Posted in Tech Stuff, Tools on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Intel Reader Offers High Tech Help For Dyslexics and Visually Impaired Intel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review. This looks quite interesting. If anyone reading this has used [...]
Posted in Photographers on Jan 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Audio slideshow: Photography by blind people How can you use a camera if you can’t see? Over 30 blind and visually impaired adults from the UK, Mexico and China have been trained in sensory photography techniques to create and experience photos. Fascinating. I love the term “sensory photography.” I think many sighted photographers would do [...]
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Ideas, iPhone, Politics on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Slowpoke: The Terminatrix Jen Sorensen is a genius, no doubt about it. Note: If you’re not familiar with The Terminator this will make little sense. If you are I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s genius. iPhone = Skynet Palin = Terminator Obama = John Connor Jen Sorensen = Genius
Posted in Photographers, Places, Video on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Egypt / Lebanon Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo. Beautiful video shot with Canon 5D MK II by Khalid Mohtaseb. I recommend zooming out to full screen, the quality is spectacular.
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Objects on Jan 17th, 2010 2 Comments »
CARDnetics Bryce Bell is a mechanical engineer who has made some fun “cards” that at this point, shoot pennies and tictacs. However, there’s something fascinating about the process. Watch the videos of the Penny Shooter and the Cardapult. I have no interst in shooting but I think he’s on to something with these cards that [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Photographers, Video on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
The tale of Lucasfilm, Skywalker Ranch, Red Tails, Star Wars and Canon DSLRs on a 40 foot screen! Philip Bloom on shooting a very fine short documentary on George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch with Canon DSLR cameras, a variety of Canon lenses and some interesting gear for making it all work together. More and more we’re [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music, NPR, People, Politics on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Salman Ahmad on Onpoint Salman Ahmad is a bonafide rock star in Pakistan, across South Asia and in émigré communities around the world. As a Pakistani Muslim boy, he caught Led Zeppelin fever in America, came home with a dream of fusion rock-and-roll and world peace — and now argues with mullahs over whether Islam [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Travel on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Expensive Cameras in Checked Luggage This is an interesting solution to being able to pack and check camera equipment in checked luggage while making sure it gets considerate handling by TSA: pack a firearm with your camera equipment. A firearm could be a $20 starter pistol. Read the link for more on this. I doubt [...]
Posted in Objects, Places on Jan 13th, 2010 5 Comments »
New York City. A group of us had dinner in New York over the Holidays and Gary and I spent a considerable amount of time attempting to photograph this glass of water with a candle behind it. It was a lot of fun and while my wife and our other friends rolled their eyes and [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 12th, 2010 4 Comments »
New York City. This image is from a trip to New York I made with my friend Gary over the Holidays. If memory serves, Madison Square Garden is a block to my right. Gary and I spent a good twenty minutes photographing the flags in front of this building. The wind was just right to [...]
Posted in Photo Sites on Jan 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Daylight Magazine Check out their monthly multimedia slide shows. There are some real gems in this collection. [via lens culture]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Photo Gear on Jan 8th, 2010 5 Comments »
Hiking the beginning of the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut: Ten Mile River to Bull’s Bridge. This is a nice, 4 mile hike that’s not hard and can be done in snow (like this day). Me, Loren, and Dave on top of Ten Mile Hill. I used an ultrapod to velcro the G11 to a tree [...]
Posted in Adventure, People, Travel on Jan 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
Katie Spotz is rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America to raise money for safe drinking water. Read more about this trip at Row for Water. This is a well put together project/adventure/charity for a good cause. You can track her on Twitter and check out her images on flickr. Katie and [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories on Jan 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Life before your eyes A Pictory feature on growing up and growing old. Pictory is combining images and captions (picture – story) to give more context to both images and words. It looks like a successful site, worth following.
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape on Jan 6th, 2010 6 Comments »
Bull’s Bridge to Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I hiked a rugged 7.5 mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail from Bull’s Bridge to Kent. There was 3" to a foot of snow on the ground and it was rough going although it’s one of the most beautiful hikes I’ve done yet. It took us about 5.5 [...]
Posted in Photographers, Video on Jan 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Hamburger Eyes from Nick Fogarty on Vimeo. This brings me back to the days of mail art and “zines.” Very nicely produced; both magazine and documentary. Highly recommend you zoom the movie out full screen. It’s worth it. [via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Hiking, Landscape on Jan 3rd, 2010 4 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Looking down at the Shepaug River from Steep Rock. David, Loren and I did an eight mile hike in Steep Rock the other day just to revisit the place that got us started hiking. Great day, lots of nice scenery and it was quite cold. Still, nothing like today where the high here [...]
Posted in Food, Macintosh on Jan 3rd, 2010 12 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Some people see Jesus in their Latte foam. I might see this pancake (in the shape of an apple) as a sign that Apple will ship a tablet, break $300 and dump AT&T as their iPhone carrier this year. Too bad I don’t believe in signs. The pancakes were great this morning.
Posted in Photographers on Jan 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Shoptalk: With Todd Heisler about his excellent One in 8 Million series for The New York Times. I am using a Canon 5D set on monochromatic mode. The majority of the images are made with a 35-millimeter and a 50-millimeter lens. Due to the prodding of one of my colleagues a couple of months ago, [...]
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