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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Support This Website for $25/Year
In 2025, we’re trying to get to a minimum of 2,000 subscribers! Capture One is discounted for members! The New Phoblographer membership is now based on our website. Yes, we moved away from the app. It was a bittersweet move — but what we’re offering you now is even better.…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he...
CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he criticized the $16 million bribe the network paid to Trump. Here’s why “Colbert’s cancellation is a dark warning”.
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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Gleann Cholm Cille
I had never been to Donegal before my trip to Glencolmcille to spend a week there learning Irish. I had heard it’s beautiful there. But pictures don’t really do it justice. When our bus was winding its way down into the valley, it looked breathtaking, laid out before us lik…
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Fascism For First Time Founders. “Let’s have a little chat about why...
Fascism For First Time Founders. “Let’s have a little chat about why embracing fascism is probably the worst possible business strategy for anyone actually trying to build something innovative.” 💯
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“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive...
“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The 4 Best-Selling Mirrorless Cameras on Amazon Today
The best-selling camera title often goes to the most deserving candidate every year. But what happens when there is more than one device that earns the title? It can become hard to choose. But worry not, if you are someone looking for the best device for your endeavour, then thi…
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Next year, “the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will...
Next year, “the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium” because of “the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits in the ACA markets”.
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Back from Shenzhen, China, where I’m manufacturing Poem/1
I’ve been in Shenzhen the last few days visiting factories and suppliers for my Poem/1 AI clock. Remember that clock? It tells the time with a new rhyming couplet every minute. A half million poems per year which I believe is the highest poem velocity of any consumer gadget…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: This is unacceptable. Burn it to the ground #Notification #Dot #Habr #Animation
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What I Want From the Canon G1x Mk IV
Reports are circulating around the web that Canon might be coming out with something that we've all wanted for a very long time: the long awaited real successor to the Canon G1x Mk III. Yes folks, the Canon G1x Mk IV could be coming as soon as this year. We don't have any sort o…
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Did Viltrox Manufacture The Rollei X8 Camera?
Rollei, once known as Rolleiflex, is known for its 35mm film cameras. While it is designed by MiNT (and not the original company, Rolleiflex), the cameras, nonetheless, have been quite popular. As it appears, Rollei has now announced a new camera, which features a lens on the re…
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Contemplative Landscapes by Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina is uploading videos of the “long photograph” variety of peaceful & contemplative nature scenes to YouTube. 4K. No AI. “Press play and walk away.” Tags: Noah Kalina · video 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist...
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.” (Honestly, same.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of...
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of 5000 images from the NASA Ames Research Center. “Browsing through this amazing archive gives you a unique view of decades’ worth of breakthrough research.” 💬 Join the discussio…
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How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association...
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association with aimless, unfocused listening — vibe music before vibe became a buzzword — means people aren’t paying as much attention to what’s real and what’s not…”
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The Surreality of Japanese Playgrounds at Night
For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at night, lit up in captivating ways. (via laura olin and present & correct) Tags: Fujio Kito · Japan · photography 💬 Joi…
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Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural...
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural pathways each time I shrug off Trump’s clear violations of the Constitution and his total contempt for our system of checks and balances.”
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Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days,...
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days, he loves to sleep in, then to make long phone calls to his fellow pigeon fanciers while cleaning the kitchen…” Sounds like a dream! 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first...
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first part of a new work-in-progress called Making Software that aims to explain how software systems & tools work from the ground up. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The Design Museum’s Upcoming Wes Anderson Exhibition
I don’t think anything could be more up my alley, in my wheelhouse, in my lane, my cup of tea, my speed than this upcoming retrospective of Wes Anderson’s work at London’s Design Museum. The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anders…
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The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding,...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding, consumer tech, and more. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who...
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of doubts about gender or transition”.
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I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about...
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about Joel Embiid by media osmosis, but for some reason I spent 45 minutes this morning reading this profile of him. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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3 Screenless Digicams that Gen Z Will Love
There's a new trend: screenless digital cameras. Yes, Gen Z and so many others are very sick of looking at screens these days. So, to bring us back to a bit more authenticity, lots of new cameras have been launched that forego the screen. Luckily for you, we've reviewed lots of…
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Is Canon EL-1’s Successor Any Good for Photographers Today?
Canon has some exceptional flash in its range of products. The company offers various flash, some meant for professionals, and others for beginners. Either way, these off-camera speedlights have been a way to enhance one's image, and bring their vision to life. An example is the…
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: This dialog always confuses me. I have to read small print to really understand what does it want #Apple #macOS #Dialog #VisualHierarchy #Fingerprint #Authentication
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6 Photographers Share Their Heartfelt Depictions of Depression
According to the World Health Organization, about 5% of the population around the globe has been diagnosed with depression. In other words, about 280 million continue to move about their day, despite having no motivation or interest in their day-to-day activities. In the Unite…
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