Every once in a while you capture a moment that’s just too good to be true. While you’re shooting it, you’re both (a) really excited, and (b) feelin’ kinda corny, because the photos look almost posed. That’s how I felt when I stumbled upon these shots today.
A photo stroll through downtown seattle… i seem to have a thing for empty chairs lately.
I was reading the FlickrBlog the other day, and saw photos from their 4 year birthday celebration. I loved the walls of 5x7s, and decided to cover my closet doors with a similar collage of my own photos. For the job, I went to AdoramaPix, which is my favorite photo printing site. (I did a print test from several different places about a year ago, and they won hands down.) Their prints are great, and they run great specials every once in a while. The actual ordering of prints from Adorama, however, has always been ridiculously painful. Adorama’s photo upload …
At my Mix08 session last week, I showed off a FlickrViewr app that I had written. You can search different user’s photos (or search all public photos by leaving the username blank). updated: This app has been updated for Beta2. All of its controls now use VSM! updated: This app now uses DevDave‘s AnimatingWrapPanel. updated: Updated for Silverlight 3. FlickrViewr (app, code) In order to run it on your own, you need to go to flickr and get your own flickr api key. Special thanks to Pete Blois. I expanded upon his Xml Serialization Flickr library. 🙂 This FlickrViewr application …
The New Yorker cartoon caption contests are generally funny. But this week’s, I think, is one of my favorites: “We’re all out of the blood of your enemies. You’ll have to settle for marmalade.” Jason Beck Los Angeles, Calif. Drawing by Michael Crawford Also, in last week’s New Yorker, there’s an excellent article on carbon emissions… It calls out how difficult it is to choose the most “carbon friendly” option, especially since “buying local” isn’t always the most environment choice. I highly recommend.
I just read on the Flickr Blog that Polaroid will be ceasing its production of instant film. The company (now 150 employees compared to 21,000 in its 1978 hay day) will continue working on its Polaroid branded digital cameras & cell phone camera printers. I switched to digital last year. And, I love the power that digital gives me (picture preview, digital darkroom, unlimited # of exposures)… but I do still miss the texture and tone of my film prints. I never used polaroids that much, but there’s definitely a “beginning of the end of film” feeling with this announcement. …
I’ve had my thinkpad for about 6 months, and I like it a lot. (Although, it wouldn’t kill Lenovo to make them a bit cooler looking – would it??) The one thing that has bugged me, though, is that the screen *always* dims when I unplugged & go onto battery. This was especially irritating when trying to work on the bus or edit photos on the plane. I tried all the Windows settings magic (power options, display brightness, etc) to no avail. I finally found the trick to making it work today: you have to update your bios. If you …
MyHeritage.com helps you determine which celebrities you look like. They also allow you create video a that “merges” your face to & from a celebrity’s. It’s pretty fun. Ah……Facial recognition technology at its most useful. 🙂 Collage Morph Videos
Hoping you had a festive holiday season! Here’s to a joyous 2008. 🙂