Sep - 9th

Lomography+JPG Mag+Photojojo meetup (Updated)

Posted at 7:36 pm | Filed Under lomo

See http://www.kataan.org/blog/2008/sf-lomo-meetup/ for the whole story. Now, with more photos!      

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Sep - 9th

How to spend quality time on the web?

Posted at 1:47 pm | Filed Under uncategorized

Here’s an interesting post from Merlin Mann, one of my favorite productivity gurus on how he’s going to improve his approach to the web: …To be honest, I don’t have a specific agenda for what I want to do all that differently, apart from what I’m already trying to do every day: identify and destroy […]

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Sep - 3rd

Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home

Posted at 5:56 pm | Filed Under uncategorized

I’ve never been a fan of camera bags that looked too much like a “CAMERA BAG!!!“. Much of my photography is done at dusk, early mornings, and urban street street photography in dodgy neighborhoods. I need to be able to pull my camera out, take a shot quickly and stuff it back quickly, all the […]

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Sep - 3rd

“American Photobooth”, a book review

Posted at 4:33 pm | Filed Under uncategorized

American Photobooth is a new illustrated history of photobooths, which first made their splash in the 1920s. Photographer Nakki Goranin became obsessed with the technology after creating a series of her own photobooth self-portraits now in the collection of the International Center for Photography in New York. She then spent nearly a decade tracing the […]

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Sep - 1st

BBF, a TLR 35mm camera?

Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under lomo

(updated, more picture-y goodness at the bottom!) A little birdie told me about the BBF (Blackbird, Fly), a camera that the LOMO Society was planning to sell. I hadn’t heard of it before and decided to do a little research. A little googling uncovered this post with some information. It sounds fun – a 35mm […]

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Sep - 1st

Mimicking film with digital tricks

Posted at 12:34 am | Filed Under uncategorized

Pssst! I’ve got a secret! Most decent imaging programs have the capability of automating actions. With the right actions applied to a photo, you can easily mimic some of the quirky qualities of your favorite film camera on multiple photos and bundle the actions to share with others. To Wit, the Holganizer. With it, you […]

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Aug - 29th

old/new

Posted at 1:29 pm | Filed Under digital

One of my favorite photos from a walk along the water in San Francisco. Things change so quickly out there that these pictures are all that’s left.  

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Aug - 28th

“Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration”, a book review

Posted at 12:17 pm | Filed Under journal

Troy Paiva is one of my favorite photographers of late. I love his choice of subjects – googie architecture, abandoned buildings, junk yards and the southwest desert. He shoots almost exclusively at night and uses a combination of colored flashes and LED lights to “paint” his subjects.

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Aug - 26th

Lomography + JPG + Photojojo San Francisco & NYC Meetups

Posted at 9:38 am | Filed Under digital, lomo

Where: Dolores Park & Union Square Park SF: meeting spot TBA – NYC: under the George Washington Statue San Francisco & New York City When: September 3rd, 2008 19:00 Contact: liad@lomography.com Calling all San Francisco and New York City Lomographers! Our friends at JPG Magazine and Photojojo are teaming up with us for a very […]

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Aug - 26th

Red Phone

Posted at 7:48 am | Filed Under digital

Red Phone, SOMA. Canon SD1000

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Aug - 26th

Miroslav Tichy

Posted at 12:02 am | Filed Under art, film

Am so enthralled with the photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, who made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other similar things, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. He developed the negatives in a bucket at night, because he didn’t have a darkroom. Later, he said that […]

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Aug - 23rd

Week 8

Posted at 12:09 am | Filed Under digital

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Aug - 18th

The Conet Project

Posted at 1:22 pm | Filed Under weird

For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.

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Apr - 8th

Google Posterity Post — flashing DD-WRT onto a Belkin FD4230-4 router

Posted at 10:32 am | Filed Under blog

I’ve had this little router for years, bought it for $20 with a $20 rebate, and since upgrading the OS to DD-WRT it’s performed flawlessly. I have a Belkin wireless router (model number: F5D7230-4 v1444). For some reason, the Virtual Server (or Port Forwarding) did not work correctly. It’s obviously a firmware problem. I checked […]

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Mar - 22nd

T-Mobile U.S.A. GPRS/EDGE, ISDN, and WAP settings

Posted at 2:56 pm | Filed Under blog

Want to configure your Smart Phone, tablet or telephone to use the T-Mobile data network? This is a simple collection of settings for use with the T-Mobile (formerly VoiceStream) U.S.A. network I’ve collected over the years. I have used these settings to configure my own GSM mobile phones, PDAs and laptops. They may or may […]

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Mar - 3rd

The Art of No

Posted at 5:57 pm | Filed Under blog

The Art of No …what nobody ever teaches us is perhaps the most important thing you can learn to be a successful working designer: How to not say “no”. If I could give one piece of advice to the designer just getting into client work, or even some who’s been doing this for a while, […]

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Dec - 5th

Using a Blackberry handheld as a dialup modem

Posted at 1:32 pm | Filed Under blog

Introduction Did you know that BlackBerry can now be used just like an external modem for a laptop computer, so that a laptop can have full Internet access? This is useful when you need to do certain things that a BlackBerry cannot yet do. Increasing numbers of success reports have caused me to post this […]

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Nov - 12th

Spamassassin settings for bayesian filtering

Posted at 11:16 pm | Filed Under blog

SPAM fighting (A talking to myself, want to get this in google post…) I’ve been getting a HUGE number of SPAMs slipping through my SPAMASSASSIN filter, and have been trying to figure out how to combat it. SPAMs are getting flagged as BAYES_00, which gives them a negative score. I was moving them into the […]

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Jul - 5th

Beauty Coffee Maker!

Posted at 7:52 am | Filed Under weird

From http://tontos.splinder.com/post/8596280 I can’t read the site but I LIKE IT.

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Jul - 3rd

Weird networking knockoff

Posted at 7:54 am | Filed Under blog

This is one of the strangest knock-offs I’ve seen; they’ve totally borrowed the Linksys case design, but use a one-antenna board:   I’m pretty sure that even the B Linksys routers had two antennae. In another project, I have my FON router operational. It’s in a DMZ and allows access to other FON users for free. Check out […]

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