Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
January 10, 2024
August 31, 2018
Bugsy says Shabbat Shalom!
August 31, 2017
VICE News Superior
It is on HBO and is superior to the other big news outlets in so many ways.
The intensity and clarity of their photography and videos is unbelievable!
My daughter said to me:
"This is clearer than REAL life!"
And she was right...I don't know how they do it.
Also, they remove all the clutter from the news screen that CNN, MSNBC, and others use at the top and bottom of the screen--instead it's just clean, focused, and right to the news point.
VICE puts the key messages in callouts right on the screen in large and easy to read boxes--the impact is you see the visual and the print message dramatically together and you get it and remember it!
They do this for their photos and videos.
With all the failing, fake, and alternative news out there, it is nice to see that someone has invented a better news program. ;-)
(Source Photo: Vice News)
January 10, 2015
Ketchup Face
October 10, 2014
Selfie Heaven
She has an extendable stick with an adjustable ball head that attaches to her smartphone, and a separate remote control for snapping the photos.
Here she is with the camera snapping away.
I looked it up on Amazon and this device is only around $6.
For a completely ego-centric society without friends, why not get this doodad and you too can take selfish selfies all day long. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
June 24, 2013
My Beautiful Mom
My daughter Minna found this picture in one of our old albums and made it new again with her wonderful photography skills.
Although my mom has aged and is not in the best of health anymore, she retains a glowing inner and outer beauty that radiates throughout the whole room--wherever she is.
I love my mom and am so grateful for everything she has done to raise me and help raise the grandchildren too.
She has always been there for us and we love her dearly.
Thank you mom for everything--you've done a great job by Dad and all of us who have depended on you, and we will never forget your kindness, generosity, and love.
May G-d bless you, always.
October 21, 2012
From Adventure Photography to Lifelogging
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium-filled balloon lifted space capsule, one week ago today, to set a skydiving record from 24 miles up and reaching the speed of 834 miles per hour.
On Felix's helmet was a GoPro video camera to capture this memorable event.
GoPro is the leader in wearable, waterproof, shockproof videocameras and has an especially strong market in action and extreme sports.
Their newest helmet-mounted camera is the HD HERO3 (available 17 October 2012), and it continues the significant trend to ever smaller, lighter, and more powerful cameras technology.
I like this video they put out showing the high resolution and exciting video taken while doing activities from surfing to mountain climbing, deep sea diving, flying, kayaking, and more.
I have a feeling that these cameras are going to make a leap from capturing adventure photography to being used for lifelogging and lifejournaling--where people capture major life events on a wearable camera, and in some extreme cases--they try to capture virtually their whole life!
As someone who has blogged now, thank G-d, for 5 1/4 years, I greatly value the ability to capture important events, share, and potentially influence--and lifelogging with discrete, wearable camera technology can take this even further.
Of course, with this technology, we need the ability to search, discover, and access the truly memorable moment--those that are meaningful to you and can have a deep and lasting impact on others--and let's face it, despite the rise of Reality TV, most of life is not quite a Kardashian moment. ;-)
It sort of reminds me of the Wendy's commercial, where the old lady asks from a fictitious competitor, "where's the beef?" With lifelogging, blogging, or other capture and sharing technologies, the beef had better be there (people's time is valuable)!
There are billions of people to reach--capture, reflect, share...in writing and with pictures--then truly, "The pen is mightier than the sword."
May 27, 2012
Taking A Turn At Photography
Couldn't believe these flowers were on the corner in Washington, D.C.
I love how some of the flowers have their petals facing up and others down and some with a mixture as if they are in midst of changing directions--almost like they are in motion.
I also like the different shades of pink colors, and then in the upper right corner are even some with yellow and white causing the eye to slowly sweep in and out across the landscape.
Maybe I'll try some more photo's for my blog in the future.
Do you think I should?
