Jan - 2nd

JPG Magazine says goodbye

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Sad news from the folks at JPG Magazine: JPG Magazine Says Goodbye Posted by Laura Brunow Miner on 1 January 2009. Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media. We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the […]

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Dec - 24th

The Conet Project

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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”. Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters […]

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Nov - 4th

Special San Francisco PHOTOJOJO shoot this weekend!

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I received this email for a photo shoot this weekend. The mural work in the Mission district makes a wonderful subject for shooting, and the PHOTOJOJO people are a lot of fun. Hi! Your pals at Photojojo (that’s us) are planning a series of really fun photo events in San Francisco and you’re invited!We call […]

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Nov - 3rd

More San Miguel de Allende / Guanajuato photos

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Untweaked, fresh out of my Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim.

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Sep - 9th

How to spend quality time on the web?

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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

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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

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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

Mimicking film with digital tricks

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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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