Posted in Ideas, People, Stories, Video on Aug 20th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a very rare piece of film which is incredible, made me cry. Sullivan was way ahead of her time in the way she taught Keller and it took them many years to get this communication system worked out, let alone Keller’s speech which she had no auditory model for. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Photographers, Places, Politics, Video on Aug 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons Jenn Ackerman has combined still images, video, sound overlay and text overlay to paint a frightening picture of how we’re using prisons to warehouse mentally ill people who are not getting the care they need there. The photography is hauntingly beautiful and scary at the same time.
Posted in Flowers, Places, Slide Show on Aug 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Photo Gear on Aug 19th, 2009 4 Comments »
Canon releases new PowerShot cameras Everything with a “new” over it was just released. Make special note of the G11 and S90. These two are very interesting cameras. Note that the G10 has a 15 megapixel sensor and the newer G11 has a 10.4 megapixel sensor. Canon may have gotten the message that they were [...]
Posted in Stories, Travel, Video on Aug 19th, 2009 No Comments »
During the Summer of 2007, I had the opportunity to backpack around Europe for 2 weeks. I talked about it often before I left. My girlfriend however, although great in many respects, was not the world’s greatest listener. I left on Friday June 1st. Despite even calling her to say goodbye the night before, she [...]
Posted in Events, Photographers, Places on Aug 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Iconic Woodstock: A Photographer Looks Back Forty years after the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, photographer Elliott Landy describes the event and the photos he shot there This is an excellent narrated slide show. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas, Politics on Aug 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Parkinson’s: The Pesticide Link Taken together, 30-plus years of research add up to an increasingly persuasive conclusion: exposure to pesticides and other toxins increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease, and we are only now beginning to wrestle with the true scope of the damage. [via kottke.org]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Aug 16th, 2009 No Comments »
New York City. Before we boarded a subway to Brooklyn Gary and I sat down to eat lunch on the steps of this rather large investment bank. These are the greedy bastards that built insanely risky investments from collections of sub-prime mortgages cooked up by the likes of Countrywide Realty (California) and others. The sad [...]
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, People, Places, Stories on Aug 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Sand artist, Kseniya Simonova, performs a story of love against the backdrop of Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. This is a wonderful performance although I have to say that the cuts to the women crying seems a bit over the top. Still, it’s brilliant and worth watching. [via Justin Blanton]
Posted in iPhone, Politics on Aug 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Introducing the NPR News iPhone App This looks like a great application for the iPhone. I’m going to be trying it out in the next few days. Can’t wait.
Posted in Objects, Photographers on Aug 15th, 2009 No Comments »
My flickr contact Carlo Ch has a number of great still lifes with pictures of himself (above) or others including his mother (below) in them. Great idea, well executed.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers, Stories on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Narrated slide show: Teresa Zakow: The Art Restorer. Excellent images by Todd Heisler, wonderful story. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Animals, Places on Aug 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. A monarch rests in the butterfly garden at the Macricostas Preserve, Steep Rock land trust. A large grasshopper crossed my path and attached himself to a leaf.
Posted in Flowers, Places on Aug 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. After our globe thistle session Gary and I drove down the road to Zarinna’s house to photograph her unusual coneflowers. Many of them were going by and their petals were shrinking but that made them all the more interesting.
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Aug 13th, 2009 No Comments »
The Frame: AP photojournalist Emilio Morenatti injured in Afghanistan Morenatti, 40, a Spaniard, is an award-winning photographer based in Islamabad who has worked for the AP in Afghanistan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. He was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2009 by Pictures of the Year International. The Frame today takes a look [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places, Slide Show on Aug 13th, 2009 4 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Aug 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Matte display option makes a quiet return to 15″ MacBook Pro The glossy versus matte debate rages on, but for 15-inch MacBook Pro buyers, the option to choose between the two is back. Apple has apparently conceded to the complaints of some users, though the 13-inch notebook is still glossy-only. Thank the lord.
Posted in Landscape, Places on Aug 11th, 2009 7 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Gary and I got up at 4 am this morning and we were on the banks of this river as the sun came up burning the moisture off the ground and leaves making a temporary fog. This is looking upstream to the north and includes the Hauser suspension bridge which we crossed earlier.
Posted in Architecture, People, Places on Aug 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
New York City. Gary and I spent the afternoon walking around New York and as usual, the flatiron building was a magnet. I caught him getting a picture of it with his Canon PowerShot 1200 IS which both of us consider a very nice compact camera. Gary taking a picture of the Flatiron Building with [...]
Posted in Landscape, Places on Aug 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Just beyond these trees it drops off about 800 feet to the Shepaug River and this drop off is what is called "Steep Rock." Gary and I took a long walk through this area this morning and while we whimped out on getting up early enough to get "real" early morning light, we [...]
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