A blog by Colin Pantall about all things related to photography.
Choice is important because photography is a promiscuous art. We don’t have to make choices if we don’t want to, we can just point our camera and shoot away, have a drink, swap cameras shoot some more then drink some more, find another camera and imagine that we can make the choices later and a messianiacal coherence will shine through. (Genre Switching)
Via Gerry Caravan.
The Tenori-on is a musical device created by Toshio Iwai that implements a grid of LED switches that create organic music. You can try a version of it yourself with the Tone Matrix. Not as complex, but still fun nonetheless.
NY Mag has a great editorial op-ed by Michael Osinski, a software programmer who created the technological foundation that Wall Street utilized to blow up the economy.
I never would have thought, in my most extreme paranoid fantasies, that my software, and the others like it, would have enabled Wall Street to decimate the investments of everyone in my family. Not even the most jaded observer saw that coming. I can’t deny that it allowed a privileged few to exploit the unsuspecting many. But catastrophe, depression, busted banks, forced auctions of entire tracts of houses? The fact that my software, over which I would labor for a decade, facilitated these events is numbing. Is capitalism inherently corrupt?
For all the anger and frustration the country (and the world for that matter) feels, it’s always humbling to hear the stories of the smaller unknowns who played a part in the mess.
Traders had a contest. Coming in at eight, they never left their desks all day, eating and drinking while working. Then, at three o’clock, they marched into the men’s room and stood at the wall opposite the urinals. Dropping their pants, they bet $100 on who could train his stream the longest on the urinals across the lavatory. As their hydraulic pressure waned, the three traders waddled, pants at their ankles, across the floor, desperately trying to keep their pee on target. This is what $2 million of bonus can do to grown men.
If my job dangled a fat bonus check in front of me I’d be pulling off antics like pissing on toilet rolls, too.
An amazingly detailed look at the process behind Minetta Tavern’s $26 Black Label burger.
Tokyo cyber drifters
How very Gibson-esque of the times. All you’ll need is a cubicle, a wireless connection, and away you go into the ether of cyberspace.
Via Kottke.