Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Politics on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Where I Stand
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I’m sitting down as I stand up for my stands.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Landscape, Photographers on Apr 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Aerial photography of Alex MacLean
Fantastic collection of patterns seen from the air. I see things like this but haven’t found a way to capture them yet. This is wonderful work.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
J Street
J Street was founded to promote meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. We support a new direction for American policy in the Middle East and a broad public and policy debate about the U.S. role in the region.
One of the last great writers at Salon.com, Gary [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers on Apr 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Ooh Lee has a nice collection of these square, monochromes in his stream at flickr. I’m not a huge fan of artificial vignetting but it does help with the effect he’s looking for (age) and supports the impressionist nature of the work. I do love thinking about photography as impressionism.
Posted in Music, People, Places on Apr 27th, 2008 13 Comments »
Milton Hall, Milton, Connecticut. Bill and Gordon warming up before the show. Bill is a part time song writer and folk musician and a neighbor of ours here in Warren. Gordon is a professional studio musician who plays sessions and on tour with the big boys who’s been a friend of Bill’s for years. He’s [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places, Stories on Apr 27th, 2008 No Comments »
What Adams Saw Through His Lens
Don’t miss the interactive feature: Ansel Adams’s Yosemite narrated by Andrea G. Stillman, his former assistant. The narration over the slide show of his images is superb.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion on Apr 27th, 2008 16 Comments »
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats
People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!
If it’s a Christian nation what the heck are the rest of us doing here? Are we here on a guest pass?
No doubt a growing [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Politics on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Bill Moyers Interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright
I highly recommend watching the entire two part interview. If nothing else it will give a much clearer picture of how the media has distorted the words and intensions of this good man.
How can any reasonable person not agree with every single thing Wright said, both on your show [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, Objects on Apr 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Bethlehem, Connecticut. A good friend of mine builds timber frame houses and thought I might want to take some pictures of the assembly of a large, Japanese-style house his crew is putting up.
Post and beam or timber frame construction is beautiful and impressive on many levels but the part that interests me the most as [...]
Posted in Photo Resources on Apr 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
k_falls_bob up on flickr has a great illustration of where dust is on the sensor when you find a dust spot on an image.
Posted in Macintosh on Apr 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results
Apple today posted revenue of $7.51 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, which ended March 29. “We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape, Places on Apr 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »
East Litchfield, Connecticut. For each of the twenty years I’ve lived in this area I’ve been going to see the daffodils on a farm in East Litchfield. There are acres of them between rock walls in various fields. Flowers like this on this scale is not something you see every day. Now that I’ve been [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, Social Software on Apr 23rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Sony to Buy Gracenote for $260 Million
When you put an audio CD into iTunes and you’re not connected to the internet, the songs come up “track 1″ track 2″ etc. and the album has no title, genre, artist.
However, if you’re connected to the internet, iTunes will look at an online database (which isn’t always correct) [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics on Apr 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
The New York Times has an editorial up this morning: Low Road to Victory.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to [...]
Posted in Ideas on Apr 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Gadget Recycling Programs: Turn Your e-waste to $$$
Constantly buying new gadgets is both hard on your wallet and the planet. Here at dealnews, we typically try to help with the former, but in honor of Earth Week, we’ve decided to start helping with the latter as well. So rather than toss your e-waste to the [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Ideas, Photographers on Apr 22nd, 2008 12 Comments »
Kite Aerial Photography by Nicolas Chorier.
Fantastic images from above of people, places, things with great shadows. Done with a medium format camera and film. Dang, that’s some kite to get a big, heavy camera up there.
[via Mayank Bhatia]
Posted in Cats, Video on Apr 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »
Oh, we so know this cat. Fantastic.
Posted in Ideas, Travel on Apr 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Airlines to Begin Charging for a Second Bag
Here we go… Airline CEOs walk away with millions and the rest of us get screwed. Dang, I’m glad I don’t fly for business anymore.
Posted in People, Politics, Video on Apr 21st, 2008 5 Comments »
This is a campaign ad. Steve Novick is running for the US Senate from Oregon. Fantastic.
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas on Apr 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Anatomy of an Ikea Product
What’s interesting about this is the focus from the beginning not only on the product design and it’s price, but on how it will be packaged, assembled by the buyer, shipped, how many of them might fit in a shipping container, and more. No doubt all modern products go through similar [...]
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