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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Fendsday
How to prevent the all-knowing and all-doing from doing wrong. Very wrong. Just one approach. Wired: Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything When you whack a hornet's nest with a baseball bat while standing naked, what are the hornets going to do?…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Why The OM System OMD EM1 was Peak Micro Four Thirds
Olympus has launched some important cameras over the years and the EM1 is one of them. The device was launched in 2013 and was designed specifically to replace the old E5, a DSLR. What EM1 offered was not just a better design but also impressive features. For instance, it was a…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI...
“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.”
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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TinyStart
Sometimes I look back through my blogging archives and notice what’s changed over time. For example, I used to write quite enthusiastically about the arrival of a new operating system from Apple. That is no longer the case, to put it mildly. I’m currently holed up on Sequio…
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Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada...
Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada might release some new music soon. Please let this be true, we need this!
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: What Siri does when you ask her to set alarm to 8am every day Thanks @nzrff for the picture #iOS #iPhone #Alarm #Siri #Apple
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Profoto Did Something Cool, Finally
Not long ago, Profoto updated their Profoto Connect Pro transmitter with new firmware. It includes a lock screen and new TTL improvements for Nikon cameras. So I decided to update our review. And after even more time away from the product that I willingly spent money on, I've be…
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This Brightin Star Lens Outdoes Sony, Canon, and Nikon’s Offerings
When it comes to third-party lens makers, there are only a handful who are trying to offer something different. One brand that is growing rapidly in this market is Brightin Star, a Hong-Kong based company, that has been offering some great primes for many Sony, Nikon, Leica and…
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The Two Best Point-and-Shoot Cameras for New Street Photographers
Street photography is a genre that requires one to be less intimidating. One of the reasons being that your device should not scare people away. The only way to achieve this is with the help of smaller cameras, ones that can easily fit into your pocket. If you are someone who is…
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Pentax Did Something Insanely Unique
Camera technology has seen immense change over the years. While there are devices that push the medium forward, there are some that tend to find solutions in the most unique ways. Pentax managed to achieve the two in one go with a specific camera that was designed for outdoor sh…
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: The smaller the window, the more you can see! Thanks @valery_kirichenko for the video #Scaling
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A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...
A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple products in order to charge the quickest. (Your charger’s wattage really matters when the device’s battery level is 0-50%. After that, less so.)
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SG-image 35mm f2.2 Review: The Best Street Photography Lens?
It’s always refreshing to see a new player manufacture lenses, especially one that isn’t trying to compete with the usual heavyweights, opting instead to carve out its own niche. That’s exactly what SG-image has done with their AF 35mm f2.2 Full Frame Lens. Compact, lightw…
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Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the cr…
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I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....
I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago. Kidder wrote the excellent The Soul of a New Machine, which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming...
Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming book, “a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto”.
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Twos Day
Even more dead now The AP is abandoning its surname.
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The Handmade Digital Camera That Could Have Saved Polaroid
When it comes to the world of cameras, there are some that left a mark, while there are others that, despite innovation, continue to be elusive in our memory. An example of the latter is the Polaroid PDC-2000, a device that was let go of too soon due to the changing environment.…
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A Catalog of an Entire House/Life
In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics… absolutely everything. 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects.” You can explor…
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Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage...
Teenager Michael Haskell “buys abandoned storage lockers at bargain prices…with the aim of selling their contents for profit”. But: “Two years into his pursuit, he knows all too well that every locker tells a story, many of them bleak.”
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Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from...
Shoe Pop Dream Gaze, a three-hour playlist from Christina Hendricks’ all-vinyl DJ set. (You may remember Hendricks as Joan on Mad Men.)
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My Complex Relationship with Ilford HP5 Plus 400
"Why someone told me that it's a great film for street photography is honestly a bit beyond my comprehension."
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Making Concert Photography Stunning Again
If you are just starting out shooting live music, the essential step to becoming skilled and getting published is to shoot A LOT of shows. Shoot everything! Shoot hip-hop, rock, folk, punk, death metal, and mariachi. There are so many venues, clubs, and stages that do not req…
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The C-Word That Every Photographer Should Hate
There's a word that I believe every single photographer should hate: creator. It's a word that lumps all of us in with videographers, musicians, etc. in a way that's designed to eventually provide assets for marketers for free. Let's call this what it really is: it's an assault…
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