June 2007
Livin' Large
Pacifica, CA industrial designer Dirk Dieter has a tiny house. It’s 250 square feet. The process of renovating and making the place what he wants has even led to a side business selling the furniture he designed for his own “streamlined living.” Some of the principles that have gone into his redesign and renovation: Sliding doors or curtains instead of swinging doors Flexible...
Tokyo Tower Scale Model
This isn’t the most interesting of items, but I thought I should post it just for the woman in the photo’s facial expression. Looking at her newly purchased model of Tokyo Tower, she seems proud, in disbelief of its beauty, and strangely, a little bit in love with it. She loves spending nights in alone with her model, changing the colour of the lights to match her mood. Ahh, 11,000 yen (£45/$90)...
Web Site Traffic: Track your site traffic fifty...
Web 2.0 tracker Mashable.com has compiled a monster list of fifty different methods by which you can track your website traffic. We’ve posted about various stats packages here at Lifehacker, and there’s even more goodies to choose from on this list. Anything from web site visualization, to blog and RSS analysis, to various ways to track market research data is covered here. It’s...
Nikon CLS Tutorial Video
The headline pretty much says it. This three-minute video shows you the basics on quick-and-dirty wireless TTL operation with a Nikon SB-800 and a pop-up flash CLS-enabled camera. This guy uses a D200, but there are several other Nikons that work in a very similar way. And remember, you can use CLS to merely trigger the strobe in the manual mode, if you want to do your own driving. I’m just
karmic returns
We got the loft! I got into school! I finalized the date for the NY Show! Well, we still have to go through the portfolio review, but everything else for the loft has been approved. We will be moving in mid-late july. Perfect timing since I need that space to work on my show. That means we need to sublet our current apartment - which is actually pretty sweet. If anybody needs a place or knows...
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Vincent Laforet, Me and My Human, 2004 Skaters at the Lasker Rink in Central Park are dwarfed by their shadows, at least in this aerial view by Pulitzer-prizewinning New York Times photographer Vincent Laforet, February 22, 2004.
Prints of this picture (and a great many others) are available for sale at The New York Times Photo Archives.
I love this shot. First you tend to read it as...
What NYC Would Look Like Without People
Scientific American has an fascinating feature An Earth Without People, not to mention these renderings of what the city might look like sans humans. The drawing above is what Fifth Avenue/St. Patrick’s Cathedral would look like and the drawing below is what the subways would look like after just two days. SA interviewed Alan Weisman, whose book The World Without Us discusses would happen...
City Proposes Limits on Public Photography,...
The Mayor’s Office of Theater, Film, and Broadcasting, which coordinates film and television production and issues permits around the five boroughs, is considering rules that could potentially severely restrict the ability of even amateur photographers and filmmakers to operate in New York City. The NY Times reports that the city’s tentative rules include requiring any group of two...
Lego man of disaster
At this poorly-laid-out but funny page, “Joe Vig” is an unlucky Lego character depicted in a series of calamitous incidents, from starting a grease fire in the kitchen to being abducted by aliens. Shark attacks, mob hits and fire hydrant accidents are all part of the fun.
You can submit your own Joe Vig disaster, too; if you want to impress us, show Joe having an existential...
Presenting and Protecting Your Pictures Online
It’s late as I write this and I want to get back to “regular programming” tomorrow (Ctein has a post awaiting publication, and I’d like to say more about Wood, Water, and Light by Mendlowitz and White), so just a few final final recommendations, after three days of vigorous chewing on the issue of copyright.
The issues involved in presenting work and protecting it are...
Even Mayors have to wait in line for the iPhone
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, iPhoneYou would think being the mayor of the 5th (or 6th, depending on who you ask) largest city in the country would mean not having to wait in line for an iPhone, but you would be wrong. That’s Philadelpha’s own Mayor John Street, on line here in Center City waiting for an iPhone (he is third in line at the AT&T store). Does this mean that...
Transformers’ Toy Design
This is gonna be all about Autobots and Decepticons! With the Transformers movie coming out July 3rd, 2007 - damn, in Japan we have to wait until August 4th! - the long ongoing Transformers franchise is still in full mode, including comic books, TV series, a toy line and now also a game, of course. […]
An Inspiring Stop-Motion Video (Modest Mouse Fan...
