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Posted in Misc on Aug 13th, 2008
This Tuesday night, I attended Portland’s 4th installment of Pecha Kucha (some say it happens in 120 cities world wide). Pecha Kucha is a night filled with concise presentations each limited to 20 slides in only 6 min 40 seconds. Yep no time to sleep as each images is only on screen for 20 seconds [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 14th, 2008
On Jörg Colberg’s weblog about fine-art photography there is a translated interview with Hilla Becher, which, unfortunately, only appears to be available in German. He translated some of the passages that struck him… Q: You spent your life photographing industrial memorials: Hundreds of furnaces, hundreds of water towers, hundreds of coal bunkers. Is this about [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 10th, 2008
Somebody woke up o the wrong side of the bed… the wrong side of the contemporary art bed that is. Jed Perl wrote this latest attack in “Postcards from Nowhere” for the The New Republic (Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008) I found his attacks to bounce around a bit, cherry pick, and lack some clear [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 4th, 2008
As American’s look up tonight to see the flashes of light produced by fireworks, they need to realize that those light bursts last a very long time. To get a really really REALLY short flash one needs to work a lot harder. Researchers have created the shortest-ever flash of light which lasted only 80 attoseconds [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Photographs have been tampered throughout photographic history. I created the phrase “Taking out the Trotsky” to describe removal of people through manipulation. Stalin had teams of people removing all evidence of Trotsky and others he disagreed with from photographs and writings. Scientific American has a slide show called “Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering Throughout History“, it [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Finally! cross-platform Web browser(Firefox) to support color management and use your custom display profile to display images. Safari has been doing this on the Mac, but now Windows users and of course all FireFox users can also have color-management. I’ve been a big supporter of Firefox and Thunderbird for years and promoting it for everyone. [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 3rd, 2008
About ten years ago while recovering from the flu (which I only get about every ten years) I was dragged by friends to see the Poetry Slam national competition in Portland. It was a great night. One of the poets performing was Taylor Mali. This past weekend, I ran across these two poems I remember [...]
Posted in Misc on May 23rd, 2008
Yesterday I posted an announcement & a Brooklyn bridge image (click here to see that and links to this weekend’s festivaties). This posting has some images from last night’s 125-year birthday party for the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Impact (a musical group up for an academy award), and Marvin Hamlisch all performed. Early arrivals [...]
Posted in Misc on May 22nd, 2008
The 125th year birthday celebration for Brooklyn Bridge starts today, Thursday, May 22. DUMBO is the place to be for fireworks, new lighting, a Navy flyover, and a free concert. Various events will continue through the weekend. Bring your picnic and enjoy. Tonight’s timeline: 6:00pm: Doors open 7:45pm: Concert starts 9:00pm: Fireworks Brooklyn Philharmonic will [...]
Posted in Misc on May 16th, 2008
PDN Photo Annual 2008 contest results are now out. I noticed that at least one Portland photographer won an award in the “student work” category, Congrats to Aaron D. Busch! You can see all of the PDN winners online at: http://gallery.pdnevents.com/annual2008/ Photographer: Aaron D. Busch School: Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR Title: Inescapable [...]