Posted in Ideas, People on Mar 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Census Pushes Americans’ Participation as Deadline Looms Fantastic interview with Groves on the history of the US census and what it means. This is well worth watching.
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Photo Resources, Social Software on Mar 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Unofficial Flickr App Approved for the iPad No doubt flickr will have an “official” app but this one looks fine and may be better than whatever flickr produces.
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Stories on Mar 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth CNN pioneering female photojournalist Margaret Moth has died. Watch the two CNN videos for more on her extraordinary life. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, People on Mar 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to ‘Stand and Deliver’ Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79. The subject of the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” [...]
Posted in Adventure, Animals, Canon PowerShot G11, Hiking, Places on Mar 30th, 2010 3 Comments »
Pine Swamp through the trees West Cornwall, Connecticut, March 7, 2010. Looking east. Approaching Pine Swamp from a hut on a blue side trail off the Appalachian Trail. From here it doesn’t look like much but generations of beavers have turned a stream and swamp into a pond with multiple dams, an enormous house/den, and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photography on Mar 29th, 2010 No Comments »
For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path A rather depressing look at how amateur photographers are getting a bit of money from stock agencies but having a tough time putting together enough work for a living, and professionals are being squeezed as well. No doubt this situation will settle out in time but it [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photographers, Slide Show on Mar 29th, 2010 No Comments »
My longtime flickr contact Linda Plaisted has a wonderful collection of photo-collages up on flickr that’s easy to view as a slideshow: Postcards to my future self. I highly recommend looking at the slide show, full screen. Linda does wonderful work, reminiscent of the late Donald Evans. His book The World of Donald Evans is [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Sites, Photographers on Mar 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Hydrology: Visions of Ice Wonderful abstractions of ice on a frozen lake, photographed at night with long exposures to avoid glare. Fantastic work.
Posted in Ideas, Music, People, Video on Mar 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Gupta talks about his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers and how that affected his own relationship with music. Excellent talk, amazing playing. Gupta bio at TED. [via Duncan Davidson]
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places, Slide Show on Mar 27th, 2010 4 Comments »
Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. It was windy and I couldn’t get close enough to use my tripod and the Huntington didn’t have a lot in bloom except these poppies (excuses, excuses), so, I shot a lot of poppies. This first one’s dedicated to Georgia O’Keefe (grin). These were all taken with a Canon EOS 5D [...]
Posted in Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, Canon EOS 300D, Cats, Our Place on Mar 27th, 2010 4 Comments »
Today would have been our late cat Kitty’s twentieth birthday. We had to put her to sleep December 2nd, she almost made it to twenty. Happy birthday Kitty, hope you’re enjoying cat heaven.
Posted in Opinion on Mar 27th, 2010 No Comments »
You know you’re in LA when this is on the front page of the business section of the LA Times: Tan tax sends bronzed set into slow burn. Eydie McNeill was fuming about the newly passed healthcare bill, but her rage had nothing to do with socialism, death panels or the deficit. She just likes [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Stories, Video on Mar 27th, 2010 No Comments »
This is an excellent 16 minute documentary on the history of pirate radio in London including what’s going on right now as the internet replaces it. I love the spirit of this, like ham radio and early internet experiments, pirate radio became not just a vehicle but a style. From Palladium Blog. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM, Canon EOS 5D, My mother, People on Mar 26th, 2010 4 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. In a few months I’ll be back here for my mother’s 95th birthday. She’s slowing down but still runs me ragged on visits. Today, Huntington Gardens to take pictures of flowers, tomorrow Da Vinci at the Getty.
Posted in Social Software on Mar 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill Alan Brightman who ran the Disabilities Solutions Group at Apple did a lot of work early on in this particular area. Reminds me of the presentation and article David Clark, Monika Koethnig and I did a while ago: Digital Independence which we did long before the current [...]
Posted in iPhone, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Tools on Mar 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
AT&T MicroCell 3G: Salvation for Your Crappy Reception Is $150, No Strings Attached Buy this decide for $150, connect it to your cable modem and get decent cell phone coverage in your house if you don’t have it already. No monthly fee. This device would allow us to drop our land lines and go all [...]
Posted in People, Stories, Tools, Video on Mar 24th, 2010 5 Comments »
Wonderful story, nicely produced by Jerry Bowen at CBS. The kicker is that Kramer is dyslexic and his struggle with that no doubt routed him into doing things with his hands. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing, Photographers, Stop Action on Mar 23rd, 2010 17 Comments »
My friends Mamen Saura, Gary Sharp and I have put together a photo magazine of our work using MagCloud, a new publishing service. The process has been fantastic and I’m sure we’ll not only continue this magazine but we’ll also be using MagCloud for other things as well. Here’s the magazine: Wabi Sabi, Issue 1. [...]
I’ve written about AppleCare and related issues before at this site and no doubt some think I’m an insurance salesman. I’m not. I just think AppleCare a good idea. Here’s why. I have a 2.5 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 15″ MacBook Pro that I bought in 2008. At the time, this machine was near [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People on Mar 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
French TV show uses famous Milgram torture experiment Here’s the BBC piece: Row over ‘torture’ on French TV I can’t make myself watch it and amazingly, as Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing quotes: Egged on by a glamorous presenter, cries of “punishment” from a studio audience and dramatic music, the overwhelming majority of the participants [...]
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