From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt...

From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt keyboard, where the keys move and your hand stays still while typing. One of several unusual keyboards released by the company. You can even build your own.

Silent Friend

Silent Friend is a historical drama written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi. Here’s the description: In the botanical garden of a medieval German university, a ginkgo tree hundreds of years old watches its human neighbors through the slip-stream of time…

Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you...

Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you don’t know”, “put the cart away”, “rest before you’re exhausted” (I often get this one wrong), and “walk home if you can”.

The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights...

The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights Party, centered on “family and faith” along with proud & open white supremacy. 💩🖕

Mark Your Calendar: The 5 Boro Foto Fest Is Coming to Queens on October 25th

The 5 Boro Foto Fest now has a firm date, time, and location: Sunday, October 25th, from 11am to 6pm, at Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, Queens. Admission is free, with registration available on site, and it's shaping up to be exactly the kind of in-person, human-made photo…

Alexander Vershinin on the Romance of Landscape Photography

Photographer Alexander Vershinin is what I like to call a true artisan. And I get that from how he speaks so eloquently about landscape photography. "Landscape photography is about waiting for the world to do something specific — fog where it shouldn't be, lightning at the rig…

Watch One of Radiohead’s Best Live Shows: Bonnaroo 2006

Back in ~2008, right on the cusp of stardom, Lady Gaga did a crate-digging video in a London record shop and named Radiohead’s set at Bonnaroo 2006 as her favorite show she’s ever been to. A post-fame Gaga reaffirmed her choice in this 2018 Vogue interview. Many share her op…

An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is...

An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is the fucking Terminator. He’s actually not an asshole, which is interesting. He’s not a miserable fuck. But his source of advantage is he’s never happy. He just doesn’t fucking stop.”

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: You can show Trash in Finder’s sidebar in Golden Gate but you can’t drag files to it. Come on, Apple! #macOS #Trash #DragAndDrop #Finder

Cluesday

Didn't know there was one, but yeah Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend. Maybe Is doomscrolling doomed?

The Best Sandwich Shop in America?

YouTuber Rob Martinez travelled to Columbus, Ohio to tell the story of what he calls the best sandwich shop in America, Wario’s Beef and Pork. Here’s part of the transcript of owner Stephan Madias talking about the restaurant: For the longest time, especially the first…

Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the...

Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. Shooting started in 2019 and will continue until 2040 to match the musical’s 20-year period. (Linklater’s Boyhood was shot over 12 years.)

A Real Photographer Shows Work. Not Them Working

In June of 2026, I read something on Reddit about how photographers these days are all about showing off videos of them working instead of showing off the images that they make. And that's because they're trying to appeal more to algorithms on social media. But these photographe…

Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn...

Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn insurance maps (block-by-block maps of every US city from 1870-1960) and aligning them with modern maps.

JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI...

JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI engine. Designed to emulate AlphaGo and Stockfish but for Chinese Checkers. The model was trained entirely on a M4 MacBook. You can play it online or on iOS.

The Leica MD Began the Era of Peak Leica Digital

Journalists and even influencers for years have scoffed at Leica. They often prefer to pay less money for a product that won't have a better warranty. But as I've gotten closer and closer to 40 years old, I've slipped deeper into a mindset that I don't want to constantly replace…

Spectrum Allocation

A Piece of Advice for Every Amateur Photographer

In this blog post, we talk about how we can learn from our mistakes as photographers. Read more at The Phoblographer.

Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet...

Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet Archive. 17 channels to surf, including cartoons, 1960s TV, and one that’s only old commercials.

Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear...

Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear that A.I. is undermining what makes us most human — the ability to translate lived experience and nuanced thoughts into a unique point of view…”

The Future Library

A few years ago, in a forest just outside of Oslo, 1000 trees were planted. In 2114, after a century of growth, the trees will be cut down and made into paper for an anthology of books. Meet the Future Library, an artwork by Katie Paterson. Between now and then, one writer…

Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph...

Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph Stalin-obsessed middle-schooler from a tiny Texas town who writes a play about the Soviet dictator and enlists his three friends to stage it for the Texas State History Fair. Free to watch online.

WaningCrescentMoonday

That’s what it says at MoonPhase.today Specifically, 26%. I’ll consider them unreal if they’re not at IIW. The UOR Foundation has plans to… Well, I can’t copy and paste the text, so here’s a screengrab: I’ll say not. Quite. AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousn…

Every Phoblographer Member Gets a Free Mystery Box of Presets

Here's a perk that's easy to miss: every Phoblographer membership comes with a free Mystery Box of presets included, for either Lightroom or Capture One. Normally, a Mystery Box runs $17 on its own. As a member, it's just handed to you as part of what you're already paying for.

Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and...

Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people. (The site says they’re going offline in a few months due to a falloff in demand bc of AI. Maybe Internet Archive can do their thing here?)

O Superman, Laurie Anderson

O Superman by artist Laurie Anderson from 1981. Some of the lyrics: ‘Cause when love is gone There’s always justice And when justice is gone There’s always force And when force is gone There’s always Mom Hi, Mom So hold me, Mom In your long arms So hold me, Mom In y…

Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of...

Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of tariffs on jobs and businesses across Canadian cities and communities at the neighbourhood and city level”.

After working hard taking away the civil rights of people...

After working hard taking away the civil rights of people and granting more powers to our Mob Boss President, Chief Justice John Roberts retreats to a Maine island for the summer. But lately, neighbors are protesting his presence there. Good! No peace!

The White Balance Trick Every Photographer Forgot About

It's called Middle Gray: have you ever heard of it? It's a method that we used to use well over a decade ago but that I never see talked about. Instead, everyone does a variation of something that I was one of the first photographers in digital to really talk about at length: wh…

The 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards Finalists

The Comedy Wildlife Awards have announced the finalists for the 2026 competition and, well, these awards never miss. You can almost hear the background music for some of these… Tags: best of · best of 2026 · photography