Posted in iPad, Opinion, People on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Steven Frank on the iPad Steven takes us through a short history of computing explaining why some of us have a hard time making these leaps when companies like Apple come out with products that make large leaps rather than small incremental steps. Beautifully reasoned and written.
Posted in Events, People on Jan 31st, 2010 8 Comments »
My wife’s first husband and my good friend David Darling has won a Grammy Award for his album Prayer for Compassion. Congratulations David. Congratulations also go to Mickey Houlihan who engineered and produced the album.
Posted in iPad, Opinion, People on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense Andy Inhatko’s first impressions of the iPad. …the release of the iPad marks a classic battle between two philosophies: Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable features? Or is it better to have a device that has a shorter list [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion, People on Jan 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism Steve Lohr has written an excellent piece discussing the back story on how Jobs thinks and works. …Apple products are known for being stylish, powerful and pleasing to use. They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that [...]
Posted in People, Video on Jan 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Watch the entire 10 minute clip or fast forward to six minutes and watch the Nicholas brothers dance. Some of most amazing “flash” dancing you’ll ever see. Don’t forget, in those days this was all done in one take. Watch it full screen and enjoy. [via Boingboing]
Posted in iPad, Landscape, Photographers on Jan 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
With the Push of the iPad, a Photograph Goes Global Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo by Richard Misrach is one of the included desktop photos on the iPad and it was used during the iPad introduction event. It’s a spectacular image and no doubt Apple went through many to get to this one. [...]
Posted in Art and Design, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller demonstrates the new iWork application on iPad including the use of multi-touch gestures for getting things done without a mouse. This is a clip from the iPad unveiling which can be watched in its entirety here.
Posted in People on Jan 28th, 2010 7 Comments »
Palo Alto, California. I was just visiting my friends Manish, Mamen, Samir and Aisha and Mamen asked for a picture of her and Aisha. We had a blast taking lots of images and they all worked out in one way or another but I liked this one best. My friendship with this family goes way [...]
Posted in Events, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. I’m pretty taken with the rotunda of the entrance pavilion of the Getty Center. There’s something about the lines, the light, and the shapes. Can’t help myself.
Posted in Art and Design, My mother, People, Places on Jan 23rd, 2010 4 Comments »
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. Alberto Giacometti is one of my mother’s favorite artists. Giacometti was 14 when my now 94 year old mother was born and this piece was probably cast around the time I was born.
Posted in Photographers, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Nick Veasey talks about his process for making X-ray photographs at TED.
Posted in Opinion, Photography, Politics on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
I’m a photographer not a terrorist Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer. Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country [...]
Posted in Events, Photography, Time Lapse, Video on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City from David Martin on Vimeo. This is a wonderful time lapse piece by David Martin of the US Airways Airbus A320 that went down in the Hudson as it lay tied up waiting to be lifted to a barge. Note [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Organization on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
BumpTop Mac While I don’t think I’ll ever try this, I love watching the video. Watching how smart people invent great things to facilitate personal organization is like a hobby of mine. I’m like a lurker for stuff like this even though I don’t try much of it out. Watch the video, it’s fun.
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places on Jan 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Kumbh Mela festival Hundreds of thousands of devotees bathed in the icy waters of the Ganges river last week as a months-long Hindu festival expected to attract more than 10 million people kicked off in one of northern India’s holiest cities. Men, women and children entered the fast-moving waters of the river in a holy [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photojournalism on Jan 22nd, 2010 9 Comments »
Does Haiti’s Crisis Call for a New Photojournalism? Michael David Murphy ponders a number of interesting questions for photojournalists. I think many of these questions overlap what makes me uncomfortable about street photography even under the best of circumstances.
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Mouse pointer track after 3 hours of working in Photoshop. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks). Flickr user Anatoly Zenkov has written a java applet for the Mac that tracks his mouse movement over time. Fascinating. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Ideas, iPhone, Opinion, Tech Stuff, Tools on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhone This is a great review. It’s not a scientific test but it explores these different methods of getting text into a device in a way that will help anyone think about the future of text encoding on a variety of devices in a broader [...]
Posted in iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Travel on Jan 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Just a quick note that I’m on my way to California on a United PS flight and am using their Gogo inflight wifi network for the first time. In a word: great! Simple to use, not too expensive ($12.95 for a coast to coast trip, $7.95 for a smartphone), the network has plenty of bandwidth [...]
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