A pity his site is so over-designed, and takes over the browser. I almost didn't bother to browse it. Like TV is made for advertisers, not the viewers, so web sites are designed for the designers to show off, not for the visitors.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Mike Mitchell
Thanks to tOP for pointing to Mike Mitchell. Here's a guy who really works with the light, which is so central to photography.
A pity his site is so over-designed, and takes over the browser. I almost didn't bother to browse it. Like TV is made for advertisers, not the viewers, so web sites are designed for the designers to show off, not for the visitors.
A pity his site is so over-designed, and takes over the browser. I almost didn't bother to browse it. Like TV is made for advertisers, not the viewers, so web sites are designed for the designers to show off, not for the visitors.
From seven years ago
The total destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City yesterday is the most shocking disaster in most people's memory.
Words truly fail.
One thing is crucial, though: While even my thoughts (and I am a peaceful individual) turned to revenge (or at least to Justice, which often looks deceptively like revenge) when I learned about it, we need to keep our cool.
There are forces on this planet who would like nothing better than for martial law to rule, and for war to become prevalent. This is not a good idea. In other words, if people, especially politicians and other opinion leaders, lose their heads and start clamouring for violent actions on a big scale, speak against it. Even if they find the responsible parties with any kind of certainty (which is very unlikely), the real responsible people will be a smallish group of individuals, living amongst thousands of innocent people who had nothing to do with it.
Besides, whether we like it or not, nothing we can do, nothing at all, can make something like that right again.
Yours, Eolake
Cameras
Leviathud wrote:
You only have ONE camera? For some reason I expected your floor to be carpeted with old cameras. The place littered with lenses and bodies the way most peoples places are littered with pens and scraps of paper. You have killed my illusion.
I don't want to do that. You called it.
Jade asked me recently why I had so many cameras lying around. I told her it's like with her dolls and bears, they comfort me.
... There is also the one I used here (Canon 5D) and a few in drawers and such.
You only have ONE camera? For some reason I expected your floor to be carpeted with old cameras. The place littered with lenses and bodies the way most peoples places are littered with pens and scraps of paper. You have killed my illusion.
I don't want to do that. You called it.
Jade asked me recently why I had so many cameras lying around. I told her it's like with her dolls and bears, they comfort me.
... There is also the one I used here (Canon 5D) and a few in drawers and such.
Large Hadron Collider
Doesn't this thing look like something from a James Bond movie? Only more colorful, actually.
No, seriously: I like it, but if it had been designed for an SF movie, the producer would say: "no guys, you need to make it look like it's real. Not just lots of exciting shiny bits, shapes and colors."
No, seriously: I like it, but if it had been designed for an SF movie, the producer would say: "no guys, you need to make it look like it's real. Not just lots of exciting shiny bits, shapes and colors."
Talking and doing
Have you noticed that people who talk about doing something are rarely the people who do it?
For example, a friend of mine from many years ago would always talk very enthusiastically about these fantastically promising schemes he had cooked up which would make him rich. None of them ever can more than three feet away from the launch pad, and I'm sure none of them have yet. (One of them was apparently a shop selling door handles...)
But people I know who are successful, are people who just quietly put in a ton of energy and hours on something, it builds up and it works. When they talk, they talk about hobbies or movies or whatever.
Perhaps a very typical example is writing a novel. It's something that many dream about, but it's much harder than they think. And the guy who actually is producing a novel two thousand words per day, day in day out, is not the guy who will fill your ears about the great novel he will write. The guy who does that is the dreamer.
Perhaps it is because talking about something is a peripheral activity. And when you are somehow blocked from the central activity, you'll be pushed out into peripheral activities. For instance, in periods where I'm not very productive photographically, I'm obsessing about cameras. When I'm actually photographing, I'm not very concerned with them, I just use the one I have.
For example, a friend of mine from many years ago would always talk very enthusiastically about these fantastically promising schemes he had cooked up which would make him rich. None of them ever can more than three feet away from the launch pad, and I'm sure none of them have yet. (One of them was apparently a shop selling door handles...)
But people I know who are successful, are people who just quietly put in a ton of energy and hours on something, it builds up and it works. When they talk, they talk about hobbies or movies or whatever.
