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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The Human-Written Landscape Photography Tutorial You Need
Here is our introductory guide to Shooting Better Landscapes.
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Why Can’t Modern Cameras Make Panoramic Portraits?
Back in 2014 and even a bit before then, photographer Ryan Brenizer was making waves across the photo industry with a special method. You see, APS-C cameras were way more common. And full-frame was still pretty expensive for most folks. So he would do something called the Breniz…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Fewsday
One frontier of anthropomorphism In the midst of a dialog with ChatGPT, I just got this: "Doc, I've been thinking about this off and on since your earlier questions…" Is it really thinking? Will it feel insulted or betrayed that I just blogged this? Olds In the continuing st…
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Is Canon About to Screw Up Their Best Lens?
When it comes to choosing a lens, there are multiple options that Canon users can choose from. For instance, the 10-20mm f4, 85mm f1.4L, or 800mm f5.6L, are some examples that continue to be important for various genres of the medium. Per new reports, Canon is now working on one…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...
Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The AI-generated voiceover (at ~6:45) gets tripped up saying “what WWE” and basically sings Daisy Bell for more than 10 minutes until someone kicks the server.
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If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...
If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the Hollywood Bowl: Music From the Films of Wes Anderson. “Over three nights, musicians including Beck, Jenny Lewis, Jackson Browne, and Mothersbaugh himself perform favorite songs, scores…”
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Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...
Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number of Spielberg Faces.
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Walter White’s Big Hat
In this modified scene from Breaking Bad, Walter White’s hat grows in proportion to his ego. YT commenter: “He was just brimming with confidence.” Could be time for a BB rewatch. (via @ernie.tedium.co) Tags: Breaking Bad · remix · TV · video
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Waxy.org (Feed)
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The man who’s spent a lifetime making one giant map
People Makes Games talks to Jerry Gretzinger about his game-like map, now over 4,000 8″x10″ panels #
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It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggests
the preprint paper shows how a few words of text in a comment can consistently poison searches #
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Bubbles.town
a new social link aggregator, but with posts from 5,000+ independent blogs (including mine) as the data source #
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A history of web browsers on video game consoles
Nintendo and Sony decided not to release browsers for any console since the Wii U and PlayStation 4 (via) #
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Fontificator
Marcin Wichary shares an internal tool he built while he was at Medium for quickly exploring type options #
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Heikki’s Garden of Flowers
a precursor to ASCII art, a collection of 2,500 examples of pictorial letterpress art from the 1600s to now (via) #
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Firewood Splitting Simulator
more fun at Gavin Shapiro’s screen.toys (via) #
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This Canon Lens Had Soul
Canon has always been a really fascinating company with how they approach their lenses and even their cameras. While other brands would put a lot of work into making their prime lenses super sharp, Canon put the effort more into their zoom lenses. And when I reviewed the Canon 1…
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Petafloptimism (Feed)
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Playing with Resident
My old friend and colleague Matt Webb has started a company this year called “Inanimate” with another old colleague (Daniel Fogg) – it’s doing lots of interesting things with ai, physical place and things, and multiplayer-ness. Topics that have long been catnip for him.…
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“Film posters inadvertently photographed by...
“Film posters inadvertently photographed by [British] postwar town planners.” Includes posters for Help!, Shaft, Dr. No, Planet of the Apes, and many more.
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“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...
“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of women are the natural price of running a working class candidate, isn’t the implication that working class men by nature mistreat the women in their lives?”
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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth. They already have 10K satellites in orbit and they want to add a million more. 🥴
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The Best Viltrox Lens for Street Photography Now Comes for L-Mount
Viltrox previously released one of their best character lenses: the 28mm f4.5 pancake. First, it came for Sony E mount. Then it came to Nikon Z mount. This lens is something really unique in that it boasts a built-in lens cap, autofocus, and a very small size. It also has a fixe…
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New Ambient Album From Marconi Union
Marconi Union, which you might remember for creating the most relaxing song in the world, has released a new album: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Vol. 3. You can watch the visual album on YouTube or stream it from a variety of sources. This went straight into my Undersco…
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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech. Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg, specifically: Shut up about the Roman Empire.”
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Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...
Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip phone. “No social media, no browser. Runs 99% of Android apps (without Android). T9-style texting adds mindful friction. Audiophile grade HD Audio.”
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3 Must-Have Camera Kits for Young Travel Photographers (Part 2)
Travel photography is an impressive genre of photography. Not only does one get a chance to witness the beauty of different cultures, but also document them on the way. For this reason, we have collated a list of the best cameras and lenses that work the best for travel photogra…
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New Perk for Members: A Free Mystery Box of Presets
Dearest Subscribers to the Phobographer: we've got great news. We're giving you a brand new perk. For all current and future members, you now can get a mystery box of presets made by the Phoblographer. This is on top of the banner-ad free experience, Capture One discount, Imalum…
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The Biggest Scam in Film Photography
Next to me in my desk is a drawer. Inside that drawer is a box. The box's contents are Instax, Polaroid, and Instant film images I've made since I started the Phoblographer 16 years ago. I can officially say that I've made some of those images before my friends' children were bo…
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How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour,...
How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.”
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Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.
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