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kottke.org (Feed)
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The Art of the Copyist
Lovely short video about artist Jas Knight, who is a participant in the Met Museum’s Copyist Program: The Copyist Program offers time and space for artists to develop their own interpretation of an artwork through intimate study in the Museum’s galleries. Copyists have…
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Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...
Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project Hail Mary movie was created. The filmmakers didn’t “want it to feel like a human language because he’s supposed to be really more musically communicating”.
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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These Presets Work with Retro and New Cameras
The lead image of this story is from our Olympus EM5 review, and it has our newest presets applied. Over the years, the Phoblographer has tested cameras and lenses with every major camera manufacturer and lens maker. And so we've got a massive database of images. We've used that…
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I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...
I’m Done Using AI. “It made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software.”
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Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why...
Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why was no one…even considering the question of human-powered vehicles until the 1400s? Why weren’t there bicycle mechanics in the 1300s, when there were clockmakers, or at least by the 1500s, when we had watches?”
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Fendsday
Live and re-learn I've been a citizen of California for 41 years, and I learned here long ago that the narrow staircase-like parallel terraces on many ranchland hillsides were caused by cattle grazing on horizontal paths, because ungulates aren't climbers. I have seen cattle on…
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Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert
Death Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Registration and Soul Meets Body. Gibbard noted: I’m starting to realize that some of our earlier records came out a s…
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The Camp Snap 2 Just Bought the 90s Back so Hard
Camp Snap has created some wonderful cameras over the years. Screen-free, lightweight, and an analogue appeal in a digital body, are some of the reasons why photographers are going after the devices. As part of their latest color update, Camp Snap is happily announcing the color…
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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same. “A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates.”
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A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)
Oh wow, Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory has a huge collection of eclipse glasses & viewers (and other eclipse ephemera), some of them dating back to 1793. Here are a few of my favorites: (via present & correct) Tags: design · ec…
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Flashback Teases Its Next Camera as Part of Brand ‘Reset’
Flashback, a brand known for reviving film nostalgia on a budget, has recently published a candid video which has raised some eyebrows. One of the founders, who admitted that the brand is a shadow of its former self, has also taken the moment to set the record right: a brand res…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Don’t move buttons from under the mouse. Thanks @The2lb3oz4dr10grOfHedgehogs for the video #Popup #Calendar #Stability
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Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...
Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from other cultures and religions, including the flood myth, the Garden of Eden, etc. I learned about these in a religion & mythology class in college, which cemented my atheism.
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How to Keep Taking Photos When Depression is All Around You
In November of 2025, I wrote a note to myself inspired by poet Kyle Tran Myhre's book, "Not a lot of reasons to sing, but enough." Track 9 of the audiobook is a poem that I truly wish I had in my life at the end of 2023: a moment that I consider to be one of the most depressing…
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4 Landscape Photography Tips From the Pros We’ve Interviewed
Landscape photography may seem like an easy form of the medium, but the reality is far from this. Landscapes require the same nuance and details as any other genre, which a lot of young photographers forget about. If you are just beginning your landscape photography journey, the…
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How to Make Lens Flares Work For You
Camera and lens manufacturers have done everything that they can to eliminate the look that lens flares give a scene. They do this by increasing the contrast -- which in turn also increases how the sharpness and clarity are perceived. As a high-functioning blind man though, I so…
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“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...
“Widely regarded as the most complicated board game ever made, The Campaign for North Africa tries to simulate WW2’s North African theater in as granular fashion as possible…” 1500 hours to finish the game — that’s 1h20m every day for 3 years.
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New vocabulary term: “soft secession” .
New vocabulary term: “soft secession”.
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Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...
Good sentence: “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.”
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This Protects Amateur and Professional Photographers From Spending More Money
Let's be honest, you don't need a new camera: but yours is probably designed to fail after some time. A while ago, the Phoblographer created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with Full Frame Insurance. It was made directly in response to the camera and lens manufac…
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Toosday
Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab: We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation."
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“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...
“Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on reality. It doesn’t wait for information. It guesses what should happen and adjusts when surprised. Most bets win. But when they don’t, you run into walls.”
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If the New Sony RX100 Has a 50MP Sensor, Noise Could Be an Issue
Sony has some wonderful compact cameras in the industry. The RX1R and the RX100 are two lineups that are designed for a certain audience in mind. The former helps professional photographers while the latter is designed to help young image-makers get exciting photos. It now appea…
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I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...
I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context): “The uni-context is a scenario in which the ways you should act become the same across all different contexts. There’s just one set of norms you should follow all times, irrespective of context.”
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“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”
British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subject and apparently been working on it for 30 years, the tren…
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VSCO is Turning American Highways into a Nationwide Photography Exhibit
There are only a few photography platforms that offer a balance of performance and reach. Adobe was ideal for performance, but in the age of AI, people are looking for ways to grow their business without depending too much on artificial intelligence. As part of their new initiat…
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Big AI Tech is Messing With Phoblographer. We Need Your Help
For the past months, big AI tech has been messing really hard with the Phoblographer. They’ve made our traffic have a major drop even though we’ve got clear evidence that we’re still reporting on the stories that you folks want to read. With that said, I’m pleading with…
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“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...
“Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years… For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10.2 billion years of full health gained.”
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The Photography Technique that Landscape and Portrait Photographers Love
Several years ago, I had my original Sony a7 converted to full-spectrum infrared by the folks over at Kolari Vision. What it allowed me to do is something that genuinely challenges and stimulates my mind in a way that otherwise never happens. Just by using certain filters, I can…
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