America in color – these photos are worth a look…
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
via Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog.
Here’s some short and useful wordpress tutorial videos. I’ll keep this page updated with new ones as I find them.
How-To: The WordPress.com dashboard – introduction
I just bought some LED “Ribbon Strip” for a new version of my Motion Studies light boxes. I came across this interesting article that details why LED technology is not ready to replace fluorescent lighting in many situations. I recently read that IKEA is going to eliminate all incandescent lighting by the end of the year.
I contend the energy-efficiency argument with LEDs for all major light sources is premature at this time.
Well-suited uses
However, LEDs are well suited to replace such-small area illumination uses as retail, display, refrigeration and task lighting, but warehouses, large stores and office buildings are better served with fluorescent lights, from both cost and energy-saving perspectives.
…For illumination, increasing the unit-area brightness beyond a certain level isn’t vital. It’s more vital to acquire a brightness level that uniformly spans a broader area. Substantially increasing unit-area brightness (for example making each LED lamp brighter with either higher feed current or higher efficacy) beyond this level isn’t useful as long as LEDs themselves remain small, planar and directional.
…Some argue that when the unit area brightness is increased, meaning, when individual LEDs produce more lumens per square area without driving them harder (improving the efficacy by a factor of 2, that is, to 150 lm/W), the LED T8’s light output will be the same, or more than, that of the LFL T8.
via How Well Can LEDs Meet the Energy Challenge? | SignWeb | signweb.com.
This is a great list although the first section might be out of date since WordPress 3 now supports custom content types “natively”.
I recently came across one plugin they list that was very impressive in it’s scope but a bit hard to use:
Role Scoper is a comprehensive enrichment for access control in WordPress, giving you CMS-like control of permissions. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis.
via 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins – Noupe.
Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin that lets you put together online forms via a simple drag-and-drop interface. It’s not free but it’s inexpensive (starts at $39) and amazingly powerful. Not only can you build many kinds of forms but the interface is a pleasure to use and new features are added regularly and the plugin is maintained and supported actively.
The key thing about this plugin (that the other WordPress form plugins don’t offer) is that it lets you save submitted forms in your WordPress database. And when viewing within the admin interface you can add notes and even email notes to any email addresses associated with the form. Import/export of both forms and entries is supported.
You can easily access advanced features like having form elements interact with one another. It’s smooth and easy to delve into features that Wufoo and other form tools can’t touch. One example is to have a “more info” button on a page that sends the page url or some other info into a contact form.
Other features include:
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here’s a couple screenshots…
This program sounds like a great opportunity for an intensive work and training experience in fine art photography in one of my favorite cities – Berlin.
It’s like an intensive workshop only it lasts almost a full month. April Gertler is the director.
What can I gain from this program that other programs wouldn’t be able to give me ?
Picture Berlin is a unique chance to experience the international artistic community from the inside. The focus of the program is to have a feeling of what it is like to experience art and discussions about art in a context that might be new and unfamiliar to you, with people you do not know. The challenges of considering your artistic practice and simultaneously being exposed to cultural differences is an enriching experience which can further your work in leaps and bounds that might be astonishing. Participants create a portfolio ready for presentation after the program is completed, and have exhibition experience ready to put on their artist resumes. Also, each participant will gain insight in the way the European art scene works, ranging from an overview of the European artist residency network, to how to prepare a portfolio. You’ll also engage in discussions on contemporary art and gain a basic understanding of artistic practice happening in Europe today.
via Picture Berlin
Lots of buzz around apple’s Thoughts on why they don’t support flash.
BashFlash is more evidence of the anti-flash momentum.
And this was a funny take on “The pot calling the kettle black”
A blog called Hoopty Rides decided to see what would happen if you copied the text of the letter into your word processor and replaced the word “Adobe” with “Apple” and “Flash” with “closed.” The results are pretty funny.
One of the best paragraphs to do this to is in the section that specifically addresses Adobe's closed system. Here it is before the search and replace shenanigans:
Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.
And after:
Apple’s closed products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Apple, and Apple has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Apple’s closed products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Apple and available only from Apple. By almost any definition, closed is a closed system.
via Jobs Lashes Out At Adobe, Oh The Irony – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek.
IMAP in Mac Mail (aka Apple Mail or Mail.app) is flaky. But this tip saved me in trying to rebuild my setting after mail crashed and forgot (deleted) all my outgoing servers. Then older messages disappeared from folders because it was mapping to “inbox” twice – or something crazy.
The point of IMAP is to make more mail available on more devices. This was a bigger issue for me as I started to rely on my iPhone for mail. Having access to older emails can be very handy, even with iPhone Mail’s limitations.
A next step is to replicate other MobileMe “push” features for calendar and contacts.
So I started doing some more research online, and quickly discovered that I wasn’t the first person to run into this problem. The general consensus was that Mail’s support for IMAP is a little flaky, but several people offered their solutions and workarounds. One of the necessary steps is to tell Mail that the IMAP path prefix is “INBOX”; the other necessary step is to set up a mapping between the remote “Drafts”, “Sent” and “Trash” folders to the same folders in Mail.
The part that I got wrong was the order of these two steps, and to make a long story short, it apparently matters. If you define the IMAP path prefix first, it doesn’t seem to work properly. In my case, the “Drafts” folder would just disappear altogether with no way to get back to it. So wait to do that after you’ve set up the mappings. It took me most of the day to get this working, but it does seem to be OK now.
(now, a few weeks later, it’s still working although mail asks me on startup each time if i want to add the ‘inbox’ prefix)
via Setting up IMAP in Mac Mail • Blog Archive • Lovable Lyle.
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I’ve enjoyed shooting video on my 5D and have been reading up on how the professional use of HD DSLR.
this is a blog from a pro hollywood director of photography:
http://hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/
he’s a big proponant of using dslr’s for video.
i found a couple others too
http://www.cinema5d.com/
with detailed techinical discussions
here’s another with details about image stabilization
http://www.canon5dtips.com
Now to the point. The HDSLR technology recycles, it is small, it requires less space, less crew, less light, less power, less fuel, and less food. I can go on and on for a long time about how this technology produces less waste. The most important point is that with less waste also comes the power for infinite creativity. I have coined the phrase “small footprint, big vision.” Isn’t that what we want to teach our children and the world? Leave a small footprint, but have a big vision.
Learned about this amazing story on This American Life. Jasper Lawrence found that hookworms were capable of suppressing allergic responses in people who suffer from allergies, asthma and more.
here’s a summary:
Hookworms. That’s right. Meaning, in order to get this relief, one has to intentionally invite a hookworm infestation into their own body. And unbelievably, this isn’t that new of a concept.
Almost a decade ago, a scientist by the name of David Pritchard visited New Guinea and found that those inhabitants infected with a small amount of hookworm seemed to exhibit far less allergic and asthmatic response than those who were not.
via Hookworms for allergies? Would you infest your own body to be symptom-free?.
see also this interesting video testimonial
