Posted in Photo Resources on Jul 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Roger Cicala of Lensrentals.com has posted an excellent article on Controlling Depth of Field. All photographers, beginning to advanced should read this. Roger is a clear thinker, good explainer and a terrific writer. [via Leandro Karunungan]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Jul 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Photo Journal Pictures of the Day. The Indian idol maker half way through is worth the entire set (and the set is great otherwise).
Posted in People, Photographers on Jul 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Mark Mocha: The Ex-Bank Robber A father of three, Mr. Mocha, 51, served 12 years in prison after robbing nine banks on Long Island. Powerful slide show of images by Todd Heisler with narration by Mark Mocha. These narrated slide shows are really getting to me, they’re such a powerful way to tell a story.
Posted in Ideas, Music on Jul 31st, 2009 3 Comments »
Ukulele Beatles Fun! This is an incredible collection of instructional pieces for learning to play the ukulele using Beatles songs. Very well done, I think I might get me a ukulele just to use this site. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Art and Design on Jul 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Christina Weber’s Woven Art This is wonderful work and the shadow-box framing is perfect for it. I even like her taste in ceramics. I wonder about the stability of these natural materials over time. Insects, decay… oh boy. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Photo Resources on Jul 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Photography Tips From National Geographic Experts Actually, aside from a stupid multi-page web presentation, the tips are quite useful. Basic but good, basic information here. [via Leandro Karunungan]
Posted in Opinion, People, iPhone on Jul 31st, 2009 No Comments »
I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to the iPhone This is fascinating. A long time Mac developer and die hard is pissed enough at Apple over their not allowing Google’s new iPhone app for Google Voice into the App Store that he’s dumping the iPhone until Apple makes this right. I [...]
Posted in Photographers on Jul 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Photographer Leibovitz sued for breach of contract An art finance company that lent celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz $24 million against the value of her entire collection and her properties has sued her for violating the terms of the agreement. Crap, when will famous artists (athletes, movie stars, etc.) learn to handle money? [via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Ideas, People on Jul 31st, 2009 No Comments »
A Writer Who Can Fit Your Entire Life On A Postcard Kimball has started an entire project to capture people’s biographies in short form, Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard). He can fit up to 600 words on a card. This is a wonderful piece. Worth a listen.
Posted in Events, Photographers, Places on Jul 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Behind the Scenes: Woodstock Memories Bill Eppridge (now 71) narrates a slide show of his pictures for Life Magazine of Woodstock. This is really worth watching and hearing.
Posted in iPhone on Jul 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Public Radio’s iPhone App Public Radio Player 2.0, lets you scroll through over 400 stations and over 800 podcasts, picking favorites for later listening. An alphabetical navigation strip on the right augments search by title, call letters and description. Public Radio Player 2.0 at iTunes Store The reviews scare me a but (supposedly slow) but [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Jul 29th, 2009 4 Comments »
The Big Picture looks at Lightning. Wow, an incredible collection of lightning shots from all over the world. I’ve never attempted to capture lightning but this collection whets my appetite.
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, Places on Jul 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Elevator for Grain, Reinvented for Art A rare survivor among the stately wood-crib elevators that once towered over rural America, this 105-foot-tall structure has been reincarnated as one of the strangest new homes for contemporary art in the Northeast, a place that feels like a Lower East Side gallery transplanted into a treehouse, redolent of [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Travel on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity This research has important practical implications. It suggests that there are several simple steps we can all take to increase creativity, such as traveling to faraway places (or even just thinking about such places), thinking about the distant future, communicating with people who are dissimilar to us, and considering [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Stories, Tech Stuff on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Design Observer: That Pesky Television Test Pattern Back story on the TV test pattern. Fascinating. My wife grew up in Evansville, Indiana. I grew up (until the age of 12) in New York City. One thing we both had in common was turning on the TV and finding “the indian” on. [via Coudal Partners Blended [...]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Jul 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I still don’t get it fully although I’m closer. I don’t think my brain does quantum mechanics. Great stuff though and the characters explaining it are as interesting as the thought experiment. [via Justin Blanton]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places on Jul 27th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Stories from Israel, Tanzania and Malaysia What a world we live in. Incredible juxtaposition of photographs from three very different places on earth. People are people everywhere. Wow. Well done Alan (Alan Taylor edits The Big Picture).
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers on Jul 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
Interview with Sam Javanrouh of daily dose of imagery My favorite photoblogger interviewed. Daily Dose of Imagery [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Movies, People on Jul 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Where the Wild Things Are (behind the scenes) A promotional video for the new movie Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak talks about how Spike Jonze has taken the book and made something new out of it (it seems like he’s pleased). Looks great, can’t wait to see it. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Social Software on Jul 26th, 2009 No Comments »
National Public Radio has done an outstanding job on their new web site. Check it out: NPR. The New York Times comments: NPR Moves to Rewire Its Approach to the Web.
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