The Old Feeds On The New
September 19, 2009 | Category: Digital Slavery | Comments Off
37signals has an excellent piece on the purchase of Mint by Intuit.
As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies, a whole new generation of change is lost. They can issue press releases saying how excited they are to be able to bring their product to a whole new world of customers, and how their new suitor will bring enormous resources to bear, but we know that’s usually not really what happens. Development slows, products stall, the staff that built the great stuff leaves, and mediocrity creeps in. Not always, but usually.
This could just as easily describe the purchase of Flickr by Yahoo. It’s remarkable how little the site has changed in the past few years.
Yes, there IS a camera attached to that lens…
September 6, 2009 | Category: Photography Tools | Comments Off
Engadget has an amusing story (more photos and video at the site) about the new Olympus E-P1 micro four thirds camera with a big honking lens attached to it. You can see the camera if you look closely.
I kind of want one… but the massive lens attached to it seems to defeat the purpose of a MICRO camera.
The Dawn of Kodachrome
September 5, 2009 | Category: History of Photography | Comments Off
Time Magazine has a great (but too short) photographic essay on FSA photographers who used Kodak color film to record scenes from the Great Depression. When you’re so used to seeing that time period in black and white… color can be quite startling.
Early Morning Crossing Over
August 30, 2009 | Category: Site News | Comments Off
The Genius of Photography
August 29, 2009 | Category: History of Photography | 4 Comments
I saw a great six part documentary a year or so ago on BBC 4 called The Genius of Photography, which doesn’t appear to be available on DVD outside of the UK… but can be found in the various places on the internets where video is usually located. I won’t Google it for you but… Veoh has 4 of the 6 episodes here.
The documentary skips around in the history of photography, giving some artists no more than a few seconds of screen-time and leaving many out altogether… but for everything familiar that’s left out there’s something unusual brought in. For example… the first episode points out the influence of photography in the painter Degas, whose paintings have a “photographic” quality to them…. with cut off edges and arrangements that are reminiscent of stereographs. And there are many snippets of interviews with living photographers, art-directors, curators and others that make this series worth hunting down.
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