Winter Inspiration!
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All.I.Can. Official Teaser from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.
Amazing video. Really looking forward to seeing the full feature next year. Also, really looking forward to putting together slideshows+music this winter. I know the learning curve for cinematography is steep, but videos like this make it seem worth it to learn at least a little.
Skiing can’t come soon enough.
Airports and inspiration /
Inspiration strikes at different times and finding ways to follow it and keeping a record of it is one of the reasons I keep this blog going. Below are some photos just for me that jumped out from our out-and-back to Arkansas.
texture from friday /
Looked up from my desk before leaving for the week on Friday.
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“Being a food photographer is largely reliant upon the inherent desirability of my subjects. Cakes are by their nature easy to shoot. So is ice cream and pie. But show me a steaming pile of creamed corn that you look at and say,” Hey, I’d love to eat that” and I’ll show you a master at work.”
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Touring in October /
First tour of the season, though we didn’t find any the blower powder that was available midweek, it was great to skin to the top of Alta and carve turns back down.
And we got the parking lot just in time to put stuff away and head down before the rain/snow started up.
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A portrait of the sun in the wavelength of hydrogen (Hα) alpha light. By Alan Friedman
via @Kottke
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More winter inspiration.
Live in Utah? Vote. /
Utah is a state of superlatives. Geographically, its borders enclose one of the most scenically spectacular, iconically “western,” ecologically unique, and archaeologically rich landscapes in the United States. Politically, the persuasions of the majority of its citizens make it the reddest state in the Union. The land and politics of Utah stoke fervent passions amongst its citizens that are often at odds with one another. Nowhere else is this more evident than in the fight over wilderness legislation that has been raging for more than four decades.
If you live here and these wild places mean something to you, vote. This year’s election could matter more than usual.
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“The result is that the designers, now committed to this concept, are forced to work around the complications as they rear their ugly heads throughout the rest of the development process.”
Good read for any designer or anyone who manages designers.
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“an old school designer… we still start wih real stuff…
This the real process of designing things:
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You start building things. You lean and you start making decisions. The design process is a series of decisions.
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“A dysfunctional political system is one that knows the right answers but can’t even discuss them rationally, let alone act on them, and one that devotes vastly more attention to cable TV preachers than to recommendations by its best scientists and engineers.”
afternoon chai /
Snow in the mountains, rain in the valley, and a slow afternoon with time for reading and tea.
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“…THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON EXPECTED ACROSS
MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL UTAH…”
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT 303 PM MDT FRI OCT 22 2010
Learning /
First scanned frame from filling a roll of 120 with the medium format camera I’ve borrowed.
Film.
Hmmm.
I can see why folks enjoy film over digital: slowness and deliberateness are required and pay off. While I know that the camera and lenses that I have can produce amazing results, the learning curve is pretty intimidating. What’s more frustrating is that I can see more feature detail and tones in the negative than what are in the scan or the printed proofs I got back. I was hoping to just scan the negative and then do my normal post processing… so much for that. I think my iPhone would have taken about the same quality as seen above. Always room to learn more I guess, and I shouldn’t have expected to get it right the first time.
I’ll keep working with the camera to see if I can get better results, but no way am I switching away from digital…
until there is nothing left to take away... /
The new Apple MacBook Air's minimal design is pretty amazing. Take as much out of the laptop as you can, use a unibody frame and use a higher tech solution for a harddrive (solid-state flash memory) and you get this:
Its mostly battery, with the mainboard that bit at the top. It’ll be really interesting to see how this design scheme plays out across the MacBook and MacBook Pro line down the road.
Say what you will about Mac vs PC, Apple knows how to design beautiful hardware.
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“… Just go make something. Judge its value after you finish & before you share…”
Indian Creek, October 2010, Part I /
