Set Yourself On Fire — Ben Gibbard
Perfect for this rainy, gray day.
Original by Stars.
Month: October 2012
Highway.
(Leica M9-P | 35mm, ISO 200, f/4.0, 8 sec)
My first roll of film (in ages)
A few weeks ago, I found a used Leica M6 in excellent condition. I love my Leica M9-P but wanted to try my hand at film.
The M6 is a dreamy camera. Completely mechanical and everything is manual. Press the shutter and you hear a satisfying click.
I stuck in a roll of Kodak Portra 400 35mm film and a wide angle lens and took it with me every where for the past week or so.
Film is a lot of fun. You really care about each photograph you take. It’s so nice to take 36 exposures over a span of days or even a week, drop it off at the lab and get the results all at once.
I like the grainy feel and the warm colors in these photos. I’m going to have a lot of fun with this thing.
Happy girl.
(Leica M9 | ISO 400, 35mm, f/1.4, 1/45sec)
Tumblr Photoset
On Tumblr, you can post a variety of different things. A text post, or a quote, or a song, or a video. And of course you can post a photo.
On any given day, I post at least one of those things right here on bijansabet.com which is on Tumblr.
Awhile back, Tumblr introduced photosets as new way to upload a series of photos in a single post to tell a story. I like that feature a lot and I’ve created several photosets like this one, this one and this one.
Oh, and here’s a photoset by the President. No big deal.
Photosets designs and layouts are wonderful. You can also click or tap on each photo and get a full view of the pic. It works great on desktop browsers and mobile browsers.
But there was always on thing missing when it came to photosets. You could only create them on your computer. There was no way to create them on your phone.
Until now.
Today Tumblr launched a standalone app called Photoset. It’s simple and stunning. You can create photoset on your iPhone and post to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.
Give it a try and drop a link in the comments or Tumblr replies with your own photoset. I’d love to see it.
A simpler time. Facebook newsfeed, 2006.
If you vote against Obama because he can’t get stuff done, it’s kind of like saying “This guy can’t cure cancer, I’m gonna vote for cancer.”
Chris Rock (via nedhepburn)
Little man, big tree.
Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to public filings.
In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword – NYTimes.com
This makes me nuts.