How Four Men with a Point-and-Shoot are Scooping Big News Outlets
> The Guardian has published a piece on how a four-man news operation called Sangat TV has stolen the headlines from big news outlets during the England riots, armed with just a “point-and-shoot camera” (via @khurtwilliams [http://twitter.com/#!/khurtwilliams/status/101806705104527360])
Captioning Photographs
This is something I’ve asked my parents to do with their shoeboxes of photos and it’s something we all should be doing more.
One Pen Addict to Another
Brad Dowdy (@dowdyism [http://twitter.com/#!/dowdyism]) was kind enough to include me in the lucky circle of writers to receive some samples from JetPens.com [http://www.jetpens.com/]. I took my time and put each pen and mechanical pencil through its paces. Real world. From the heat of
The Most Important Tool
This is an excerpt from the A Lesser Photographer book, sent out in the last newsletter. The next issue goes out in the wee hours tonight and takes a different look at the same topic, so sign up now [http://eepurl.com/d3gzD]! In the days of film, there was
Olympus Says: Get a Real Camera
Chase Jarvis [http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2011/07/olympus-is-talking-trash-about-your-camera-phone/] : > Seems that a new guerrilla campaign by Olympus in Australia is talking shit about the “rubbish” photos from your camera phone. I’m not sure it’s such great marketing to show
Newsletter Announcement
The first issue of the A Lesser Photographer newsletter is being readied. It will feature a sneak peek of the book, so if you’re interested, sign up now [http://eepurl.com/d3gzD]!
Minimal Photography is Catching On
Yesterday, I visited my friend Patrick Rhone [http://www.patrickrhone.net/] and we discussed all kinds of geeky issues over lunch, including photography. After lunch, he published a few [http://minimalmac.com/post/7367856172/all-of-the-above-shots-were-taken-with-an-iphone] great [http://minimalmac.com/post/7356155840/
VHE Updates
I’ve started a twitter feed for my first book, The Van Halen Encyclopedia, currently being revised for its third edition. Follow @vhencyclopedia [http://twitter.com/#!/vhencyclopedia] for updates, insider info and news on future versions of the book.
Hypocrisy
Merlin Mann [http://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/81389251425615872]: > Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you’re not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project. This is why I call most things I do around here experiments. I write heated posts on a topic,