TGI Day

Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start with Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social Media has Become a Freak Show, by Nate Silver. Thing is, more and more people in the U.S. now get their news (if that's what it is)…

Our Presets are Truly Something Very Special

If you use Lightroom or Capture One, you'll love these. For several years now, the Phoblographer has been actively selling presets to our audience. And folks have been loving them. We started with presets designed for those of us who love photojournalism. Then we added the retro…

A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...

A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT. Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.

An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...

An interview with Ronald Wayne, Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)

Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony

From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony. The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was their first single. From Wikipedia: “Ceremony” was one of the la…

Lightning

This Nikon Camera Won The CUPOTY Death And Decay Photo Challenge

Wildlife photography is one of the most challenging genres of the medium. It requires one to be patient, but also quick when the moments call. Close-up Photographer of the Year, which has been providing a platform for many emerging wildlife photographers, has now unveiled the wi…

Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My...

Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher. My brain may be permanently broken by this.

A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...

A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.

Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...

Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia.

mist is now open source and looking for interop

A brief update on mist, my ephemeral Markdown editor with Google Docs-style comments and suggested edits: mist is now open source with an MIT license, and the mist repo is here on GitHub. (Try mist now and here’s my write-up from February.) What I love about Markdown is th…

The Best Budget Lenses From Sigma (L-Mount)

When it comes to choosing a nice lens, one can always find themselves at their wits' ends. Some lenses offer great performance, while others have a better form factor. However, to find one that can bridge the gap between price and performance is always a challenge. If you are an…

“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...

“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls his ‘Red Empire’ was made so much easier, and so much more brutal, by the intelligence the Cambridge spies passed to Moscow.”

Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...

Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool.

Does Manual NYC’s Holo V2 Digicam Pass the Vibe Check?

Manual NYC’s pitch doesn’t get any more straightforward: the Holo V2 is not intended to deliver clinical images but instead to capture life’s moments – imperfections and all. Challenge accepted.

Diary Comics From the 1940s

This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s, documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II. I never got to meet my grandma, she passed away young in 1977 but finding her 1940s ske…

Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint &...

Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company. MCD published so many good titles/authors: Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloane Crosley, Dilla Time, Tamara Shopsin…

Nikon Z 800mm f6.3 VR S Review: The Best Lens for Sports and Birding?

The Nikon Z 800mm f6.3 VR S is one lens that will immediately challenge your expectations for super telephoto lenses. This isn't just for what it does, but also for how it feels. An 800mm lens usually comes with a reputation for being large, heavy, and often having to be chained…

The Best Budget Zoom Lenses from Sony

Sony has some incredible lenses. The company's decision to shift to mirrorless early on played an incredible role in shaping their optics, with the company also working on some collaborations with Zeiss to make things better. This proves the range of optics they have today, and…

The New Nikon Zf Firmware Could Mess with Viltrox Lenses

Nikon recently updated the firmware of their Nikon Zf. And with that, I was truly wondering what had happened. In fact, I was waiting for this specifically. The changes seemed to be very odd until I did some deep testing. What I've found is that Nikon is preparing for a way to s…

This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...

This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.

The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi

I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month. For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas…

Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...

Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender). “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”

Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...

Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.

How the Camera Manufacturers Lie to All of Us

You're probably about to feel betrayed reading this. Here's a little-known fact: the warranty of your camera or lens doesn't necessarily cover what happens to it in case of dust, inclement weather, etc. That's why we created the Photography Care Program, in collaboration with F…

International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece ....

International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece. “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).

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…