nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: The smaller the window, the more you can see! Thanks @valery_kirichenko for the video #Scaling

A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...

A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple products in order to charge the quickest. (Your charger’s wattage really matters when the device’s battery level is 0-50%. After that, less so.)

SG-image 35mm f2.2 Review: The Best Street Photography Lens?

It’s always refreshing to see a new player manufacture lenses, especially one that isn’t trying to compete with the usual heavyweights, opting instead to carve out its own niche. That’s exactly what SG-image has done with their AF 35mm f2.2 Full Frame Lens. Compact, lightw…

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon

This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the cr…

I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....

I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago. Kidder wrote the excellent The Soul of a New Machine, which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming...

Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming book, “a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto”.

Twos Day

Even more dead now The AP is abandoning its surname.

The Handmade Digital Camera That Could Have Saved Polaroid

When it comes to the world of cameras, there are some that left a mark, while there are others that, despite innovation, continue to be elusive in our memory. An example of the latter is the Polaroid PDC-2000, a device that was let go of too soon due to the changing environment.…

A Catalog of an Entire House/Life

In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics… absolutely everything. 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects.” You can explor…

Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage...

Teenager Michael Haskell “buys abandoned storage lockers at bargain prices…with the aim of selling their contents for profit”. But: “Two years into his pursuit, he knows all too well that every locker tells a story, many of them bleak.”

Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from...

Shoe Pop Dream Gaze, a three-hour playlist from Christina Hendricks’ all-vinyl DJ set. (You may remember Hendricks as Joan on Mad Men.)

My Complex Relationship with Ilford HP5 Plus 400

"Why someone told me that it's a great film for street photography is honestly a bit beyond my comprehension."

Making Concert Photography Stunning Again

If you are just starting out shooting live music, the essential step to becoming skilled and getting published is to shoot A LOT of shows. Shoot everything! Shoot hip-hop, rock, folk, punk, death metal, and mariachi. There are so many venues, clubs, and stages that do not req…

The C-Word That Every Photographer Should Hate

There's a word that I believe every single photographer should hate: creator. It's a word that lumps all of us in with videographers, musicians, etc. in a way that's designed to eventually provide assets for marketers for free. Let's call this what it really is: it's an assault…

Onday

None of which you asked for, and few of which you can thrwart GadgetReview: 13 Evil Tech Scandals & Failures That Took Advantage of Millions of People. Now dig a PageXray of that story. The high points:  Adserver Requests: 543Tracking Requests: 447Other Requests: 132 Among oth…

Grammar

“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most...

“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green…” It’s time for some color theory…

Really interesting piece from Jodi Ettenberg about...

Really interesting piece from Jodi Ettenberg about microdosing a GLP-1 to manage her mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). She’s noticed “way less pain” and can eat more foods without reactions (yoghurt, oats, mild curry pastes).

The Astor Place Riots of 1849 resulted in “the...

The Astor Place Riots of 1849 resulted in “the greatest loss of life in a civic insurrection in American history up to that time”. And they were incited over the “wrong” actor playing Macbeth.

Transcription by Ben Lerner

I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about Ben Lerner’s new novel Transcription (Amazon) which comes out tomorrow. From the book’s description: What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the na…

A visual history of exploring the far side of the Moon ....

A visual history of exploring the far side of the Moon. “The Moon is tidally locked, meaning that only one side of the Moon ever faces the Earth. [For millenia,] there was an entire half of our natural satellite that no human had ever seen before.”

Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon ....

Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon. At around 1:56pm ET, they’ll surpass the Apollo 13 distance record. And: “At their closest point, they’ll pass roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface.”

New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester” . RAM...

New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester”. RAM chips are so expensive right now that RAM harvesters are stealing them out of demo computers at electronics stores.

L-mount is Winning Where Canon, Nikon And Sony Failed

The year was 2018 when Leica partnered with Panasonic and Sigma to announce the L-mount. The companies' focus was simple: to manufacture a system that is open to other brands. This collaborative effort was not exactly huge, but six years since, the L-mount is one mount that is r…

Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026...

Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026 Mixtape. Available on YouTube and Soundcloud.

Pattern Index, Max Cooper

Max Cooper’s music videos are always worth a look. This one, directed by Katia Schutz, is for a song called Pattern Index from his forthcoming album (Feeling Is Structure, May 8). Cooper describes Feeling Is Structure as an “audiovisual album”, which I take to mean th…

Why Does Canon Hate Their Customers?

The very first Canon camera I purchased for myself was the Canon 6D – I used it to start off my photography career. And since then I’ve found myself leaving Canon and coming back, each time with a new regret. This led me to ask, “Does Canon hate their customers?”

Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting...

Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting authoritarianism. 1. We need each other. 2. We must move, even when on uncertain ground. 3. Past trauma will bring us down if we do not release its effects on us. And more…

“The promise of the open web was colonized by...

“The promise of the open web was colonized by internet giants. But the power of LLMs and agentic coding means we can start to take it back. We can build customized, personal software for ourselves that does what we want.”

Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and...

Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland: only five US states have ever had a Black governor.

Artemis II: Nikon and GoPro Are Winning Where Canon And Sony Fail

Humanity has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go. While we have unearthed lost civilizations, we have yet to see what resides on the other side of the moon. As Artemis II, the first crewed deep space flight since Apollo 17 in 1972, inches forward to uncover the hi…

Canon 85mm F1.4 L VCM Review: Why Does Canon Hate Their Customers?

Recently, Canon began releasing several prime L-Series lenses with VCM autofocusing motors. These new VCM lenses are notable for their relatively compact size, weight, fast apertures, and crazy fast autofocusing speeds. The Canon RF 85mm F1.4 L VCM lens is the latest that I’ve…

How to Work With Portrait Photography Subjects Who Aren’t Models

There are tons of tutorials on the web that teach you how to photograph people who are models; but not a whole lot for those that want to get into it and work with portrait subjects. A lot of this month's articles are around studio photography and ranges from those offered at be…