June 2011
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The Clock’s chime generator creates a different bell ringing sequence each day for 10,000 years.
The website of the clock >
It’s a monumental undertaking that Bezos and the crew of people designing and building the clock repeatedly compare to the Egyptian pyramids.
read the article on wired,com >
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We have the mistaken impression that photography is durable because what has endured is so extensive and we remember victories, not losses. Almost axiomatically, there is little way to remember the losses. It’s a kind of cultural posttraumatic amnesia; the photographs that disappear from view mostly get forgotten.
Analog photography lost more than a third of the century. I’ll be...
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“Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but there are two words that you can...”
– Errol Morris
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“Buy a small deep freeze. Buy a 20-or-whatever-year supply of your preferred...”
– Good news from Ctein on The Online Photographer (but only for black and white…) Securing Your Film Photography Future
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“Black has an inner sound of nothingness bereft of possibilities, a dead nothingness as if the sun had become extinct, an eternal silence without future, without hope.”
Vasily Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art (1910)
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
Robert...
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May 2011
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“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson 