Posted in Objects on Sep 30th, 2007 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I don’t know about you but I have jars, cans, and boxes of old nuts, bolts, and "junk" like this in my basement that I’ve both inherited from the pack rat we bought our house from and which I’ve collected over many years. I promised my wife that this is going to be [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics on Sep 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Thomas L. Friedman tells us who he’s not going to vote for in the next election: 9/11 Is Over.
Friedman is talking about a president who will heal us and get us focused on our core values. Great, we need that. But, so many of our core values have been compromised by Bush and Cheney that [...]
Posted in Stories on Sep 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Kevin Guilfoile at The Morning News takes a great stab at how to find a decent drummer.
Fun. True too.
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Posted in People, Politics on Sep 29th, 2007 10 Comments »
Sidney Blumenthal has an incredible piece in Salon on the Dan Rather/CBS lawsuit: Dan Rather stands by his story.
Rather could have simply allowed the statute of limitations to run out, lived off his millions, and faded away. But the incident ate at him. On one level, the Bush National Guard story is about Bush and [...]
Posted in Photographers on Sep 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Irene Suchocki has a collection of absolutely stunning photographic work. It is some of the most painterly photography and post processing I’ve seen and I love it. Lots of Chinese watercolor influence down to the chop on some of the images.
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Posted in Music, Video on Sep 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Raul Midon on Letterman. Wow.
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Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Apple posted a QuickTime movie describing the iPhone Update: September ’07.
I don’t own an iPhone (yet) and custom ringtones aren’t something that excites me but the part of this video that shows a custom ringtone being built in iTunes is fantastic. What a well designed feature.
Posted in Photo Gear, Stories, Travel on Sep 27th, 2007 7 Comments »
I just read Air Travel Just Got Worse for Photographers and it confirmed my recent experience at LAX airport last week: the TSA agent, upon seeing my camera bag in x-ray reversed the conveyor belt and asked me to remove both my Canon 5D with Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens attached as well as [...]
Posted in Landscape on Sep 26th, 2007 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Before we shot the sunrise we shot the moon set this morning. Amazing how much light a full moon will toss on clouds.
Posted in Landscape on Sep 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A friend and I decided to get up at 4 am this morning to catch the sun coming up on the Shepaug river valley. Tough to get up that early but morning light is really worth the effort and it was great to watch the world come alive and attempt to record a [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
I was watching an amazing video of Saul Griffith, a recent MacArthur grant recipient doing a talk at the TED conference and realized that there must be a collection of these videos somewhere.
Here it is: Ted Talks.
Great stuff, really great. About as close as us mere mortals will ever come to seeing what happens at [...]
Posted in Movies on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
The student film Cold Rush is an amazing piece of animation and storytelling. Beautifully done.
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Posted in People, Politics on Sep 25th, 2007 12 Comments »
I have no idea what to think about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because the only lens I see him through is American media. I’m sure I’d never join a fan club of his but the way he was received at Columbia University got me thinking.
If George Bush gave a speech at Tehran University and the President of [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Radioshift is a Macintosh OS X application for recording live radio, very much “Tivo for radio.”
I’m tracking my fav shows with podcasts in the iTunes Music Store. Free, no charge, works. But, this looks even better and will work with many formats. Gotta give it a try.
Gave it a try. It’s fantastic. Listen to shows [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Sep 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I got up early to do some landscape photography in early morning light but once out it was hard to resist putting on a macro lens and looking closely at weeds and flowers in that same light. This peppergrass is growing wild in what used to be a cornfield and [...]
Posted in Politics, Tech Stuff on Sep 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
‘$100 laptop’ to sell to public
The organisation behind the project has launched the “give one, get one” scheme that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399 (£198).
One laptop will be sent to the buyer whilst a child in the developing world will receive the second machine
The G1G1 scheme, as it is known, [...]
Posted in Drumming, People on Sep 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I was reading an old New Yorker and noticed that I’d missed the tabla player Suphala at Joe’s Pub in New York in August but here she is on NPR. Fascinating story and an excellent player.
King Corn
King Corn, a documentary where Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Tools on Sep 20th, 2007 8 Comments »
Crave TV: Steve Jobs gets a grilling at UK iPhone launch
I don’t think he got a grilling, this is a useful and successful launch. Lots of questions answered clearly.
Posted in Photo Resources on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
TrueGrain is for adding grain to digital images. Interesting.
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