Posted in Opinion, Photo Sites, Social Software on Apr 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield and Chief Architect Henderson Working on Stealth Start-Up When Yahoo bought flickr it made many of us long time flickr folk cringe thinking that Yahoo would mess up this excellent property. When flickr’s founders Stewart Butterfield and Catarina Fake left many of us got nervous but flickr remained strong and continued to [...]
Posted in Humor, Ideas, Video on Apr 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
Sarah Jones does eight characters at the TED conference. Her shifts between them are incredible.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Places, Social Software on Apr 29th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture has a fantastic set of images from photographer Jason Hawkes: Human landscapes from above. Note and click on the “google maps” links on the bottom of many of the images. Wonderful to be able to see where they were taken and browse around those areas.
Posted in Ideas, Photography, Social Software on Apr 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Photography Heatmaps Created From 35 Million Geotagged Flickr Shots Scientists at Cornell University have use a supercomputer to analyze the geotags on 35 million Flickr photos, creating photography heatmaps for locations around the world. Another great example (like google’s various tools) of what can be done with a lot of indexed data. Fantastic.
Posted in iPhone, iPhone Photography, Photo Gear, Photographers on Apr 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Chase Jarvis’s iPhone Photography A collection of unaltered images taken with the camera built into the iPhone and uploaded with native iPhone applications. Wonderful collection. Note to self: Start using my iPhone camera more. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism on Apr 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is a slide show of photographs of the first 100 days of the Obama administration. Most or all of the images are by official White House Photographer Pete Souza and they’re excellent.
Posted in People, Photo Gear, Photojournalism on Apr 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
President Barack Obama takes aim with a photographer’s camera backstage prior to remarks about providing mortgage payment relief for responsible homeowners. Dobson High School. Mesa, Arizona 2/18/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Looks like a Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L. Great choices. No doubt Pete Souza’s backup camera. [...]
Posted in Art and Design, People, Video on Apr 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Trailer for what looks to be a fantastic movie on product design. Objectified weblog. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Video on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Wayne Merry narrates a slide show on the first ascent of El Capitan in the late 1950s in Yosemite Valley, California. Fantastic images, story, climb. The Atlantic article is here: Yosemite’s Rock Stars [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Photo Resources, Photographers on Apr 26th, 2009 No Comments »
jeff.stiefer has posted a useful comparison of what the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens will do at different apertures.
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Apr 24th, 2009 3 Comments »
Shai Agassi is founder and CEO of Better Place, a green-tech venture that aims to bring electric cars with replaceable batteries to the mass market by 2011 will be on OnPoint Radio (NPR) today. There was a profile of him in the New York Times Magazine which is worth reading: Batteries Not Included. Abassi is [...]
Posted in Events, Video on Apr 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
PBS launches online video channel This is fantastic. Given that we watch PBS (Thirteen) more than any other station almost every show they broadcast is now available online in its entirety. While this doesn’t completely eliminate the need for a Tivo (we don’t have one) it certainly puts off the day when we might get [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Apr 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Peter Funch’s composite images of New York street scenes These images are assembled from multiple pieces in layers. Incredibly meticulous work and the scenes are wonderful. Wow. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Photography, Places on Apr 21st, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture has an incredible set of images of Cassini’s continued mission to explore Saturn, it’s rings and it’s moons.
Posted in Ideas, Travel on Apr 19th, 2009 8 Comments »
United: Oversized flyers can’t spill over, must buy 2 seats As one who flies United, likes window seats, and has been crushed by numerous overweight people on cross country flights, I have to say I support United’s attempt to deal with this. Their first solution may not be the right one but it’s important that [...]
Posted in Animals, Places on Apr 18th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture has a wonderful collection of animal images in: Scenes from the zoo.
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Social Software on Apr 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
Deal Brings TV Shows and Movies to YouTube In another step in its transformation from an online jumble of amateur videos to a destination for mainstream TV programs and movies, YouTube said Thursday that it had signed deals with Hollywood studios to showcase thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies on its Web site. [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Apr 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Jim Romano: The Tabloid Photographer Fantastic narrated slide show. Jim Romano covered Staten Island for the Daily News, the Daily Post, and other papers. He’s now 80 and retired, still living on Staten Island. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Movies, People, Photographers on Apr 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
Eloquent Nude The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson She was beautiful, smart, and searching. He was an emerging genius in the world of photography. When they met, they fell instantly in love. Setting off across the West with camera and typewriter in the depths of the Great Depression, Charis Wilson and [...]
Posted in Photo Printing, Tools, Video on Apr 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
These days it’s becoming popular to do photographic printing on canvas and mount the canvas (stretch it) like a painting. This is a demo of a kit which makes this process near painless. I wish the sound was better but it’s worth putting up with as the demo is first rate. [via Dale Allyn]
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