Posted in Ideas, People, Reading, Stories on Feb 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
OnPoint had a great show on Friday: Envisioning the Afterlife in which the neuroscientist David Eagleman talked about his new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. David Eagleman is a leading edge neuroscientist who has written a collection of the most imaginative essays on what various takes on an afterlife might look like. This [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Tools on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2′s read-aloud feature Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader. Amazon.com Inc. reversed course Friday on the device’s controversial text-to-speech feature, which reads digital books aloud in a robotic voice. The company gave rights holders the ability to disable the feature [...]
Posted in Animation, Creativity, Video on Feb 27th, 2009 3 Comments »
Max Fleischer’s 1933 classic from The Moving Image Archive. Fleischer had the most amazing imagination and this and other Betty Boop classics hold up amazingly well in this world of Pixar and Dreamworks. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, People on Feb 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
That Old Master? It’s at the Pawnshop Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich Village, a country house, and something else: the [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Video on Feb 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Zack Arias is a photographer and teacher based in Atlanta. He does a workshop called OneLight which is out as a DVD as well. My friend Dale sent me a link to this video journal he did as a guest blogger for Scott Kelby: Great stuff, the video journal, his work, his style. He’s successful [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Feb 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Every time I get to the Getty I’m astounded by the architecture. The architect Richard Meier put incredible lines, windows, angles, curves, and textures in almost every view. You look up, down, and across in almost any place you can get to and there are things of interest to see. I can’t [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, Photographers, Places on Feb 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. The Getty Center has a spectacular show of the photography of Carleton Watkins up until the end of the month: Dialog Among The Giants: Carleton Watkins. Any landscape photographer who lives within driving distance of LA needs to see this important photography show. It is simply one of the best photo shows [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Feb 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Andreessen is a smart dude and while you may not agree with everything he says here this is a worthwhile interview to watch. He explains business models, history of current technology, and more simply and brilliantly. [via All Things Digital]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: At Work Incredible collection of photographs as usual. What a great variety of work we do.
Posted in Art and Design, My mother, People, Places on Feb 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Went over to the museum to see some German art from WWII but ended up enjoying this large Richard Serra installation. Both of us had seen it years before but my mother wasn’t in a wheelchair then and I was a brat teenager. Things look different from our new [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Tools on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
From a Visionary English Physicist, Self-Adjusting Lenses for the Poor The glasses work on the principle that the more liquid pumped into a thin sac in the plastic lenses, the stronger the correction. Silver has attached plastic syringes filled with silicone oil on each bow of the glasses; the wearer adds or subtracts the clear [...]
Posted in Objects, Photography on Feb 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Unboxing a Lamborghini Besides the great packaging for a car, the car itself is like a piece of sculpture. While I would never want one, I do love looking at it. What a work of art. Wow. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Objects, Video on Feb 19th, 2009 8 Comments »
Dang, this thing is great although the “warning” at Cool Tools says it’s rather difficult to do this stuff without some practice. [via Cool Tools]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Tools, Video on Feb 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Alex Lee at Gel 2008 from Gel Conference on Vimeo. Alex Lee is the head of Oxo, makers of well-designed tools for home use. No doubt you have some Oxo stuff in your house and you may be a fan. Alex talks about universal design and shares anecdotes about how some of their inventors outside [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Tech Stuff on Feb 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems Great list of low tech solutions including using your head as an antenna to open your car door remotely. Just read, you’ll enjoy this list. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Places, Politics on Feb 18th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Pictures has a great series: Scenes from Pakistan. Not only does this series contain spectacular photography by AP photographer Emilio Morenatti, but it’s a different look at this part of the world than we get on nightly television news.
Posted in Objects, Tools on Feb 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Specialty Bottle This is the best source for jars, bottles, tins, droppers and small glass and tin containers of all kinds. Their online catalog is incredible. Their prices are fantastic. And, yes, I both love these containers to store things in and to photograph. [via Cool Tools]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Stories on Feb 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is an incredible talk that spans genres. Olé! [via Jessica Darling]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources, Social Software on Feb 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
WordPress resists Canon attempt to take down Fake Canon blog Chuck Westfall is the Technical Information Advisor for Canon. Fake Chuck Westfall is his satirical alter-ego on the Internet. Canon is not pleased with the latter, and wants the Fake Chuck Westfall blog taken down before customers are somehow tricked into thinking that it’s the [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Photo Resources on Feb 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
SoFoBoMo: The Solo Photo Book Month This photo book making month is in the spirit of NaNoMo – National Novel Writing Month where you write a novel in a single month. In this case, we make a photo book in a single month. The photo book is in PDF form, rules here. Heck, even if [...]
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