My interests, enthusiasms, and areas of expertise are errant: they persist in wandering off, but they eventually seem to come back from their assorted quests and reassert themselves in my consciousness and activities. So it has been with photography, as with music and woodworking and Information and Science Fiction and Literature and and and… When a particular fascination resurfaces, it has a whole new set of previously unrecognized (or imperfectly appreciated) facets that tempt me into a new Odyssey of exploration. This generally means the acquisition of new tools and resources, to carry out whatever new Grand Schemes assert themselves as necessities. Fortunately, the spouse is well acquainted with the pattern, and is skilled at eloquent rolling of the eyes.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
links for 2009-03-16
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as a wiki… almost makes me wish I was still in the biz
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…or see it in this form, which may make you a True Believer in Google's Goodness. Or not.
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the Whole Text of Veblen's 1904 edition… just start reading it anywhere and be amazed. Guess those old guys knew a thing or two.
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a nice catch by Dan Gillmor, presently at BoingBoing for a while. Bookend this with the Clay Shirky piece everybody's pointing to ( http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/) and you've got The Whole Enchilada
Imogen Heap
like nobody else:
links for 2009-03-15
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Nouriel Roubini is pretty convincing…
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from BibliOdyssey, a bunch of illustrations of cooking technologies, 16th c. Italy
Awash in memories
I’ve been scanning negatives from 1963, when I was just beginning to think of myself as A Photographer. I’m mulling over some explanatory text for the project, and perhaps I’ll put it up here as it unreels. Meanwhile, here’s one that may or may not entice you into further explorations of my Flickr photostream:
Can’t Make It Here
This one came around again today and it seems to be at least as relevant now (I pointed to it 6 months ago, but sometimes repetition is a GOOD thing):
links for 2009-03-14
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Public Lectures and Events, in case you don't have anything ELSE to do
links for 2009-03-13
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!!at last!!
links for 2009-03-12
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Beirut urban spelunkers… Flickr photostream at the end
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Mike Wesch steals another march. FOLLOW those links to see how it works, and note what MW sez: "I feel like this is one of those >>Rear View Mirror<< moments in which a new technology comes into our lives with enormous potential and we just don't know what to do with it yet. We think of it in terms of what we know (pen and paper) and fail to recognize the potential. .."
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in its early stages, but a promising project
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NY Times