Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places, Politics, Slide Show on Oct 16th, 2009 No 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, Social Software on Oct 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Amazon Introduces Same-Day Delivery Amazon Prime members, who pay $79 a year for free, two-day shipping, will find the new charges most palatable; same day delivery will cost an extra $6 an item. But non-Prime members will have to be pretty desperate for those Pampers Baby-Dry size 3 diapers: same day delivery will cost $15. [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking on Oct 14th, 2009 8 Comments »
Just north of Bear Mountain on the Appalachian Trail we descended into Sage’s Ravine, a beautiful little canyon with a stream and waterfalls. Note, we have a new member of our hiking party, my wife Anne who did amazingly well her first time out on this strenuous eight mile hike. We were pretty wiped out [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Tools, Video on Oct 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
WIRED article the video was shot for: Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses. This is fascinating stuff and while it’s been around for a while, the article and video really show us what’s happening in detail. The robots are built by Kiva Systems. Watch their demo video. Fascinating. I just ordered some hiking boots from Zappos [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, People on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly talks about cover illustration for Money issue Wonderful peek at The New Yorker’s process for putting a series of covers together. Mouly is married to the artist/illustrator/author Art Spiegelman. Her Wikipedia entry is fascinating: Françoise Mouly. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Studio Photography, Tech Stuff on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
How to build a Portable, Paperless, Digital Copy Machine. I’ve been using my DSLR and a tripod to do this for years but this is a nice step by step set of instructions on how to build a copy stand for a point and shoot camera. Here’s another post at the same site: Copy Stand [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Troubles Shared Brenda Ann Kenneally’s photo essay, “Upstate Girls,” documents the coming of age of five troubled young women in Troy, N.Y. It is a decidedly unromantic view of poverty, dysfunction and teen pregnancy. This is a powerful and disturbing collection of images.
Posted in Audio, Photographers, Places, Slide Show on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Down at the Corner Store A narrated slide show of some of the contents of a new book: Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York by James and Karla Murray. [via Jonne Naarala]
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Photojournalism, Slide Show on Oct 12th, 2009 No 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 on Oct 12th, 2009 No Comments »
The Fun Theory This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the better. Great stuff. What will they think of next? [via Mamen Saura]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Places on Oct 12th, 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 Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, People, Slide Show on Oct 12th, 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 Food, Opinion on Oct 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Taste Test: Mustard This is a great post about mustard brands, what’s in them, who likes them, and how they compare. Check out Beaver Mustard from Beaverton, Oregon. Cult following. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Food, Hiking, Ideas, Places on Oct 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Farmers use vending machines to sell produce In an effort to save money and labor, a farm in Germany has begun selling fresh, local produce from vending machines. First to get them? Hiking trails. What a great idea. Go into the wild and find a vending machine with everything you need. [via Digg]
Posted in Ideas, Places, Travel on Oct 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
Joy of India’s women-only trains India recently introduced eight women-only trains in Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Calcutta and Madras (Chennai). Aimed at providing safety and comfort for growing numbers of working women, the “Ladies’ Specials” have proved a big hit with their passengers, as the BBC’s Geeta Pandey discovered in Delhi. I wonder what the “guys [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Oct 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
NY Times Lens: Mitch Epstein’s Power. Mitch Epstein has taken his 8-by-10 view camera across the United States to document the energy needed to support the American way of life. Though he says he did not start out with an ideological agenda, Mr. Epstein offers a quiet but unsettling view of 21st-century America’s dependency on [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photography, Places on Oct 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Big Picture: Autumn scenes. Spectacular fall photography. Dang, that last picture is killer but so are all of them. I guess I’ll bring my camera up to Greylock this weekend.
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Politics, Slide Show on Oct 9th, 2009 No 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 People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Oct 9th, 2009 1 Comment »
NY Times Lens: National Geographic Image Collection This is an incredible collection. Zoom it out to full screen and enjoy great photography.
Posted in Travel on Oct 8th, 2009 No Comments »
United Airlines launches Wi-Fi on some flights My guess is that the 757s are United’s “PS” flights (premium service) from JFK to LAX and JFK to SFO. I hope so, I fly the LAX route often. Let’s hope. [via Gizmodo]
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