A brief interlude to note down a couple of things.
I follow only one podcast, and that's On Taking Pictures. As the name says, it's about photography, and in one recent Q&A episode they kindly answered a question I have made; what's cool however is their comment on my …
more ...Recentemente mi sono imbattuto in due cose meravigliose. La prima, una serie di foto scattate in Pakistan da un giovane, pluripremiato, fotografo, Muhammed Muheisen.
La seconda, un piccolo saggio di Marina Keegan, pieno di speranza, gioia di vivere e quel senso di fratellanza e comunità che si ha solo a …
more ...Richard Koci Hernandez made this video asking if "mobile photography has made us more reliant on tools than on our eyes":
Sometimes you can find smart youtube comments. For example this guy wrote:
more ...Hernandez makes a valid point - the image shouldn't be defined by the camera it's captured with. It's …
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I have always liked Craig Mod, since I read years ago his travelogue/review of the Panasonic GF1. He traveled to Himalaya, captured some great shot with this little camera, and wrote extensive and very well written thoughts about 'gear' -- linking tech talk to excellent …
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Di Craig Mod mi ricordo la recensione della GF1 (trekking in himalaya, fotografie molto belle scattate con quella che all'epoca era un piccolo gioiello che poi mi convinse ad andare mirrorless e abbandonare -- anche se solo temporaneamente -- le reflex).
Adesso è diventato un'opinionista, scrive e …
more ...Attenzione, arriva una serie di appunti che butto lì, tanto per levarli dall'eterno stato di DRAFT.
Il primo ad esempio lo scrivevo a febbraio 2012 (rileggendolo, lo trovo ancora attuale):
il portafoglio dei possessori di porsche carrera 4 GTS e Cayenne …
It might be quirky and it might be cool but I would argue this is something which should not appeal to anybody apart from facebook photographers.
I'm talking about the 15mm Olympus body c(r)ap lens.
The reasons are two:
There are still pearls to be found on the internet, after all.
In these days I have found three photography blogs which are full of interesting and well written articles; stimulating, instructive, much better of the crap that Popular Photography publishes (and I'm not even mentioning the countless websites and …
more ...If you have love of photography and are a dreamy nerd enamored of Asimov's books, you really need to read this; it's an account by a NASA astronaut about the daily experiences of shooting photographs in space:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/locations/photography_in_space.shtml
more ...So true:
more ...Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives …
Ho scoperto un sito fantastico, di quelli che ti fanno riscoprire quanto Internet possa ancora essere fonte di meraviglie.
Si chiama Brain Pickings ed è come se fossero i ritagli di giornale che vorresti mettere da parte; parla di creatività, di scienza, di filosofia, di psicologia; parla di qualsiasi argomento …
more ...From "Secrets of a Mind-Gamer", a fascinating article on a normal guy who becomes a memory champion:
more ...In his 1869 book Hereditary Genius Sir Francis Galton argued that a person could improve at mental and physical activities until he hit a wall, which “he cannot by any education or exertion …
Interesting post on Scientific American, however this barista needs a reality check: a refractometer to make coffee ? I'd recommend a couple of place in my hometown (Bari) where baristas have no PhD but make the best coffee ever.
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