Good to see Boston was aesthetically depressing back then too- January 20, 2008 Flickr's grand experiment with the Library of Congress is off to a great start, with collections from the 1910s and 30s40s (some fantastic color pictures from the latter set, making them seem far more than 20-30 years younger than the former).http://morland.theoretic.org/archives/2008/01/20/good_to_see_boston_was_aesthetically_depr... Knowing where I stood on things- January 17, 2008 One of the most valuable and yet most annoying parts of my photo-taking endeavors is manually geo-coding my pictures so that I can track down their locations later and plot them on a map now. The ATP Photo Finder looks to alleviate that a little, hopefully bridging the gap between my carpal-tunnel-inducing manual tedium and fully automated integrated-GPS cameras (incidentally I saw a press release about a year ago from a Philips spin-off working on an innovative solution to this - only capture.http://morland.theoretic.org/archives/2008/01/16/knowing_where_i_stood_on_things/ Live action and delightfully free of Breckin Meyer- January 16, 2008 Circa 1989, around the time my female contemporaries were fantasizing about John Stamos, I had a brief fondness for Garfield, the comic. While I don't regret it - after all, it's precocious to have the humor of a middle-aged housewife before entering your second decade of life - I long ago closed that chapter in the book of Morland. Of course only the vaguest familiarity with the comic is necessary to appreciate the genius of Lasagna Cat, so that embarrassing childhood background I shared was.http://morland.theoretic.org/archives/2008/01/16/live_action_and_delightfully_free_of_brec... Nuthin' but a T thang- January 6, 2008 In Berlin I saw an exhibit by an artist who purchased a mock T-72 training tank from China and hooked it up to a series of pumps to cyclically inflate and deflate it (you can listen to a classy description of this work by Michael Sailsdorfer if you'd like). I took a series of pictures over the course of the cycle and thought it would be fun to create a little animation of it: Something about the rhythmic dip-and-bounce of that tank reminded me of the inimitable panache of the...http://morland.theoretic.org/archives/2008/01/06/nuthin_but_a_t_thang/ Viva la revolution around the sun- January 6, 2008 Typically, and I am not alone in thinking this, celebrations of the New Year tend to struggle in living up to expectations. This time they were exceeded thanks in no small part to our host city of Berlin. The last time I was in Berlin was ten full years ago, as a cherubic backpacker freshly graduated from high school (in order to help my perspective I actually tried to book the same hostel I stayed in then for this trip, but alas, no vacancies this time). Ten years ago the sky was littered...http://morland.theoretic.org/archives/2008/01/06/viva_la_revolution_around_the_sun/ |