Riveting and saddening, all at once.
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Category: Photography
The Power Mac G4 Cube Enters the Fold
I own a lot of Apple gear. The current list includes:
- 1 original Macintosh
- 1 Mac Plus
- 2 Macintosh SEs
- 1 Color Classic II
- 1 eMate 300
- 1 original iBook G3 Clamshell (Blueberry)
- 1 iMac G3 (Sage)
- 1 PowerBook G3 (Pismo)
- 1 14-inch iBook G4
- 2 PowerMac G4s (1 Quicksilver & 1 Mirror Drive Door)
- 1 13-inch MacBook
- 1 24-inch Intel iMac
- 1 15-inch MacBook Pro
All of these systems boot and run with the exception of one of the SEs and the Pismo.
‘Hipstamatic Addicts’
Because the iPhone allows all of us to be amazing photographers now. And something needs to happen about that.
This feeling has been eating away at me for some time now because I feel like a cheat when I shoot something amazing with my phone. Take my last two shots, which I’m very proud of. They cause me a lot of self loathing. Look at how amazing my photo of the Urban Lights sculpture at LACMA is. It’s a total lie. I understand framing, I understand the rule of thirds. I don’t understand how to work with light, especially not dusk, which was when this photo was taken. My Photoshop skills are rudimentary. Yet I created an Amazing Photograph because my phone has Lo-Mob on it. Fuck you, me.
New iPod Shuffle Gets Unboxed
Boy, is it tiny.
Five Years Ago
The Big Picture has posted a gallery of photos from Hurricane Katrina damage:
Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h). More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding. Over 1,800 Gulf Coast residents lost their lives then, and damages totaled more than $80 billion - the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Many intangible things were damaged then as well, communities were erased as their neighborhoods washed away, much of historic New Orleans was badly damaged, and frustration and anger remain towards an inadequate immediate response by the U.S. government.
New Elvis Photos Found
Graceland archivist Angie Marchese was cataloging receipts and other paperwork from Vernon Presley’s Graceland office about two weeks ago when she found a manila envelope with three photo negatives.
“Just when you think you’ve seen everything, all of a sudden there’s something new,” said Marchese.
Even though I’m a native Memphian, I’m not an Elvis fan, nor have I ever been to Graceland. Regardless, this is still pretty cool.
Up Close with Apple’s Retina Display
Robert Scoble snagged this photo of the new iPhone’s display with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II during Apple’s hands-on event at WWDC last week. It looks amazing — be sure to view the original 5616 x 3744 shot.
Atlantis Touches Down for Last Time
Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday, wrapping up the final mission of its 25-year career. Once the shuttle program ends, the United States will rely on Russian Soyuz rockets to carry its astronauts to the International space station until a commercial US launcher can be developed.
I’m sad I’m too young to remember NASA in its heyday of Mercury, Gemini and the moon landings.
Oil Reaches Louisiana
Over one month after the initial explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, crude oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico, and oil slicks have slowly reached as far as 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes. According to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, more than 65 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline has now been oiled. BP said it will be at least Wednesday before they will try using heavy mud and cement to plug the leak, a maneuver called a “top kill” that represents their best hope of stopping the oil after several failed attempts. Based on low estimates, at least 6 million gallons of crude have spewed into the Gulf so far - though some scientists have said they believe the spill already surpasses the 11 million-gallon 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska as the worst in U.S. history.
‘House’ Season Finale Shot on Canon 5D
Even if you don’t watch the show normally, you should see this episode for the video work. It is beautiful. There are shots all over the episode with razor-thin depths of field that were simply stunning. I would love to see more of this.
Greg Yaitanes, the show’s director answered some questions about shooting with just a DSLR on Twitter a while back, and they have been compiled over at PetaPixel.
Pictures of Nashville Flood
The Tennessean has posted over 100 photos taken around the Nashville area of record-setting floodwater. Memphis really dodged the bullet this weekend.
Things Banned from Mythbuster Refrigerator
Handwritten additions include:
No human body parts filled with noodles.
We have the same problem at the Salvation Army some days.