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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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For $45 a Year, Here’s Everything You Get as a Phoblographer Member
A Phoblographer membership costs $45 a year, and it's easy to assume that just means no banner ads. That's the headline, but it's genuinely not the whole story, so here's the full list of what you actually get for it.
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kottke.org (Feed)
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A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...
A poignant short documentary about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back…
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From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...
From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)
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Russian and East European Posters
Princeton houses a large digital collection of posters from Russia and Eastern Europe, almost 5000 total item spanning 101 years (1904-2004). This album on Flickr contains nearly 1500 Russian & Soviet posters from 1917-1991 — not sure how much overlap there is betw…
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Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...
Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family. I linked to Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.
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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness. “When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.”
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The Real Stories Behind Spirit Photography
Photography has some fantastic moments that have helped to push the medium forward. From the discovery of a pinhole camera, to the first panorama camera, there are many moments that helped the medium reach where it is today. While there are some technical achievements, there are…
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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven
According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth. On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 2…
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Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...
Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded — I’ve reviewed almost none of the code, and it’s built in a language (TypeScript) that I’ve hardly used myself.” There’s a French steampunk version too.
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The 5 Boro Foto Fest Helped me Reignite my Passion for Photography
This past Sunday, the 5 Boro Foto Fest descended upon Long Island City in New York to host a truly innovative photography show and festival. The 5 Boro Foto Fest had one simple premise: “Art made by human hands for humans.” In a world that is trying to convince people that w…
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Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f2.8 Discontinued at Japanese Retailers
The Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f2.8 R LM OIS WR lens has reportedly been stopped from production. The telephoto zoom lens was launched in 2014, making the optics almost 12 years old. The report has surfaced via a Japanese publication, meaning that this may take some time to come into…
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This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...
This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum was great. Awesome to see these prints in person.
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Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
London’s Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition that has been going since 1965. You can see a gallery of all the winners on the competition website (and also places like The Guardian and The…
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How Shooting in Black and White Changes How to do Photography
Most photographers shoot in color and then fix their images in post-production afterward. But recently, I've been doing something much different: making images in black and white. Obviously, I'm using RAW and JPEG but I will only edit the RAWs later on if I really think that the…
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How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...
How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.”
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How to Shoot More Intentionally With a Mirrorless Camera
Photographers have been shooting for years in a very mindless way. Part of this has to do with how manufacturers have been telling you that they're technically superior to others. The result has been that it's created photographers who just don't think anymore or know how to use…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Harvest Moonday
Among many One more way the US defeats itself. A briefing Inside Anthropic.
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The Bronica ETRS Was Launched in 1978. Is It Good In 2026?
Some cameras have a tendency to be loved by everyone, despite the decades that have passed since their launch. The Bronica ETRS is one such model that offers photographers the ability to shoot film rolls, and get the best of everything. In fact, it is a medium format film offeri…
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The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...
The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers on the iPhone Duo. Ten machines included: “Macintosh, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Amiga 500, Windows 95, ThinkPad, iMac G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Windows XP.” XP even crashes sometimes. Love this.
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Retro Digital or Analog Film? Here’s How to Pick the Right Phoblographer Preset
We get some version of this question a lot: should you buy the Retro Digital Presets or the Analog Film Presets Pack? They're both popular, and they both start from the same basic idea, recreating a specific, studied look instead of a generic filter, but they land in genuinely d…
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