What Pro Photographers Understand that Amateurs Don’t

Buying camera gear is expensive and your warranty won't matter. Insurance is cheaper! Our photography insurance program is designed to be there when photographers really need it! We're giving you more than the competition can in different ways! Here's a little-known fact: the wa…

Photographers: Here’s The Escape from Social Media You Wanted

This has been a very long time in the making, and I'm very excited to finally make this happen. The Phoblographer is launching workshops for photographers who want to find ways to grow beyond just what all the social media content developers and YouTubers tell you you need. And…

Open Thread #3

Well, I’m back from my west coast trip, but I came home totally sick, the SSL cert for KDO wasn’t automatically renewed1 so the site was down for several hours this morning, and my car has decided it’s suddenly out of brake fluid? Oh and I haven’t even seen Project Hail…

The Best APS-C Cameras for Photojournalism (There Are Only Two)

Photojournalism is one of the few genres that requires one to get the best device possible. For starters, the device has to be sturdy but also quite quick. There is also the need for good image quality and high ISO results for the best output. While there are many cameras in the…

“ ICE Tours VT provides guided bus tours to many...

“ICE Tours VT provides guided bus tours to many of these facilities, where you will learn about the scope, scale, and history of DHS in Vermont. Think Hollywood star tours, but instead of celebrity mansions you get federal surveillance infrastructure.”

Recently

I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just got back from Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver and settling into a false Brooklyn summer. ReadingI read so much this month but have little to share here. Despite trying to keep a rich,…

The Curious Olympus Camera Selling Like Hotcakes

Olympus has introduced some brilliant cameras over the years. The companies PEN F, E-P5, OM3 are some models that continue to be important for photographers. While it is believed that the Micro Four Thirds or Four Thirds system is now redundant, the truth is far away from that.…

35 Photographers. One Title. The World Food Photography Awards Shortlist Is Here

Food photography is one of the most underrated forms of the medium. Food not only allows one to reconnect with the traditions of a place but also with multiple communities that shape it. In fact, food is one of the easiest ways to understand a culture that may be fading away. Fo…

The 3 Best Full Frame Cameras For Dynamic Range

Mirrorless cameras have come a long way over the years. From Sony's first a7 series to Nikon's Z system, mirrorless cameras have come a long way in terms of performance. With many photographers trying to get the most details out of their cameras, there is a new demand for camera…

“ LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but...

“LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure, because LLMs are designed to predict tokens – the opposite of securely and uniformly sampling random characters.”

Great Unreleased Track From Kendrick Lamar: Bloody Murder

This has been out in the world for a while, but I just ran across it the other day: Bloody Murder is an unreleased track recorded during the studio sessions for Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. It samples Radiohead’s Everything In Its Right Place and it’s gooood. Available on YouT…

From Heatmap News & MIT, the Electricity Price Hub is...

From Heatmap News & MIT, the Electricity Price Hub is “a new public data platform that provides monthly, utility-level estimates of residential electricity rates and bills across the United States going back to 2021…”

Creation

Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to...

Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin, DMT, and psychedelic compounds secreted by the Sonoran Desert toad.

On Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything

I was thankful to read Marcin Wichary’s review of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything. I first heard about the book months and months ago; it sounded potentially interesting but I was afraid it was going to suffer from a now-familiar myopia of the “tech” old guard…

A letter to John Ternus

As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers. That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today. Immense scale, soulless op…

Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note...

Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note today’s date), but this is supposedly a fully functional compass that only points to the Olive Garden in Times Square.

The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645 ....

The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645. “In Oxford, ‘runners’ would go from coffee house to coffee house, picking up all the best news and delivering it back to customers, said Garner. You’re talking human wi-fi.”

Wednesfool

You're welcome I don't hate April Fools Day. I'm just too busy to participate. So this is a fooling-free blog post. Much to munch on Getting great hang time with Jon Udell (who also manifests here) lately. Here are two of his recent publishings ya'll might dig:• Introducing…

After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new...

After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new YouTube series: “I took a road trip through every county in England, and filmed something interesting in each of them.”

“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone”

Tech investor and billionaire Marc Andreessen has many bad opinions (as evidenced by his investment portfolio). On a recent podcast, he shared a real boner: that he isn’t introspective, that people 400 years ago weren’t at all introspective, and that introspection was a cons…