Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Ice on Jan 30th, 2012 5 Comments »
Mt. Race, Massachusetts. All of these shots were taken in a single puddle to the side of the Race Brook Falls trail near the intersection with the Appalachian trail. This was taken in a small pool in Race Brook on the blue Race Brook Falls trail.
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Hiking, Ice on Jan 30th, 2012 4 Comments »
Mt. Race, Massachusetts. All of these shots were taken in a single puddle on the Appalachian Trail on the north ridge of Mt. Race. I don’t know enough about ice crystals to understand why some puddles produce crystals and others don’t but when I find a patch of great crystals like this it’s like finding [...]
Posted in iPad, Magic, Video on Jan 30th, 2012 No Comments »
iPad magic A very nice routine using the iPad for close up sleight of hand (in German). [via Hank Murrow]
Posted in Events, Photography on Jan 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Postcards from the dawn of photography For the creative pioneers who embraced early photographic technology, producing “art” was very much a matter of trial and error. As Anne Havinga, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh senior curator of photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, tells me, chemical treatments and exposure times were experimental and inexact; [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Food, Objects on Jan 27th, 2012 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Great dinner with friends. The room was pretty dark and just a few candles were lighting the table and the light on Anne’s plate was inviting me to try out the S100 in low light.
Posted in Birds, Video on Jan 27th, 2012 3 Comments »
Common cranes fly over Venice, Italy. Amazing BBC footage. Zoom out, it’s worth it. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Hiking, Places, Trees on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
On Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts. Hiking down the Haley Farm Trail on the west side of Mt. Greylock we came across a dead black birch with huge mushrooms on it. Hiked out to the tree and shot straight up hoping to catch the mushrooms but instead got an interesting shot of the creepy decaying tree and [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
SOPA and PIPA Notice that I didn’t reblog the image but instead linked back to the political cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s blog. I’m not making a statement here, I came close to reflagging the image with proper permission and attribution of course, but, I want Cagle to get the traffic, he’s the artist so best to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Video on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
Interview with Michio Kaku December 23, 2010 on the evolution of civilizations Micho Kaku is a theoretical physicist who’s incredibly articulate, funny, and fascinating. His site contains numerous interviews and lectures. Dig around after listening to the one linked to above, he’s quite an amazing person.
Posted in Places, Process, Tools, Video on Jan 25th, 2012 8 Comments »
Fantastic. I started on an Olympia portable typewriter although didn’t learn to touch type until my third computer. I noticed the reporter in the video wasn’t using all her fingers and was looking at the keyboard. [via Retronaut]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Process, Stories on Jan 24th, 2012 2 Comments »
How The Glock Became America’s Weapon Of Choice fresh Air had a fascinating show today about the plastic Austrian pistol, it’s history and evolution. I’m not into guns but this was a fascinating listen for me nonetheless.
Posted in Creativity, Process, Tools, Video on Jan 24th, 2012 No Comments »
PressPausePlay from House of Radon on Vimeo. The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of [...]
Posted in Patterns, Process, Video on Jan 24th, 2012 No Comments »
This is my favorite 4min selection of a larger work by Ralph Steiner. The original was silent, and the DVD had it set to classical music. I have swapped the audio for an electronica/industrial track by 3 Liquid Hz – Little Boy. I like the remix (by VertikalDesign) and I can imagine that the original [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Video on Jan 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
This is a wonderful film by the designers Charles and Ray Eames. Zoom it out full screen and enjoy the colorful tops and bokeh. [via core77]
Posted in Process, Time Lapse, Video on Jan 23rd, 2012 6 Comments »
Time Lapse – Rail Bridge Replacement, Cow Lane, Reading from Chris Wilkinson on Vimeo. Upper Cut Productions was commissioned by BAM Nuttall and Network Rail to film a rail bridge reconstruction project in Reading, during the Christmas period of 2011. 3 weather-proofed time lapse cameras were installed in various locations to capture the progress of [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, People, Process, Video on Jan 21st, 2012 No Comments »
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player LACMA has a great exhibit up: California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”. Worth seeing if you’re in the area. Deborah Sussman, whose work is included in the exhibition, talks about her early history with Charles and Ray Eames and her long career as an influential designer.
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Places, Trees on Jan 21st, 2012 4 Comments »
Huntington Library Gardens, Pasadena, California. Went on an outing with my mother today. Decided to use S100 to shoot trees from below since this place has an amazing variety of spectacular and rare trees. I’m quite pleased with the way this small camera worked; I got a nice variety of decent images.
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Video on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
Marshall Soulful Jones, part of Team Nuyorican 2011, 2nd place finishers at the National Poetry Slam in Boston, perform “Touchscreen”. The Bowery Poetry Club NY. Brilliant, down to the head movement. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
Weegee’s Killer Decade The International Center of Photography has a show up Weegee: Murder is My Business that looks incredible. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was a street photographer’s street photographer and photojournalist.
Posted in Photographers, Video on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Singer Patti Smith’s photographs on display But Smith is also an avid photographer and takes a camera on tour and whenever she travels. “Camera Solo” is the first museum exhibition of her Polaroid photographs at the Wadswoth Atheneum in Hartford Connecticut. It can be seen until February 19, 2012. Who knew she was also a [...]
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