Posted in Art and Design, Food, People, Places, Video on Feb 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui that explore the idea of home. The three films they have up now are excellent, each in its own way.
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Hiking, Landscape, Places on Feb 1st, 2012 2 Comments »
Kaaterskill High Peak from Dibble’s Quarry Along the Pecoy Notch Trail on the way to Pecoy Notch just east of Sugarloaf Mountain in the Catskills. Kaaterskill High Peak is on the skyline. Dibble’s Quarry was mined for sidewalk slate used in New York City but over the years that it’s been part of a state [...]
Posted in Architecture, People, Places, Video on Feb 1st, 2012 4 Comments »
Michael Garnier talks about his treehouse collection and B&B resort. It’s in Takilma, Oregon. I love this guy, he’s the John Muir (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) of the treehouse world. This documentary takes a while but its well worth it. Garnier and his little Jack Russell terrier are treasures. [via Boing Boing]
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 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 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 Audio, NPR, Places on Jan 13th, 2012 No Comments »
India Marks a Year Free of Polio A polio-free India means that there are just three nations where polio is considered endemic: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Incredible. As a polio survivor this is particularly meaningful to me. It’s an enormous job to do this in a huge, developing country like India and the Gates Foundation [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Politics, Video on Jan 12th, 2012 3 Comments »
This is an excellent video of both portraits and behind the scenes process of how photographer Peter Hapak put together his collection for an issue of Time Magazine. Reminds me of Irving Penn’s traveling studio (below): [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Birds, Photographers, Places on Jan 12th, 2012 No Comments »
My longtime flickr contact Bill Eaton caught a group of white ibises resting on a tree at sunrise. Wow.
Posted in People, Places, Video on Jan 9th, 2012 3 Comments »
People at the Burning Man 2011 festival reciting the Dr. Seuss book “Oh the Places You’ll Go”. A great idea, beautifully executed by Teddy Saunders (director). [via Devour]
Posted in Art and Design, Places on Jan 3rd, 2012 5 Comments »
The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See Imus Geographics looks like the map lover’s dream come true. And, in my old home town of Eugene, Oregon. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Ice, Landscape, Places on Dec 27th, 2011 4 Comments »
Schaghticoke Ridge, Appalachian Trail, Kent, Connecticut. This is one of our favorite hikes in the area, from Bull’s Bridge to Kent on the AT. Near the New York/Connecticut border we crossed a little stream that had some nice ice on it. Had to stop and see if I could capture some patterns.
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S95, Hiking, Ice, Landscape, Places on Dec 20th, 2011 7 Comments »
While hiking up Bear Mountain today we stopped a few times to take pictures of ice. As someone with Raynaud’s syndrome (cold hands from a faulty thermostat) it’s tough to take gloves off and take pictures on cold days. A solution for me is carrying hand warmers and more serious mittens for the times I [...]
Posted in Movies, People, Places, Video on Dec 16th, 2011 2 Comments »
Pickin’ & Trimmin’ from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo. I finally had time to watch this Matt Morris film and it’s well worth watching. Full screen, turn it up, enjoy a slice of life in Drexel, North Carolina. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Architecture, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Getty Center Abstractions, Places on Dec 10th, 2011 No Comments »
This series of images was taken on visits to the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California over an eight year period. I usually find this type of modern architecture sterile, but here the architect Richard Meier created spaces that are not only pleasant to be in but include interesting lines, windows, angles, curves, and textures [...]
Posted in Canon EOS 5D, iPhone, iPhone Photography, Photographers, Places on Dec 6th, 2011 No Comments »
My longtime flickr contact minato has posted a wonderful image of ornamental maple leaves with iPhone with ornamental maple leaves in Japan.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Video on Dec 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
I’ve been following Scott Schuman’s Sartorialist blog for a while. This video shows him shooting in Tokyo. At a glance his blog and the video might look like simple documentary of street fashion of the upwardly mobile but in fact if you follow it for a while it’s like watching live, current urban anthropology. He [...]
Posted in Music, Places, Video on Dec 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
They Might Be Giants isn’t a group I follow or listen to although I know they’re quite popular. Somehow I love the names “Istanbul” and “Constantinople.” Don’t know why but I’ve head them rattling around in my head since I was a kid; my father’s mother came through Constantinople on her way to the US [...]
Posted in Architecture, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Getty Center Abstractions, Places on Dec 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
This series of images was taken on visits to the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California over an eight year period. I usually find this type of modern architecture sterile, but here the architect Richard Meier created spaces that are not only pleasant to be in but include interesting lines, windows, angles, curves, and textures [...]
Posted in Places, Process on Dec 1st, 2011 4 Comments »
The Amazon Swansea, Wales fulfillment center One of the largest Amazon warehouses in the world. Wow. [via Shawn Blanc]
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