Posted in Movies, Photo Gear on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Shooting a Feature FIlm With the Canon 5D Mark II: Challenges and Ingenious Workarounds Disney and his crew had to figure out how to workaround a few of the 5D Mark II’s most annoying limitations for filmmakers: no manual control over exposure settings during capture, and a lack of an efficient focusing system while shooting. [...]
Posted in Creativity, People, Video on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Scott McCoud talks about comics and ways of presenting them at TED. [via Ken O'Connell]
Posted in Photographers on Mar 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
Helen Levitt, Who Froze New York Street Life on Film, Is Dead at 95 Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held at its heart, as William Butler Yeats put it, “the ceremony of innocence.” Capturing Little Dramas With a Click; Helen Levitt’s Pictures Speak for Themselves [...]
Posted in Photographers on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
In Point Lobos, Where Edward Weston Saw the World Anew If American modernist photography can be said to have a spiritual birthplace that can still be visited, it’s his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel Highlands where he lived off and on from 1938 until his death in 1958. Many of the Weston photographs that [...]
Posted in Photographers on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Stefan Forster Photography Fantastic photography, done with a Canon EOS 1Ds. Site is in German but the pictures speak for themselves. [via Gedas Girdvainis]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing, Social Software on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick Use any page layout software, mark up a multi-page magazine, save it to PDF, upload to MagCloud and they’ll print a full color magazine for you at .20 per page. Making a Magazine with MagCloud To me, the great thing about this service isn’t this part of the process, although it’s [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tools on Mar 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education This list is a useful starting place. Maybe this year I’ll learn Spanish (don’t hold your breath) and if I do, it will no doubt be resources like these that get me there.
Posted in Events, Photojournalism, Places on Mar 27th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Red River flooding. Incredible documentation of not only the flood but various communities working together to protect houses and property. I wish them the best and hope the river crests lower than expected.
Posted in Cats, Events, Our Place on Mar 27th, 2009 13 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our wonderful old black cat who is now all gray had her nineteenth birthday today. She’s quite arthritic and has a tough time getting around these days and her thyroid needs medication twice a day but she does have her moments and we do our best to keep her happy. The Kitty was [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Events, Photographers, Places on Mar 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Joe Standart’s Portrait of America. This looks like a wonderful project. I hope to see the Hartford, Connecticut installation and there’s a show at the Tremaine Gallery at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT opening this weekend: Portrait of Connecticut. Large scale, almost architectural photography. The photographs look beautiful, I’ll be interested in what kind of [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Photographers, Video on Mar 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Chase Jarvis’ 5 Secrets for Exceptional Photographs from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo. This is quite a good short interview with excellent advice. The entire site looks great including a blog that has, at least today, a nice interview with Ansel Adams on visualization as it’s top post. [via kottke.org]
Posted in Events, Movies, Video on Mar 26th, 2009 Comments Off
Far out. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in iPhone, iPhone Photography, Photo Sites on Mar 25th, 2009 No Comments »
iPhoneograhy An iPhone photography blog with resources, images, and commentary about using the built-in camera on an iPhone to take pictures with. Some excellent images here. [via Dick Lennox]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places on Mar 24th, 2009 Comments Off
The Wave The Wave is a red-rock stunner on the border of Arizona and Utah, made of 190-million-year-old sand dunes that have turned to rock. L.A. Times photographer Spencer Weiner captured the swirling drama of this little-known formation that’s accessible only on foot via a three-mile hike and highly regulated. Wow, looks like a great [...]
Posted in Animation, Copyright, Movies, People, Video on Mar 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
This is a trailer for Nina Paley’s full length animated feature: Sita Sings the Blues. Nina’s earlier work, Fetch was a wonderful early animation that showed a bit of her creativity but Sita takes it to another level (another world). In the process of releasing Sita, Nina ran into issues surrounding her use of some [...]
Posted in Objects on Mar 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I picked this cup last December in New York and have it sitting on my desk as a reminder. No matter how you feel about Starbucks as a mega-corporation, they’re doing great things with this instruction and by participating in Product Red.
Posted in Photo Gear on Mar 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Newswear This is great stuff. Watch the video. If I were going out on a shoot where I needed constant quick access to my stuff I’d invest in some of this stuff. [via Mike Peters]
Posted in Objects, Places on Mar 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
One of the few times I’ve been on a through train from Grand Central Station to the end of the Harlem line, Wassaic, New York. It’s about a two hour ride which isn’t bad but by the end between reading, listening to one’s iPod, reading the NY Times on an iPhone and attempting to sleep [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Tools on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Scenes from 30,000 meters above On February 28th, a team of four Spanish teenage students and their instructor from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia launched a weather probe they designed and built themselves. Their helium-filled balloon carried a payload of electronics and a camera to take atmospheric measurements and photographs throughout the trip. After [...]
Posted in Humor, iPhone, Video on Mar 20th, 2009 10 Comments »
MouthOff is an iPhone app that’s simple, fun, funny, and no doubt will be one of the more successful “pet rock” apps for the iPhone. Did I buy and download it? Of course (are you kidding?). This is so me.
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