Richard’s Notes

The Money Meltdown
Wow, the subtitle holds true: “everything you need to know about the global money crisis of 2007-?”
[via kottke.org]

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Photokina Interview Series: Canon
Interview conducted by Simon Joinson and Phil Askey, report by Simon Joinson.
This is a worthwhile read.
Some professional users have expressed concern about the fact that the 5D Mark II offers the same resolution and a more modern processor than the EOS-1Ds Mark III, making the 1Ds Mark III seem a little dated. [...]

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James Nachtwey’s TED Prize Wish
“I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.”

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W.
Wow, Oliver Stone’s not wasting any time. I just wish it were only a movie instead of a movie about reality.
[via Daring Fireball]

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Walt Mossberg gives us Google’s G1: First Impressions.
Google’s new G1 phone announced today is the first real competitor to the iPhone. Like Apple’s product, it’s a serious handheld computer with a powerful new operating system (called Android) and a clever touch-based user interface. Like the iPhone, it’s likely to be a major new platform for [...]

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Something very interesting is coming…
For me, the key quote came in the discussion thread:
I shot one still with a 400mm 2.8 of a silhouette of a woman…. a beautiful woman - a model - and you could literally count the hairs on her face in a full head profile… at 3200 ASA -with close to [...]

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This is a brilliant political ad done by Ernesto Savaglio for an Argentinean politician.

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The New Yorker has a series of short video commentaries on the current Presidential race by the illustrator Steve Brodner called The Naked Campaign.
Brilliant.
Note: You can track The New Yorker via RSS here.

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The Shift is a movie in progress about the world’s various social movements aligning and things working out. Looks good to me, count me in.
[via David Darling]

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The well known photographer Jill Greenberg was asked to do a portrait of Senator John McCain for the cover of The Atlantic. She did the job and gave them the image they wanted. Jill has a distinctive style that is unmistakable: heavily processed images with harsh lighting making them look airbrushed.
Some background on Jill and [...]

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Annie Gets Her Shot
A wonderful behind the scenes on Annie Leibovitz’s most famous images and more. Wow, this is a great read for any photographer.
[via kottke.org]

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Johnathan Harrell on How much is enough resolution on a DSLR sensor: The Race Continues…
Frankly, I like his writing better than his linked to Digital Photo Pro article: Megapixels: How Much Is Enough? which, while supporting his conclusion that more isn’t always better, isn’t well written and is hard to read.
His post is made in [...]

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Barack Obama’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention
This is an excellent web presentation with three columns: video, transcript, and section jumps. Clicking on a section jump moves the transcript and the video to that place. Beautifully done. All important speeches need this treatment and they’ve given it to what I consider an even more important [...]

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Women Are Heroes is a photographic project by a French photographer, “JR” that depicts women in Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Brazil, and soon India, Cambodia, and Laos with large scale architectural installations of photographs.
The Big Picture has captured some of this work in Brazil: Scenes from Rio de Janeiro.
The first, third, and fourth photographs [...]

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New Nikon Holds a Secret
But don’t knock Live View. It, after all, is the key to the breakthrough feature of the D90, the secret that turns it into a completely new kind of recording instrument. Ready?
The D90 is the first S.L.R. in the world that can record video.
High-definition video, at that. Stunning, vivid, 720p, widescreen, [...]

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Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?
This is a great observation (by both O’Reilly and Gruber) and I think we should avoid sites that overly self-promote by too much internal linking.
Now, I wonder how much I do this?
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Derek Powazek has an interesting post: Three Tales of Trolls which, for those of you who have not followed the evolution of this term, gives a nice back story on situations that are influencing its more modern meaning.
Troll (internet) on Wikipedia.
The Thomas Hawk - SF/MOMA incident is a fascinating situation in that it covers a [...]

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MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson
This is some of the best writing on both the specifics of the MobileMe meltdown at Apple and Apple’s overall issues with releasing products.
Note to Aperture users. He mentions Aperture in passing and a few commenters do as well. Those small comments should be meaningful to you.
[via Daring [...]

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Flickring Out - What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs?
I’m not sure I see it quite as bleakly as this essay by Alissa Quart does but we’re definitely in a transition period where the processes of making money from photojournalism are changing rapidly. Like newspapers, adapt or die may be [...]

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One of my favorite NPR radio shows, On Point has a new web site which is not only nice looking, well organized and “modern” but also has commenting on each show.
I predict that a lively community will form there because it’s a great show. More on their new site.
The site also includes a more compatible [...]

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