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macwright.com (Feed)
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Recently
I spent a lot of time outside in April. The first two weekends I did long bike rides: from Brooklyn to Tarrytown along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail, and out to Rockaway Beach via the Marine Parkway Bridge & Cross Bay Memorial Bridge. Then, I ran the Brooklyn Experience Half Mar…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Light Lens Lab Just Brought One of History’s Most Beloved Lens Formulas Back to Life
Leica has been one of the few companies to work with lenses based on vintage offerings. One of the reasons being that the Leica's M range requires a manual lens, which challenges the way one designs the lenses. Light Lens Lab is one such company that has introduced some impressi…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film...
The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film about antiquarian and rare book dealers; you can watch the whole movie for free on YouTube.
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Is Canon Launching a New 20-50mm Lens?
Canon has some wonderful lenses for their mirrorless photographers. While the company is still developing and introducing newer models, it appears that some focal ranges will get a better chance than others. This includes a new 20-50mm, an odd focal length that has a chance to s…
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New Banksy: Blinded by Nationalism
The artist Banksy has installed (without a permit, one assumes) a new statue in London that depicts a man in a suit marching off off a ledge, blinded by a flag. The artwork has been dubbed Blind Patriotism, although Banksy, enigmatic as always, doesn’t explain the meaning…
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Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of...
Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of unsolicited book cover designs. “I really wanted to design book covers but didn’t have any book cover work. So I hired myself to redesign my personal library.”
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I’m not a fan of the first part of this music...
I’m not a fan of the first part of this music video (reminds me too much of dipshits I had to endure at school), but the single-take choreography from ~4:18 is great.
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According to this peer-reviewed paper, the...
According to this peer-reviewed paper, the “screeching sound of peeling tape” is caused by tiny sonic booms. The speeds at work here are in the range of Mach 0.7–1.8. Supersonic crafts!
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NASA has released some 12,000 unseen photos from the...
NASA has released some 12,000 unseen photos from the recent Artemis II mission; here are some of the best shots.
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The Contiguous 41 States
Nowhere on XKCD’s map of The Contiguous 41 States does it say that you need to find the missing seven states, but that’s immediately where my mind went. And it was a little more challenging than I anticipated — all of New England is present & accounted for somehow? Th…
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The Single Best Third-Party Lens For Street Photography
Third-party lenses have been pretty important for photographers who need reliable options at a decent cost. While there are many options one can choose from, TTArtisan's is perhaps the best when it comes to street photography. One of the reasons being that their focal lengths ar…
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A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities .
A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities.
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“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”:...
“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System. “The Senate was ineffective, and the liberal Jedi were out of touch…”
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Here’s Everything We Want From the R8 II
Canon cameras are in a league of their own. The company has introduced some spectacular models over the years, and it appears that there seems to be no stopping. With reports of the Canon R8 II being on the horizon, one only hopes for a Rebel's mirrorless version to be far bette…
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The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
I’m gonna call it: Every Frame a Painting, my all-time favorite YouTube channel, is back. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos stopped producing their fantastic video essays back in 2017 and while they have popped up here and there since then, they’ve mostly stuck to their retireme…
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How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With...
How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With a Radical Recut, Cutting It From 3½ Hours to 93 Minutes. “The solution that ended up saving the movie wasn’t much less drastic, producing a 93-minute cut that excised most of Rambo’s dialogue.”
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Adding Artfulness to Your Street Photography
When we enter the world with a camera intending to photograph it how it is, we are engaging in the practice of street photography. The street photographer faithfully carries their camera, searching for the moments which will eventually captivate their viewers and perhaps even te…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: I tried to copy a link to a shopping list from Ikea web app. Of course, it’s an app, so links don’t work, you need app to “support” copying a link. For some other reason, Ikea decided that just copying a link is boring, so they implemented system “Share”…
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The Best Way to Compose Your Photographs That You Weren’t Taught
Everyone talks about the rule of thirds. But that mostly applies to traditional 3:4 ratio images. The truth is that sometimes just centering your subject can work. And yet, there's an even better method to doing all this compositional stuff.
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One of The Cheapest Ways to Improve Your Photo Editing Workflow
If you use Lightroom or Capture One, you'll want to see what our presets can do for you. Not only are they affordable, but they're specially designed to make images in a variety of both studio and natural lighting scenes stand out. This works for street photography, landscapes,…
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