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Photographer Clayton James Cubitt interviews Tom Carden about their Metropop Denim collaboration. “I don’t think the work ever belongs to the computer, any more than a photograph belongs to a camera. The computer is a tool — there wouldn’t be any artwork if I didn’t tell the computer exactly what to do — it just works a hell of a lot faster than I do!”

posted Jun 28 @ 06:34 PM by Jason Kottke

Nicole Kidman is set to star in

Nicole Kidman is set to star in a biopic about Diane Arbus.

posted Jun 28 @ 09:31 AM by Jason Kottke

Slide show depicting a collection of New

Slide show depicting a collection of New York City coffee cups.

posted Jun 27 @ 04:37 PM by Jason Kottke

Forlorn Aerons

Forlorn Aerons.

posted Jun 27 @ 03:20 PM by Jason Kottke

Photos from a Jules Verne celebration in France

Photos from a Jules Verne celebration in France.

posted Jun 27 @ 03:18 PM by Jason Kottke

Google images search for before and after photos

Google images search for before and after photos.

posted Jun 24 @ 02:49 PM by Jason Kottke

Getting nostalgic: the Nikon Coolpix 300 was my first digital camera

Getting nostalgic: the Nikon Coolpix 300 was my first digital camera. Eight years later, my phone takes much better photos than this thing does.

posted Jun 23 @ 01:17 AM by Jason Kottke

Great ongoing collection of old mall photography

Great ongoing collection of old mall photography. Includes shots of Southdale in Edina, MN, the very first mall ever built.

posted Jun 21 @ 06:48 PM by Jason Kottke

A photoblog that features photography of photographers

A photoblog that features photography of photographers.

posted Jun 21 @ 06:09 PM by Jason Kottke

Tweaked photo album template

My recent design refresh is already bearing fruit around these parts. Behold the new photo album template, which you can see in the Ireland photos, some recent Paris photos, photos from the High Line, etc. The album pages are the first non-white background pages to make it onto kottke.org in quite awhile, which was part of the reason for the design refresh. I tried the photos on white, but I felt they looked better on a darker background, so I went with that. The photos are also larger than they previously were, up from 600 pixels wide to 720 pixels. The file sizes are also quite large (sorry!)…BetterHTMLExport doesn’t do the best job in compressing jpgs while preserving image quality. Photoshop’s “Save for Web” does a much better job, but that would be a lot more time consuming for me. The search for the perfect solution goes on…

But my favorite part of the albums are the navigation. If you mouseover the right half of the photo, you get an arrow overlaid on the photo that suggests that you can click to move to the next photo (which, of course, you can). Then you can click on the left side of the photo to go back. If you’re using Safari or Firefox or anything but IE really, the arrow images are tranparent png files that blend in with the photo in the background. Fun!

Up next: the photo page needs some help.

posted Jun 21 @ 01:21 PM by Jason Kottke

“A cameraman at Yalta tells what it

“A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt—and to be offered a job by Joseph Stalin”.

posted Jun 20 @ 07:17 PM by Jason Kottke

Eliot’s presentation has some great thoughts about

Eliot’s presentation has some great thoughts about photoblogging and where it’s going. Overproduction, overconsumption, and inappropriate audience participation are some of the pitfalls of photoblogging. This probably goes for regular blogging as well.

posted Jun 20 @ 01:43 PM by Jason Kottke

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