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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Viltrox Launches the AF 35mm F1.2 LAB Lens In FE Mount
Viltrox is raising the bar again for third-party lens manufacturers, this time with their AF 35mm F1.2 LAB Lens for the Sony FE mount. With a custom LCD display, configurable FN buttons, and exceptional image quality that their LAB series of lenses has proven to exhibit, this le…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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The Traditional Designs of Ukrainian Egg Decorating
From a 1968 book, a collection of illustrations of regional patterns & designs of the art of Ukrainian pysanky, or egg decorating. From the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas: Pysanky are raw eggs that are decorated using an an…
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Here’s the full trailer for season two of Poker Face (Natasha Lyonne,...
Here’s the full trailer for season two of Poker Face (Natasha Lyonne, Rian Johnson). For this season, they have tripled down on special guest stars, incl. Cynthia Erivo, Giancarlo Esposito, Kumail Nanjiani, Justin Theroux, Awkwafina, and Carol Kane. 💬 Join th…
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The Company That’s Not Trying to Screw Photographers Over
It's a Friday morning -- the only time on VSCO CEO Eric Wittman's schedule where we can get together for breakfast and to chat candidly. His is a story I know I need to tell because lots of modern photographers are often bedazzled by the grind that is typical social media. After…
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Timothy Snyder on “the beginning of an American policy of state terror”...
Timothy Snyder on “the beginning of an American policy of state terror” (re: disappearing people to foreign gulags). “Whatever the government does is good, because by definition the its victims are the ‘criminals’ and the ‘terrorists.’”
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The First Sighting of the Colossal Squid
A cephalopod captured on video in March has been confirmed as a juvenile colossal squid, the first live colossal squid observed in its native habitat. It’s been 100 years since the colossal squid was formally described in a scientific paper. In its adult form, the animal is…
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Here’s a gift link to the WSJ article about Elon Musk’s “legion”...
Here’s a gift link to the WSJ article about Elon Musk’s “legion” of children that he’s had with his “harem” of women. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates.” It’s all just so weird, gross, & white supremacist.
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How Well Is [NYC’s] Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. “The number of complaints...
How Well Is [NYC’s] Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. “The number of complaints about excessive car-honking in January and February was 70 percent lower than last January and February.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored For It
For the past 11 years, the Breakthrough Prize awards have “celebrated outstanding scientific achievements, honoring scientists driving remarkable discoveries in gene editing, human diseases, the search for the fundamental laws of the Universe and pure mathematics”. At this…
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The Guggenheim Fellows for 2025 have been announced and they include Miranda...
The Guggenheim Fellows for 2025 have been announced and they include Miranda July, Nicole Krauss, Sheila Heti, and Sloane Crosley. (I have once again been overlooked. Next year!)
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Find the Gear Other Sites Won’t Cover
We’re very unique! Read this website and want to help? In 2025, we’re trying to get to a minimum of 2,000 subscribers! Members get our articles without banner ads, Capture One discounts, and more are coming. The Phoblographer membership is based on our website — so you can…
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Robin Sloan’s monthly newsletter is one of my favorites, chock full of...
Robin Sloan’s monthly newsletter is one of my favorites, chock full of thoughts, recommendations, and links. The April 2025 issue is typically great. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Beach daydreams, lost at sea
The gentle sound of the surf fills the soul. No frequency left untouched. But never colouring outside the lines; never too loud. It occupies the senses and allows detachment without dissociation. It lifts the mind just a fraction, a gliding ballroom aquaplane through thoughts…
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Does the Rogue Flashbender Work on a Profoto B10?
I've previously written about how I don't always like using expensive softboxes on the Profoto B10. So I've often looked for alternatives. A few days ago, I wrote about hacking a Roundflash beauty dish onto one. But then I thought about something else: the Rogue Flashbender. Spe…
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Fujifilm Half Frame Camera and Leica M Has One Similarity
The year 2025 is turning out to be quite exciting for Fujifilm. The company recently unveiled the first-ever medium-format camera in a compact body, the GFX100 RF, which has become an instant hit among many. There is also the newly launched Instax Mini 41, the older brother of t…
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The Best Camera Kit You’ll Want to Bring With You Everywhere
Lots of photographers think about the idea of having a single lens and a single camera. That's tough to do when you want to do travels. But the truth still is that your dedicated camera can still do a lot more than your phone in most cases. So, to prep you for your next trip, we…
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Oatmeal (Feed)
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In reply to: Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta
In reply to: Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our la…
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New cookbook from Samin Nosrat called Good Things that includes “the things...
New cookbook from Samin Nosrat called Good Things that includes “the things she most loves to cook for herself and for friends”. Nosrat is the author of the nearly ubiquitous Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Swamped Skies
Photographer Joshua Rozells on his photo of our increasingly crowded night skies: The light pollution caused by satellites is quickly becoming a growing problem for astronomers. In 2021, over 1700 spacecrafts and satellites were put into orbit. Light pollution caused by Space…
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David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist?...
David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! “Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.”
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“Drew Struzan is a legendary movie poster illustrator, the man behind all...
“Drew Struzan is a legendary movie poster illustrator, the man behind all the posters we grew up with. He started with legendary titles like Blade Runner, The Thing, and Back to the Future, and continued with Indiana Jones and Star Wars.” 💬 Join the discuss…
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“The Rise of End Times Fascism”
This is a really interesting essay from Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about the rise of end times fascism and the far right’s bet against the future. The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. It…
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Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans...
Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks. “The cruelty lies in the ambiguity. These orders don’t explicitly bar specific conduct but deputize decision-makers to interpret them in ways that inflict the greatest harm…”
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The Secret Feature on Compact Cameras
For a long time, compact cameras have had a feature that we wish ILC cameras had. So, with the dive back into compact cameras these days, we figured that we'd show you folks something really incredible that they do but that larger, interchangeable-lens cameras don't do. It's not…
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This is how everyone in Vermont drives in the winter....
This is how everyone in Vermont drives in the winter. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President...
I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong. “But for all the talk from pundits about how we’d see a new side of Donkey Kong once he took office, well, not so much. Turns out we got exactly what we voted for.”
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The Polaroid Flip Does What Camera Manufacturers Refused to Do
"Their film is still pretty erratic," I say to the head of product management of Polaroid -- not knowing who they were yet staying resound in my unshakable confidence on the statement. Yet despite this and complaints from friends at my yoga studio who said that the film took a w…
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Harvard Tells Trump to Go Pound Sand
Harvard is refusing to comply with the Trump’s demands related to his regime’s racist, xenophobic political agenda, including a threat to cut $9 billion in research funding. From the AP: Harvard President Alan Garber, in a letter to the Harvard community Monday, said the de…
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Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the...
Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottk…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: First four buttons are tabs. Last one closes the window Thanks ovf for the picture #Pidgin
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Americans Can Detect AI Images Easily, Finds a New Study
In the highly AI-driven world, we have been finding it increasingly challenging to figure out whether a photograph is real or is created with generative AI. While a large number of people were unable to differentiate between the two, a new study claims that 70% of the Americans…
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