Canon is having a sale on selected gear from May 18th through July 19th. The items on sale and their discounts are below with links to their pages at B&H Photo. The sale prices won’t be posted there until Sunday, July 19th.
California’s Supreme Court ruled that a ban on gay marriage was unlawful Thursday, effectively leaving same-sex couples in America’s most populous state free to tie the knot in a landmark ruling.
In an opinion that analysts say could have nationwide implications for the issue, the seven-member panel voted 4-3 in favor of plaintiffs who argued that restricting marriage to men and women was discriminatory.
[via Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson]
Here’s the best testimonial I’ve seen yet on this news from Heather Gold:
This is an excellent piece by Macworld and it really does go into minute detail to help buyers see how Macintosh landscape has changed.
I use a MacBook Pro as my only machine and have for many years. For me things tipped this way many years ago when I was traveling more. But, even now that I’m traveling much less I like to move around my house with my computer and I routinely read my daily political blogs sitting on the couch next to my wife who’s reading a book.
Of course, an essential ingredient in this is having a fast and stable home wifi network that allows me to work anywhere inside or even outside our house (within 50 feet of a base station).
I was listening to On Point today and the second hour was about a new documentary coming out called Surfwise.
Surfwise is about Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz. a successful doctor who dropped out to surf. Along the way he marries and fathers nine children (eight boys and a girl) and they all live in a 24 foot camper and travel around surfing and living in the moment, attemping to live healthy and happy lives and of course, surfing.
Many people who have never surfed and don’t know much about it need to understand that for some people, surfing is life and while this is an extreme example it’s not outside the norm of the surfing culture.
Amazon will be selling the DVD in July: Surfwise DVD.
John Harrington is a professional photographer who has a lot of stuff. Yikes, he has a similar video on his Nikon D3 Kit.
Notice that the cameras and lenses are minus their caps. Oh well, he has a guy in a back room cleaning his stuff constantly no doubt.
Only one mistake in the presentation, he calls the 85mm f/1.2 an 85mm f/1.8. The nerve!
I do like the transition from big roll on bag to smaller shoulder bags, very nicely shown. However, between the cameras with lenses on his shoulders and those bags loaded with lenses, he’s going to need some serious work done on his back in a few years. Ugh. Tell you what John, I’ll take any of that stuff off your hands, you know, just to lighten your load a bit.
A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.
I love Rauschenberg’s work and he’s had an enourmous influence on all of modern art from painting to photography to sculpture. He will be missed.
Warren, Connecticut. My wife brings all the outside potted plants into our basement for the winter and now, just before she puts them out for the summer, there are lots of flowering plants leaning toward the big window in the basement. They’re hungry for light. Given that it’s breezy outside and difficult to take pictures of small things the basement turns out to be a great place for macro shots of plants. This flower is quite small, maybe one half inch across.
The NPR radio show This American life had a special episode on the mortgage and credit crisis that I just listened to while mowing the lawn: The Giant Pool of Money.
Wow, that a great show and it told the entire story of how these sub-prime mortagates got invented and how people up and down the investment chain exploited them. In the end, everyone lost.
You’ll be able to find a free download of it in the iTunes Music Store starting on Monday, May 12th and continuing for the next week.
This is a fascinating show and it reminded me of two movies: Wall Street, and, Boiler Room except it is entirely true.
Berman is an expert on delegate selection and he builds models on the microscopic scale of how each district’s delegates will influence the whole.
No matter who you support in this election, this is a fascinating read.
This is another example of how Obama’s experience as a community organizer has helped him build a strong grassroots campaign that cuts across demographics. His wins in small states were meaningful but few understood how, especially the Clinton campaign.
While most of us focus on big picture issues and think they are the sole driving forces in this fascinating election, Obama and his team are working hard to register new voters. Voter registration drives like the ones done by The League of Women Voters are historically used to bring more people into the process which is bipartisan but of course, tends to favor Democratic candidates.
The Obama campaign has more individual donors (over one million) and a higher percentage of them use the web to make their donations, which are relatively small. This another example of grassroots campaigning: going wide rather than deep.
This campaign is setting a new standard and I predict it will become a template for future campaigns, especially when the candidate isn’t a white Christian male.
Fontstruct allows you to build, share, and download finished fonts. The editor looks quite good and there are lots of great fonts in their library to download..
Warren, Connecticut. The cornfield across the road, which hasn’t been plowed under yet, is covered with dandelions. For a weed they’re pretty interesting.
Follow the journey of legendary teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawaii as they celebrate their 30th anniversary and prepare to compete at the world’s largest hula festival. NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula goes beyond deep-rooted stereotypes of “grass skirt girls” and reveals a story of Hawaiian pride—past and present.
This film blew my mind: the dance, the language, the fact that these guys had to get over all the effeminate body movements and how they bond as a group, a team, a dance troup.
Click “Watch Preview” for a bit of the sound, culture, dance.
Great story. This is a useful feature in Leopard (Back to my Mac) but my friend David had an interesting security issue with it so it ought to be used carefully.
Joseph Hoflehner is an Austrian photographer who does monochromatic images in a square format that are incredible. I’d love to see these images on a larger scale and no doubt they were made with film and the prints are big.
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