Category: Visuals
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Aesthetics of Walter Murch
I’ve been reading The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje. It’s a dialogue between novelist and filmmaker, with lots of insider’s knowledge to producing films. Every single page is full of gems and insights. Murch, if you recall, was involved in The Conversation, The English Patient, Julia, American Grafitti,…
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Headfirst/Creating Passionate Users Weblog
Today I discovered two very insightful weblogs by veterans in the technical publishing industry. First Joseph B. Wikert from Wrox has a weblog about publishing trends called Average Joe. I’ll be catching up on his posts over time. Also, a great User Experience group weblog called Creating Passionate Users by some programmers/usability people who wrote…
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Tips for Scanning Old Photos
I need to scan lots of old family photos. Here are some handy articles about how to scan photos for archiving. Kimberly Powell writes a detailed guide on about.com. Tips for Scanning & Restoring Another excellent piece by Ralph G. McKnight about photo archiving for long periods of time (150 years, etc) Workflow on photo…
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Vintage Photos Weblog
Vintage Photos Weblog
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Favorite Photos.
Recently I’ve been uploading bunches of personal photos on flickr site. Lately, I’ve had a lot of fun browsing through flickr photos. Here’s a list of my favorites. Here are some of my favorites: here, here, here and here. By using flash they gave contributors the option to disable Save as. Oops, it looks like…
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Lovely Sculptures
My high school, Strake Jesuit, has a lovely sculpture garden. Speaking of photos, I’ve started a flickr photo account. I only have 10 photos on it, but I should have a few hundred by next week. Why Flickr? It is not an ideal solution, (and also their pro membership leaves something to be desired). The…
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Archiving and Photos
I’m way behind on posting; I wanted to throw some stuff here when I am waiting for something to compile. Rsnapshot, a backup utility using rsync. Mike Rubel has written an article about backups with rsync/linux. Here’s a slashdot discussion about digital rot, a very serious problem. I found (and copied about 8-10 pages) of…
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Frivolity
(Thanks, Jordanna).
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Geek Wish Fulfillment
Cartoon for Python Programmers. In your dreams. Here’s a guide to the Unix file system. Great reference!
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Photo Uploaders
Zoto uploads photos onto a third party site. Two cool features: 1)it’s a java app, so available on all platforms, 2)it reads EXIF data and lets you categorize content. It’s in beta now, and eventually will be supported by advertising. Zoto is a client application which syncs with the zoto website, so you don’t have…
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Links for My Canon Powershot A-70 Camera
Great collection on online books/tutorials about digital photography. Collection of articles on digital photography. Don’t Read this; I’m just saving links for my Canon Powershot A-70 Camera. A longish review of its features, test photos of Canon A70, aFAQ, an A-series discussion board with tips on focusing, how to avoid shuttle lag. Other topics: lens…
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Gimp Tutorials
Some Gimp Tutorials . Also xnview , an excellent cross-platform free photo catalog with EXIF and IPTC support. Interestingly, there is a deluxe version for Windows platform only.
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Zope Photo Installer and Photo Galleries
A Photoalbum product for Zope. It doesn’t seem to be plone-friendly yet. Check out this feature list. It looks like the yet-to-be-released version 1.4 will make it plone-friendly. Alex King has a photo database. The neat thing about his product is that it is platform neutral. Basically you run a web server on your local…
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Erez Sitzer’s Amazanga
A college friend Erez Sitzer, has become an artist. He paints. Sitzer an Israeli who has traveled the world over, going to South America and Asia, has come in contact with shamans, spiritual teachers (Carlos Casteneda, Terrence McKenna , Tom Robbins and undoubtedly scores of other people too amazing to be famous). Now he lives…