One thing that drives me nuts about soccer — I mean other than the fact that I find it incredibly boring to watch (and, to put that in perspective, this is coming from someone who loves to watch baseball) — is when players fake being tripped (“flopping”) in order to try to draw a penalty …
How to Shoot People (and Places and Things) The first two [photos] I showed in class this evening … were technically passable but artistically bland. More than anything, they’re examples of my modest competency in selective focus and the one-third/two-thirds rule for composing pictures, but little else. The more I learn about photography, the less …
This isn’t exactly new, but it’s too well-done not to link to it. The Ten Commandments as a teen comedy: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments:
Continuing the cool-buildings theme from yesterday, these are nice some photos of Apple’s new 24-hour (!) store in New York. The coolest thing is that there’s no actual storefront: the entrance is a glass cube with an Apple logo, and you go down underground into the store. (More photos of the store here and here.)
Off Mound, Mets’ Ace Loosens Up in His Garden (NY Times) “It has to be in you to work with flowers, but if you grow up with it, you realize how it can make you untouchable,” [Pedro] Martínez said. “If something hurts, it disappears when you are in the garden. It’s about deep thinking, about …
Random updates and links: New websites for Amelia and Jeremy are up now. Everyone’s seen Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by now, but still… Since I rarely update the Photos section of this site, I’m trying out Flickr to see if that gets me to take more photos. (My new …
Random updates and links: New websites for Amelia and Jeremy are up now. Everyone’s seen Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by now, but still… Since I rarely update the Photos section of this site, I’m trying out Flickr to see if that gets me to take more photos. (My new …
It’s official: baseball season is here.
It’s official: “Arrested Development” is over.
I can’t wait for the trend of repeating something for effect with each individual word written as its own sentence to go away. I. Can’t. Wait.