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- Hello! and Goodbye! (from Shenandoah National Park, Virginia) 3:13pm Jul 1
- Change or be changed. 1:45am Jun 30
- Transcript, Penny For Your Thoughts with Umair Haque 5:27pm Jun 29
Awareness, Arlington, Virginia, 2005 Relaunching old work. I started this blog in September 2006, but I’ve been publishing mixtures of pictures and written thoughts on the web since 2002. Crude code, images and writing, but real thoughts, even if it does feel like it’s from a different era...
Watching, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006 A couple related notes on privacy: Joseph Bonneau on The Economics of Privacy on Social Networks: The most interesting story we found though was how sites consistently hid any mention of privacy, until we visited the privacy policies where they provided paid...
Jonathan Jones in The Guardian Art Blog, Art criticism is not a democracy: The reason so much average or absolutely awful art gets promoted is that no one seems to understand what criticism is; if nothing is properly criticised, mediocrity triumphs...
Waiting, Chicago, Illinois, 2004 I found a challenge, but I’ll tell you about it later. In June I asked for a challenge, and after a lot of interesting inquiries I found one. But I can’t tell you about it right now...
Conflicted, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC, 2006 Fine-art photography as photojournalism. Jörg Colberg, Review: Sawdust Mountain by Eirik Johnson: As I mentioned on this blog before, there is a little bit of soul searching going on in photojournalistic circles...
Continuing on the subject of ambient intimacy… Flooding space and time...
Corner, Arlington, Virginia, 2009 Disparate thoughts… Craig Calcaterra:...
If you can grasp everything with one look, is the message truly that powerful? Clean, uncomplicated, clear messages scream loudly but disappear quickly, blind to the messy, conflicted tension simmering underneath...
Break down the stack of services in the photography industry and imagine a photography sales platform that operates as a search engine through the internet’s warehouse of images; the current issues in the photography industry are signs of long-term pressures and hints of the industry’s future...
Giants, Silver Spring, Maryland, 2009 People-watching, chilling between movies at Silverdocs…
Recapping LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, “3 days of Peace, Love and Photography”, in Charlottesville, Virginia, June 11-13, 2009… I’ll put it simply: LOOK3 is a great festival...
Waited, Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, Silver Spring, Maryland Viewed, Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, Silver Spring, Maryland A day watching documentaries at Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival…...
Stop | Arlington, Virginia Quoted in the Economist from 2006, Joe Kraus of JotSpot, (link via David Sanger): What is new is that young people today, and most people in future, will be happy to decide for themselves what is credible or worthwhile and what is not. They will have plenty of help...
Revolutions may start on the outside, but revolutionaries (including individuals, institutions, markets, communities) bring change from the outside to the inside by bridging the edge and the core...
Another reminder that “the best camera is the one that’s with you” and the power of vision over gear, Shawn Rocco’s “cellular obscura” cellphone camera photography project… Shawn Rocco’s Cellular Obscura photography project displayed this past weekend at the LOOK3 Festival, shot...
False | Charlottesville, Virginia | Jun 2009 True | Charlottesville, Virginia | Jun 2009 Getting Lost...
LOOK3, Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia | 2009 LOOK3, Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia | 2009 Kicking off LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, repeating a mantra “be here now”; quoting from David duChemin’s “Within The Frame”: Living in the moment is more than just...
Standing out | Washington DC Noah Brier, Believing (Your Own) Hype: I’ve always felt like everyone was making it up as they went along. No matter how buttoned up any person or company seems, they can’t possibly know everything...
Divergent | Aruba Sweeping | National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC ...
A quick shout-out: from Thursday to Saturday (June 11, 12, 13) I’ll be at LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, “3 days of Peace, Love and Photography” in Charlottesville, Virginia...
Onward, Palmer, Alaska, 2006 It’s hard to get anything in life unless you ask for it; so here I am, asking. I’m looking for a challenge to focus on and commit to for the next three to six months with a group of great people, and I would love your help. I’m looking for a challenge...
Here | Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC | Oct 2006 Present | Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC | Oct 2006 A ghost (my own) at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.
Quiet | Reno, Nevada | Dec 2008 Where I Sleep is an addendum to My Cities 2008, a visual record of everywhere I slept in 2008. Admittedly, an image of an empty bed is a hackneyed cliche: but when in doubt, do it in a series, right...