Perhaps a very typical example is writing a novel. It's something that many dream about, but it's much harder than they think. And the guy who actually is producing a novel two thousand words per day, day in day out, is not the guy who will fill your ears about the great novel he will write. The guy who does that is the dreamer.
Perhaps it is because talking about something is a peripheral activity. And when you are somehow blocked from the central activity, you'll be pushed out into peripheral activities. For instance, in periods where I'm not very productive photographically, I'm obsessing about cameras. When I'm actually photographing, I'm not very concerned with them, I just use the one I have.
Leica lens rumor
Leica lens rumor.
8,000 Euros for a "normal" lens? Ow-ow-ow-ow! (Elven thousand dollars or six k Sterling.)
Damn, if real, that thing will have a depth of field measured in millimeters, even at medium distances. A-gwynna need a friggin' good focus measuring mechanism.
A thing like this is really a status symbol, isn't it? Like a Ferrari.
8,000 Euros for a "normal" lens? Ow-ow-ow-ow! (Elven thousand dollars or six k Sterling.)
Damn, if real, that thing will have a depth of field measured in millimeters, even at medium distances. A-gwynna need a friggin' good focus measuring mechanism.
A thing like this is really a status symbol, isn't it? Like a Ferrari.
Rollercoaster of emotion
Gawd, this is more gay than a roomful of preschoolers on nitrous oxide. In so many ways. I'm glad I didn't have a TV in the eighties.
TTL points to this as having much more gravitas.
I had to have it explained. Not sure I get it still, though.
But really, I'm amazed at the repulsion I feel at the guy in the first video. The hair, the clothes, the face, the voice, the moves. It just makes me want to blow chunks. Is it just me?
This spoof site has some interesting text additions... "fetching tea"? What? The closest I could find was "tea potting", which seems... unlikely? (Especially second definition. Yeah, that's gonna happen.)
TTL points to this as having much more gravitas.
I had to have it explained. Not sure I get it still, though.
But really, I'm amazed at the repulsion I feel at the guy in the first video. The hair, the clothes, the face, the voice, the moves. It just makes me want to blow chunks. Is it just me?
This spoof site has some interesting text additions... "fetching tea"? What? The closest I could find was "tea potting", which seems... unlikely? (Especially second definition. Yeah, that's gonna happen.)
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Downloads: Artists Have Their Say
Digital Music Downloads: Artists Have Their Say. Article.
"In the middle of the park is Metallica, who has been quite vocal in the past in promoting the changing face of music; back in 2003 they allowed fans to download their music via the internet and in 2006 made their entire back catalogue available. Lars Ulrich was recently interviewed by San Francisco based radio station Live 105, and in regard to his new album said that "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days"."
I find it interesting to see that this journalist either has forgotten or just don't see fit to mention that before that in 2000, Metallica became the center of a big shitstorm when they came out heavily against unauthorized downloading. It seems that they have made a successful turnaround after Danish Lars Ulrich became "the most hated man in rock and roll" in his own words.
"In the middle of the park is Metallica, who has been quite vocal in the past in promoting the changing face of music; back in 2003 they allowed fans to download their music via the internet and in 2006 made their entire back catalogue available. Lars Ulrich was recently interviewed by San Francisco based radio station Live 105, and in regard to his new album said that "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days"."
I find it interesting to see that this journalist either has forgotten or just don't see fit to mention that before that in 2000, Metallica became the center of a big shitstorm when they came out heavily against unauthorized downloading. It seems that they have made a successful turnaround after Danish Lars Ulrich became "the most hated man in rock and roll" in his own words.
PR words
Isn't it funny how easily duped we all are by promotions? Take for instance this Sony A900 advertisement. It tells us that the camera has "Bionz". And just like it is with the new Canon 50D having "Digic 4", we have to assume that this means something to the guys who designed the camera, because it sure as heck does not mean anything to the rest of us.
But: they tell it to us anyway, and it a proud tone, because when we see it, we think: "ah, they are very proud of this. That means there must be something to be proud of. Gotta git me some of that".
But: they tell it to us anyway, and it a proud tone, because when we see it, we think: "ah, they are very proud of this. That means there must be something to be proud of. Gotta git me some of that".
Computer art 1
It was pointed out to me that I hadn't placed the previous computer art on my home site, so I've done that now. (Gee, there were 38 pictures.)
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