Priceonomics Blog: The Fixie Bike Index
“Messengers are big fixie aficionados, but more and more fixed-gear bikes are being ridden by nonmessengers, most conspicuously the kind of younger people to whom the term “hipster” applies and who emanate from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn.”
According to our data, Manhattan is actually more hipster than Brooklyn. Short of surveying the snugness of men’s pants in each borough, it’s not an easy assertion to quantify…
Source: priceonomics
Mod Drums
Stairs, Auberge RavouxFrom the book: Travels with Van Gogh & the ImpressionistsNeil Folberg
(via journalofanobody)
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Photography and Trust
Joerg Colberg on photography and trusting in one’s work
If a photographer mistrusts her or his photographs, a gap seems to appear - the gap between that which the photographer wants to express, and that which the photographers perceives as expressed. Attempts to bridge that gap almost always involve artistic overcompensation: The photographer will over-apply her or his craft, for example by applying way too many Photoshop filters, by dodging and burning the crap out of a photograph in the darkroom, by using so-called toy cameras, or by relying on archaic photographic processes. A good photograph doesn’t need those gimmicks.
Put another way, any of those techniques will become invisible if you have a good photograph. They only appear as a gimmick when they are used to overcompensate for a lack of artistic self confidence: You don’t trust your photographs, you don’t trust that your viewers will see what you want them to see. So you apply what you think of as your craft.
