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The Tragedy of Wired

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The cover story of the current issue of Wired must be the weakest, molecule wafer thin piece they ever published. Were the editors all on vacation and they left the magazine to some middle school kids to write? The tragedy of craigslist is that their web design is […]

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The New MTV is Where M is Me

I have not even seen a glimpse of MTV for at least 10 or 15 years. I am so old I can remember when the “M” stood for “Music”: I can remember the riveting teen age moment when MTV first launched- it was radical, different, spoke to me– and it felt at the time like […]

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Who Is That Guy?

from original by cogdogblog After a long break, I’ve started running again (that’s another yet blogged bit, but not the point today), and am doing so listening on the iPOd to Chris Anderson’s book Free on audiobook (the one I packaged from his free mp3 recordings) So there’s a section where he’s talking about Moore’s […]

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Honing an Aperture Strategy

I cannot claim organization as one of my attributes, but have had an interesting process the last few months in getting a tad closer to being more organized in my digital photography.

The 12,000+ photos in flickr accumulated since March 2004 are but the tip of a glacier looming in a plastic box in my closet that contains maybe 80 CDs/DVDs with digital photos back to 1999.

For the last few years I have taken a lazy approach– I had in my disk a copy of Apple’s Aperture which I knew subconsciously was the “right” way to go (part of my typical strategy of DWDD- Do What D’Arcy Does), but my lazy forte into the software left me bewildered. So I’d been importing into iPhoto, doing basic editing there or more complex external in PhotoShop, exporting to flickr, and periodically archiving the photos to discs.

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Tilt Shift the Easy Way

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Turning an original photo of Vancouver from the Burrard Street Bridge into something like a toy train model is now easy! I’ve done some toying around with the tilt-shift effect using various techniques in PhotoShop, but the Tilt Shift Generator is a fun and easy way to create […]