Posted in Flowers, My mother, Places on Feb 29th, 2012 3 Comments »
Huntington Library and Gardens, Pasadena, California. Very little was in bloom today so we wheeled down a steep hill to the Desert Garden and had a showdown with a huge Mexican Polaskia Chende cactus. The plants in this garden are so other-worldly it would be fun to have the evolutionary back-story on each and every [...]
Posted in Birds, Canon PowerShot S100, Places on Feb 29th, 2012 2 Comments »
Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, California. The Japanese Garden is a little gem, right next to a water reclamation (sewage treatment) plant, it’s a beautifully designed and maintained traditional Japanese garden right in the middle of Los Angeles. We’ve visited this garden many times but today there were more birds than ever. These are coots which [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Ideas, Tech Stuff on Feb 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Raspberry Pi: Elite writer David Braben’s £15 computer This is fascinating although the name is got to change. More here Raspberry Pi credit-card sized Linux PCs are on sale now, $25 Model A gets a RAM bump. No doubt there can be many approaches to computers in schools, or computing on a TV set and [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Feb 28th, 2012 No Comments »
The Lively Morgue Photos from the archives of The New York Times have found a new home away from the filing cabinets and manila folders that have housed them for years – on Tumblr. Excellent, worth subscribing to with their RSS feed. Don’t forget to turn the image over by clicking the back (the small [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Collections on Feb 28th, 2012 No Comments »
MAD Magazine covers, 1952-1955 Wow. I was born in 1951 but I can’t remember when I started reading MAD. I sure did love it, especially Don Martin.
Posted in Hiking, Patterns on Feb 26th, 2012 2 Comments »
Schaghticoke Ridge, Appalachian Trail, Kent, Connecticut. Thayer Brook is the last big stream crossing on this hike. There’s usually a small foam whirlpool in this spot and I’ve photographed them here before. No doubt there’s a scientific reason for foam forming in these patterns right after a small waterfall on a brook because that’s where [...]
Posted in People, Video on Feb 25th, 2012 No Comments »
Jason Lee – Weapon of Choice from Sector Y on Vimeo. My god, stop paying attention for a few years and look what happens. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Video on Feb 24th, 2012 No Comments »
Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo. Bret’s talk takes a while (53 minutes) but man is it worth it. Don’t be put off by the code (if you don’t code), it’s less about code, more about tight interactivity leading to more creativity as a guiding principle. When you couple excellent coding [...]
Posted in iPhone on Feb 24th, 2012 No Comments »
I’m amazed it took me so long to realize it but I didn’t know you could not search for an address, a zip code, or a phone number on the iPhone. The standard iPhone search of contacts searches first name first but not key words. Try it, you’ll be amazed. It’s not like Spotlight searching [...]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Video on Feb 24th, 2012 2 Comments »
Visualtraveling – ‘Holy Cow’ from Patrik Wallner on Vimeo. This is extremely well done: the cinematography, music, editing are all top notch. I’m not much into watching expert skateboarding but this video is so well produced it was more than worthily anyway. Zoom it out, turn it up. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Hiking, Ice on Feb 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
Mt. Race, Massachusetts. All of these shots were taken at the base of Race Brook Falls where the blue trail passes over Race Brook.
Posted in Audio, NPR, Social Software on Feb 21st, 2012 No Comments »
Why Twitter Ties Resemble Airline Hub Maps NPR’s Steve Inskeep and Shankar Vedantam discuss research that shows not only the visual patterns of Twitter connections but also overlays sociological data on top of those patterns. Fascinating although easy to see the causality once you consider it.
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Art and Design, Patterns, Video on Feb 21st, 2012 1 Comment »
Snow Drawings at Rabbit Ears Pass by Sonja Hinrichsen Absolutely incredible. Watch the video, full screen. Note: we haven’t had enough snow (any real snow) this year and haven’t put on our snowshoes once.
Posted in Collections, Gadgets, Objects on Feb 21st, 2012 4 Comments »
Flashlight Fanatic Pics I thought I had a flashlight fetish: I have a bunch of “low end” Surefire G2 flashlights in the house and in the cars as well as a Surefire headlamp for hiking and some Streamlights in various sizes and shapes. The collections shown at core77 and at the CandlePower Forums show just [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S95, Hiking, Photographers, Places, Reflections on Feb 20th, 2012 1 Comment »
My friend Gary Sharp took this multilayered reflection image from a bridge near Florence, Oregon.
Posted in Canon EOS 5D, People, Photographers, Places on Feb 19th, 2012 2 Comments »
My long time flickr contact minato has posted a very interesting image shot in Osaka, Japan with her Canon 5D and a fast prime lens. Wonderful blur and bokeh in the lights.
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Video on Feb 16th, 2012 2 Comments »
Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. Kirby Ferguson has done an outstanding job on each of the four episodes of this piece. Great stuff no matter how you come down on the copyright issue(s). [via Devour]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Video on Feb 16th, 2012 12 Comments »
I’m using the beta of Messages (demoed in the video) and its great. Looks like the rest of it is great too. The new Notes app looks like it might be the end of Simplenote…. not sure yet but it looks likely.
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion, Process, Social Software on Feb 16th, 2012 2 Comments »
Preface Last month while reading an interview with Jason Kottke, a blogger I’ve been following for many years I noticed this question and answer: What’s your online reading setup look like these days? RSS? Twitter? Multiple devices? For discovery, Twitter and Stellar. No RSS…stopped doing that a few months ago and I feel like it [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Opinion, Photo Resources on Feb 16th, 2012 3 Comments »
Canon has released a firmware update for its popular Canon PowerShot S100 compact camera. As a Canon DSLR user I’m not unfamiliar with updating firmware and I went to their site (which has been and remains awful), chose my operating system from their pull down menu (Mac OS X v. 10.7) and downloaded both a [...]
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