Posted in Events, Ideas, Opinion, Places on Mar 15th, 2011 8 Comments »
I have lots of things I’d like to post on this site but I find pretty much everything including links to images of the devastation in Japan somehow distasteful at this time. What’s going on in Japan is overwhelming to me as I sit here in a warm house in rural Connecticut. In the face [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Events, Photojournalism, Places on Mar 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Earthquake in Japan Alan Taylor at The Atlantic is compiling images of the earthquake in Japan. The collection will be updated.
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Events, People on Mar 10th, 2011 5 Comments »
R. Crumb: Lines Drawn On Paper Wow. It’s not a question of going, it’s a question of how many times I can get down to the city to see this show. R. Crumb is my god. I have all his books, a pile of Zap comix and more. Oh my, I’m gonna love this. Robert [...]
John Gruber’s take on the iPad2 introduction: The Chair. Good iPad apps can make the iPad feel not like a device running an app, but like an object that is the app. This is right on the money and is achieved by having a device that one holds in one’s hands, by having apps run [...]
Posted in Animals, Events, Photography, Studio Photography, Video on Feb 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
‘Best in Show II’ — This Time It’s for Real Wonderful video piece on Fred R. Conrad’s shoot of the Westminster Dog Show. Watch full screen, it’s worth it.
Posted in Animals, Events on Feb 15th, 2011 2 Comments »
2011 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Wow, the new hairstyle for Afghans is dreads. Nice. I like the dogs kissing owners.
Posted in Architecture, Events, Places on Dec 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
New York City. A group of us went into New York yesterday and one person wanted to see ground zero. I must say that besides helping a friend move out from Battery Park City right after 9/11 I’d not been to the site. it’s a fascinating thing to see with an incredible amount of construction [...]
Posted in Events, Places, Video on Oct 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
Nova: Emergency Mine Rescue You can watch the entire video online. Not the best Nova I’ve ever seen but I’m fascinated by how this rescue worked and it was interesting to fill in the behind the scenes pieces on the various plans to rescue the men.
Posted in Events, Places, Video on Oct 12th, 2010 4 Comments »
Chilean miners rescue – live coverage Wow, it’s starting. Fantastic. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Events, Movies, People, Reading on Jul 9th, 2010 No Comments »
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Anniversary: Anna Quindlen On The Greatness Of Scout The book To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, this is its 50th year in print. The film was made in 1962. Every kid has had that house in the neighborhood that your friends would dare you to knock at on Halloween. [...]
Posted in Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Events, Fireworks, Slide Show on Jul 3rd, 2010 8 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Events, Fireworks, People, Places, Slide Show, Tech Stuff on Jul 3rd, 2010 2 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Events, Photojournalism, Places on May 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
Mount St. Helens, 30 years ago Alan Taylor at The Big Picture has put together a fascinating collection of photography and a great piece of history that many have either forgotten or were too young to appreciate. When St. Helens blew it had a very large effect on the area around it. I lived in [...]
Posted in Events, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on May 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Witness to the End, Photographer Reflects on Vietnam David Hume Kennerly who was both President Ford’s White House Photographer and a freelance photojournalist reflects on Vietnam. Watch the slide show full screen for some memorable shots of the Vietnam conflict as well as the Ford White House.
Posted in Architecture, Events, Photographers, Places on Mar 15th, 2010 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 Spectacular architecture under construction, beautifully documented.
Posted in Events, People on Jan 31st, 2010 8 Comments »
My wife’s first husband and my good friend David Darling has won a Grammy Award for his album Prayer for Compassion. Congratulations David. Congratulations also go to Mickey Houlihan who engineered and produced the album.
Posted in Events, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
Posted in Events, Photography, Time Lapse, Video on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City from David Martin on Vimeo. This is a wonderful time lapse piece by David Martin of the US Airways Airbus A320 that went down in the Hudson as it lay tied up waiting to be lifted to a barge. Note [...]
Posted in Events, Music, People on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. If you’re going to go to a kirtan Krishna Das is the person you want leading it. He’s the real deal and if you get into it it will get into you.
Posted in Events, Ideas, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Nov 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is an excellent 40 minute interview of Google CEO Eric Schmidt by Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s OnPoint which took place at MIT recently. The “Michael” being referred to is Michael Hammer who was a computer science professor at MIT and who recently passed away. Schmidt is incredibly articulate and his discussion of these [...]
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