Archive for the ‘cool link’ Category
1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Malibu Crash Test
Posted on January 14th, 2010 by Will.
Itsy Bitsy Bakeshop
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Will.
How absolutely cool and scrumptious is this?!?
Many of you will recognize this shot from an earlier post, but it’s totally worth a post of its own.
From the Itsy Bitsy Bakeshop’s website:
The Itsy Bitsy Bakeshop is a domestic bakery baking delicious gourmet cupcakes in Salem, Oregon. We use only fresh, natural ingredients in our cupcakes- no mixes here! Our cupcakes taste homemade because they are homemade. Our kitchen is inspected and licensed by the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Amy Barr is a fabulous person and maker of cupcakes. Yummy, beautiful cupcakes! Right here in Salem. You can be guaranteed I will be using any excuse to order many, many cupcakes.
The Best Camera & Chase Jarvis
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Will.
So Chase Jarvis worked with software developers Ubermind to create thebestcamera.com – iPhone App , a combination iPhone app and social media site.
Of course, I bought it, and I have to say I’m happy overall. I think the crop feature needs some work, and because the shutter lag is quite long at times, there needs to be a straighten feature as well.
Given Chase’s popularity and social media presence, this should do very well. (This popularity is well deserved.) Naturally, I’m going to blame him for giving me another time-suck with the ability to see photos from others in real time.
A couple quick shots I took while getting my morning coffee:
Flower Entrance, Funeral Home.
Morning coffee.
Cool opportunity – Encaustic Workshop
Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Will.
September 26-ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOP
Painting with Hot Wax.
Learn the ancient art of Encaustics with DEANNA WHITE. Learn the history, safety and how to make your own wax paints.
You will try fusing techniques with the beeswax, using different heating tools such as a heat gun, torch and flat iron.You will work on your own projects at your own pace and will have one finished painting, maybe two, depending on how you work. You may want to bring some of your own *personal photos, special papers, and any other flat items such as leaves, for collage. Deanna will also have a large assortment of papers and collage items. *Photos must be fresh Kinko photo copies which are toner based, not ink jet.
Saturday, September 26, 11:00-4:00. $65 includes all supplies.
You can register here. I’d hurry there are only 3 spots left.
Five New Pictures from the Hubble Telescope
Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Will.
Fascinating and beautiful: Five New Pictures from the Hubble Telescope | PDN Photo of the Day.
Anthony Bourdain takes on kiddie TV
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Will.
As the father of a 3 year old, I definitely find myself agreeing with his take.
FOR PARENTS ONLY | Anthony Bourdain.
Poodle Panda
Posted on August 31st, 2009 by Will.
Proud Flesh – Sally Mann
Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Will.
Sally Mann:
But that long history of picture-taking didn’t make it any easier to make the Proud Flesh photographs. Rhetorically circumnavigate it any way you will, but exploitation lies at the root of every interaction between photographer and subject, even forty years into it. Larry and I both understand how ethically complex and potent the act of making photographs is, how freighted with issues of honesty, responsibility, power, and complicity, and how so many good images come at the expense of the sitter, in one way or another.
via Sally Mann: Proud Flesh – Conscientious.
Definitely interested in getting my hands on the monograph
Total Crisis Panic Button
Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Will.
“I was at a show of a friend who just graduated from art school.”
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Will.
Dushko Petrovich: I would be likely to critique it as excrement, and talk about its qualities, you know, its color, smell or something like that…because that’s exactly what the person didn’t want to hear.
Top 20 Stupid Client Quotes
Posted on August 12th, 2009 by Will.
1 AndyK #7225 | Rating: 4.82
It was a late evening call from a former potential photography client. “Hello, XYZ Photography, this is Andy speaking.” “Hi, I’m Michelle, I talked to you a few months back about taking pictures at my wedding, but we decided you were too expensive so we hired ABCD Photography instead. They were over $100 cheaper!” Me: “Yes, I do recall that, so how can I help you?” Her: “Well, we just got the pictures back [10 weeks after the wedding, much longer than my 2-3 week guaranteed delivery] and they look pretty bad. Well, there are a few good ones, but most are really bad.” Me: “I don’t understand, if you have a problem with the pictures, shouldn’t you be calling ABCD Photography?” Her: “Well, I don’t think the other photographer knew what she was doing, so we wondered if you could maybe fix some of the pictures?” Me: “How many pictures need fixing?” Her: “Well, she gave us 400 pictures on a CD, and I guess about 10 or 15 look good. We figured you would know how to do lots of neat stuff on the computer to make the pictures look better, since all the ones on your web site look great and the printed samples you have look fabulous. See, the thing is, we spent all our money on the wedding and kinda need somebody to do it for free, and was just wondering…” Me: click Disclaimer: all company names and individual names are fictitious but the rest of it is unfortunately true.
via Clientcopia : Coping with stupid clients
DO WE RETOUCH? YES!
Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Will.
Then we edit the film and choose the best pictures. This is done in tandem with the star; the creative director, Cindy Searight; the photographer; and myself. Then we allow the postproduction process to happen, where we mark up the photograph to correct any awkward wrinkles in the blouse, flyaway hair and other things that might detract from the beauty of the shot. This is art, creativity and collaboration. It’s not, as in a news photograph, journalism. It is, however, meant to inspire women to want to be their best. That is the point.
