Monthly Archives: July 2009

more federal photography insanity

It’s bad enough that there’s paranoid ambiguity around whether you can photograph a Federal Reserve building, but now the Secretary of Homeland Security has suggested that continually photographing a vaguely-described “critical piece of infrastructure” is grounds for calling the cops. … Continue reading

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repose

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hello and good-bye, kodachrome…

Okay, so here are my shots of Kodachrome that I’m willing to share with the world. It’s not much, but 11 good pics from three rolls makes me happy.

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a different tack

Ch-ch-ch-changes! AGAIN! So I put the WordPress blog back in place, but I’ve commented out all the CSS. I didn’t feel like tackling two things at once right now (learning EE and CSS) while I’m preparing to be a grad … Continue reading

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CAMERAS! IN! SPACE!

The camera nerd and the part of me that drools over beautiful engineering can’t resist staring at this page for far too long: A pictorial (appropriate, yes) history of Hasselblad cameras used in space.

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new release of old music from Sufjan Stevens is forthcoming

Holy smokes…some news for which I’ve been waiting a few years: Sufjan Stevens is releasing a recording of The BQE, a symphonic piece he composed and presented only in a series of live performances in NYC back in 2007. I’ve … Continue reading

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buzz

Sure, there’s a lot of humor in Rands’ translation of contemporary business jargon, but when I’m neck-deep in it every day it’s more than a little depressing. (via Daring Fireball)

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jump!

It felt hot as a furnace this weekend, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t go outside to take some pictures.

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train vs. tornado

I’ve often heard people describe the sound of an approaching tornado as closely resembling an oncoming freight train. What do you suppose it sounds like if you’re already ON the freight train? This is terrifying and breathtaking at the same … Continue reading

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Wikipedia’s New Mobile Site

On my iPhone I routinely type “*** wiki” in Safari’s search field, where “***” is the subject for which I’m searching. So “beer wiki” returns the Wikipedia entry on Beer as the top search result. Last night, however, I noticed … Continue reading

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