Posted in Animals, Audio, NPR, People on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
A Dog’s eye View Tom Ashbrook/OnPoint interviews Alexandra Horowitz, a psychologist specializing in dogs on how dogs perceive the world. This is a fascinating discussion, well worth listening to whether or not you have a dog (we don’t). But the way they sense the world is vastly different from our own. These “creature of the [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, People, Places, Politics on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Forest Whitaker, Getting Behind A ‘Brick City’ Hero All Things Considered recently did an interview with the actor Forest Whitaker on an upcoming five part documentary (Brick City) about the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker. Booker has been profiled in The New Yorker and is someone worth reading about and watching. He’s done [...]
Posted in Audio, Humor, NPR, People on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Larry Gelbart, Writing For Laughs Terry Gross interviews Larry Gelbart in 1996 on Fresh Air. Great stuff, brilliant guy who died recently. Gelbart wrote for Cid Caesar and wrote the TV version of MASH among many other things.
Posted in Ideas, People, Photographers on Sep 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Including Samuel Photographer Dan Habib’s documentary on his son Samuel’s experience as a child with a disability and his own experience as Samuel’s father. Check out the extended trailer.
Posted in Macro, Objects, Slide Show, Trees on Sep 19th, 2009 12 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 Ideas, iPhone, Macintosh, Objects, Photography, Tech Stuff on Sep 19th, 2009 No Comments »
How iFixit Uses Teardowns As Marketing 3.0 This is internet marketing par excellence. Not only are the teardowns creating genuine news for the tech press, they are efficiently executed and beautifully documented. The photos are superb, and the walkthroughs are clear and informative. Best of all, Wiens is a genius at sending the media timely [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photographers on Sep 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Interview with Miles Storey of MUTE Excellent interview with Miles Storey who’s popular photoblog, MUTE is one worth following.
Posted in Objects on Sep 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I figured I’d better do some shooting with the new camera to make sure it works within the return period. What better place to test than my "kitchen table studio" with my high priced (and moody) models. It works.
Posted in Landscape, Places, Trees on Sep 18th, 2009 No Comments »
New England Foliage Map Not sure how I feel about this map as it brings “leaf peepers” to our neighborhood in droves. Still, useful for photographers who want to capture various kinds of color.
Posted in Architecture, Photographers on Sep 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Visual Acoustics, the Modernism of Julius Shulman Watch the movie trailer. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Macintosh on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Finer Things in Mac Wow, I learned a ton just on the first page. This is a great resource. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Ideas on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Flu season This year is different The graphic and sidebar can help sort out a bad cold from the flu and the flu from the H1N1 (swine) flu. I’m just getting over a bad cold and I had a mild fever. Had the fever continued into today I’d be going to our doctor to help [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photographers, Photojournalism on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Lens: The Ethics of Cropping Photographs David Hume Kennerly isn’t happy with what Newsweek did to his photograph changing the subject from Dick Cheney’s family at a dinner to Dick Cheney cutting meat. It’s an interesting discussion and you should also read the response from Newsweek below. On the one hand, it’s a control issue: [...]
Posted in Events, Music, People on Sep 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
Warren, Connecticut. Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary has died. Here Will McCabe, Gordon Titcomb, and Bill Lauf sing for her at an Obama fundraiser we put on here in Warren the summer before last at the home of Adil and Zarinna Mulla who were good friends of Mary’s. She made a great speech [...]
Posted in iPhone on Sep 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Apple’s Video Demo of the iPhone 3GS’s Accessibility Features Making a revolutionary mobile phone means making it easy for everyone to use. That’s why iPhone 3GS comes standard with accessibility features that help people with disabilities experience all that iPhone has to offer. Absolutely incredible. This may look awkward to a sighted person but if [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Photographers, Photography on Sep 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
This image, which I took for the artist Joy Brown in June is on the cover of the September, 2009 issue of Chronogram, an arts and culture magazine distributed in the Hudson Valley of New York (as well as Kent, Connecticut). Chronogram’s art director, David Perry has done an excellent job reprocessing the image and [...]
Posted in Adventure, People, Photojournalism, Stories on Sep 12th, 2009 3 Comments »
The Denver Post’s Captured Photoblog: Ian Fisher, American Soldier. 27 months from the decision to enlist through induction, boot camp, Iraq, and back home. A slice of one person’s life, beautifully (and disturbingly) documented and produced. Read the captions, they’re important.
Posted in Movies, Travel on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Up in the Air Wow, this movie is going to be great (I hope). I logged a lot of air miles in my time, I can relate to some of this. George Clooney stars in it, that’s enough for me.
Posted in Events, Photo Sites, Photographers on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
The Big Picture Remembers September 11th Another excellent collection of images that help frame this painful memory.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photographers, Places on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Lars Johnsson photographs on PBase This is an incredible collection of first class images. Here’s a case where Lars has plenty of gear but his skill goes well beyond just owning a lot of gear. [via Dale Allyn]
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