A guide to my Rick College journal entries
April 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Since the posts come up in reverse chronological order, I’m posting this correctly ordered list. It’s always best to start at the beginning.
10.2.1986: Twenty Years Ago Today
10.3.1986: Twenty Years Ago Today
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
April 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at In The Venue, which will always be Brick’s to me. Great music, even at 1/15th (above) and 1/30th of a second (below). I set my white balance to daylight so that the color and mood wouldn’t be filtered out.
This post first appeared here.
A first look at the Canon EOS-1D Mark III
April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Digital camera guru Rob Galbraith offers up his thoughts after testing a pre-production model of Canon’s new high-end camera. A little quote:
The camera’s features may be difficult to sum up, but the camera’s performance isn’t. It’s awesome. Pixel-for-pixel, the image quality is the best we’ve seen from a digital SLR, and except for one preproduction body glitch, it’s also the best SLR we’ve ever shot with too. The EOS-1D Mark III shows a level of design care and engineering thoroughness that is simply unprecedented. Its list of features is impressive. But actually using the camera reveals how impressive all these features work.
This is the camera that most photojournalists are drooling over right now. If you’ve got four thousand bucks laying around, this is a good way to spend it.
You can read Rob’s thoughts and download sample files from the camera from his review by clicking here.
Flight Patterns
April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Amazing photos by Richard Barnes of starling flocks over Italy in today’s New York Times Magazine:
Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds — or at least the double nature of our relationship to them — recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass. Many of Barnes’s photographs, which will be shown at Hosfelt Gallery in New York this fall, were taken over two years in EUR, a suburb of Rome that Mussolini planned as a showcase for fascist architecture. The man-made backdrop only enhances the sense of the vast flock as something malign, a sort of avian Nuremberg rally.
Here.
Maiden India
April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
From The Observer:
When Britain’s hardiest metal band played their first Indian gig, Ed Vulliamy joined them and their fans for a frank discussion of war, economics - and music
Whereas a Maiden audience in Europe tends to be what Valerie Potter of Metal Hammer magazine calls ‘a family outing, father and son perhaps’, the crowd tonight are almost all in their twenties and there are more girls than there would be in the West. It becomes clear that in India it is frowned upon for a Maiden fan to like any other band. There is particular loathing for Ozzy Osbourne, regarded by Payal Bal as ‘a sell-out. Nothing to do with metal. It’s got to be Maiden and only Maiden.’
‘We may listen to other music, and we all fall in love, but that’s not the point,’ says Alidya Hara. ‘We can get our love songs from any of the others. From Maiden we can get what we really feel - pent-up aggression, the right questions.’
Here.
