- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now… - YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.
- TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.
- firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!
Tag: photography
Bookmarks for May 8, 2008
- Feature: Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato
Can’t do this at the moment, since I’m not using one of these routers, but in the event that I need to replace mine at some point, it might be worth bearing in mind.
- Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
In a similar vein, despite the fact that I loved my finepix, this will probably ensure that the next point-and-shoot I buy will be a Canon. Ace.
Bookmarks for May 6, 2008
- Atomic Tragedy — Photos
Previously unreleased photos taken in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Hugely moving photos that convey the human cost of the atomic bomb. Should be in every history textbook, under the heading “there can be no excuse”.
- Boris Johnson Facts
“Not even twelve pygmies have the strength of a single Boris Johnson.”
- random($foo): Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown
Well, that’s half my evenings this week gone. Some of these sound fascinating. (The other half, like total waffle-shop bilge, but let’s focus on the positive, shall we?)
- Alan Moore’s Outbreak of Violets
Given away at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1995, the postcards with text by Moore, and art by a number of utterly splendid illustrators now change hands for absurd sums. Or you could just read them on-line.
- The New Yorker profile of Grant Achatz
A really compelling account of the effect that his battle with mouth cancer, the experimental treatment he got, and the effect it has had on his life, and his cooking.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » Designs on Your Money
Interview with the guy that came up with the designs for the UKs new coins. Insteresting insight into the design process, and how some of the initial ideas were refined and improved (or even just unworkable).
Bookmarks for April 9, 2008
- Dead Air
I am trying to break some of my photography habits. So, here’s my new lo-fi photography site. No commentary, no interaction, no attempt to produce anything other than lo-fi snaps of things I point a crappy little iphone camera at.
Bookmarks for April 8, 2008
- 1.3 Megapixel Camera Sunglasses
Sad, I know, but I’m almost tempted. Dealbreakers: crappy resolution, no wireless connectivity. When the resolution improves, and I can auto-email the pics, I’ll get a pair. When they do that, they’ll be perfect for a project I’ve been developing.
- Timer: Work in 48 minute increments
I’m on a productivity upswing (I have made my peace with the fact that I have periods where I juggle about 47 projects at once, vs periods where all I do is watch the telly) at the moment, and this might help ensure it’s actaully sustainable.
- PHP Snippets – image_contrast
Increase the contrast in an image with PHP.
Bookmarks for March 10, 2008
- Google Contacts API
A safer means of allowing websites to access your contacts/addressbook data without having to give them your gmail password. Not that I know anyone who’d be stupid enough to do that, right?
- 3753 Cruithne – Wikipedia
Wikipedia article on “Earth’s second moon”. I was dimly aware that earth had more than one satellite, but this is so much cooler than I had first thought when I heard about it…
- @ETech: Matt Webb’s Tour of a Fictional Solar System
I love his perspective on the world, and really, really must get to a talk by him at some point.
- File this one under holy crap! It starts with (kottke.org)
OK, you can’t draw an exact cause-and-effect line, but that line to a history of “Hallelujah” that I posted the other week did the rounds (I think I got it off Waxy), and suddenly, Jeff Buckley’s version of the song is the top selling track on iTunes.
- ‘I fell in love with a female assassin’
An astonishing account of a photojournalist that did, well, exactly what he says, while covering a story in Colombia. Utterly compelling and thought provoking.
- Photon – High performance Mac OS photo browser, sorter and viewer
I love Lightroom for working on images and library mangement, but it doesn’t half take ages to impport stuff. If I can use this for a first-pass step, it might be quicker…
- Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3 | Layers Magazine
I suspect this will also work in Lightroom, which is handy, because the current cross-processing filter I have in LR is for shit, so instead, I shall build my own.
Bookmarks for March 5, 2008
- (Mis)Adventures in sous-vide cookery (part one)
Friend and professional mad bastard Hugh Hancock has finally managed to get himself a home waterbath suitable for cooking in. I urge you all to learn about his progress in Cooking With Science, because it’s both informative and fucking funny.
- How to install Leopard on the eeePC
Just, y’know, in case it should ever be handy.
- A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
A salutory warning to non-US citizens doing business on the internet – make sure you register your domain names with places that aren’t American companies, otherwise the American government may claim that their laws apply to you.
- The Met declare war on photography, houses and mobile phones.
This is just fucking stupid. I’m fine with keeping an eye out. But picking specific things to advertise as potential terrorist activity is just asking for trouble. Whoever came up with this one must be a special kind of moron.
Bookmarks for February 28, 2008
- 100 Photographs that Changed the World
Useful reference, and some amazing photography in here.
Photo printing
On my to-do list for this year: Making a serious effort to sell prints of my photos. (For those who aren’t aware, I have a sporadically-updated photo journal at electricana, and a portfolio website at http://photogr.aphi.st. Do feel free to friend the journal if you like the occasional pretty picture on your friends page.)
To which end, I am looking for a print-on-demand photo service that has the following features:
- Good printing – That’s a given, really. I want these to be professional quality, ta.
- An attractive website – Seriously, this is important. I want the purchase process to inspire confidence, and if you’re parting with your hard-earned in exchange an attractive object, you’ll feel better about it if you’re buying from somewhere that doesn’t look like a dog’s breakfast.
- The ability to link directly to individual photos – I want to be able to link to images that are for sale from my website and photoblog.
- Control of product and exact prices – The ability to control exactly which products are available for purchase, and at what specific price.
- A good admin system – I’d like not to want to kill myself or others any more often than strictly neccessary while setting this up.
Photobox, who I have used in the past has 1 and 4. Imagekind, who I am currently looking at have 2 and 3, and probably 1, but not 4 or 5 – I can select a percentage markup, or I can set certain base prices for specific images, but there’s no easy way just saying “A print of X size costs Y amount framed, or Z unframed” across the whole shop, which is what I really want.
I also need some guidance on the prince front.
So, your opinions please:
And if anyone feels like leaving me a comment telling me which, if any of the photos in my portfolio they’d consider paying cash for, well, that’s always appreciated.
Bookmarks for February 6, 2008
- Movement (Schulze & Webb)
S&W talk about movement as a metaphor for the web, and in the process, introduce a means of syndicating form-type actions via a modified RSS protocol they’re calling Snap. Potentially a huge change in the way people will interact with websites, here.
- What makes a great portrait?
A number of big name photographers answer the question. I’ve only skimmed this right now, because I’m barely awake, but it looks interesing enough to come back to when I can get more then 2 neurons to fire at once.