by David | Aug 20, 2014 | culture, reading & writing
From Welcome to Germany comes today’s word of the day, Backpfeifengesicht. And what a welcome it would be: The word Backpfeife means “punch/slap” (on the cheek/face) and Gesicht means “face” So a Backpfeifengesicht is pretty much a face...
by David | Aug 19, 2014 | photo, travel
From the back catalog, the Ferris wheel at Nice in the Côte d’Azur in 2007. Does it count as cross-processing if you use a color instagram filter on a scan from a Tri-X negative? Note the not so super moon at 3:30 or so.
by David | Aug 18, 2014 | photo
A crested black macaque has been making news of late for borrowing a photographer’s camera and snapping some pics of herself. One of the resulting photos, potentially a nice paycheck for the photographer (probably as much for the origin story as the aesthetic...
by David | Aug 14, 2014 | culture, reading & writing, working
If you’ve been hitting the networking circuit or just generally hanging around it, you’ve no doubt been handed your share of business cards with wacky titles on them. The fad probably peaked in the late aughts, but it’s not totally gone, especially...
by David | Aug 13, 2014 | photo, science!
This weekend the moon was full and in perigee and therefore appeared bigger and brighter than usual, a so-called supermoon. Perigee is the point at which the earth is closest to some object that orbits it in an elliptical path. Apogee is the point of greatest distance...
