If you’re not doing so already, you really should read The Intercept:
The Intercept, the first of First Look’s digital magazines, is founded and led by award-winning journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill. Its initial focus will be new reporting involving the disclosures made to them by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
I just watched “The Internet’s Own Boy”, the documentary about Aaron Swartz. It’s unbelievable. You should watch it!
But it will probably make you angry and sad, too.
The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.
Nach einigen organisatorischen Hürden kann ich Euch jetzt endlich die Ergebnisse von meinem ersten analogen Shooting präsentieren. Der geneigte Leser fragt sich jetzt bestimmt – “warum tut man sich Das im Jahr 2014 noch an?” “Warum benutzt Du nicht Deine Digitale? Geht doch viel schneller?”
Die genannten Gründe lassen auch mich immer mehr mit der Filmfotografie liebäugeln.
300 or so tossers on Hacker News bitching about how the lightbulb “doesn’t scale” because the bulb they’ve put in their bedside lamp isn’t able to double as a floodlight for a fucking soccer stadium.
It’s funny, because it’s true.
Yes!
Very handy, too!
I just learned about the calc() CSS function:
With
calc(), you can perform calculations to determine CSS property values.
Want to make something fill the remaining vertical space? calc() is your friend. Sweet!
“Everybody Street” illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists.
Covering nine decades of street photography, “Everybody Street” explores the careers and influences of many notable photographers––a number of whom have never been documented, featuring: Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill Freedman, Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, Clayton Patterson, Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, and Boogie, with historians Max Kozloff and Luc Sante.
I just watched this. Recommended!
Um dem Bedürfnis nach Austausch mit anderen nachdenklichen Menschen zu entsprechen, hat WDR 5 mit der Sendung “Das philosophische Radio” ein einzigartiges, regelmäßiges Forum für die öffentliche philosophische Diskussion geschaffen: Immer am Freitagabend von 20.05 bis 21.00 Uhr werden ein Philosoph oder eine Philosophin über ein Thema, ein Buchautor oder eine Autorin über eine interessante und anregende These mit den Hörerinnen und Hörern von WDR 5 philosophieren. Moderator der Sendung ist Jürgen Wiebicke.
Mein momentan favorisierter Podcast.
SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X (10.5 or above) that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click “Start.” Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites–even if you restart your computer or delete the application.
Good tool. Keeps me focused.
Craig Mod’s follow-up article on the excellent “Goodbye, Cameras.”:
So, if you’re interested in this topic — please join me. I’d like to dive into more technical detail here than seemed prudent in “Goodbye, Cameras.” I’d like to poke deeper into the idea of the network and its implications on the photograph and photography, more precisely define photography’s role in my life, ponder digital archives, and layout some thoughts on dealing with technological sea change. You know, just a few light topics.
Fascinating article by Craig Mod for the New Yorker:
In the same way that the transition from film to digital is now taken for granted, the shift from cameras to networked devices with lenses should be obvious. While we’ve long obsessed over the size of the film and image sensors, today we mainly view photos on networked screens—often tiny ones, regardless of how the image was captured—and networked photography provides access to forms of data that go beyond pixels. This information, like location, weather, or even radiation levels, can transform an otherwise innocuous photo of an empty field near Fukushima into an entirely different object. If you begin considering emerging self-metrics that measure, for example, your routes through cities, fitness level, social status, and state of mind (think Foursquare, Nike+, Facebook, and Twitter), you realize that there is a compelling universe of information waiting to be pinned to the back of each image. Once you start thinking of a photograph in those holistic terms, the data quality of stand-alone cameras, no matter how vast their bounty of pixels, seems strangely impoverished. They no longer capture the whole picture.
We tend to think that simply giving people money makes them lazy. Yet a wealth of scientific research proves the contrary: free money helps. It is time for a radical reform of the welfare state.
It’s really beyond me, why we don’t do this and why it’s not even publicly discussed. Great read!
Fantastic talk by Jeremy Keith: The Power Of Simplicity – border:none (by beyond tellerrand).
Too many good things to quote, but here’s one appetizer:
It’s not like the web is fixed by default and then we have to work it, making it responsive. The web is responsive by default, and as we start to add complexity – using CSS, using JavaScript – the actual trick is to not screw it up.
I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for the last couple of months. And only now I discovered a feature called “Tab Groups”:
Tab Groups are an easy way to organize a lot of tabs. With Tab Groups, you can visually group related tabs, switch between groups and quickly search through all of your tabs.
If you’re a tab addict, regularly ending up with more tabs than fit on the Tab Strip, Tab Groups were made for you. They’re also great for grouping tabs by task and then switching between them.
That very much sounds like me. What a nice feature!
I have added another script to my Applescripts-for-Aperture collection:
Keywords From Location
This script adds location keywords, based on the photos GPS data. When the photo is geotagged with latitude and longitude, it will reverse geocode these coordinates to get the keyword names.
Example:
Photo latitude: 51.508401588129
Photo longitude: -0.098569840193Keywords to be added:
United Kingdom, England, London, Millennium BridgeKeywords structure (as shown in the Keywords HUD):
United Kingdom |-- England |-- London |-- Millennium Bridge