I have mentioned coincidences before. If you haven’t looked at it go and do it now. There’s a lot of photography to be seen there that you won’t find here. For example, in general I am not very interested in fashion photography. I also cover the purely commercial sector (by “commercial” I mean mainly editorial stuff) sparsely because most of the stuff bores me. coincidences has regular features on that kind of photography. Oh, and Robert is also a much better writer than I am.
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Check out eye candy neurastenia.
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There gotta be a few good photoblogs out there, I thought today, and I started looking for them. Of course, it’s hard to define what “good” means - as usual, it’s all a matter of taste. Anyway, I came across making happy which has a nice mix of panoramic and Holga photos, plus some explanatory words along with them. chromasia’s photography is different but nice, too.
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Check out photography weblog evenings on the lake.
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Professional photographer Don Brice does a lot of “toy camera” photography, mainly with Diana cameras. He has his own weblog where he’s showing lots of his photos and talking about how he is doing them. Recommended - regardless of whether you use the Diana or not.
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If you’re into digital photography you might have detected a certain bias here. This author isn’t exactly drooling every time some company announces yet another cooler better more sophisticated digital camera - that, a few months later, will then be soooo yesterday. I feel photography is not how you do it but, rather, what you do. This was one of the reasons why I started this blog. If you buy pretty much any photography magazine - apart from the ones that specifially cater to niches - you’re in for a big disappointment if you don’t use a fancy SLR with tons of equipment. And if you’re looking for contemporary cutting-edge photography you really need to buy a(n import) European art magazine - or visit this site (just kidding). Anyway, if you’re interested in digital photography and especially in cameras or books or whatever else it is that’s exciting about digital photography you might want to check out Visually Speaking, a blog about digital photography.
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Why do people write blogs? Blog Heart @ Work’s editor Lois invited other bloggers to write about it. Go and read it, it’s quite interesting.
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sublimate is one of those weblogs that I should have linked to a long time ago.
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I like Robert Mirani’s photography weblog coincidences a lot. It has easily become my favourite photography weblog with tons of interesting entries. Make sure you re-visit it if you haven’t done it already.
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I almost forget: consumptive.org - the weblog that inspired this here - is a toddler now.Three years! Happy birthday!
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I am excited to report that two of my favourite weblog are back from some sort of hibernation: dublog and iconomy.
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Ashley B initiated something she called grid blogging, “a group of bloggers tackling a specific topic on a specific day/time. […] Temporary in nature, the first grid blog is set to happen today. The topic is the ‘brand’.” It seems like there’ll be lots of contributions - you can find a list of participating weblogs here.
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spitting image, another weblog I have been contributing to, is back. Unfortunately, all the old entries are lost, but there’ll be lots of new ones.
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Having solved lots of technical problems - computers make life so much easier, don’t they? - consumptive is up again.
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carte blanche pedicure just got re-designed and re-located. If you haven’t had a look at it before now’s the time!
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Did I ever tell you to check out the fabulous weblog fishbucket? I didn’t? Well, then I’m doing it now. Those of you who like music should add swen’s weblog to their lists of bookmarks! PS: Does anybody know what happened to iconomy? PPS: Check out a most curious marmoset…
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For various reasons, I have neglected the photolog scene here and I think it’s time to look for the gems. I can’t really tell you what those gems look like - I got a pretty good idea what they do not look like - so this is going to be anything but easy. Let’s start with Albert Song’s fiatvera. Albert also lives in Pittsburgh but, you know, that’s hard to tell from the photos - especially since like in any other US city they’re very busy building strip malls and condo complexes which basically look like any other strip mall and condo complex in the country. Strip malls, condo complexes and The-Gap clothes really are the Mao uniforms of US capitalism. Of course, something like this is a complete shame for a city like Pittsburgh with such an amazingly rich architectural heritage. Oh well, I’m digressing…
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There is an official “dullest blog in the world”. On the other hand, I’m tempted to think that competition is quite tough. Many other equally dull weblogs are less terse, though.
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It’s probably a fair statement to note that I’ve lost the plot as far as weblogs Speckled Paint and Solipsistic (or The Solipsistic Gazette) are concerned. Maybe somebody can fill me in. Anyway, I’m pleased to see that the former is up again.
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Two more photo weblogs to regularly look at: eye-imagine.co.uk and pretty serendipities.
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Bill Maher has a weblog: “President Bush is off to a month-long vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch. What is he, French? Americans donÂ’t take month-long vacations – or if they do, they spend them behind the wheel of a Winnebago. This will be what they call a ‘semi-working vacation’ for the President, which means heÂ’ll get a daily briefing, attend some fundraisers, and maybe do some light conniving. But no big lifestyle change, really. Instead of formal deception on a national level, heÂ’ll just be lying around the house.”
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It’s about time to point to two photologs. Zabriskie Pt. is a pure photolog with lots of quite unusual photos. deFocused is a photolog for all those who love it blurry, and there also is the occasional link to other sites. Check ‘em out.
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In an article about weblogs and news during wartime, the German weekly Der Spiegel notes how hard it is to find the truth about the war - despite (as probably most people would argue) or because (as is getting more and more apparent) of all those weblogs. I haven’t seen a single unbiased weblog - and this includes in particular the overhyped and overrated The Agonist. I guess we’ll have to wait until after the war to find the truth somewhere, when courageous journalists start to investigate what really happened.
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James Luckett not only runs the fabulous consumptive.org weblog but also one called spitting image - which is all about images and whatever else is cool. The other day, he asked me whether I wanted to sign up - there are a few more contributors already. I certainly wanted to, so if you find the time go and look at it. It has a lot of cool stuff. If, however, you found your way to this weblog via either consumptive.org or spitting image - which is way more likely given the obscurity of this one here - then I certainly hope you’ll enjoy ‘conscientious’, too!
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I found newphotography.co.uk on consumptive.org. It’s a weblog with lots of “blurry” photos. Needless to say, I love it.
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Informationweek has an article about blogging. True to their style, all they care about is that “web journals could have business value.” Needless to say, that is a pretty sad statement. But it follows the general transformation of the internet from a big source of information and human interaction to a gigantic shopping mall with streamlined contents provided by the very same media companies who already control all the other media. Contrary what those Informationweek people think, there’s more to blogging than just being an “independent information entrepreneur.” What’s more, they don’t realize (or want to realize) what the obvious limitations of blogs in terms of journalism are. But when you find snippets like the one about “the left-leaning, biased media” you know where they’re coming from. And you can guess what they’re after. The “independent information” they’re after is the one which exactly serves their sole purpose, namely to make money and only that. Pretty disgusting.
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James Luckett is an American expat living in Tokyo. His weblog, consumptive.org, is a valuable source for photographic links and for what it is like to live in Tokyo.
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