Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Aug 30th, 2009 11 Comments »
Facebook Exodus The disillusionment with Facebook has come in waves. An early faction lost faith in 2008, when Facebook’s beloved Scrabble application, Scrabulous, was pulled amid copyright issues. It was suddenly clear that Facebook was not just a social club but also an expanding force on the Web, beholden to corporate interests. A later group, [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People on Aug 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Doctors Disagree About Effectiveness, Cost of Stents I heard this piece the other day on All Things Considered. It’s very well produced by Chana Joffe-Walt and beautifully illuminates why cutting healthcare costs is difficult. Two cardiologists disagree on whether stents are over used. Listen to the piece, it’s only 4 minutes long. One of their [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Objects on Aug 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. A few of Joy Brown’s 108 Dancing Ladies drying before being fired. One of Joy Brown’s reclining figures, unfired. This figure is over 4 feet long.
I was watching PBS’s Nova the other night and one of the segments was on a neurosurgeon who’s doing research on cancers in the brain at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center: Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa. The timeliness of this piece was coincidental given that Senator Edward Kennedy was about to die of just such an illness [...]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Video on Aug 29th, 2009 No Comments »
In an Explorer’s Wake NY Times’ Corey Kilgannon kayaks, and hitches rides up the Hudson from Manhattan to Albany retracing Henry Hudson’s 1609 journey. Nice interactive video tied to map on right.
Posted in Ideas, People, Politics on Aug 28th, 2009 No Comments »
The Unlikely Writer Atul Gawande, “slightly bewildered” surgeon and health-policy scholar—and a literary voice of medicine I’ve been reading Gawande for years in The New Yorker. What an amazing guy. Here’s the New Yorker article that got him Obama’s ear: The Cost Conundrum. Here’s the show he did with Tom Ashbrook, OnPoint: Costly Care in [...]
Posted in Food, People, Places on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Ramadan 2009 In Muslim nations and regions around the globe, this is the first week of the holy month of Ramadan, a time for followers to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activity during the day, breaking their fast each sunset, with traditional meals and sweets. Great collection of images, the food for the [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
We English Simon Roberts travelled throughout England in a motorhome between August 2007 and September 2008, for this portfolio of large-format tableaux photographs of the English at leisure. Photographing ordinary people engaged in a variety of pastimes, Roberts finds beauty in the mundane; the result is an elegiac exploration of identity, attachment to home and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse This is a fascinating post and the comment thread is equally fascinating. The 25 most looked up words on the NY Times web site vs. the 25 most looked up words on Dictionary.com. There is no overlap. The comment thread digs a bit [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Cowboys and Photojournalists While watching the 4-H youngsters going about their business at MontanaFair in Billings this month, I was struck by a parallel. Here I am in 2009, at a fair ground: a photojournalist, making pictures of cowboys in every direction I look. Don’t any of us know that none of us are supposed [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Photo Printing on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I printed a thousand (1000) post cards for my friend Joy Brown to announce the opening of one of her shows a few years ago. Printed on Red River Polar Matte card stock on a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 printer. I filled my office, our bedroom and other rooms with flat surfaces with [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Objects on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. This was shot in 2006 at a gallery during the opening of one of Joy Brown’s one person shows. The mural is quite large and made up of approximately one foot wide tiles.
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Objects on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. A few of Joy Brown’s 108 Dancing Ladies.
Posted in Ideas, Video on Aug 24th, 2009 No Comments »
This is the best demonstration, discussion, and argument for wide screen (letter box, etc.) vs. pan and scan (the aspect ratio of older TVs). Bravo, well done. We’ve been slowly moving all of our DVDs to their original aspect ratios for a few years now and soon we hope to buy a TV that will [...]
Posted in Landscape on Aug 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Gary and I stopped on our way to the bridge to take a shot of the Shepaug River and the far bank in almost complete darkness. Long (30 second) exposure makes for some still water although the water was quite still on this bend anyway.
Posted in Landscape on Aug 23rd, 2009 7 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. This was shot in early morning from a swinging suspension bridge, handheld with a 1.3 second exposure so things aren’t very sharp here. All of that said, the river and air were calm in the early morning and there was quite a bit of ground fog because of heavy rain the night before. [...]
Posted in Architecture, Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 23rd, 2009 8 Comments »
I’m experimenting with an application called PTLens which corrects pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective. In this case, the 24mm end of the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L causes distortion in the perspective on buildings left and right of center. Before: After: The image would need to be cropped to remove the black areas left [...]
Posted in iPhone on Aug 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
New! TomTom for iPhone – turn-by-turn navigation for iPhone is here! This looks quite good. Let’s see how much it will cost… TomTom web site. [via Engadget]
Posted in Photo Gear on Aug 21st, 2009 11 Comments »
Hands-on with the Canon EF 1200 f/5.6L lens Note that he puts a 2x teleconverter on the thing. Dang, isn’t 1200mm enough? Yikes. [via Justin Blanton]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape, People on Aug 21st, 2009 6 Comments »
Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts. My friend Loren (on the left) and I have been walking together almost every Friday for three years now. Most of our walks are around here in the Steep Rock land trust and we decided to do something a bit more adventurous. Mt. Greylock is a state park in the northwest corner [...]
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