Category: Media
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Cabo Mexico
I took an extended weekend trip down to San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. The scenery down there is unbelievably beautiful. The water was so blue, I was half convinced they had people going out early in the morning to add food coloring or something. What I didn’t get was much in the way of Mexican…
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That’ll Give a Kid Nightmares
The Urban Beast Project takes discarded stuffed animals, gives them evil looking teeth and then poses them taxidermy style in natural environments. These images are very disturbing to me for some reason. It must be tapping in to some childhood memory. I want more like this.
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Bias Ahoy
Y? seems like such an interesting project. You invite people from different races/classes/backgrounds to come together and ask and answer questions. That seems like something that could really remove barriers and bring people together. From what I can tell (and to be honest I didn’t spend a lot of time looking around), despite its promise,…
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LA Art
Hmmmm… Now, art.blogging.la could be interesting. I go to a bunch of museums in and around LA, but I almost never get to gallery shows (because I almost never know when they’re going on). If there’s an LA art scene, maybe this will keep me in the loop. Nice. via
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Never Underestimate the Power of a Dark Clown
Tripping the Rift is a very adult animation (seriously, don’t open this at work) that pokes fun at Star Trek, Star Wars, and probably a bunch of other star stuff I didn’t even notice. It’s funny. However, the humor is a little too rooted in sex and overly specific pop culture references to go very…
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Fish Photos
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, so I took my camera and headed to the Long Beach Aquarium. I was inspired by the amazing sea horse shot that Tracy got at the Sydney Aquarium. What I discovered is that shooting aquarium shots is freaking H.A.R.D.!! You have to contend with weird light, dirty glass, troublesome…
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Yay for Internet Music
Muted Tones is cool in concept and in execution (at least based on the first song I’ve heard so far): Seven curators, seven months, seventy minutes of music. Each month is assigned to a curator, whose job it is to fill ten minutes with the sounds of their choosing. They are invited to keep a…
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Pizza Party
You know, it never even occurred to me to think of February 29th as a totally free day. Once you think of it that way, the conclusion is inescapable. Leap Year should be celebrated — with gusto (and pizza!). Thank god we have people like Matthew Baldwin to do the heavy thinking and introduce us…
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Pretty (Useless)
It seems like you should be able to do something with the critters on display on the Digiquaria site. Maybe evolve them or tweak them, or make them fight. Near as I can tell, they’re just for looking though. You can move some of them around, but that’s about it. They are super pretty, so…
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So Much to Learn
Expose Right is an interesting discussion of the proper way to expose (or under-expose) an image in a digital camera. I was pointed to the page from this other interesting discussion of the benefits of shooting RAW instead of JPEG. I knew I should be shooting RAW, but it’s such a hassle. Maybe I just…