Stop-motion photography ain’t easy. It requires patience, patience, planning, patience, and a whole lot of patience.
So we gotta hand it to Max Tyrie and his friends — to create their stop-motion rendition of Modest Mouse’s “Missed the Boat”, they took original footage from the group, printed it out frame-by-frame on 4,133 sheets of paper, then took photos of those sheets of paper with a digital...
Belkin intros washable mouse and convertible mouse...
If you’re sick of loose peripherals jankin’ up your bag, then Belkin’s got your back. Oh, and if you’ve toned down the Cheetos regimen to prevent further orange-ization of your mouse, well, they’ve been working on that too. Belkin’s new Washable Mouse isn’t wireless, but it’ll withstand spills and stains. Oh, and for the janky periphs situation,...
Sprocket Holga: Shooting 35mm film
Twin Castle — by Joe Reifer Well, I finally shot some 35mm film in my Holga. Yes, folks, as if it’s not crazy enough to use a $20 medium format camera with a crappy lens and only one shutter speed, you can jam a roll of 35mm film in and it’ll expose all the way to the edges. Photographer Richard Sintchak showed me how to load the film a few months ago, and photographer Susanne Friedrich shot my...
Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I (James Hong)
Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I — Ever since I came back to HOTorNOT in October 2006, people have been asking me what the company is up to. For the previous 6 years, HOTorNOT had pretty much been steady along the same course: A picture rating site with a dating-like application built on top …
Source: James Hong
Author: James
Link: http://james.hotornot.com/2007/06/reinventing… Techmeme...
Do Not Enter : a street art project by Dan Witz
Dan Witz is taking his art skills to the streets this summer with his Do Not Enter sign modification around the NYC area. He adds mixed media pieces to the signs to create playful, illusion-like imagery with a message. You can check out what he’s got up so far, but look out for more later on since this project’s still in progress.
via wooster collective…
Top 10 Baaaddest Emergency Services Vehicles
It’s actually a Top 9 list put together by UK blogger deputydog, but we rounded it out to an even ten; the NYPD will start messing around with the Dodge Charger, pictured above, this summer. Click here to see deputydog’s nine, from a Lambo chase car to a Porsche ambulance. …
Launch:
Google News gets a new graphical view with an animated interface for browsing your news by images; hovering over an image displays the lead for the related piece. [via Google Operating System.
Clutter: 7 ways to get and stay organized
Blogger Leo Babuata says his life used to be a mess - until he practiced 7 personal organization habits to perfection. Every one of these tips is helpful, if not revelatory. The one that’s made the biggest difference for me personally:Have a place for each item in your life. Where do your car keys go? You should have one place for them (next to the door is best) and you’ll never...
Bernd Becher, 1931–2007
Bernd and Hilla Becher, [Watertowers], 1967–80, printed 1980 (Sonnabend Gallery) The Online Photographer has learned that photographer Bernd Becher has died. He passed away last Friday during a difficult operation at a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. He
was 75.
With his wife and collaborator Hilla Becher, Bernd Becher was perhaps the world’s most well known and accomplished...
Cool camper with a garbage truck exterior
Check out the Unicat Terracross, a modular camper rig that looks like, well, a garbage truck. The website for the Klaus-Darr-designed vehicle was clearly written in German and translated into English, leading to sentences like “The optimum layout of the bodies interior was created by the experts for indviduell vehicle manufacturing” (sic), but that doesn’t detract from the...
MacGyver Tip: Turn a C battery into a D with...
You need a D battery but all you’ve got laying around are C cells. Since C and D batteries are both 1.5 volts (they differ only in size and energy storage), you can build a makeshift D to C “adaptor” with a few regular, conductive, George Washington quarters. Just insert them into your gizmo as pictured and you’re good to go. Photo by L. Marie.
Quick hack: The...
Digital Photography: A goldmine of photography...
Web 2.0 tracker Mashable has compiled a monster list of more than ninety online photography tools and resources. You can find online photo editors here, as well as photo sharing sites, free photo hosting, photography blogs, mashups, photo printing helps, and a lot more. Personally I’m loving this list, as I’m trying to get more out of my camera and pictures, creativity and...
Server Migration
Welcome to the new server folks!
