Nice cycling etc pics from 'The Beauty of the Banal' blog
The photography of Sydney'sTerrence Chin and, yes, note to regulars, cycling caps and Bowie...
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The photography of Sydney'sTerrence Chin and, yes, note to regulars, cycling caps and Bowie...
A nice find on Flick thanks to Disrupsean.
The story he posted:
This is daredevil Evel Knievel photographed in front of his house in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, circa 197?, by Bill Wolf.
He lived across the street from Lani, my oldest friend (our parents were friends and we "met" as infants). Now Lani lives in Oakland. She came across this while moving and sent it to me this week.
One of Lani's earliest and oddest memories: a blood-soaked pimp, having been beaten up by an unsatisfied Knievel, pounded on the door of Lani's house late one night and asked her parents to use their phone to call a taxi.
Fort Lauderdale is a bizarre place. Home sweet home.
Exec summary: You listen to a BBC Program and if you are uploading an image that could relate to it to Flickr you tag it with the programs name (or the code you get on the file of the podcast)
The call it machine tagging. Clever?
In Australia, your listening to the science show about cloud formations - you see some really good ones forming over your house that afternoon so you photograph them, upload to Flickr and tag them abc:ssw27082009.
How else could this be used? Reporting of news events?
From above, the Olympus 50th Anniversary Pen camera looks a lot like a flying craft out of Star Wars (original eps. 4-6). You know, kind of space-age but a little clunky and not that slick. Well, that's exactly what Olypmus was going for with this camera. Something that was aesthetically reminiscent of the long lineage of Pen Cameras circa 1959.
What will instatly blow you away about this camera is that it's lens is interchangable. Yeah. It's just a matter of snap-locking a big elephant-gun-of-a-lens on this baby and you'll be photographing the sweat on a cheetah's brow from a thousand paces! Olympus has gone into a bit of detail too with this camera providing a beautiful retro-styled leather case for the machine and a hot-shoe footing for a flash. Below are a couple of pictures of the original Pen Camera (1959) and a further development along the line (1962). It's great to see that Olympus has done a gun job in repeating the aesthetic, although I would whinge about there not being a view finder a la Canon G10.
Olympus will go on about this being the perfect in-between camera for those that don't like the bulk of an SLR but want the picture quality... blah blah blah. But really, this camera is all about conversation. You pull this out at a family function or some soiree of import and you and your Pen will be the talk of the room, though I hear it does take a pretty nice snap of Uncle Wally.
Merge Mag - Adelaide
Our kids had a great time at Henley Beach on the warmest August
evening for many years.