Support | MOMA, New York City, New York | 2005 Last week I mentioned that I’m combining both of my blogs into this single blog; I just wanted to follow up to make sure everyone understood the new options for following this website (in short: a) all posts, b) just the photography posts, or c)...
Different | Postsecret Exhibit, Washington DC I make everyone believe that I like to be different, but really I just don’t know how to fit in. From a PostSecret exhibit in Washington, DC a couple years ago; digging into the archives even as I’m moving forward.
Grand Central Minute | NYC, NY | Feb 2007 An older project, refreshed. I’ve been creating photography essays on the web since 2002, but many are hid away from sight, lost in the noise or forgotten...
Obvious | Big Bend National Park, Texas | March 2009 Is it possible to experience the joy of serendipity and mystery without the costs of inefficiency? Can the sweet be as sweet without the sour...
Continuing to think about platforms and trends, let’s start with five frames shaping today’s business opportunities...
Extending a 140-character conversation with David Sanger and Sam Bloomberg-Rissman about editing, filtering and the business opportunity for middlemen in stock photography...
Joerg Colberg, Review: Blühende Landschaften by Christian Wolter One of the dirty secrets of the re-unification of Germany is that it was not run efficiently and well planned...
Unusual | Ellora Caves, Maharashtra, India | Dec 2007 This past April I spent a great afternoon with Jay Goldman in Toronto discussing data-driven design decisions and the role of mystery and magic in marketing; we often forget why and how introducing the unknown into our user interfaces,...
Diversion | London, England | 2005 Diversions… Geoff Manaugh, This Gaming Life: An Interview with Jim Rossignol: What [studies of how playing digital games impact game players] have shown is that visual processing is increased—so that gamers are much better at figuring out what’s happening...
Nostalgic, San Francisco, California | Jan 2009 Click on the photo above to view larger; or instead, simply look, think, return to the unfulfilled past, wash away the dreams of the never known and create anew. Share on Twitter Share on Stumble
David duChemin was kind enough to pass me a copy of his new book “Within The Frame”, and it’s one of those books that reminds me how complacent I’ve become with my own photography and how little I know about many key parts of the craft...
Atmosphere | Badlands National Park, South Dakota | Jun 2007 Expanding on a couple short notes about ambient intimacy; learning to take the good with the bad. Intimacy without being Intimate...
The Line | Smith Rock State Park, Oregon | Jun 2007 Malcolm Gladwell, Annals of Innovation, How David Beats Goliath; focusing on youth-league and professional basketball, Gladwell uses the example of the full-court press to explain how underdogs can use “socially horrifying” strategies that...
Bounce | Lake Tahoe, California | Dec 2008 The pure, unbridled joy from getting outside our heads; returning to when there was nothing to escape from; recapturing what we lose far too easily. Share on Twitter Share on Stumble
Sharing | Grey Lodge Wildlife Area, California | Jan 2009 Taking observing to engaging, passing on knowledge, sharing, learning; the purity of listening and sharing for the sake of helping and nothing more; the effectiveness of real time, synchronous communication to build bonds, the efficiency...
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. Returning briefly to an old series of scans of my collection of bits of wisdom from fortune cookies; for some reason, this is the one that struck me today...
Timely | Mt. Major, New Hampshire | May 2009 Recent thoughts… The real time web isn’t going away, so get ready for lots of talk (and a little innovation, hopefully). Are you excited about the potential of the real time web...
Running | Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire | May 2009 Running over water, the expectant joy of spring, chasing windows, bagging vistas, escaping to live. Time well spent. Share on Twitter Share on Stumble
Inside | Office Workspace, USA | 2008 Announcing: releasing a mini-project, “Workspaces”, a brief look into the office cubicle environment. I would love to expand on this project into a range of different workspaces… file under “projects to add to the list”...
Progress | Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India | Dec 2007 Returning to older work featured earlier this week by Tewfic El-Sawy on The Travel Photographer, Taylor Davidson: India, Close & Afar I still love my images from India; I need to return to create new images and new experiences… Share on...
Observers | Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India | Dec 2007 We’ve talked about the encroaching convergence of video and still photography before, and now we’re starting to see it happen. The bigger question: will device and process convergence change our notion of a “photograph”...
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