Here’s a blast from the past: The Living Internet. The site has been built by Bill Stewart and it has huge amounts of historical documentation available about the early Internet history and how we got here from there. I just lost an hour there somewhere in those pages and I’ll probably go back for some [...]
Taking photos with vintage cameras is always a bit of a risk and the resulting pictures can be quite a surprise. I took this picture on the way home from work while passing through Chinatown with a seventy year old Kodak Jiffy camera. The camera is about as simple as can be with a rudimentary [...]
For more than a year now both me and my wife have been watching and helping with the growth of Offerings, a very ambitious project launched by Teresa Ruelas. Offerings is a canvas where women can reflect on their modern lives and where they can express themselves through art and participation. Currently Teresa is working [...]
While strolling through the blogosphere I stumbled over this amazing video: The Machine is Us/ing Us It’s a beautiful 5-minute explanation of what HTML and XML do, what linking does to the web, where the web is coming from and where the web is going. This video is full of interesting ideas and some heavy [...]
Over the last few years Japan has developed into a cultural powerhouse with Muji Stores in faraway places like Germany, Anime movies being shown in local art cinemas and occasionally even in the Multiplexes and there are now Mangas in corner bookstores everywhere. We are bombarded by new Japanese gadgets that look unrealistically futuristic and [...]
This shot is more than a year old, but somehow I never got around posting it… I took this on my way to work on a dark winter morning at the entrance of Claude Lane at Sutter Street in downtown San Francisco. I took this picture with my Kodak Retinette 1A on Kodak Gold 200. [...]
When I switched off my Windows PC for the last time about a year ago, there was only one piece of software left that I knew I would be missing on my Mac: Flight Simulator. Thanks to its learning curve and complexity, most people will never even know what an amazing application the MS Flight [...]
Paul Schwartz over at Kodak’s great A Thousand Words blog was kind enough to link to my Found Film archive in a post about the subject of finding long-forgotten films in antique cameras. It’s probably one of my favorite moments with a camera I’ve bought on eBay. The anticipation of what could possibly be on [...]
Brooks Cameras in San Francisco is closing their doors after more than sixty years in business and this week was their “Everything Must Go” sale. The staff there found a lot of old boxes in their storage area that probably hadn’t been touched in decades and among many other things there were a couple of [...]