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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The Top 5 Rangefinder-style Cameras from 2010’s That You Will Love Today
Rangefinder-style cameras have been popular, but their fame rose to new heights in more recent years. These cameras are not only small and lightweight, but feature classic design, with distinct knobs and buttons that will make photography easier for you. In a way, you get compac…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a...
This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person. “Trust me, I feel the sting of every single disapproving glare like a thousand needles. My soul trembles and withers. It is an unbearable burden.”
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Profoto Launches Spotlight Style Modifier
As photographers, we have grown to know the significance of light in any image. Good light can help you enhance the mood of a photograph, while with creative lighting, you can make a scene appear entirely different. Whether you are into commercial photography, portraits, or even…
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The Top 4 Rangefinder Camera Series With Cult Following Even Today
Many camera manufacturers have been offering significant upgrades to their existing lineup to improve their performance. This is also the case when it comes to rangefinder camera series, which continue to build on the legacy of their ancestors. So, today, we look at three compan…
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Are You a Photography Pro? This Game Will Put Your Knowledge to the Test
Photography is so vast that it challenges our perception of time. If you look at an image, and were to guess which year it was shot, you may give the wrong answer. This is not only due to the number of images created every year, but also how we judge an image based on its conten…
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This Week in the IndieWeb (Feed)
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This Week in the IndieWeb
April 18-25, 2025 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #026 Thursday, April 24 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom!Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the web. All…
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The Courage to Be Decent. “What matters is that acts we once...
The Courage to Be Decent. “What matters is that acts we once took for granted as virtuous, routine, and safe — telling the truth, representing those oppressed by the state, … basic journalism — now carry some risk. They now require some courage.”
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The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no...
The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen. “It’s a machine designed to be extremely basic, extremely customizable, and extremely affordable.” It’s also designed to patina (i.e. age gracefully). 💬 Join the dis…
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“If the Trump administration can get away with violating the Constitution because...
“If the Trump administration can get away with violating the Constitution because it knows the courts will be too slow to prevent it, then those constitutional rights simply no longer exist.”
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Rediscovering the Place That Made You Give a Damn
For his most recent video, Beau Miles (who you might remember from his “Mile an Hour” Marathon or Four-Day Commute to Work Via Kayak) returned to a pair of places (both outdoor camps) where his life took a significant turn. I think we all suspect that world view comes fro…
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“In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a...
“In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The Trailer for Pee-wee as Himself, an HBO Documentary Series About Pee-wee Herman
A few months ago, I wrote about Pee-wee as Himself, a two-part HBO documentary about the life and career of Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) that had then just premiered at Sundance. Now we’ve got a trailer and a premiere date: May 23. It’s weird to be in this situation, hav…
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The Website for Real Photographers
We like to call ourselves, “The Website for Real Photographers.” Read this website and want to help? In 2025, we’re trying to get to a minimum of 2,000 subscribers! Members get our articles without banner ads, Capture One discounts, and more are coming. The Phoblographer m…
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The Process for Getting a Ph.D. in the US Has Changed
Randall Munroe notes that the typical path to getting a Ph.D. at an American college or university has changed somewhat in the past few months. In the alt-text for the image, he notes: “Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.” Öztürk is st…
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Red caps and green beards
Let’s take a meme’s eye view of MAGA fashion. The hypothesis of the green beard (Wikipedia) is that there’s a way for some individual genes to signal their presence, which allows for selective social cooperation favouring that particular replicator – and the targets of…
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