has led to the arrests of writers and dissidents.
One journalist cited in the case was tracked down and jailed for 10 years for subversion after Yahoo passed on [...]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Aug 27th, 2007 9 Comments »
Spectacular Ikea ad.
I just watched this four times. Beautifully thought out and made.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Pogue’s Posts: Finally, Hotel Check-in Kiosks
Just when I stop traveling this starts to happen. Dang, a day late, a dollar short. This is great.
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Aug 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Chinese Seek to Buy an American Maker of Disk Drives.
Wow, Seagate is one of the gems of the drivemaking community here. Not sure I like this. I use Seagate drives in both this computer (MacBook Pro) and all of my external hard disks.
[via NYT > Technology]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas on Aug 25th, 2007 No Comments »
WIRED magazine had a small post about an interesting new presentation style called Pecha Kucha.
20 PowerPoint slides, each shown for 20 seconds, then sit down. As WIRED says, this has the feel of a poetry slam mashed up with visual and multimedia designers with a variety of skills and messages.
There is little doubt that this [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Sites, Social Software on Aug 24th, 2007 31 Comments »
The vast photo-sharing site Flickr has a feature called Explore that has been around for quite some time. It is essentially a popularity contest driven by many factors, some listed below in this blurb from flickr:
Flickr labs have been hard at work creating a way to show you some of the most awesome photos on [...]
Posted in Photo Gear on Aug 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Nikon and Canon Offer High-End Cameras in Fight for Pro Market
The new Nikon D3 looks like a wonderful camera but Canon has been in the high-end 35mm DSLR business for so long with both their 1D and 5D cameras with Canon-built CMOS sensors it’s hard to see how Nikon will catch up in this area. [...]
Posted in Art and Design on Aug 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Stephen Barnwell’s Money art reminds me of the art of Donald Evans.
[via Longboard]
Posted in Movies, Video on Aug 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Incredible. Some of my favorite actors are in this thing. I love it.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Stories on Aug 23rd, 2007 4 Comments »
WIRED has an incredible story reported by Nadya Labi called: Truth and lies that could easily turn into a true crime screenplay and movie. I know these kinds of things are happening all the time but this one is a classic.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Art and Design on Aug 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Adam Gault has a fantastic animation of Lantern Fishes at his site.
As you watch it make note of the caption, how it transitions, and all of the little details that you might miss on first runthrough. I watched it five times and picked up new things each time. Bravo Adam.
Note: Click the red arrow under [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Social Software on Aug 22nd, 2007 5 Comments »
This is fascinating.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Photographers on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
My flickr contact rosemary* has done it again and posted an outstanding macro of a stem with hairs on it with waterdroplets on the hairs.
Posted in Photographers, Stories on Aug 21st, 2007 7 Comments »
Photojournalist Renee C. Byer’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning photo essay: A Mother’s Journey is one of the most moving collections of photographs I’ve seen, ever. Warning, these are emotionally charged images that can be quite upsetting.
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Photo Gear, Video on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Great video on how Canon’s sensor cleaning system works on all of its new DSLRs. If this works even half as well as they say it’s worth upgrading to get it on a new body.
Posted in Ideas on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
China hails car trial a ’success’
Question: would something like this be possible in the US? In the UK? Anywhere else?
[via BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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