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Happy 2010!

Tristan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:58:06 +0000

Shared: Christopher Deam’s Airstream design ethic

Tristan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:01:37 +0000

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/wallflower/detail?entry_id=49515

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s U2 Album Cover

Tristan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:49:18 +0000

Hiroshi Sugimoto's photo

He (Bono) started taking notes as I talked,” Sugimoto recalled. Those notes became the foundation for the new album’s title track. Last year, during a visit to Dublin, Sugimoto heard the first demo tape, and a few months later was told by Bono that U2 wanted to use the Boden Sea image on the album jacket.

from: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20090320a1.html

and: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/04/06/hiroshi-sugimotos-no-cash-deal-with-u2/

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s website

This is an example of a beautfully evocative photograph that is not ‘technically good’ yet still works. We photographers often have a tendency to get too obsessed with trying to get the sharpest, most technically perfect images.

All of Michael Kenna’s work in one place

Tristan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:08:45 +0000

Scrolling down this link is quite an experience. Michael Kenna has an amazing and inspiring body of work that appears to be all aggregated in one place - http://trinixy.ru/michael_kenna.html

Amazon Kindle 2 announced should I buy it?

Tristan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:12:27 +0000

Amazon announced the Kindle 2 today. It looks pretty cool and I like that it can read aloud the books to you if you want.

But for me, part of the joy of real paper books is that after you’re done reading them, you can give the book to a friend or family member, or sell it. With Kindle books you cannot do that. That said, it’s nice to be able to save a tree.

I’ve played around with a friends Kindle 1 before and the text was surprisingly readable and it was fun to use. What do you think? Should I order the Kindle 2?

UPDATE – I bought it and I really like it!

UPDATE 2 – You can now read your Kindle books on the iPhone/iPod Touch!

UPDATE 3 (May 6th, 2009) – The larger Kindle DX has been announced.

A funny take on photographer harassment

Tristan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:41:19 +0000

This photographer was detained and harassed by Amtrak:

One of the best TV commercials I’ve seen in a while

Tristan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:08:49 +0000

This is one of the best TV ads of 2008 and probably the best one I’ve seen in a while.

Here’s the longer version:

Photographed and edited beautifully don’t you think?

Adventure game on the iPhone

Tristan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:49:23 +0000

Adventure brings me right back to my childhood and it’s currently available free on the iPhone/iPod Touch in the iTunes App Store! Anyone who used to play the Atari 2600 and owns an iPhone or iPod Touch will need no further explanation.

“Adventure basically pioneered the action-adventure genre of games, and that though its art is spare and its noises are little more than bleeps and bloops, both are classic and coated with pure nostalgia.” – TUAW.

CNN – stop calling it a hologram

Tristan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:57:22 +0000

You may have seen CNN’s election night coverage where they beamed in some ‘holograms’ (clip above). Well, it wasn’t really a hologram, but you probably knew that. For it to have really been a hologram, the 3D image would have had to have been projected into space, right there in front of Wolf Biltzer. Instead, he was just looking at nothing but a red dot and a remote video feed was switched in with the on air feed.

What about the blue Star Wars like edge around the image? That was added in by CNN for effect.

Colin Powell endorses…:

Tristan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:05:10 +0000

I really like what Colin Powell has to say here: