This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every...

This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every single show he did during his USB002 tour (except Mexico City) — it’s four and a half days long. “im told this is the longest video on YouTube ever?”

The 3 Best 70-200mm Lenses under $2000

There are multiple zoom lenses that offer photographers immense versatility. For many, a zoom offers the chance to carry one lens instead of two or three for their needs. An example is the iconic focal range, the 70-200mm, which has been a favourite of portraits and sports photo…

Horizontal Stabilizers

Movie Posters by Eric Rohman

Some nice work here from Swedish designer Eric Rohman, who designed thousands of movie posters in the early-to-mid 20th century. (via meanwhile) Tags: design · Eric Rohman · movie posters · movies

The official trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The...

The official trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was just released. Really looking forward to this.

Dazeday

Maintenance report Visited the retinologist this morning. All is well enough. My vision in both eyes is better than 20/20, but I've got a lot of new floaters left over from the cataract surgery. Early macular degeneration (consistent with my antiquity) seems not to be progressin…

What now-familiar domain names looked like before they...

What now-familiar domain names looked like before they were bought by big-time companies, e.g. openai.com was “the personal homepage of a guy named glenn”, doordash.com was a porn site, threads.com sold spools of thread.

Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of...

Pocket forests. “The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.” The key is densely planting diverse & native species…this isn’t just planting some trees.

The Single Best Nikon Camera for Portrait Photographers

Nikon cameras have been pretty great in many ways. They have introduced devices that are quick, sturdy, have immense detail, and they are also offering fantastic lenses to work with. This means for those who photograph people in various situations, then Nikon is the best option…

Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne...

Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne learns how fisheries from Iceland to the Great Lakes are using 100% of their catch — and shares his tips for making fish head soup.”

A24’s Young Anthony Bourdain Movie

Huh. A24 is coming out with an Anthony Bourdain biopic that focuses on the time period around the chef/writer’s college years, when he first started working in kitchens. Directed by Matt Johnson, who co-created Nirvana the Band the Show and directed BlackBerry. Could be goo…

Hasselblad’s Best Camera is Going for Over $16,000

When one thinks of purchasing a medium format camera, they often look at Hasselblad or Fujifilm as their options. While each of these cameras is expensive, they are still well under the range of $10,000. However, when you pair the device with a lens of its kind, then the camera…

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the...

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the Japanese audio track “becomes the best ‘Space Kurosawa’ movie ever made”.

Microshifting . “From a creativity standpoint,...

Microshifting. “From a creativity standpoint, it’s good to take breaks. When you stop thinking about a task is when your best ideas come to you.” This is how I’ve worked for the past decade+…bursts of work throughout the day & week.

Intermezzo bag

I've been reading the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo. It's really beautiful. The perfect kind of novel to read slowly. She manages to write prose that's engaging at the micro and macro levels - beautiful sentences, as well as lovely long narrative arcs. I've been trying to r…

We Got a Bad Unit. The Lensbaby Twist 28 Actually Rocks

If you read my Lensbaby Twist 28 review way back in February when I published it, you'll be happy to know that there's been an update. At least, I'm happy that there's an update. So we're posting the updated text below.

Tips on Making Your Best Street Portraits

Ever felt that it was weird to ask a stranger for a portrait? Well, you're not alone. But there are definitely ways to do it that's respectful, and that work to get the images you want. Here, we'll present some of those methods for you.

The Cameras I Used in College are Experiencing a Renaissance. And That’s Awesome

Originally, this article was going to be about how the Canon S5 IS was going through a bit of a moment. Sometime between 2005 and 2009, I was so intimately familiar with that camera that I could tell you so much about it. From my recollection, it had a 12x optical zoom, a swivel…

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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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.”

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.

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!

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.

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…

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…

A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities .

A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities.

“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…”

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…

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…

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.”