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Danger
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Mark Strozier The CogDog flies low under the radar. Are you curious what stick man is in peril? Just stay tuned!
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Always Young in Photos
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Another August 27th clicks by, another notch marking one more year since my Dad passed away (2001). I love this picture of him (not sure how old) at Coney Island (he grew up in Newark, NJ)- he looks sort of serious in is driving role and his suit […]
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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 […]
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Off The Grid
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cindy47452 I cannot recall who it was, but I knew someone in the tech biz who talked about taking an occasional “Amish weekend” where he and his spouse turned off their computers, cell phones, TVs etc for 2 days as a means of focusing on life, free of gadgets. […]
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What’s Truly Amazing
My session yesterday at the Open Education Conference was absolutely the most fun thing I have put together for a conference. it was so fun I did not wait til the night before to finish it. The images above were totally not necessary, but I found myself up at 1:30am mocking up old covers from […]
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2009/365/222 Open But Can be More Open
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog "Open" is the theme as I arrived to a wet soggy grey Vancouver for this week’s Open Education Conference. So while I cannot expect stores to be 100% open all the time (and this liquor store does pretty damned good to be open), I have higher hopes for […]
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Automatic Flickr Set Manager
Randomly surfing flickr for photos for a new video project. Sometimes, when I find a photo (usually via a compfight search) i like that’s part of a set, I look at the whole set. On one today, I found it was generated automatically by something called Flickr Set Manager: Flickr Set Manager allows you to […]
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Dogs on Blogs
cc licensed flickr photo shared by K_iwi “I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant, tweeting.” (since I cannot use a copyrighted cartoon!)
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Twitter is for Old People
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Melissa Maples Probably sending messages to @Geritol or @Depends… maybe arranging a bingo meetup… “@Methuselah I’m spending my grandkids inheritance on iTunes movies. Know where I can score some good v?” Yeah, that’s you and me and everyone else on twitter. See also how old people use Facebook. Now […]