Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Braille Polaroid Camera
With a built-in Braille printer, the Braille Polaroid Camera is designed for the blind to record and print Braille images of the world around them.
Wow, what a fantastic concept and design.
[via Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Video on Dec 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Charlie Rose interviews Malcolm Gladwell
This is a fascinating interview on the topics in his new book “Outliers” which is about the nature/nurture issues behind being successful.
[via Signal vs. Noise]
Posted in Ideas, Music, Places, Video on Dec 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Bill Moyers interviewed Mark Johnson, this film’s director a while back. It was a great show: Playing for Change . Watch the video on the Moyers site, it overlaps the one embedded here but it’s worth it; goes into more detail about the movie.
And on that note, Anne and I wish you all a very [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion on Dec 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Editorial Observer: Four Decades After Milgram, We’re Still Willing to Inflict Pain
I posted about this famous experiment I was in before: Milgram Revisited. This new research is rather depressing: even after all political movement away from a culture of people who simply follow orders, we’re still a people who follow orders if the person giving [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Dec 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell has a great pice in the November 10 issue of The New Yorker on Sidney Weinberg and Goldman Sachs: The Uses of Adversity. In it he discusses how some successful people have used being outsiders (class, race, religion, and even being learning disabled) as ways to affect change, do business, and get things [...]
Posted in Humor, Ideas, Video on Dec 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
A cautionary tale, incredibly well told. Dudes, don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
[via Tom Hunt]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Dec 5th, 2008 4 Comments »
LA Times: Happiness is contagious, research finds
A study of the relationships of nearly 5,000 people tracked for decades in the Framingham Heart Study shows that good cheer spreads through social networks of nearby family, friends and neighbors.
NY Times: Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says
Still, the researchers said, it is not clear if increased communication [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear on Dec 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Nikon’s geotagging GP-1 dongle now available
There are no doubt enough unused fields in the EXIF array to put geotagging information or, maybe there are already fields used specifically for this.
No doubt these will be built into future cameras. How far in the future I’m not sure. Until then this looks interesting.
I wonder if I can [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Photographers, Stories on Dec 2nd, 2008 14 Comments »
Iron Man and Me: A great story about how this image got used in the movie Iron Man. Wish I’d read this before I watched the movie.
Remind me to take more shots of the shuttle assembly building!
[via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Events, Ideas, Places, Travel on Nov 28th, 2008 3 Comments »
Good friends of ours lost a cousin and his wife in a restaurant in Mumbai in this terrorist attack. We are so very sorry this happened and wish them our deepest condolences. These same friends generously sent me to India ten years ago and because of them I now have many friends all over the [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, People, Photographers on Nov 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Wisdom is both a book and a film by Andrew Zuckerman. It’s a collection of biographical sketches of a diverse group of folks, some famous and some less well known but all fascinating.
It’s worth spending some time with this site, wonderfully inspirational.
[via David Darling]
Posted in Food, Humor, Ideas, Objects on Nov 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Santa Monica, California. No doubt this tall glass of IPA is all about the old Piagetian conservation idea that a given amount of liquid will remain constant no matter the shape of the container. The taller the glass, the more arrested development types like me will think we’re getting more than a typical glass of [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photographers on Nov 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers
Advice from Magnum photographers to those getting started.
[via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh on Nov 18th, 2008 5 Comments »
Show Me Your Dock
Wow, this is about as personal as “show me your desktop.” Some of those icons are pretty wild, god knows what they launch.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Ideas on Nov 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
Apple has made a great collection of educational materials available through iTunes: An Introduction to iTunes U.
Lectures, speeches, movies, and more. Wow. Visit iTunes U now.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Social Software, Stories, Video on Nov 16th, 2008 7 Comments »
Jason Fried did a fantastic talk at the Business Innovation Factory Conference on sharing and teaching as a business practice. Jason is the Founder and CEO of 37signals.
Tony Hsieh did another talk at same conference on customer support. Tony is the CEO of Zappos.
Jason Fried’s talk
Tony Hsieh’s talk
I’ve now watched each of these talks twice [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Social Software, Tools on Nov 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Lose the BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe
But before he arrives at the White House, he (Obama) will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. [...]
Posted in Events, Ideas, Video on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Jason Fried talks at the Business Innovation Conference
I think this is a terrific talk about the use of teaching and sharing as a business model. Too bad the comment thread under the post digresses into criticism of his use of some off color language in the talk. The talk is great independent of the language.
This [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, Photographers, Video on Nov 12th, 2008 7 Comments »
London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.
I really wanted to make a video of London while I was there earlier this year but I didn’t had any camcorder, so I took pictures instead. In fact I took more then 3000 pictures and put them all together in less then 2 minutes.
I [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photography on Nov 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Sky Factory
SkyCeilings are photographic illusions of real skies that fit into standard ceiling grid systems. Luminous SkyCeilings feature fluorescent or LED lighting that illuminate the translucent images from behind. Ambient SkyCeilings are made from opaque image tiles that are lit by room or cove lighting.
Our dentist has one of these over his chair but unfortunately [...]
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