February 2012
2 tags
3 tags
“How many more social-networking accounts does one need? Things have become so...”
– Joerg Colberg Conscientious | Feeling Social Enough Yet?
3 tags
“TED attempts to present itself as fresh, cutting edge, and outside the box but...”
– - Nathan Jurgenson, Against TED – The New Inquiry
There is a Disneyland feel to TED. A sort of creepy, contrived atmosphere, as if we are being primed for a peak experience or undergoing a secret ritual in techno-utopianism. And that feeling that great people are doing great things out there, so...
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
5 tags
2 tags
4 tags
“All companies want profit, but knowing what you ate for breakfast or storing the...”
– Egg Freckles | Why Apple Does Not Need a Social Network
3 tags
3 tags
“If memory serves, globalization was sold as an opportunity to export the First...”
– Armine Yalnizyan - Why we’re seeing the ugly new face of capitalism - The Globe and Mail
2 tags
3 tags
“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept”
– Henri Cartier Bresson
Why Sharpness is a Bourgeoise Concept in Street Photography — Eric Kim Street Photography
2 tags
“The marginal value of the last hour put into a business idea is usually much...”
– All or something - Jinesh Parekh (37signals)
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Cindy Sherman talks to Simon Schama - FT.com →
The American photographer on capturing the masquerade of daily life
4 tags
“To me Facebook already feels over. I really don’t feel like I’m missing...”
– - Dave Winer, Scoble: I’ll go down with the ship via Scripting News
Facebook is the new AOL, despite the market cap. But it’s headed for a hard landing for other reasons that Winer is pushing. Facebook will fail because of the imminent rise of social operating systems — future versions of iOS, Mac...
January 2012
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
Priceonomics Blog: The Fixie Bike Index →
priceonomics:
“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.”
- New York Times, 2007
According to our data, Manhattan is actually more hipster than Brooklyn. Short of surveying the snugness of...
4 tags
2 tags
3 tags
4 tags
1 tag
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...
2 tags
2 tags
Galaxy Note S Pen makes sense for larger screens,... →
if you see a stylus, they blew - Steve Jobs
1 tag
One more whiskey before calling it quits
…I think I’ve just found my epitaph
2 tags
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius (via kari-shma)
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
The Facebook Eye - Nathan Jurgenson - The Atlantic →
Nathan Jurgenson showing us how far we have gone, or is that fallen…
The photographer knows well that after taking many pictures one develops “the camera eye”: vision becomes like the viewfinder, always perceiving the world through the logic of the camera mechanism via framing, lighting, depth of field, focus, movement and so on. Even without the camera in hand the world...
7 tags
4 tags
1 tag
I feel like a lizard shedding its skin
2 tags
7 tags
6 tags
