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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Best Concert Photography Lenses for Shooting in Low Light
Music events, such as festivals and concerts, are a pretty impressive opportunity for photographers. One can get some really creative images, thanks to the mixed lighting set-up, and some truly impressive moments in the crowd. However, concert photography lenses have one thing i…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Why Charlotte Should Build a Museum of Broadcasting in the Antenna Age
In the foreground are three towers standing on nineteen acres in Charlotte’s south side. They transmit the signal of WBT/1110 AM, a 50,000-watt giant, with a signal that stretches from Canada to Cuba at night: WBT was born 104 years ago and is about to die, because the land un…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Danny MacAskill Plays in the Endless Light of Norway
Scottish trials rider and mountain biker Danny MacAskill, who I first featured on the site more than 17 years ago, recently took his Santa Cruz eMTB north of the Arctic Circle to Narvik, Norway. He rode three different mountains and the result is this incredibly beautiful vid…
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Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall . A live...
Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. A live album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Hell yes yes yes! 13 songs are available now plus 9 more tracks when the full album drops in October.
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Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are...
Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are producing lots of software. But where are the AI-coded killer apps? “[AI is] very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before.”
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Panasonic LUMIX 20mm f2.5 Review: The Lens You’ll Want to Bring Everywhere
The Panasonic LUMIX 20mm f2.5 is a fantastic lens not just for the LUMIX S9, but for any full-frame LUMIX camera you may use. And it's not just because of the image quality as there's a lot to love about this thing. Looking back at my time with the Panasonic LUMIX 20mm f2.5 duri…
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The Go Blog (Feed)
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Size-Specialized Memory Allocation
The Go Blog Size-Specialized Memory Allocation Michael Matloob 16 September 2026 Go 1.27 includes faster memory allocation for allocations of fewer than 80 bytes. Allocations can be up to 20-30% faster, making allocation-heavy programs up…
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The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing...
The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing the very definition of a trail race, refiguring it into something more expansive and inclusive”. There are no gender divisions and winners are decided by who gets closest to their predicted finish time.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 2027 Brings New AI Tools to Make Editing Easier
Today, Adobe announced the latest update to its Photoshop Elements software for Mac and Windows PCs. The latest version of Photoshop Elements brings over AI tools, like Generative Expand and Generative Upscaling as well as additional filters, search and editing assistant. While…
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The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory
One thing I didn’t get a chance to work into my post about the unexpected memory bomb triggered by my spice drawer was the tight, deep connection between smell and memory. I first learned about this relationship in college when I read A Natural History of the Senses by Diane A…
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We Must Create the Shit Machine . “I asked...
We Must Create the Shit Machine. “I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT.”
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The frontier Anthropic & OpenAI models are only ~4...
The frontier Anthropic & OpenAI models are only ~4 months ahead of open models — at 5x the price. “Most organizations should ideally be using open models as the default for the majority of their work, according to [a report] from Mozilla…”
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Last year in Ireland, a bouncy castle infested with a...
Last year in Ireland, a bouncy castle infested with a “hypervirulent, multidrug-resistant pathogen” infected almost 50 children. Reality: always weirder than the weirdest sci-fi.
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Naomi Klein : “Extreme wealth has a deranging...
Naomi Klein: “Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist.” Klein’s new book, End Times Fascism, written with Astra Taylor, is out today.
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Taryn Simon’s Father Country I Do Love You
Father Country I Do Love You sounds like a doozy of a new exhibition from photographer Taryn Simon. The project focuses on the life and work of an unnamed, retired FBI agent. From the NY Times: She Spent Years on a Giant Project About One Man. The Result Is Monumental. As i…
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The Tube Computer was recently constructed from...
The Tube Computer was recently constructed from hundreds of 1950s vacuum tubes sourced from Eastern Europe. “The Tube Computer has a pleasant homely aroma from the hundreds of double triodes, all quietly burning off their dust.” It heats the room too.
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Is the Canon R6 Still Worth Buying in 2026?
When the Canon R6 was launched, a lot of competitors thought it would live under the shadows of Sony's mirrorless offerings. The Canon R6 is a serious enthusiast camera with a lot of positive features. For example, good autofocus and some amazing image quality, amongst other thi…
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Linkalongday
War prep redux Given the size of my corpus here, most visiting to it, on most days, is to old stuff. One currently getting some action is Desert warfare training in live ghost towns, seen from the sky, which I posted ten years ago. I've shot its scenes (five of them) often since…
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Tycho’s Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2026
For the 93rd year in a row or something like that I didn’t check the math, Tycho has released his sunrise set from Burning Man. I am not a Burning Man person but I always enjoy this set. See also a playlist of every 2026 Burning Man set on Soundcloud, currently 147 tracks…
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Alex Gibney’s documentary reveals that Elon Musk has...
Alex Gibney’s documentary reveals that Elon Musk has always been a racist, sexist fraud. “Musk’s ex-wife Justine, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2008, says the man the world began to see in 2020 was the one she’d always known.”
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With a new installment every seven years since 1964, the...
With a new installment every seven years since 1964, the Seven Up series has followed a group of 14 British schoolchildren from adolescence to adulthood. The final installment, 70 Up, directed by Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy), is out this week.
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The Spice Drawer
Over the past six months (leisurely) and in the past three weeks (intensely), I’ve cleaned out and packed up my entire house where I’ve been living for the past 10 years. I went through every bit and bob of what I owned and either: gave it away (fiddle leaf fig, grill, ch…
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A declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists : “The...
A declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists: “The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned.”
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Affinity (Version 3.3) Review: Better for Photographers, Still not Replacing Capture One
Since the release of Affinity 3.0, one of my biggest gripes with the software has been the unshakable feeling that this was at best a piece of software that was largely incomplete and at worst not made with photographers in mind. The latest release, Affinity 3.3, changes a lot o…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Apple’s HIG: Show one popover at a time. Displaying multiple popovers clutters the interface and causes confusion. Never show a cascade or hierarchy of popovers, in which one emerges from another. If you need to show a new popover, close the open one first. Use…
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Neal Slavin: Vintage Photos of a Lost American Culture
There's something inherently Americana about the work that photographer Neal Slavin is really known for. Towards the end of summer 2026, I sat on my balcony to take in the book, "Neal Slavin: When Two or More are Gathered Together," I realized that we've lost something: communit…
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