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
October 22, 2011
Keeping All Our Balls In The Air
This is the throwable panoramic ball camera.
It has 36 cameras and when thrown in the air, takes 360-degree pictures of it's surroundings as it reaches it's apex (i.e. the highest point in the air).
You can see behind you, above you, all around you even things that you didn't even know where there.
And you can pan, zoom, and scroll to get the precise view you want.
The pictures are amazing--instantly, you have a birds eye view, but only better, because even a bird can't see behind it's head, but you can.
The implications for artists, photo hobbyists, and outdoor enthusiasts is one thing, but then there are the possibilities for improved surveillance and reconnaissance for homeland and national security.
Watch for camera balls to be used not only for throwing in beautiful and/or dangerous environments, but also for posting at security checkpoints, critical infrastructure, transportation hubs and more.
One question I have is, whether the camera ball become a one-time use device, if you don't catch it and it ends up smashing into the ground.
Situational awareness is about to get a real bounce out of this one.
July 29, 2011
Capturing It All
Often it seems as if so much of our life is spent memorizing things and then trying to remember what we thought we memorized.
It starts in grade school and continues throughout our education--memorize, spit back, repeat.
Advances in education may actually recognize the need and try to get kids to think now-a-days, but there are still all the "fundamentals" that need to be put to memory, so you can pass the standardized tests like the SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, and more.
But we don't just memorize to pass tests, we pride ourselves on what "we know" and we test ourselves and show off our expansive knowledge-base through things like board games such as Trivial Pursuit to game shows such as Jeopardy.
At work too, we hire, retain, and reward people based on their "knowledge, skills, and abilities" and recognize those who are true "subject matter experts."
I remember friends who used to read the encyclopedia to increase their knowledge, and the Almanac with all the facts and figures--is still a best-seller. In Yeshiva, we also spent a good part of our high school years, memorizing from the Talmud.
The challenge for us in the 21st century is that knowledge is growing so fast that we as individuals can barely keep up with the volume and pace of change, so we specialize professionally and seek expert advice from others on areas outside our area of specialization.
Still we memorize and try to remember as much as we can. We read, watch TV, browse the Internet, travel, try new things, and fill our heads with incessant facts, memories, and chatter. And we become frustrated when we can't remember names of people we recently meet, the punch line to a joke, the facts for a presentation at work, the spelling of a simple word, or even what we had for breakfast.
So rather than memorize and forget, people are turning to capturing events from their lives and playing it back when they need to recall information or are feeling nostalgic.
We do this when we take photos, videos, audiocasts, blog, tweet, etc. and then access these from our hard drives or the Internet though services like Flikr, YouTube, Podbeam, Blogger, Twitter, and so on.
Now we starting to move beyond recording just moments in times (i.e. snapshots) and instead capturing it all!
The Futurist (July-August 2011) reports that people are discovering things like Lifelogging--where through cameras, recording devices, and storage media, they record virtually "every instant of their lives." We are nearing at a time, when this is becoming "not only feasible, but possibly even appealing" to the masses.
By recording the events of our life--whether in blogs, photos, audio or video recordings--and combining this with advanced search tools, lifelogging "could provide us with the equivalent of near total recall."
Perhaps the ability to capture more and more of our lives digitally will make it unnecessary in the future to sit and memorize so many useful and useless facts and information.
We don't have to remember everything in our heads, we just need to know how to access the information when we need it.
Learning does not have to be about memorizing but rather can be about critical thinking, and being an expert does not have to be about what you have memorized, as much as your experience and ability to think through problems and find solutions.
(Photo Source: here)
August 30, 2010
Keeping It All In Perspective
Here are some amazing photographs from Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
This is someone who can truly see the bigger picture and help us to see it as well.
If we can all see beyond the minutia every day, I think we could appreciate the opportunities and challenges before us so much more, and be able to address them more effectively--in perspective.
To me, this is the clarity of vision that I aspire to and I hope you do too.
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