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12.15
Michael Wolf’s Transparent City
A few years ago I visited the Robert Koch Gallery, in San Francisco, to check out an exhibition by Michael Wolf. Michael Wolf creates enormous photographic prints that are filled with detail and that, among other things, make abstract art out of 
everyday cityscapes. The particular show I saw centered on his work in Hong Kong and featured images of large buildings, taken at angles, and using techniques, that flattened the depth of field, distorting one’s perspective such that many of the images were transformed into as much a study of texture and pattern as of straight examples of architectural photography. The enormity of the images enveloped one’s field of vision to such a large extent that standing in front of any number of the works on display could give the sensation of falling or flying into the vast expanse of windows and concrete. They were incredible.
He’s back at the same gallery again, with a new show — “The Transparent City” — that, again, focuses attention on the cityscape. It looks like he has taken the abstraction of the above, previous work and worked in his eye for detail and narrative. It runs through the end of January.
5.13
Chaiten Volcano Erupts During a Storm
The Chaiten Volcano in Chile erupts during a storm (via lamb)
5.3
Epic Assemblage
Toronto 360 © by Heather Champ on flickr.
AN epic 360º assemblage photo of an intersection in Toronto, Canada.
5.1
San Francisco in Ruins
San Francisco in Ruins by George Lawrence
San Francisco in Ruins Recreation by The George Lawrence San Francisco Aerial Panoramic Project
A few weeks after San Francisco’s fabled 1906 earthquake, Chicago photographer George Lawrence took this classic photograph of a destroyed San Francisco using a panoramic camera suspended above San Francisco Bay by a series of kites.
Years later (date?) The George Lawrence San Francisco Aerial Panoramic Project re-shot the image from the exact spot the original was taken using a hand-built replica of George Lawrence’s camera and this time suspended from a helicopter.
4.27
MONOTONE
Introduced by Matt Mullenweg (created by?) at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, the new WordPress theme, MONOTONE, is designed specifically for photoblogging.
The theme creates a unique page for each image, creating the color scheme for each page by sampling the photo’s colors and assigning a color scheme based on that sample. Amazing.
1.13
A Polaroid a Day
Heather Powazek Champ is going to take a Polaroid a day in 2008. That’s dedication.
1.12
Marsh Living in Marin County
Abandoned Houseboat, The Greenbrae Boardwalk
The Greenbrae Boardwalk is a collection of houses, each one on stilts, built atop a large expanse of marsh land in Marin County, CA. The marsh juts out into the San Francisco Bay at the opening of Corte Madera Creek. … read more …
1.11
Shift_Wordpress
Heather Powazek Champ and
Derek Powazek (via geeksugar)
Derek Powazek (via geeksugar)
Two of my web heroes have moved to Wordpress!
Derek Powazek returned to the blogging world in March of 2007, shying away from Moveable Type and embracing Wordpress. He even devised his own theme and, in the true spirit of open-source, released it to the public.
Now my o-riginal web hero (sorry Mr. P.), Heather Powazek Champ has done the same. I’m speechless. Once again Derek Powazek has created a new theme (actually a slightly modified version of his first Wordpress theme) for Heather Powazek Champ’s new endeavor.
I. Can’t. Wait. for this year’s WordCamp now that the possibility that both of these people may be making an appearance (hint, hint, Powazeks)
1.2
From Behind the Scenes of Paris’ Hidden Kitchen
@Rion.nu (one of the original photobloggers, apparently), a post on Hidden Kitchen which is a secret supper club in Paris that was created by two Seattle expats.
Wonderful photos of what looks like wonderful food. In Paris, no less.
There are links to other references, from the internets, to this and other secret supper clubs around the world.
12.29
NYT Photo Essay: At the Scene: The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Some are rather graphic. All are immensely tragic and sad. The images of her waving at the crowd before the blast seem, knowing what we do now, eerie and full of portent as if one was watching a horror movie. I want to yell at the screen and tell her to look out.
The essay. By John Moore.
Via: Daring Fireball
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In the Millennium Park Fountain | Chicago
In the Millennium Park Fountain | Chicago, originally uploaded by ldandersen.
