Adobe Firefly is powering several of the new advancements that are being announced by the company at MAX today. Quite honestly, they're insanely dystopian yet also pretty exciting for the future of photography if ethics and regulations are put into place. Daido Moriyama says tha…
For years, portrait photographers adhered to a simple three-color rule. This was in an effort to their images simple and the heroes of their images as the most important part. It prevented distractions, for sure. For example, someone might be framed in green field while they're…
Letterboxd asked Dune director Denis Villeneuve what his four favorite films were and he cheated and listed five (including 2001 and Blade Runner). First of all, who knows how long Blade Runner has been on his top 5 (or even 10 or 20 list) but getting to do a remake of one of…
They fixed it: NASA is able to talk to Voyager I again. “For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Hey there everyone. As I quickly touched on over the weekend, I launched a few new tweaks/features for the comments here on kottke.org: 1. Ability to edit comments. After you post a new comment, you’ve got 10 minutes to edit it — to fix any typos, formatting slip-ups, or qu…
You’ve seen the bokeh and sharpness this thing can make, right? In the month of April 2024, the Phoblographer is giving away vintage gold! We’ve got a Contax 45mm f2 converted to Leica M Mount — and we’re giving it away to one lucky subscriber in our giveaway that’s av…
A database of useful biological numbers, including the duration of an eye blink, the surface area of human skin, the diameter of a water molecule, and the mass of a male fruit fly. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Hold the Line is a “piece of sound art generated by data from Canada’s 2023 wildfire season”, an data sonification if you will. Clicks represent fires (Zippo “tings” for human-started fires) and rumbles for forest area burned. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org �…
Professional photographers, semi-professional photographers, and passionate hobbyist photographers can all be covered with the Photography Care Program. The Phoblographer is giving away two Sony lenses. Not one, but TWO! One lucky winner will receive the Sony 35mm f1.8 FE and 85…
For All Mankind has been renewed for a fifth season and the show is getting a Apple TV+ spin-off called Star City, which will follow the same alt-timeline as FAM but from the Soviet perspective. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
This weekend I was doing some programming work (comments, another small project) and listening to some old-school electronica (DJ-Kicks by Kruder & Dorfmeister anyone?). When I write, I tend to listen to chill stuff so I can concentrate — classical, vaporwave, soundtracks, Jon…
This had me cackling in laughter this morning: Kevin Del Aguila hamming it up in the wings off-stage while the show, Some Like It Hot, goes on. How on Earth did the actors not completely break during all of that? 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A bot that pairs the clichéd “I hope this email finds you” with snippets from books beginning with “finds you…” E.g.: “I hope this email finds you wherever you go, and lands right in the center of your brain.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
If there was ever an iconic tripod design, it's the ones from the early 2000s and late 90s. That's where the new Promoster Epoch tripod is taking inspiration from. Every college video department had some sort of aluminum tripod with a ball head of some sort and they all looked l…
This looks promising: an RNA-based vaccine effective against any strain of a virus and works for those with weakened immune system (babies, immunocompromised). “This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Once again, it is cheaper to decarbonize our world now than to pay for the costs of climate damage in the future. “Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
British architecture studio Dowen Farmer Architects has released plans for Portal Road, a multistorey ghost-kitchen tower block in west London that would shuttle food to a public food hall like the “Ministry of Magic”. Dowen Farmer Architects’ proposal for the site, cal…
If you closely observe the lead image above you'd probably think that you were looking at some tall grass of sorts -- and that the slow shutter speed really emphasized this. By all means, modern technology in cameras has become so good that you can handhold slow shutter speeds e…