Posted in Photo Gear on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
GigaPan Epic imager released, your party photos will never be the same Wow, this is a relatively inexpensive ($379) way to take large scale panoramic images with almost any camera.
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff on Jan 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
How Spellcheckers Wreak Havoc “I apologize for any incontinence” and other examples of the Cupertino effect. For weak spellers and readers, this article underscores the need to proofread.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Places on Jan 29th, 2009 11 Comments »
The Big Picture has a great new collection: More of London from above, at night with photographs by Jason Hawkes. I love this stuff, can’t get enough of it. Incredibly well done and makes me want to get to London pronto.
Posted in Macintosh, My mother, People, Photographers on Jan 28th, 2009 6 Comments »
MacHEADS is a “fanboy documentary” about Apple, the Macintosh, and the community of dedicated users who quickly formed around both company and computer. Justin Blanton told me that this image of my mother appears in the film at the 30:25 mark and in fact, it does. The film people asked me about use of it [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Jan 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Places We Live This is a fantastic collection of panoramic images of slums in Caracas, Venezuela, Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, Dharavi, Mumbai, India, and Jarkarta, Indonesia in slide show form with incredible stereo sound and narration. The images and sound are by Jonas Bendiksen who is part of Magnum. This collection is both a show [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Jan 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
An American Moment Like No Other Photographer Peter Armenia was at both the inauguration and the parade and got a wonderful set of images.
Posted in Events, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Politics on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
David Bergman has created one of the most popular images of Obama’s inauguration, this 1.47 gigapixel panned image: President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address. The images has been online for a while but the server it was on was having a rough time with the heavy loads. I’m pretty sure it’s on a better server now. [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Photojournalism, Politics on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Errol Morris discusses moments of George Bush’s Presidency caught in now iconic photographs with the photojournalists who took the pictures: Zoom: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.
Posted in Creativity, Events, Ideas on Jan 25th, 2009 No Comments »
The Medium: Confessions of a TED Addict The TED Conference is one of the best around and this piece by Virginia Heffernan tells why. I wish I knew how to get invited to this thing but maybe, like Obama’s inauguration it’s better just to sit home and watch the talks online.
Posted in Creativity, Macintosh, People on Jan 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Guardian Interview With Andy Hertzfeld Andy is my hero more than any other person on the original Macintosh team. He always had the spirit, was always open hearted and it seems he’s remained that way. More: Switcher. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Places, Social Software, Travel on Jan 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
NYC GO Looks like a great web site to help plan a trip to NY. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Photographers, Places on Jan 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Simon Hoegsberg has created a fantastic time panorama: We’re all gonna die – 100 meters of existence. This image is 100 meters long (100 m x 78 cm). There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge in Warschauer Strasse in [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Photographers, Reading on Jan 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Slate has a wonderful slide show on the historic road trip of Robert Frank: Robert Frank’s The Americans. In the summer of 1955, Robert Frank, a 30-year-old Jewish Swiss émigré, set out on a nearly yearlong car trip across America with his handheld Leica camera and a Guggenheim Fellowship “to see,” as he put it, [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Photojournalism, Politics on Jan 21st, 2009 3 Comments »
As expected, The Big Picture has the best set of images of The Inauguration of President Barack Obama Wonderful collection and these pictures really do capture the spirit of the day.
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Jan 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Photo District News has a Photo of the Day with some great images in the archives as well as a new one each day. [via Joe Sleeper]
Posted in People, Photo Gear, Photographers, Places on Jan 21st, 2009 18 Comments »
Chuck Kennedy uses a Canon EOS 5D Mark II for Remote Capture at the Inauguration. Fantastic. I’d say it was well worth the effort. Note Sasha standing on the block. [via The-Digital-Picture.com - Canon Digital SLR, Lens and Accessory Reviews]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Events on Jan 21st, 2009 3 Comments »
The inauguration from above This is the best version of this shot. Scrolls more easily then others. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Video on Jan 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Timber Harvest from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo. Fantastic documentary of a Michigan logging camp in the 1950s. The bread baking is as good as the wood cutting.
Posted in Events, People on Jan 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
A Momentous Day in Photos Another nice collection of images of the inauguration. [via Digg]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Jan 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Big Picture has a great collection of images of Inaugural preparations. Great stuff and even though many of us are watching this live on TV now these still pictures do as much or more to convey the scale and mood of the day.
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