One of my boring old urban fragment photos was taken by one of my supremely talented Flickr friends and turned into an actual scene. I’m glowing with pride. It’s a stunning transformation that creates a new world in between the ones we know and the ones we imagine. I love it.
Entries from October 2009
Then It Was Something Else
October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I Got Posterized
October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Couple years ago I took some pics at Harvelle’s of a man named Leroy Powell. He’s a great performer, and I was lucky to see him in a small place where I could take photos.
Leroy chatted with me afterwards, and I sent him my photos which he liked. He still likes them — one of [...]
Tags: leroypowell·music·photo·poster
Explore! That Makes One Hundred
October 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
1. lone surfer on return, 2. level the playing field, 3. we’re not the only ones with problems, 4. fender, the gods, 5. Sinkhole!, 6. reflexive negation (happy birthday, henri), 7. Bicycle-Mounted Ringlight? [31/52], 8. Rocket Car,
9. Eye R Flickr [27/52], 10. MyNmIs, 11. Rubber Meets Road II (Anarchy), 12. can i bum a [...]
Tags: explore·flickr·photo·self-congratulation
Amazon’s E-P1 Price Too Low to Show?
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Why pay M.S.R.P. when you can pay M.S.R.P?!?
Tags: amazon·e-p1·fail·olympus
My Favorite Sports Photographer: Walter Iooss, Jr.
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Iooss in BlinqI picked the early nineties to really dive into baseball cards. You know, the biggest explosion of overproduction in the hobby’s long history? Nothing from those days is worth anything monetarily, but I have a lot of great memories of collecting, from mammoth card shows to card shops on every other block to [...]
Tags: annenberg·iooss·photo·photographer·sportsillustrated
How I Backup My Photos Using My Macbook and External Drive
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Image by humediniMy backup procedures are not perfect, but they work for me. They can be improved, so if you have comments please leave them. I hope that someone finds this useful. This is really not as complicated as it seems. I’ve just tried to be as explicit as I can be.
I use a 2006 [...]
If I Ever Had a Show….
October 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
This would be the poster for it. With some dates and times and place. Free admission.
Someday.
Tags: poster daydreams
TinEye - A Reverse Image Search That Seems to Work Sometimes
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From tineye.com :
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image [...]