Richard Nicholson Photography - 'Last One Out, Please Turn On the Light'
Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light a survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms
So for the record, about 10 years ago I said darkrooms would be going bye bye and there would be a few left as fine art labs.....
WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive Preview - HotHardware
A quick glance at the numbers here show this new big-boy Caviar Green drive from WD offering more than competitive performance versus the likes of Samsung's Spinpoint F1 and Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 -- both 7200RPM-based products. HD Tach shows an average read speed of 90MB/s and average writes at 80MB/s. We'll be digging into performance metrics with other tools like IOMeter in the days ahead but this early view certainly looks good for a disk with this sort of capacity. We'll be looking at power as well but WD claims this drive drops in somewhere around 7 Watts under read/write load and 5 Watts at idle. With the ever-increasing demand for bulk storage, this new WD drive offers a smaller carbon footprint as well, with a full 2TB available in a single 3.5" drive.MSRP for the new ginormous Caviar is set at $299.
The Henry Clay People on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Nice bar room music, like if the Hold Steady did not suck.
thesign.Hehe, the Hollywood Pic, "Behind the Scenes" being hung in Sweden.
Beervana, as Portland's known, has more breweries and brewpubs than any city on the planet, and that means never being more than a mile from the freshest beer imaginable -- beer that traveled no more than a few yards from the fermenter to the serving tank to your pint glass. It means patronizing places where the brewers are a creative force, not just rubber-booted employees; where they can free themselves from production brewing to whomp up truly special beers, which patrons promptly drink up, allowing the brewers to exercise their creativity yet again.
CarnivorePE is inspired by DCS1000, a piece of software used by the FBI to perform electronic wiretaps. (Until recently, DCS1000 was known by its nickname "Carnivore.") Improving on the FBI software, CarnivorePE features new functionality including: artist-made diagnosic clients, remote access, full subject targetting, full data targetting, volume buffering, transport protocol filtering, and an open source software license. Carnivore is created by RSG.
Macintosh Performance Guide: Configuring Photoshop
1) Hide the Histogram panel when running actions or scripts (testing or not). Hiding it drops the diglloydMedium/Huge execution time by about 10%. Even in the middle of an multi-step action, Photoshop updates the histogram display after each step, which can be a time-consuming operation, especially with CacheLevels=3.2) Use the Bigger Tiles plugin in conjunction with DisableScratchCompress plugin. Failure to use these plugins results in a penalty of up to 50% on Mac OS X in any “decent” configuration (over 100% for Photoshop CS3). Download the Plugins. It’s bizarre that Adobe calls these “legacy” plugins, because they have a massive performance impact.
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler's 'vengeance' rocket, the V-2, was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. Each hit caused devastation. The 13 tonne rocket impacted at over 3000 miles per hour. There was no warning; the missile descended faster than the speed of sound and survivors would only hear the approach and sonic booms after the blast.
Contemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse
In short, both a TV program and a magazine represent a finite unit of (more or less) undivided attention. Each of these media objects is carefully designed to grab your attention and to hold it within a bounded space—with boundaries being the start and end times of the program for TV, or the two covers of a magazine.What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience. And the ads that they create for those purchased slices are attention-worthy objects in and of themselves, e.g., Angelina Jolie posing with a diamond watch, or a hilarious vignette centered around a brand of beer.
A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for. So the page itself is just one very small slice of an unbounded media experience in which a nearly infinite number of media objects are scrambling for a vanishingly small sliver of your attention.
Pixelrust is now on Flickr. If I got that link to work right. Otherwise just search for pixelrust. Wheee!
U B U W E B - Film & Video: Francis Bacon
Part of The South Bank Show series, David Hinton directs this BBC documentary about British painter Francis Bacon, known for his horrifying portraits of humanity. The program consists of a series of conversations between Bacon and interviewer Melvyn Bragg, starting with commentary during a side-show presentation at the Tate Gallery in London. Later in the evening, Bacon is followed through various bars hanging out, drinking, and gambling. In another segment, Bacon provides a tour of his painting studio and a glimpse at his reference photographs of distorted humans. The artist discusses his theories, influences, and obsessions. This title won an International Emmy Award in 1985. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
Exclusive Trailer: The World's Best Gadget Designers Speak in Objectified
As he did for Helvetica's namesake typeface, Gary Hustwit gathered the world's top designers for his forthcoming documentary Objectified, telling the story of the magic behind the objects we use every day.
