I talk to strangers. My wife puts up with this. It's not in her nature. But she puts up with a lot from me. Today, while at the doctor's office waiting for my blood to be drawn, I struck up a conversation with the 84-year-old man sitting beside me, while he waited for his wife of 62 years to have her blood drawn.
I'm not sure if Chat Roulette holds the same appeal as talking with random strangers in real life.
For a while now I've been looking for the digital Holga. I purchased a $10 digital camera at Wal Greens. That didn't give me what I was looking for. The camera came close image-wise, but the camera needs a PC to download and it only holds 20 images. Impractical for any real day shooting.
Enter the Digital Harinezumi, which is attracting a cult following. There is a version 1 and 2. Most people seem to favor the first model, but the V1 seems impossible to get without paying big bucks. The V2, at $180, is still expensive. But at least that camera is available.
That prompted me to dig out my first digital camera, a Kodak DX3900, with circa 2001 technology, hoping I could make it look crappy enough. Clio was nearby and obliged with a yawn.
While I mull over a Digital Harinezumi enjoy this photo.
Clio yawns. Captured with a Kodak DX3900
Except for our trip to Rome last year, I fell off the photo wagon. Here's to a more productive and consistent 2010.
Canon 5D, 50mm lens, 800 ISO, RAW mode
I know, know, who is their right mind would watch a review this long? Like me, you may have hated 'The Phantom Menace.' That's all the more reason to watch this hilarious and brutal review. It's broken up into seven 10-minute chunks. After watching the first part, embedded below, I guarantee you won't be able to stop watching. The Daily Beast has a background story on who made this review masterpiece.
Parts 2 through 7 after the jump.
The Canon folks has this little display sitting out during the winter sale at Dodd's in Cleveland. I plopped down a dime to get a sense of scale.
The Powershot sensor is 7.18x5.32 millimeters. A 4/3 sensor is 17.3x13 millimeters. Click the image for a larger verison.
This video tells you all you need to know:
A few links to seed the SEO debate:
WordPress 2.9 just made it easier to embed videos. Paste a URL on its own line and sites that support Oembed magically turn it into the proper embed code. Currently that is YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
If you see the video below that means it works. How simple is that? Enjoy this Q&A with one of my favorite comedians
In Leopard when I copied an email address via the Mail App that's all that was copied. In Snow Leaopard the person's name is copied, along with the email address inside of brackets. This change is really annoying in Snow Leopard. Here's to get back to Leopard goodness.
Quit Mail if it’s running, then enter this command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NOIf you try this and decided you prefer the default version, quit Mail and run this command in Terminal:
defaults delete com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboardVia MacWorld
The third and second videos below are the most interesting. The advice he gives applies to pretty much any artistic endeavor. Part two is on the difficulty of finding good stories. Part three is about getting past the stage where your works is bad. You may have good taste, know good work when you see it, and strive to make good work, but it's going to take a long time to become good yourself.
On July 2nd, 2009, four thousand US Marines of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade launched a major helicopter assault into a Taliban stronghold in the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan in order to break a military stalemate with the insurgent group.
Independent filmmaker Danfung Dennis was embedded with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Company, as they were dropped 18 km behind enemy lines to seize a key bridge. Within a few hours of landing, fierce fighting erupted and continued for the next three days, during which Lance Corporal Charles Sharp, from Adairsville, Georgia was shot and killed by a Taliban fighter.
The trailer is stunning.
Toss Your Resume in the Trash and Tell Employers Your Story @ Fast Company