A Breathtaking Way to Feel Small
This extraordinary video of the known universe is based on actual astronomical observations. Take my word for it. Watch this full screen at high definition.
I stood there looking at 10 pounds of camera gear, contemplating what I should take with me on a trail run that I’d never attempted in Joshua Tree National Park. I almost turned and started up the trail with nothing, but at the last second remembered the Sony NEX-6 that …
“Girl Rising” is less like a movie than an extended commercial for girls’ education around the globe. Through a hybrid style combining dramatization and documentary, girls act out stories adapted from their life by acclaimed writers from their country, while famous actresses like Meryl Streep and Selma Hayek serve as …
An epic comparison of the Canon Cinema Primes and the L Series. Like my friend Greg Watermann said when he sent this to me; why can’t all gear tests be this creative.
Diana Vreeland’s living room is red. Red sofa, red walls, red flowers. Red patterned wallpaper mimics the red flowered upholstery. Fondly, Diana refers to the room as a “garden in hell.” In a photo in the film, Diana, also wearing red, doesn’t just recline, but floats on the sofa evoking …
This extraordinary video of the known universe is based on actual astronomical observations. Take my word for it. Watch this full screen at high definition.
Back in September Michael reported that Google had acquired Nik software with the assertion that Google has plans for online photo editing. It looks like he might be right.
Google today dropped the price of Snapseed, making the app free to download. Previously, the iOS version of Snapseed cost $4.99. The update also brings new filters, Google+ integration, and a new icon.
Interesting news when you consider that Instagram dropped a key Twitter feature this week.
The upside to all this bitchy posturing between the social networks is the abundance of free apps and avenues to express yourself photographically. The downside; who the hell except teenagers has time to keep up with all this stuff.
Personally, after Facebook/Instagram’s move, I’m keeping my eye on Google and Snapseed.
I’m not sure who spoke to whom, or who has what on someone high up at Panasonic, but Samy’s in Los Angeles is the only store in the entire country with the GH3.
Michael Britt just sent me the picture below to make me jealous. Apparently these boxes came straight from Japan and we’re driven from LAX to Samy’s headquarters on Fairfax Ave. Had I stayed an extra day in LA this week, I’d be playing with the new GH3 right now. But no, I had to get on a plane, so Britt is rubbing it in.
Bastard.
Stu Maschwitz with the best piece I’ve ever read on why you can’t judge a TV on the showroom floor and how to fix the crappy factory settings that are ruining your movie watching experience on your TV.
Maybe you got a new TV for Christmas. Or maybe you just got one recently. Maybe you are thinking of buying one. Whichever is the case, take heed: your TV will try very, very hard to make whatever movies you watch on it look not just bad, but aggressively, satanically, puppy-drowningly bad.
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These days, any TV you are likely to buy, will, by default, have technology enabled that completely changes the emotional quality of the movies you watch. This is a cinematic disaster.
Talking head public service announcements (PSAs) are difficult to do. The line between contrived cheese and compelling content is hair thin. But when it’s done right it works well.
In this PSA about an indestructible soccer ball, the writer and the director find a good balance between the celebrity, the inventor and the story. I’m not a huge fan of the cut aways to the profile footage, but I get why it was done. Overall the PSA got me, and that’s what counts.
All that said, the indestructible soccer ball is a brilliant invention. And the charitable action you trigger when you buy one is righteous. PCN is ordering an official office ball so Michael and I can cause havoc and chaos by putting this thing through a few windows. We hope that you’ll get one for yourselves.
