James Lileks’ site is one of the biggest time-sucks that I ever encountered on the Web. I can spend hours doodling around in the copious archives full of the old, outdated and wonderful (for a good time, check his collection of vintage Motel post cards!). Here’s a section of his site called Must Credit ACME [...]
About a month ago, Brooks Cameras in San Francisco closed its doors. I was a customer there for several years and already miss the store a lot. The store often had portraits of stars of the 1960s in their window, usually without much of an explanation, other than the obvious implication of “we’ve been here [...]
San Francisco still has an amazing number of corner stores. I can probably walk to about half a dozen little markets and liquor stores in a three block radius and I thoroughly enjoy buying at least some of our groceries there. The prices are not much higher than in the overpriced supermarket down the street, [...]
xRez is a site maintained by a group of ambitious panorama photographers that have specialized in gigapixel-sized panoramas and photo experiences way beyond what most of us have stitched together from a view photos. Their Yosemite images for instance are breathtaking in their scale and beauty and convey more than most other images I’ve ever [...]
Yesterday evening we saw the Yoshida Brothers live in Oakland at Yoshi’s and it was all around a great experience. We actually hadn’t been to Yoshi’s before and it’s not just a great venue, they also have some really good Fusion-Japanese food. And the Yoshida Brothers are fantastic musicians who can make playing the Shamisen [...]
We just watched Baraka – a film very much in the same tradition as Koyaanisqatsi and other nonverbal films. Baraka is amazing. It’s a ninety minute trip around the world to the most beautiful and the most horrifying places that one could possibly find. It’s a meditation on Earth and on how we are part [...]
Here are two more night shots I’ve taken with my seventy-year old Jiffy Kodak Six-20. These are from one of those foggy nights in autumn when cold, wet wind from the ocean pushes the fog through San Francisco’s downtown. In such nights many corners in our neighborhood transform into scenes from late forties noir detective [...]
Kazumi Atsuta, an aspiring and talented photographer – who also happens to be my lovely wife – just re-launched her website at imkazumi.com. And while I’m clearly not objective about this site, check out her gallery of black and white pictures. There’s some gorgeous photos in there.
Ookpik is a great collector of vintage film negatives and his site, Ookpik’s Negativity is a treasure trove of lost moments. I thoroughly enjoy the posts were the readers actually identify one of the many mystery scenes, sometimes even accompanied by a new picture of the same place.
One of the best things about working in downtown San Francisco is the view. Here’s a shot I took a couple of days ago with my Nikon N80 on Kodak Gold 200 of the beautiful early evening scenes we get looking across Sutter street with Nob Hill in the background.