Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Ansel Adams never worried about his sensor.
So, like almost all photographers who have made the switch to digital, I’ve come to the dreaded realization that the sensors in my cameras need to be cleaned so badly that I really can’t even use them until I’ve accomplished the task. A month or so ago I settled in to start working on a [...]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Paul Simon on Charlie Rose
I’m watching Charlie Rose interview Paul Simon. It’s interesting, as you might expect. But one thing he briefly touched on was the notion of the iPod in shuffle mode. Basically he said that if you listen to your iPod on shuffle, it makes it that much harder, attention-span wise, to concentrate on 11 new songs [...]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Late call today.
Is it obvious that I have a late call today? I actually got to sleep past 4am (a rare event these days), which hopefully will push me just a little further down the road towards kicking this pneumonia/cold/strep/whatever it is I’ve been hosting. I went to the Dr yesterday, he prescribed me still more antibiotics…I’ve [...]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Today’s history lesson
How Adobe’s PhotoShop was born.
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Audrey Kawasaki
Every once in a while (tho not as frequently as I’d like anymore), I come across someone’s work which shames me, stuns me, and makes me want to just drop everything and start creating. Audrey Kawasaki is today’s example. Check her stuff out…it’s beautiful work. They’re mainly diaphanous oil paintings of young-ish anime-ish Japanese girls [...]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Ack.
Too long since any posting. Life’s been busy, in both good and bad ways. I’ve been sick. Working, but not enough. There was a fire in one of the studios, and I’ve been working on the cleanup and restoration while trying to get over pneumonia. Not fun. So, while I get my shit back together, [...]