…
Did we alter her appearance? Only to make her look her personal best. Did we publish an act of fiction? No. Not unless you think all photos are that. But in the sense that Kelly is the picture of confidence, and she truly is, then I think this photo is the truest we have ever put out there on the newsstand.
(my emphasis)
from Pictures That Please Us: Lucy’s Blog: Self.com.
A bit contradictory, don’t you think? (found via jezebel).
Update: Joerg Colberg also had a post about the use of photoshop and mags: “Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly” – Conscientious.
The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes
Posted on August 7th, 2009 by Will.
That’s Not Art
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Will.
Funny.
People post ridiculous "art" to Tumblr which often consists of a photo with "meaningful" text overlaid. These pieces frequently make it into Popular. We reblog them here and call them out for being stupid.
via That’s Not Art .
What If Aphex Twin Was A Little Girl?
Posted on July 8th, 2009 by Will.
Ok, I know I found this on vastly more popular sites, and you’ve probably already seen it, but it made my day. So there. Do yourself a favor and stick with it close to the minute mark. I promise it’s worth it.
( via +KN | Kitsune Noir » What If Aphex Twin Was A Little Girl? )
Still ancient, still horrible, parade still draws a crowd
Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Will.
The Practical Limits Of Knowledge
Posted on July 4th, 2009 by Will.
While summer camps are going on, there is not much more that I can do, and my online reading takes a back, back, BACK seat. So I’m just getting to this. But a goal of mine (and potential conceit) is that my photography eventually develops to the level of Ta-Nehisi’s writing:
Again, I’m a liberal in large measure because, in my time, liberals have been about the business of expanding the national consensus, of including of voices, of attempting to reconcile past wrongs. I don’t think all of those attempts have been successful. But given the choice between that and an ideology that condones Willie Horton, condones Bob Jones, condones discrimination against gays, for me as a black man, there simply isn’t much of a choice.
This holds for other issues outside of race–faced with a group that asks its bureaucrats to censor science, that asks its presidential candidates to deny evolution, that employs phraseologists when faced with the challenges of the environment, I know which one I’ll pick. But even as I say that, I can see the limits of my own thinking–maybe if I had more than an informed layman’s knowledge of the health care debate, I’d think universal health care was a terrible idea. My politics are as much based on trust as they are on actual knowledge–I simply trust liberals more.
via The Practical Limits Of Knowledge – Ta-Nehisi Coates .
You are reading his blog, right?!?
Game show looks to convert atheists
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Will.
What happens when you put a Muslim imam , a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Game show looks to convert atheists
Wordle visualization – music I’ve been listening to
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Will.
Thomas Aquinas would have loved genetics
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Will.
Many know that I grew up Catholic, and I’m quite familiar with Aquinas (always one of my favorites, though I wasn’t as big a fan for Aristotle). Great article from the Guardian:
In the five ways Aquinas was not trying to prove the existence of God at all, but was showing that an acceptance of Aristotle is no bar to belief in God. This is why he ends each argument not with "QED God" but "And this is what all men call God". Aquinas does not think God exists. He thinks he is existence.
And countering the common refrain I’ve heard most of my life about “But what came BEFORE the Big Bang”,
Aquinas would have had no problem with Hawking’s contention that the Big Bang didn’t need somebody to light its fuse but can be explained mathematically.
brilliant advice
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Will.
The Comfort Wipe is a modern solution
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Will.
“Think about it. Toilet paper is really archaic and disgusting. The Comfort Wipe is a modern solution.”
And it’s Ergonomic!
UPDATE: Disappointing. ComfortWipe, We Hardly Knew Ye .
Asian Poses
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Will.
Why the 2012 cult is a silly scam
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Will.
Why is this tsunami of stupidity so irritating to me? I think it has a lot to do with one of the more recent moronic convergences I found on some 2012 site. One that supposedly aligned the Maya’s 2012 thing with the Hopi end-times prophecy. The best cultural explanation I found for this flowering of idiocy said that New Age fads like the Hopi prophecy and 2012 are a kind of cultural colonialism in which white people endow the minorities they have wiped out or repressed with mystical powers made more mysterious by their virtual vanishing.
(my emphasis) via Why the 2012 cult is a silly scam. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine .
Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Will.
30 Awesomely Bad Unicorn Tattoos
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Will.
Donations now being accepted
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Will.
Whales Steal Fish
Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Will.
You can’t trust anyone these days. Video at link.
Sperm whales pluck fish from a line as if shaking apples from a tree.
via LiveScience.com .
Conservative Radio Host Has Himself Waterboarded
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Will.
I know this is probably old news, but…
"The average person can take this for 14 seconds," Marine Sergeant Clay South answered…
… [Muller] only lasted 6 or 7 seconds.
Conservative Radio Host Has Himself Waterboarded (Video) – Ta-Nehisi Coates .
Obama’s choice of Sotomayor deserves praise
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Will.
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