Some folks who go to dannychoo.com will still see the old server. This is because that persons ISP still has not updated their DNS records. ISPs usually update their records every 24 hours - some less than, some more than. If you have came here via http://74.53.196.114/, then you should be able to access this site via dannychoo.com within 48 hours.
Some of...
Health: Get your best night's sleep
Productivity blog Ririan Project has written up an article on how to sleep more effectively using a variety of techniques. Most of the time, getting a good night’s sleep is not that difficult; however, when it does become hard to obtain, your whole outlook on life can get, well, you can get a little nuts (speaking from experience). Suggestions include getting some sunlight to balance your...
Marketing That Works
I’m not a big fan of marketing. I’m not terribly good at it, and not terribly susceptible to it. (Although I sometimes practice a sort of anti-marketing reaction, consciously deciding not to buy a particular product, for example, as a response to an obnoxious advertisement or some other corporate transgression—I won’t buy Nikes because they used John Lennon’s...
Manufactured Landscapes
Released last week was Jennifer Baichwal’s feature documentary, Manufactured Landscapes, where she observes large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky in China as he captures the landscape transformed by the nation’s pervasive industrial revolution, inviting the viewer “to meditate on human endeavour and its impact on the planet.” …
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 DIY office projects
Anyone can drop cash on spendy office gear, but it takes a little ingenuity to rig up your workspace just right with stuff you’ve already got around the house. Today’s top 10 looks at a few dead easy do-it-yourself office projects that reduce clutter and organize the cables, gadgets and office supplies in your workspace.Top 10 DIY office projects 10. Wine cork laptop stand ...
How To: Make a room look bigger
Your room or office the size of a broom closet? Weblog freshome offers tips for “fooling the eye” and making a room look bigger. Strategies include picking the right paint color, reducing furniture (or replacing items with multi-function pieces), and the strategic use of mirrors. Glass tabletops help, too.
5 Tips for Fooling the Eye and Making a Room Look Bigger [freshome]
Spam: Keep your email address from spambots with...
Webapp Text to ASCII converts plain text into its ASCII equivalent - meaning it can obscure your email address or other private data from automated spambots online. This isn’t a foolproof method, as spambots can be programmed to decode ASCII, however, a good majority of them aren’t. Go ahead and check out Text to ASCII’s capabilities — this entire post is written in ASCII....
Found Footage: A Philosophical Discourse on Apple...
Filed under: Found Footage Hey kids, this is a story about a man, his laptop, and his extended warranty. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it ain’t. But it’s sure got heart. And a sledgehammer. Seems that Apple refused to honor a warranty repair, said the Mac had spill damage. The owner said “No way”. And rather than fork over about $800, he decided to tenderize it with a...
Don’s Flickr page
21 JUN 07
I have a flickr page now. If you want to see some photos, have a gander…
Don
New Online Photography and Video Courses
If you want to expand your photography skills with the helping hand of a working pro, check out the courses offered by the newly launched The Compelling Image. I’ll be teaching Live Performance Photography and Stunning Portraits the Natural-Light Way, and other top-notch working pros teach everything from Capturing Flowers — Macro & Creatively, to Step Into Outdoor &...
How To: Translate a foreign language RSS feed
The Webware weblog details how to translate foreign language RSS feeds using Yahoo Pipes and Babel Fish.
The method is surprisingly simple. Just pipe in your source feed, connect it to the BabelFish module, define the to-and-from languages, and pipe out the results. It only took about a minute to translate the Lifehacker RSS feed to German, and the method should work just as well back and...
Rod Filbrandt
Few artists are as capable as Rod Filbrandt when it comes to sifting out the most obvious nonsensical idiocy in today’s world, and slinging it back at us like the slap in the neck we all deserve.
Rod doesn’t mince words on his oft-updated blog Chowderhead Bazoo, whether he’s taking a swipe at the various archetypes that seem to overcrowd the sidewalks of our cities in his “The Bane of My...
Prince O3 SpeedPort
Prince O3 SpeedPort Getting your ass beat by your kid’s tennis instructor at the club? You probably need a little more speed, control and power from your weapon of choice. Best for beginning… Visit Uncrate for the full post.
Prince O3 SpeedPort
Prince O3 SpeedPort Getting your ass beat by your kid’s tennis instructor at the club? You probably need a little more speed, control and power from your weapon of choice. Best for beginning… Visit Uncrate for the full post.