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photojojo: Chris Hadfield, photo/astronaut/hero, explains how...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:17:30 -0400

Chris Hadfield, photo/astronaut/hero, explains how to take photos of Earth from space…y’know, just in case you’re ever in space one day!

Astronaut, Chris Hadfield Explains How to Shoot Earth from Space

via anythingphotography

Second Acts: Why "Rediscovered Artists" Are the Art Market's New Darlings

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:15:11 -0400

Second Acts: Why "Rediscovered Artists" Are the Art Market's New Darlings

Genius in colour: Why William Eggleston is the world’s greatest photographer

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:14:11 -0400

Genius in colour: Why William Eggleston is the world’s greatest photographer

Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster' - Businessweek

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:27:17 -0400

Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster' - Businessweek

Another photobook

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:59:00 -0400

Tonight I’m looking through one of Uta Barth’s photo books.

I only know of Barth because she was one of the 2012 recipients of Macarthur Genius Grants, at which point I picked up this book and immediately fell in love with her work. Unique & simple & strangely powerful in unexpected ways. Just great stuff.

Two photo books

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:51:00 -0400

Tonight I’ve been looking through two photo books — Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer and A Visual Inventory by John Pawson. Very, very different photographers, and very different books, but both brilliant.

There is so much to be learned by looking carefully at other photographers’ work and thinking about what they’ve done and why and how.

This is actually the second time I’ve been through these books, and I’m fairly certain I’ll go through them both again many, many times — each time coming away with something new, learning something new, with something new impacting how I see the world and how I make photographs.

I’m slowly amassing a bit of a collection of photo books, and always have more that I want to get. Real books, too — with good photo books it’s absolutely worth having the real thing. I have a wishlist of some I’ll eventually get. It’s over here.

"The moment I buy my fake Facebook girlfriend, she leaves a post on my wall. It reads: “I just..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:49:43 -0400

“The moment I buy my fake Facebook girlfriend, she leaves a post on my wall. It reads: “I just remembered that thing you said… hiarious. lol ;)” Great. Now everyone thinks I’ve fallen for a woman who can’t spell and says “lol” a lot. This is a disaster.”

- Fake Facebook girlfriends: what’s not to like? | Technology | The Guardian

Books I Read Whilst On Vacation (2013)

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:58:09 -0400

In no particular order…

* Wool (Hugh Howey)
* An Everlasting Meal (Tamer Adler)
* Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
* People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)
* The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression (Bruce Barnbaum)
* Dissolution (C.J. Sansom)
* The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt)
* Demolition Angel (Robert Crais)
* When the Women Come Out to Dance (Elmore Leonard)
* Pronto (Elmore Leonard)
* Riding the Rap (Elmore Leonard)
* Serena (Ron Rash)
* Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
* Relic (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)*
* Speaking from Among the Bones (Alan Bradley)
* Pictorial Composition: An Introduction (Henry Rankin Poore)
* The Photographers Vision (Michael Freeman)

Neil Gaiman: I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:27:18 -0500

Neil Gaiman: I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday...:

neil-gaiman:

I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do…

Playing with Android photo apps. This one’s from Vignette.

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:33:27 -0500

Playing with Android photo apps. This one’s from Vignette.

Playing. Android has s bunch of cool camera apps.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:56:52 -0500

Playing. Android has s bunch of cool camera apps.

Someone needs to proofread harder. (From: Lomography Smartphone...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:12:10 -0500

Someone needs to proofread harder. (From: Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner @ Kickstarter.)

tumblr & engagement

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:47 -0500

I have 19 followers on Tumblr. I have 1244 followers on Twitter. Granted, probably like half my Twitter followers are bots or spammers, but there’s still a discrepancy there I don’t understand. And I don’t really know how to find people to follow here.

What’s the deal? How is this all supposed to work? What am I missing?

Picked up one of these today. I went to my favourite-ever...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:56:00 -0500

Picked up one of these today. I went to my favourite-ever camera shop (Downtown Camera) looking for this exact bag, and it was on sale for 50% off. Double bonus win.

It’s a good bag. The little padding bag is ridiculous (and has already been added to the Great Box of Camera Bag Padding I Never Use), and the bag itself is a simple as it gets, but it’s solid, well constructed, and weatherproof.

This should make it a lot easier for me to haul my camera around with me, which is the entire point. Having a separate camera bag is a non-starter for commuting. It’s just too much.

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Gordon Parks's Alternative Civil Rights Photographs - NYTimes.com

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:12:13 -0400

Gordon Parks's Alternative Civil Rights Photographs - NYTimes.com

Coffee & orchid @ the Ocho hotel

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:17:27 -0400

Coffee & orchid @ the Ocho hotel

John's Tumblr: Computers = Trucks

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:22:36 -0400

John's Tumblr: Computers = Trucks:

lilly:

A couple of years ago at D8, Steve Jobs said on stage something like this: computers as we know them won’t go away, but they won’t be used nearly as much. They’ll be like trucks: most people don’t drive around in them all the time, but they’ll use them for special purposes, to get particular types…

Nikon D800-D800E First Comparison - http://t.co/ZXEeniGK #photonerds

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:55:55 -0400

Nikon D800-D800E First Comparison - http://t.co/ZXEeniGK #photonerds

This is just going to give me nightmares :: Synthetic DNA Created, Evolves on Its Own - http://t.co/5Q8Wgx2Y

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:26:02 -0400

This is just going to give me nightmares :: Synthetic DNA Created, Evolves on Its Own - http://t.co/5Q8Wgx2Y

BBC News - Marines to train women for combat - http://t.co/YAX5Npyb

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:41:15 -0400

BBC News - Marines to train women for combat - http://t.co/YAX5Npyb