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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Before Kodachrome: How Autochrome Gave Us Color Photography (NSFW)
Before color photography was introduced, photographers would often be seen hand-painting portraits to make them seem life-like. While color is now a part of most modern sensors, the appeal, with time, seems to have been fading away. For this reason, we bring to you a slice of ph…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Richard Scarry Illustrations Paired With Karl Marx Quotes
Writer and comedian Zach Mander took quotes from Karl Marx and paired them with illustrations from books by Richard Scarry like What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. See also Mamdani’s Richard Scarry socialism. Ta…
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Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers....
Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers. “There are still people today who risk injury and arrest to climb aboard freight trains, still moving through the country in cars designed to carry things rather than people.”
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The Nostalgia Is Real: Why Photographers Keep Coming Back to Our Retro Digital Presets
Every few months, we hear from someone who just discovered our retro digital presets and asks why nobody told them sooner. The honest answer is that nostalgia in photography doesn't really fade, it just goes quiet for a while. The early-2000s DSLR look, the one defined by camera…
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The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With...
The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun was extensively modelled on a computer in 1974. “McHenry took all the measurements and simulated the stunt using the equations of the 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler.”
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“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems...
“Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems to have made them worse than ever. More shameless. More out of touch. Less empathetic. Thinner-skinned. And…angrier. They’re people who consider equality for others oppression for themselves.”
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Map of New England Places Everybody Pronounces Wrong
As part of the 30 Day Map Challenge, Maxwell Howe created a map of New England places that many out-of-towners mispronounce (Instagram). As you would expect when you start talking about local pronunciations and accents, he’s getting some blowback: You’re mixing accen…
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The Leica M-A and M11-P Hammertone Editions are Truly Beautiful
Leica Camera AG is introducing two new camera iterations in hammertone finish: the Leica M-A and Leica M11-P. The company is known for producing impressive limited edition models, whose market value rarely diminishes after purchase. The new hammertone addition is no different, w…
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The Upcoming Canon RF 400mm and 600mm May Get a Different Kind of Built-In Teleconverter
Canon is reportedly working on a new Canon RF 400mm f2.8L and RF 600mm f4L. The launch is set to be before the end of the year, and the new variants are said to come with an in-built teleconverter. However, the latter will be quite different, since the current RF version was ori…
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Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read...
Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read Robert Caro’s The Power Broker in 10-minute increments for 4 days. They’re gonna livestream it on YouTube.
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Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory...
Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory days, the S.S. United States was fast, luxurious and all but indestructible.” RIP, the United States.
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Robyn’s Tiny Desk Concert
NPR recently welcomed Swedish pop star Robyn to their office for a Tiny Desk Concert. She sings four songs, including one of her first hits, Show Me Love. Every choice here is a tender one, down to the teardrop glued to her cheek. Every move is confident, yet comes from a p…
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This Hack Gives the Fujifilm Instax Pal 2 the Film Looks Fujifilm Never Did
Ever since I hacked my old Sony cameras to give them the capabilities that Sony took away from us, I've been hungry for more as I've got loads of older cameras around my office. And after looking around on various sub-reddits, I found some custom firmware from user TheWors3. So…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Hensday
Loose links that float ships Starlink as a planetary barometer Yamaha CR-1020. I have one in Santa Barbara. Needs a little love. Maybe I should get this guy to work on it. My answer to What was the one radio program you never wanted to miss growing up? Somewhere back there, I…
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A recent documentary called Capturing Bigfoot offers...
A recent documentary called Capturing Bigfoot offers proof that the famous clip of Bigfoot was a hoax in the form of “a lost 16mm film shot in 1966, the year before the famous Bigfoot footage, and what it shows is a kind of rehearsal for it.”
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King of No Pain
Yesterday morning, my oral surgeon installed an implant post on which, a few months hence, my #2 molar (top right, forward of the wisdom tooth) will be restored. Half a century after it got a gold crown, it had decay underneath and had to go. It’s the back one you see on the l…
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