I’m Using My Camera to Lower My Stress in Life

At nearly 40, I'm glad to say that I've beaten obesity and worked really hard on being as fit and active as I possibly can be. A lot of my health problems are stress related from running this business. And so recently, I've been trying to change my approach to life. Instead of t…

Baryon Asymmetry

Whensday

Security at one cost: your time. A thousand years ago, there was a cooking show on TV called Chef Tell (real name: Paul Friedman Erhardt). My teenage kids and I enjoyed watching him for just four words he would say, after making something too complex for any of us to bother with…

Good headline from the NYT for a change: President...

Good headline from the NYT for a change: President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool.

Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger

This is a five-minute video of Andy Warhol eating a Burger King hamburger accompanied by Heinz ketchup. The scene is part of a film done by Jorgen Leth called 66 Scenes from America. Leth had his assistant buy some burgers and directly advised him to buy some in halfway n…

The Best Street Photography Cameras Older Than 10 Years 

Street photographers have some wonderful options that they can work with. From full frame options to great APS-C and MFT sensors, there are plenty of options one can work with. If you are looking for models that were introduced over the past decade, here are some cameras that yo…

Teen Vogue on focus gaming apps as digital third spaces

On-Together: Virtual Co-Working sits at the bottom of your desktop while you work with others via Aftermath #

Starlog is back after 17 years

with my old friend Annalee Newitz as editor-in-chief! #

Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to...

Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is coming out in about a week. Looks great.

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice?...

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated. Halley’s Comet came around in 1066 and it’s likely Eilmer of Malmesbury saw a different comet in 1018, not Halley’s in 989.

Texturing 3D models in real-time with oil painting

if you like that, he did followups on dynamic lighting and shaders for 3D objects with oil-painted textures #

The Pudding’s early history of U.S. restaurant dining

don’t miss the interactive map of 5,000 historical menus pulled from the NYPL’s Buttolph collection #

How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans...

How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People. No surprise: it became much more negative, less affirming/protective and more skeptical/restrictive.

Lifts in Film : a collection of movie & TV scenes...

Lifts in Film: a collection of movie & TV scenes featuring elevators, including Speed, The Shining, Drive, Mad Men, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of the Lambs, and many more.

Thypoch Simera 28mm f1.4 Review: The Best Reason To Ditch Your Smartphone Camera

Modern smartphones have turned too many people into lazy photographers. Lazy because you just slouch wherever you are and use your phone camera to indifferently snap an interesting scene in front of you. The reliance on the phone to create something half-interesting has resulted…

Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral...

Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral district lines to win more seats than your opponents and win the election”.

Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit . “There is...

Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit. “There is no rewind button on history. Once people have power & agency, and have seen what it’s like to have rights, voting rights, reproductive rights, they’re not interested in going back. And we’re the majority.”

Is Leica About to Drop Its Most Wallet-Friendly M Camera in Years?

Leica is known for creating fabulous cameras that can stand the test of time. The M series has been loved by professional photographers, and it continues to be an important addition for many. It now appears that the company is expanding the M11 series, with a new model that can…

Cow Trip: A Retired Dad Agrees to Rescue a Baby Cow

This is one of those videos that you start watching and then can’t really stop until you’ve finished. Cow Trip tells the story of an effort to save a baby cow by driving it (and another baby cow rescue) in a not-huge SUV 600 miles from Vermont to a sanctuary in Maryland.…

Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions . “What’s...

Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions. “What’s different about the XP is that they’ve actually borrowed some of the same technology used by SpaceX, incorporating it as well as a whole slew of other safety features that are basically non-existent.”

How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI ....

How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI. “Here are some of the proven tactics that have helped shift the balance of power in prior tech reckonings…”

Neewer Q120 Flash Review: A Great Flash for Aspiring Photographers

I remember when we reviewed one of Neewer's first products: a set of ND filters that were really cheap. Photographers got really interested in those. And from there, the company has grown quite a bit. So when they contacted us to tell us about a slew of new stuff including the N…

The Trick to Make Your Landscape Photography Stand Out

One of the artistic ways that you can go ahead and make your landscape photography stand out from all the rest is to find a way to turn them into paintings; well, not literally but finding a way to get that look is one fantastic one of doing things. You may ask yourself, "Why no…

Tamron Breaks Barriers With Its 4.1x Zoom Lens for RF and Z Users

Tamron has been a brand known for its iconic all-round zoom lenses. The company has introduced some wonderful lenses, for both full frame and APS-C models, which has earned praises from people. Tamron is now introducing a new new wide angle zoom lens, that will be of help for bo…

Draftday

The NBA draft is tonight, and will be hugely interesting for fans, because this year's class coming out of college is unusually thick with talent. But what's happening with trades is more interesting to me right now. The Miami Heat just traded most of its team and some valuable…

Canon’s Beloved EOS RP Earns Its RIP After Years of Glory

Canon's reign has been quite an impressive one. The company is the most sought-after in the market, with many young and professional photographers swearing by their cameras. While the DSLR range is more or less discontinued, it appears the same fate has fallen on the initial mir…

Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who...

Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who still needs to hear this in June 2026 but: the US is in the middle of a “rolling coup” by ultra-conservatives who are “well along the path of destroying our democracy”.

Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs...

Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs and trucks have resulted in more pedestrian deaths in the US over the past two decades.

Legibility of Effort

Nolen Royalty on how LLMs have changed the signals we use to gauge human effort #

Where Apple Mail hides ‘All Sent’ in Tahoe

My wife’s Mac laptop has ‘All Sent’ listed under ‘Favorites’ in the left panel of her Apple Mail app. Everywhere my Big AIs and I looked online, however, we didn’t see a way to add it, until ChatGPT suggested I mouse over the Favorites heading to see what appears. Th…

Room Tone

For each of their on-camera interviews with filmmakers, actors, critics, and other film nerds, Criterion records 30 seconds of “room tone” that is used to cut the footage into a seamless video. When trying to explain what room tone is to someone unfamiliar with the concept…

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops...

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times. “The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.”