Posted in People, Reading on Sep 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
Copy Editing at The New Yorker Magazine. An Interview With Mary Norris Andy Ross does a great job of asking just the right questions of longtime New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris. As someone who has read this magazine for many years it’s always interesting to have a peek behind the scenes. [via kottke.org]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places on Sep 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) This is an incredible collection of images of the destruction that this typhoon caused in the Philippines.
Posted in Animation, People, Video on Sep 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Chinese animated film “See Through” The animator Jokelate has made a fantastic antiwar film, it’s really worth watching. Zoom it out to full screen turn up the sound and enjoy. About 16 minutes, well worth it.
Posted in Humor, Photojournalism, Video on Sep 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
A semi-realistic exchange between a magazine editor and a freelance photographer negotiating a job. Love the farts. [via WAXY]
Posted in Macintosh on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
BusyCal 1.0 BusyCal is an alternative to iCal. If you’re a serious iCal user (I am) watch the demo videos to get hooked. This looks like a great product. My only worry is that Apple will copy many of its features on the next update to iCal which they’ve done before with many products. [via [...]
Posted in Adventure, Photographers, Trees on Sep 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever Check out the slide show with 9 slides at the bottom. Zoom it out full screen. Spectacular images.
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw bug hits PowerPC users If any of you out there are still using G4 and G5 Macs, this post’s for you. Those of you using newer Intel hardware can skip this. However, when combined with the general dissatisfaction with Adobe’s user interface design of Macintosh products it will no doubt add [...]
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers, Places on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
The Sartorialist Photographer Scott Schuman’s blog on style around the world. Fantastic stuff and it’s quite deep. Use the monthly archives on the right sidebar to explore month by month working back in time. I started The Sartorialist simply to share photos of people that I saw on the streets of New York that I [...]
Posted in Opinion, Travel, iPhone on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Foreign Airlines Rush Ahead of U.S. on Cellphones The national union representing flight attendants wants Congress to ban in-flight phone calls, and survey after survey of airline passengers shows strong opposition to allowing cellphones on planes. I vote no. Yes to wifi, no to cell phone. Or, have a cell phone section like the old [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads Concerned that girls and women feel excessive pressure to live up to the digitally Botoxed and liposuctioned images of human perfection they see in glossy magazines, lawmakers in Britain and France are trying to push advertisers to get real. Under their proposals, ads containing altered photos [...]
Posted in Adventure, Photography, Places, Video on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
The National Parks: The Scripture Of Nature (1851-1890) The complete first segment is online at PBS Video. If you missed it last night or want to watch it in chapters you can.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers on Sep 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Aerial Photography of Jason Hawkes A nice collection of image shot from above. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in People on Sep 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Amazingly, my 94 year old mother is still a fun lunch date. We had a great laugh over a rather off color joke she told me, both of us laughing more at the fact that she told the joke than its relative funniness. She’s not driving anymore and has to get through [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Places on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Pasadena, California.Went to the Pacific Asia Museum and took in a show: Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art. This piece was in the show and this small section of it is about ten by thirteen feet. I love both calligraphy and graffiti so of course this piece really stuck in my head. Fantastic.
Posted in Events, Photo Printing, Photographers, Studio Photography on Sep 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Getty Center has an incredible show up: Irving Penn: Small Trades. This is a large collection of portraits of window washers, plumbers, bakers, waiters and more, shot in the early 1950s in New York, London, and Paris. Penn is both one of the greatest portrait photographers and one of the greatest photographic printers and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Landscape, Photo Printing, Places on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half Derek Powazek takes us step by step through having an idea, collecting content, designing a magazine and publishing and distributing it.
Posted in Events, People, Places, Politics on Sep 26th, 2009 4 Comments »
President Barack Obama talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy prior to making a statement about Iran at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Penn., Sept. 25, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) It’s absolutely incredible to see images like this on flickr. This is historic [...]
Posted in People on Sep 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Behind the Scenes: On and Off the Catwalk Image #14 is amazing. Great set.
Posted in Audio, Humor, NPR, People, Places on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
An Indian Doctor’s Cure-All: Charlie Chaplin In India, laughing is a serious matter. There are laughing clubs — groups who gather in parks for a collective guffaw to relieve the stresses of daily life. Ashok Aswani goes one step further: He hands out free DVDs of Charlie Chaplin movies to patients as a cure for [...]
Posted in Flowers, Slide Show on Sep 24th, 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. [...]
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