Tokyo Sonata
30 May
Watch it!
Archive | May, 2010
Michael Cevoli
28 May
I wish more of his photos had this feel instead of the nautical and architectural vibe, but that’s just me.
weekend silliness: walking on water
23 May
I’m not sure whether to gawk or to laugh. There is a new sport called “liquid mountaineering” which consists of trying to run on a water surface for as long as possible. I’m surprised that anyone has managed to take more than two steps, but I suppose if you can skip a stone, why not a person. Apparently, however, really big shoes are not the answer. Fascinating.
weekend silliness: ouroboros
16 May
In the first episode of David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood there is a snippet of the armadillo lizard curling up into defensive posture. Is it the origin of the ouroboros? Would that make a killer graphic or what?
weekend silliness: Is this for real?!
8 May
A bit of gear and non-art chat today…
Last quarter while I was taking the view camera class, I went shooting with a friend who shoots 8×10 and saw him using an orange (Wratten #90?) filter viewer to previsualize black and white. This week I saw one in the used division of my local camera shop and considering the pain of switching back to visualizing black and white after shooting so much color for so long, I decided to get it. There were a couple of other darker viewers, and while googling what their function, I came upon the Roger Deakins forum, where apparently the Roger Deakins himself answers questions about equipment and techniques on a fairly regular basis.
I have a hard time believing this is real, but after googling around, it seems that at some point, there was a forum frequented by Deakins which shut down after a bit of abusive trolling by one individual. I’m not sure if this forum is a reincarnation (hence the 2 in the URL?) – can anyone confirm or deny? Seems too good to be true, though his comments don’t seem to be all that extensive…
MEMORY
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What people really want: film vs digital, longform vs shortform
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
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Chris Jordan on fear, inspiration and living fully
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
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Subsidizing art, subsidizing yourself
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
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down with artspeak! (or, don’t let yourself go)
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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the byline
This is what Hans Rosling says of global development in the documentary I linked to earlier. I want to dig a little deeper into this issue. I’d say that most of the photo world has done a fairly terrible job of making this point. All the images of development are somehow read as “look at [...]
