The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape

Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of t…

Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii ....

Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. “Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list.”

VSCO: 83% of Photographers Are Already Using AI, But Not for Creativity

The debate around artificial intelligence has never been more profound than it is today. Creatives around the world have been consistently rallying to create meaningful guardrails around AI's inclusion in everyday workflow. While there are many concerns that companies are not ye…

“Working with agents feels much less like classic...

“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game.”

How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....

How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years. “There’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”

Bokeh Lover’s Dream: The Best Meyer Optik Lenses

Many photographers prefer to get some nice creamy bokeh to make their images stand out. While there are many first-party variants, they cost you thousands of dollars to get one good optical system. Those who can afford it will certainly go after first-party lenses, but those who…

Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages

I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter (Instagram, Threads). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog) Tags: Anton Elfilter · art · design

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”.

This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....

This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot. “Compassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.”

Simple Camera Settings For Astrophotography That Work

Humans have often loved and adored the stars. By simply looking up at the dark sky, which shines with glints of diamonds, we realise how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. With many interested in the genre but unsure how to begin, we have decided to list a few suggestion…

The 2026 World Press Photo Awards Have an Obvious Gear Trend

Every year when the World Press Photo awards are announced, we do a breakdown of the gear that was used to make the images. It's something that every photographer wants to know about in the same way that photographers want to know about the Nikon camera in outer space. So we did…

Is Sony Developing a New 67MP Stacked Sensor?

Sony has introduced some great sensors, which offer not just good colors but also great speed. Pair this with AI processors, you get yourself a camera that can withstand anything. Look at the a7 V or the a1 II. While there have been reports of the company introducing a 105MP sen…

We Partnered With Imalume to Protect Photographers from Thieves

After the popularity of our review of Imalume software, we here at the Phoblographer decided to partner with them. Imalume is a service that offers photographers a very affordable way to track down if their images are being used without consent and then to move forward with goin…

kiki

To hasten hest. Behest, behave, behold, come now — meet kiki. Left from over a machine god awoken from the millennium broken. Designate, determinate, uxn, bqn, k, q, alike but not you — seek kiki. Out past the moon-sea see-moon, where the void-knights ride dead-le…

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator

From the Norwegian Consumer Council, a funny video that warns against the dangers of enshittification. It’s part of their Breaking Free initiative: Digital products and services are steadily becoming worse. Software becomes increasingly difficult and frustrating to use, w…

What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking...

What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking workshop with Werner Herzog (in the Azores). “Take your camera, get the shot, forgo storyboards, don’t overdo it and, above all else, do the doable.” But also: “What will the local priest think?”

My salary history

Times are tough out there. I know that a lot of people are looking for work, which can be a very stressful experience. One of the things that can make the job search stressful is uncertainty. There’s a real taboo around talking about salaries. This taboo ends up benefiting em…

The Best Budget Zoom Lenses From Nikon

Zoom lenses are quite important for photographers. One of the reasons is that they provide a versatile range in one lens, which is the most cost-effective for many photographers on a budget. If you are someone who has recently started using the Nikon system, then let us introduc…

Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a...

Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a collaborative album called (maybe?) Nine Inch Noize. Available April 17.

The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It...

The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission. It had little to do with science or celestial bodies; instead it was a moment shared by four curious, caring humans, united in purpose, far from home.

The Sunshine Recorder

I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d like to be similarly surprised, stop reading now and just watch the video. … … The sunshine recorder was inven…

Overton

Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy...

Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy single-handedly building a “billion-dollar company” using AI: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI. Oopsie!

The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi...

The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the secretive inventor of Bitcoin, names cryptographer Adam Back as the likeliest suspect. John Carreyrou has won Pulitzers & helped expose the Theranos scam, but his evidence seems thin.

Join Us for a Very Special Photography Workshop

This has been a very long time in the making, and I'm very excited to finally make this happen. The Phoblographer is launching workshops for photographers who want to find ways to grow beyond just what all the social media content developers and YouTubers tell you you need. And…

Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers

NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download. Basic Apple Guy has made some wallpapers of his own (that are slightly larger than NASA’s and better for iPhones). I have also made a few of my own: Ear…

Fendsday

How to prevent the all-knowing and all-doing from doing wrong. Very wrong. Just one approach. Wired: Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything When you whack a hornet's nest with a baseball bat while standing naked, what are the hornets going to do?…

Why The OM System OMD EM1 was Peak Micro Four Thirds

Olympus has launched some important cameras over the years and the EM1 is one of them. The device was launched in 2013 and was designed specifically to replace the old E5, a DSLR. What EM1 offered was not just a better design but also impressive features. For instance, it was a…

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI...

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.”

TinyStart

Sometimes I look back through my blogging archives and notice what’s changed over time. For example, I used to write quite enthusiastically about the arrival of a new operating system from Apple. That is no longer the case, to put it mildly. I’m currently holed up on Sequio…

Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada...

Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada might release some new music soon. Please let this be true, we need this!

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: What Siri does when you ask her to set alarm to 8am every day Thanks @nzrff for the picture #iOS #iPhone #Alarm #Siri #Apple

Profoto Did Something Cool, Finally

Not long ago, Profoto updated their Profoto Connect Pro transmitter with new firmware. It includes a lock screen and new TTL improvements for Nikon cameras. So I decided to update our review. And after even more time away from the product that I willingly spent money on, I've be…

This Brightin Star Lens Outdoes Sony, Canon, and Nikon’s Offerings

When it comes to third-party lens makers, there are only a handful who are trying to offer something different. One brand that is growing rapidly in this market is Brightin Star, a Hong-Kong based company, that has been offering some great primes for many Sony, Nikon, Leica and…