Archive for June, 2007

Studio 60

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

I’m watching the end of a sometimes brilliant, sometimes very crappy show. I don’t know how to feel about it. The show was basically a sine wave, starting out pretty lame, getting awesome, turning lame again, and then getting awesome just in time to piss me off about it having been canceled back when it [...]

Interesting polemic against iStockPhoto and SnapVillage.

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Why Corbis’ New SnapVillage Stock Photography Agency is a Bad Deal for Photographers

By someone with a competitive motivation—although that doesn’t make his criticism invalid….

Update: But, isn’t there an issue with the sales side of things? I.e., isn’t part of the upshot to using the big-agency spinoffs that image consumers are aware [...]

Anthropomorphic Cheetos

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Now I just need to find a cheeto in the shape of a torso, head, and arms.

Not exactly a sketch artist’s dream description

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Resembles John Waters; only younger.

Kathleen Connally’s Photoblog – $300 Reward :: A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania

Twist

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

As you can see, I’m still playing around with skitch:

This is another subject I’ve been wrestling with for a while. They’ve put up plastic fencing around an area of Laney that they’re landscaping, and in the morning and afternoon the broken and/or twisted sections can cast some very interesting shadows. I’ve had some difficulty taking [...]

TV Squad previews ABC’s new shows - TV Squad

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I’m trying out the Skitch beta—it’s pretty awesome, although you can definitely smell the beta.

Although yes, I’m also very confused about the idea of Victor Garber playing a supporting role in a show starring Johnny Lee Miller. There’s no possible valid explanation for that.

TV Squad previews ABC’s new shows – TV Squad

Screw Pre-visualization?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

One of the skills a photographer is supposed to have which I have not yet (and perhaps never will) is pre-visualization. This was one of the shibboleths of the Adams-Weston crowd, and the basic idea is that you’re supposed to know what’s going to come out of your camera before you go anywhere near the [...]