Posted in Objects, Places, Reflections on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. It was so dark in the restaurant all I could do was shoot the shadow of me holding the camera shooting the shadow of me holding the camera.
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Alexey Titarenko’s City of Shadows This is an incredible collection (check them all out) of timed exposures that show people moving in various architectural landscapes. [via Miles Storey]
Posted in Food, People, Video on Nov 20th, 2009 4 Comments »
John Nese is the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles. You have to love this guy and if I lived in LA and drank soda I’d buy it from him. What a great guy with a great philosophy. Note: Andrew is on a roll today. [via Andrew Howat]
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Social Software on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
BookMooch Give books away. Get books you want. Social media as a way of trading analog media. Perfect. [via Andrew Howat]
Posted in Art and Design, Humor, Objects on Nov 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Bio-Diversity Christoph Niemann has some fun with leaves and language. Fun piece.
Posted in People, Photographers, Places, Politics, Video on Nov 17th, 2009 No Comments »
China through the Lens of the White House Photographer Nice video interview with Pete Souza, the White House Photographer from China. Images are posted below.
Posted in Architecture, Photographers, Places on Nov 17th, 2009 No Comments »
My flickr contact Michael Greenwood did a great job framing this historic staircase. Two female staff look bored as they gaze over the grand white marble stairway entrance to the Museo de la Revolución in Havana. Those steps look pretty now but in 1957 they were flowing with the blood of students who died trying [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Photo Gear on Nov 17th, 2009 23 Comments »
Northwest Connecticut. Loren, David, and Richard ready to embark on our longest hike yet: a 12 mile trip from Salisbury, Connecticut to Bear Mountain and back on the Appalachian Trail. This will be a long hike, it will be my first test of the Canon G11 camera, and it will be David’s 52nd time up [...]
Posted in Magic, Video on Nov 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Bill Malone tells the story of Sam the Bellhop. Excellent card control close up and wonderful banter.
Posted in Photo Gear on Nov 15th, 2009 11 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Just playing around with a new Canon Powershot G11 I bought for taking snapshots while hiking and already I like the articulated LCD screen for low angle shots or for using a table top tripod like this in the field for group portraits. Setting them up with my wife’s Canon SD1200 Elph was [...]
Posted in Juggling, Video on Nov 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Lots of great juggling routines on YouTube but these stand out: they have the least obnoxious music, they use glow balls which put the juggling up front, the juggler behind, and he’s exceptionally good at both the tricks and the choreography. And another one: And another:
Posted in Hiking, Opinion, Photo Gear on Nov 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Big Sensors, Shrinking Cameras David Pogue reviews the Canon Powershot S90 and the Panasonic Lumix GF1. Pogue is always a great reviewer because he knows which technical details to include and which to leave out for most consumers. I’ve been shooting my hikes with the Canon SD1200 IS which is an amazingly good small camera [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking on Nov 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
Southwestern Massachusetts. Loren, David, and I have just climbed up the Race Brook Falls trail and are on the saddle between Race Mountain and Mt. Everett (behind us). We’ve left a car at the bottom of Race Brook Falls and another at Jug End, ten miles north of here. Loren and David on one of [...]
Posted in Animals, Macro, Photography on Nov 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
Spectacular macro photography Looks like a Russian or Greek site. Amazing work. [via Greg Newman]
Posted in Events, Ideas, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Nov 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is an excellent 40 minute interview of Google CEO Eric Schmidt by Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s OnPoint which took place at MIT recently. The “Michael” being referred to is Michael Hammer who was a computer science professor at MIT and who recently passed away. Schmidt is incredibly articulate and his discussion of these [...]
Posted in Birds, Photographers, Places on Nov 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Hope Sandrow: Fowl, but Photogenic Incredible images of chickens.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photography, Video on Nov 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
Shooting Video – The Thrill of Getting In Over Your Head If you watch the various videos zoom them out full screen. Impressive work with any tools. An excellent post on shooting bike race video with the Canon 5D MK II. The site has wonderful resources on cycling and photographing cycling. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Nov 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
Vintage Computing Fantastic collection of images from various places going way back. I think it may be time for me to see if my collection of Byte magazine issues is moldy.
Posted in Events, Objects, Places, Politics on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
The Denver Post’s Captured: The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. A historic compilation of images from another time. I have a piece of the Berlin Wall which has even more significance after going through the above compilation.
Posted in Photojournalism, Places on Nov 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
A Division Through Time This is an excellent display of the usefulness of interaction to show two images of the same view, one from twenty years ago and one from now.
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