Video Digital SLRs (35mm digital still cameras) now produce amazing high quality HD video and deliver the advantages of 35mm lenses, but remain awkward for use in video and movie production. To meet the needs of filmmakers who are taking advantage of this cutting edge approach, Redrock accessories bring the needed cinema form factor, support, and features to video DSLRs.Redrock accessories for video DSLRs transform video DSLRs into production-ready cinema solutions by providing:
* Rock-solid 15mm support system * Follow focus with 35mm lens gearing for accurate and repeatable focusing * Swing-away mattebox for light management and easy access to changing lenses * Shoulder mount and handgrips for steady handheld use * Support cage for enhanced stability and low angle shot
An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history—distilled from scores of interviews—offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players.
SportsShooter.com - PS CS4 - image opens on wrong monitor
I heard from an Adobe developer today that the image always opening on the "main" monitor is an official "bug". No word on when it will be fixed.
I have 3 monitors here and I can't have the images constantly open up behind my pallets. It's very annoying. PS10 can do it fine. PSCS4 Fails. And it crashes on every other image. PSCS3 runs fine.
Buggy product released too early. Not fit for use professionally in any way.
Yes, I am being harsh. My clients demand the best work, my tools have to perform to meet their needs. The tools don't work, I won't use them. Photoshop CS4 is a unusable piece of shit. No other way to state it. I now use The Gimp more so then I use PSCS4.
So I am sticking with PSCS3 until it gets fixed. And I am not happy about spending all the money on a unused upgrade.
CAPOTE I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping. As the afternoon wears on, I shift from coffee to mint tea to sherry to martinis. No, I don't use a typewriter. Not in the beginning. I write my first version in longhand (pencil). Then I do a complete revision, also in longhand. Essentially I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. Obsessions of this sort, and the time I take over them, irritate me beyond endurance.
944 Magazine Online or In Your Hands :: 944
Go to the Los Angeles Magazine section and load page 35-36. I get mentioned in a paragraph in there. Wheeeeee!
Polymer–inorganic nanocrystal composites1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 offer an attractive means to combine the merits of organic and inorganic materials into novel electronic and photonic systems. However, many applications of these composites are limited by the solubility11 and distribution of the nanocrystals in the polymer matrices. Here we show that blending CdTe nanoparticles into a polymer–fullerene matrix followed by solvent annealing12 can achieve high photoconductive gain under low applied voltages. The surface capping ligand renders the nanoparticles highly soluble in the polymer blend, thereby enabling high CdTe loadings. An external quantum efficiency as high as approx8,000% at 350 nm was achieved at -4.5 V. Hole-dominant devices coupled with atomic force microscopy images show a higher concentration of nanoparticles near the cathode–polymer interface. The nanoparticles and trapped electrons assist hole injection into the polymer under reverse bias, contributing to efficiency values in excess of 100%.
Let me translate though. Your very expensive digital camera you own today will be a Model T in about two years. Actually, more of a horse and buggy.
Gallery: Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras
"The original purpose [was] to make a solar cell more efficient," says Chen. "However, during the research we found the solar cell phenomenon [had] disappeared." Instead, the test material showed high gain photoconductivity, indicating potential use as a photo sensor.Thanks to this lucky mistake, a new breed of camera sensors that are cheaper, higher-resolution and have lower distortion could be on the horizon. Click through the gallery to learn how this new breakthrough works and tour the labs where the magic happens.
Interactive Video Object Manipulation on Vimeo
This demo illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and even drag-and-drop composition of new still images using video footage.
I honestly can't say what that I am buying this whole convergence of video and stills... Perhaps I am getting old, but a still image has a different thought process then a video. Maybe you will see wholly commercial applications, like bundling still and videos for weddings. But I see both mediums suffering for the other if you straight up combine them into one shoot. I dunno.... I spend a lot of time thinking about this right now.