What I saw somewhat recently #69: September 17, 2020

VSCO revives Kodachrome – To make a Kodachrome-inspired photo filter VSCO went to some pretty great lengths.
#filmloadchallenge – A fun internet challenge thingy that I took part in. Some of the entries are pretty great so far.
First underwater portrait – Pretty amazing work by Louis Boutan in 1899.
Fall foliage map – Good for planning your leaf peeping expeditions.
Blade Runner: San Francisco – Eerie. Even more so because it is real.
Fine Art Simpsons – 👌
Marc Levoy’s Digital Photography Lectures from Stanford – Complete with PDF slides.
Adam Savage One Day Builds – In this one, he builds a brass watering can for his wife. I don’t watch all of his one day builds but every one that I have watched has been great.

September 17, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #68: September 10, 2020

Don’t forget, as of this writing there are 67 other lists like this one.

Large Format Photography Podcast Flickr Group – I asked the hosts of the LFPP if they wouldn’t mind if I created a Flickr Group for it and they said OK. So I did.
How Flamingos eat – Fascinatingly odd.
Winamp Skin Museum – Working copies of Winamp skins. Not only do I remember spending countless hours finding the right skin but also learning how to create one.
AVIF – A new image format explained by Jack Archibald. I sometimes think we don’t need new image or video formats. But, if we can continue to decrease the size of these and increase their quality – while at the same time increasing median internet speeds – everyone benefits.
Playing music on watermelons – You just have to watch.
Ethan Hawke’s TED Talk – Give yourself permission to be creative. Or, don’t worry if you make a fool of yourself doing so.
Insects flying in slow-mo – As Kottke put it, mesmerizing.
Nova from Panic – Worth a second mention.

September 10, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #67: September 3, 2020

September already. Wild times.

Fly through Longwood Gardens – A great drone fly-through of the Conservatory in Longwood Gardens.
Roman Emperor Project – Daniel Voshart creates realistic impressions of ancient dudes using a neural net.
Celui qui tombe – A fantastic visual and motion art piece. See also.
Sounds of the Forest – A map filled with audio from forests around the world. Amazing. Some are rather unexpected.
The Crimson Diamond website – Definitely check out the game, and the amazing people building it, but the website is equally great. Found via.
Gathering Growth Foundation – They have a new web site. It is terrific. It is a goal of mine to find and photograph a tree that can make it onto this website.

September 3, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #66: August 18, 2020

Great list this week. See other lists.

Vicariously – See what Twitter looks like for other users.
James Sowerby Mineralogy – Exquisite digital collection of Sowerby’s painstaking illustrations. Great work and website.
Film Photography Blogs You Should Follow – A growing and great list from Jim Grey. I’ll be sharing an OPML file of all of these in the near future. ICYMI
Dorothea Lange at the Oakland Museum of California – A great way to explore Lange’s work in detail.
The Lifeboat Station Project – I’ve been swooning over Jack Lowe’s project ever since listening to him on Episode 31 of the Large Format Photography Podcast. A years long photo project that is just so well done.
2020: an isolation odyssey – Lydia Cambron recreates the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey while in quarantine. Superb work on so many levels.
The Art of Agnes Martin – All sorts of inspiration from her work.
Rembrandt to Richter – This auction is already over with so if you happen to have a cool few million dollars laying around to spend on fine art, you’ll have to go elsewhere.

I wish somehow these lists were exhaustive and complete but they simply aren’t. There are so many great things I stumble across day-to-day and file away to get to. And I get to some of them. And I remember some of them. And these are those items.

August 18, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #65 – July 28, 2020

Papyrus SNL – This skit recently came back to memory during a meeting at work.
KEKS Lightmeter – I have a few cameras that I need to use my iPhone to meter light with. I think I’ll be ordering one of these.
WindowSwap – See the view’s of others from all over the world.
Gigaleak – What a smorgasbord for gamers!
If birds had arms… – 🙂
8×10 My First Exposure – Jason Kummerfeldt’s parody about large format photography. Pretty on point.

July 28, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #64: April 30, 2020

Are you enjoying these links? I know I am.

Worlds Largest Puzzle – Seems terribly reasonable that this is priced at only $600. I sent this to my parents half hoping they’d buy it.
Flower Garden without People – Dutch tulips, with no one to look at them. Excellent photographs from the aforementioned Albert Dros.
C/2020 F8 (SWAN) – A gorgeous photograph of this comet from Damian Peach.

Light week. Mostly because I’ve been very busy both professionally and on my photography.

April 30, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #63: April 23, 2020

A few links to expand (or shrink) your mind.

WildEarth Live Safaris – Two 3-hour safaris live broadcast on YouTube daily. I’ve watched one completely through and plan to watch more of them. They are relaxing and informative.
98.css – CSS stylesheet to make all HTML elements styled as if they exist within Windows 98. Fun.
Planet of the Apes by Folio Society – All-new illustrations and typographic work for the classic Planet of the Apes book. Very tempted to pick this up.
Rt.live – A web site tracking the effective reproduction number of COVID-19 by State by the founders of Instagram.
Sounds of Heritage – A YouTube channel dedicated to a single artist, single camera, and the sounds of heritage. Love this.
Cirque du Soleil – Speaking of YouTube, Cirque du Soleil is uploading a new 1 hour special every week. Apart from attending one of these, this is the next best thing on your living room TV.

April 23, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #62: April 17, 2020

A few things I bumped into recently:

Studio Ghibli Backgrounds – These are great. Reminds me to watch these again.
Jonathan Yeo’s Live Portraits – I hadn’t seen Yeo’s work before this, but I caught a retweet from Brian Cox and I’ve been keeping up with his Live Portraits. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are already online. Part 4 comes on Saturday I believe.
Empty Vegas – I would actually visit Vegas again if it were empty. Photographer Tod Seelie.
Mario’s Secret – Just watch it.
Instagram User Directory? – I stumbled across this link. Very odd list of profiles. Perhaps they have it for SEO only.

April 17, 2020

What I saw somewhat recently #61: April 9, 2020

Some links for your edification:

Chuck’s Astrophotography – Amazing astrophotography from Chuck Ayoub on Instagram. See also, him capturing Comet ATLAS on Youtube. See also, Comet ATLAS.
Camera Work – A quarterly magazine published in 1903-1915 by Alfred Steiglitz. It was an attempt to raise the level of discourse about photography as an art form. It worked. I’ve downloaded all 50 editions.
NYTimes piece on African American Art – Great layout, visuals, and artists.
Let’s All Wear A Mask – From Maciej Ceglowski.
Digital Spring Cleaning – Good reminders from Aaron Parecki.
Britain in Focus – A Photographic History – An excellent series from the BBC about photography in Britain. Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3.
Somegoodnews – New, light-hearted Youtube channel from that guy from The Office (and an amazing director) John Krasinski.
Newton during Plague – Brain Pickings covers what Isaac Newton accomplished during The Great Plague.

April 9, 2020