Posted in Ideas, People, Photo Gear, Video on Dec 11th, 2009 9 Comments »
Olympus PEN ad with Kevin Spacey: “I don’t want to be the camera guy” This is a new push to make the micro four thirds system a standard by positioning it as the small yet powerful camera system (the un-Leica) for people who don’t want to come off as gear heads or tourists. This ad [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
Between the Folds The science and culture of origami. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Animation, Movies, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
French Roast Wonderful French animated short film. Check it out.
Posted in Audio, Creativity, NPR, Tech Stuff, Video on Dec 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Wonderful ad for Toshiba. Beautifully executed. Behind the scenes, the making of Space Chair Project: Finally, an NPR piece on the making of Space Chair Project: In New Ad, Chair Floats To Space. All great stuff and a wonderful demonstration of what goes into the making of an analog advertisement (as opposed to something simulated [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Places, Politics, Video on Dec 8th, 2009 No Comments »
TED India: Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue “soft” power Great talk, beautifully delivered.
Posted in Ideas, iPhone, Macintosh, Video on Dec 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Sports Illustrated on a mocked up Apple tablet… maybe. If it’s even close to something like this it will make heads explode. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in iPhone, People, Photographers, Social Software on Dec 6th, 2009 7 Comments »
Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard at the iTunes store. PhotoCard is an iPhone application that allows you to send stock or your own images to friends as email postcards. Looks quite good and Atkinson is an excellent designer and developer (having been one of the original developers of the Macintosh). You can also use it to send [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place, People on Dec 6th, 2009 13 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 Adventure, Hiking, Landscape, Photographers on Dec 4th, 2009 9 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. My hiking buddies are each away and I needed to get out of the house so I hiked up on the Appalachian Trail north of Kent and this image is taken just above St. John’s Ledges where I did some rock climbing 20 years ago. The Housatonic River is in the valley behind [...]
Posted in Adventure, Animals, Birds, Landscape, Photographers on Dec 4th, 2009 No Comments »
100 days in Glacier National Park This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana’s Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009, for a traveling photo show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier’s Centennial. He used a mix of film and digital cameras, [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Politics, Video on Dec 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
TED Talk: Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise – how and when Fantastic talk on the economic rise of Asia. This is really worth watching.
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Social Software on Dec 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Pictory is a photo sharing site for photos with stories and more context than just visual imagery. Looks interesting, like my kind of thing, might have to submit.
Posted in Cats, Our Place, Stories on Dec 2nd, 2009 26 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Today was one of the roughest days of our lives. Anne and I had to put Kitty, a cat we’ve had just shy of twenty years to sleep. She’s been living with a worsening case of kidney disease for over a year and in the past month she started showing signs that it [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Dec 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall Moises Samen’s incredible black and white images of rural Afghanistan in distress.
Posted in Photographers, Places, Time Lapse on Dec 1st, 2009 4 Comments »
Timelapse movie: The Alps — part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo. Zoom this out full screen. Enjoy. Wow. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
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