As we enter the fourth quarter of the year, camera manufacturers are unveiling their sales performance for quarter three of 2024. Canon, too, took the opportunity to reveal its sales, which showed a positive trend. This is despite the company noticing slower sales, particularly…
Multidisciplinary artist Helga Stentzel cleverly hangs laundry items on clotheslines to make abstract animal shapes. You can find more of her household surrealism on Instagram. (via colossal) Tags: art · Helga Stentzel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.o…
From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People. “Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters.” 🎯
As a middle-aged man, I would’ve saved loads on therapy if I’d read Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid. “The social taboo which prevented [boys] from reading fiction marketed at girls was infinitely more powerful than anything censorship achieved.” 💬 Join…
Kostya Petrenko makes 80s versions of tech/media company logos as if they’ve been screencapped from CRT displays. I think my favorite of his might be the retro OpenAI logo, which you can see in this reel. See also Medieval Versions of Contemporary Corporate Logos.…
If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers this question very well: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”
Last chance! There are lots of great deals on lenses this month — and we think these are probably going to be the best before the Black Friday 2024 time. We know! Lots of folks don’t necessarily trust third-party brands. But did you know that Tamron often makes the lenses fo…
Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed to have died in a fire. “Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party…” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Back in May, we published out Fujifilm GF 500mm f5.6 lens review. And today, we're announcing an update to it. You can find the full review here at this link. There's a lot to love about this lens, but there's also a major problem that holds it back in nearly every single regard…
What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.” 💬 Join the discussi…
One of the best media endorsements of this election cycle comes from EIC Nilay Patel of The Verge, who absolutely pulls no punches in describing Donald Trump and his by-now very familiar patterns and desires. Trump simply cannot use the tools of democracy to run the country on…
While I'm not calling out Digital Camera World in this article, I am addressing something that they reported on Fujifilm saying. According to them, young people are no longer practicing photography. As a middle Millennial who is the spiritual big brother to many members of Gen Z…
I've been a huge fan of Tiffen Pro-Mist filters along with their Glimmerglass -- but there's a filter that I feel makes people look even better. They're called the Rigu Misty Business filters. In fact, I'm inclined to call this lens filter something along the line of God's gift…
As John Berger rightly said, cities are like human beings. They have distinct characteristics, tones, age, and gender. New York is like a career enthusiast, and London is a teenager. Paris is like a man in his 20s, while Rome is like a beautiful, sophisticated older woman. Which…
Well! In the Yale Review, Chris Ware (one of my favorite cartoonists) writes about Richard Scarry (one of my favorite children’s book authors) and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (one of my favorite books). This year is the 50th anniversary of Scarry’s 1974 Cars and Tr…
I’ve been asked a couple times recently about the technology I use to publish this blog. I should have a colophon to link from the footer, right? So here it is as of October 2024. Publishing I roll my own blogging system. Each post is a text file in a directory named for th…
If you're a student who uses Canon gear for your photography, it's an exciting time for you. Canon USA has launched a new free tier of its Professional Services program for student photographers and videographers. Students who qualify for this will now be able to also take advan…
A list of the 20 best art museums in America, including the Wadsworth Atheneum, MoMA, MFA Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the top dog, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Somehow, I missed that the teaser trailer for season two of the excellent The Last of Us premiered almost a month ago. I guess both I and the world have been busy with other things and also keeping tabs on the entire interest and media landscape is just not something that’s…
Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate. He plans to “delete spending on clean energy, abolish ‘insane’ incentives for Americans to drive electric cars, scrap various environmental rules and unleash a ‘drill, baby, drill’ wave…”…
Oxfam analysis: “Investment emissions are the most significant part of a billionaire’s carbon footprint”, dwarfing jet & yacht emissions. “40% of the billionaire investments are in highly polluting industries: oil, mining, shipping, and cement.” 💬 Joi…
Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now ~9bn in 2054) might impact our climate future — “all else equal, fewer people means less carbon dioxide emissions.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
When Nirvana played a huge stadium show in Buenos Aires in 1992, an all-“female/queer/trans” band called Calamity Jane opened for them. The crowd pelted the band with objects like coins and rocks, forcing them off-stage and infuriating Kurt Cobain. Instead of refusing to pla…
While many gear heads geek out over specifications like megapixels and burst speeds, light plays a far bigger role than in image quality. Adding a flash to your kit allows you to take great photos nearly anywhere rather than being limited to where the ambient light looks best. F…
WHAT?! “In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains.” 💬 Join the discuss…
Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years. A leading Chopin scholar: “My jaw dropped I knew I had never seen this before.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Canon EOS R7 is a truly remarkable APS-C camera. Not only does one get the autofocus of the EOS R3, but also a pretty great ISO output. So much so that we think it's far "more versatile" than Fujifilm SH2. While the camera has been a great, cost-effective offering, there is…
From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above. You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in…
“Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at NYC lookalike contest just as cops break it up.” Greatest city in the world. “‘One Willy Wonka lookalike who was taken into custody,’ an NYPD rep said.” Lamest police force in the world. 💬 Join the…
A new city can be daunting. Its pace, weather, people, and even your first interaction with it can become deal-breakers. Sometimes, you simply can get along with the place. Other times, you are determined to make it fond of you. It's a long process, but when you peel the layers…