My poor Tundra is dying a slow death and I needed something to get me around. This 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee is perfect!
Photography
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Nov 11
Abandoned: Tree & Shed – BW
Abandoned: Tree & Shed – BW, originally uploaded by James Milstid, aka PapaJames.
A photo from today’s photo shoot. See more in my “Abandoned and Forgotten” set on Flickr.
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Oct 11
Cinemagraphs = Very Cool
Cinemagraphs: What it looks like when a photo moves
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg: The Kettle Can Wait
It’s somewhere between a photo and a video, a piece of artwork that seeks to perfectly capture a fleeting moment in time.
New York City-based photographer Jamie Beck and Web designer Kevin Burg “hand-stitch” together her photos and his Web design to make animated gifs they now call “cinemagraphs.”
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Oct 11
Abandoned and Forgotten
Abandoned and Forgotten, a set on Flickr.
Several photos of the abandoned house I visited a couple days ago. What an eerie place; very foreboding. I need to go back with my tripod!
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Oct 11
Vivian Maier: Unknown Photographer
Vivian Maier was a street photographer from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. But nobody saw her amazing work until recently.
Her works are some of the most stunning street photos I’ve ever seen. They were recently discovered in a Chicago auction; the auction house acquired her belongings from her storage locker that was sold off due to delinquent payments. In the collection, there were over 100,000 negatives, thousands of prints, and an untold number of undeveloped film rolls.
Unfortunately she passed away before the buyer tracked her down. Her life is obscure, but her photography is anything but. I’m thrilled that the buyer, John Maloof, has chosen to curate and share her works.
Good street photography is a difficult art… but great street photography takes an innate talent that few of us have. Many of us strive to catch those wonderful moments, but fall short of the mark. Vivian Maier possessed the magic and the talent to harness it.
A huge part of the difficulty is simply aiming a camera at someone. For one thing, it raises suspicion. Also, there is a hesitance to invade someone’s privacy. After those are overcome, snapping the shutter at the right moment is the magic.
Vivian had the ability to see the art in her subject matter. Her photographs are beautiful examples of otherwise mundane life. They implore one to look into and absorb the scene, so as to become a part of it.
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Oct 11
iPad Memory Card Readers
One of the pet peeves about the iPad is the absence of a memory card slot.
Why Apple chose to not include one is puzzling, but becoming more apparent as we learn about Steve Jobs’ extreme obsessive propensity to keep things clean and simple.
Well, a company called PhotoJoJo is offering an answer to our (well, “your”… I don’t own an iPad) memory card slot envy.
Priced at $30 for the CF Card version and $15 for the SD Card reader, they are an inexpensive way to load your photos to your iPad on-the-go.
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Oct 11
iPhone Blog Entry
Nothing important. I’ve just never used this iPhone app to produce a blog entry before.
Seems to work pretty well for an on-the-fly post. Maybe I’ll start using it more often.
Adding a photo of my chair collection. I’ll be using them for photo props.
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Oct 11
Buh-bye Seattle Alaskan Way Viaduct…
Time-lapse video of Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct coming down
The folks at the Puget Sound Business Journal had a bird’s-eye view of the Alaskan Way Viaduct demolition this week, and photographer Marcus Donner documented the controversial roadway’s demise one picture at a time.
The journal’s offices are based in the downtown Norton Building, and that’s where Donner set up his camera. From the building’s 13th floor, he took a photo every two or three minutes for five days to make this video.
The viaduct was deemed unsafe and unfit to survive a major earthquake. It’s been a very controversial and politically heated debate as to how to replace it. The proposals ranged from a new surface boulevard to a new viaduct to a tunnel. The tunnel camp won the debate, but many Seattleites are unhappy about it.