| Pretty Snappy ★ | miningindustrialphotographer.com |
James Hodgins of Ontario is determined to capture his specific client pool. Every time he shoots a scene, he capture a crappy version of it for a before/after showcase on his website.
The bigger the ocean, the bigger the waves. But deep beneath the herculean power of the sea, mirrors a stillness that can be found deep inside each and everyone of us. Tanah Lot, Bali–© Will Wiriawan
| Creating the Petting Zoo App ★ | newyorker.com |
> Eventually, however, you may arrive at a point where even well-meaning minds won’t be able to get your idea, let alone realize that there even is an idea to be gotten in the first place.
Nicely illustrated story about turning ideas into a product.
| iPad Photo Workflow ★ | creativepro.com |
There are a couple of new apps worth checking out here, however, I gave up pursuing an ideal iPad photo workflow and stick with my truck instead — my beloved powerhouse, the maxed-out MacBook Pro.
| Free Font Utopia ★ | fontsquirrel.com |
Great collection with an easy-to-use interface to discover fonts. And they weren’t joking when they say it’s free.
| Unbound ★ | pixiteapps.com |
How does a gesture-based photo viewing app sound to you? Check out this demo video and find your answer. It’ll work for me if it doesn’t need a [Leap Motion Controller](https://www.leapmotion.com/).
I could use the physical metaphor for bad photos.
[Eddie Huang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Huang), [former member of TED’s Fellows program](http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/culinary-bad-boy-eddie-huang-writes-memoir-fresh-boat-article-1.1246257), was kicked out of the Fellows group (and TED altogether), [Joshua Topolsky reports](http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/5/4061684/inside-ted-the-smartest-bubble-in-the-world):
> “I just went through a whole week of people telling me what to do and where to be. It was like being at a fucking Scientology summer camp. It was horrible,” he told Rogan. “I gave them four or five days of my time. Thirteen hours. Every day they have thirteen hours of fucking activities they have mapped out for you. Some days like fourteen or fifteen hours if you go to their after-hours events.”
[Matt Alexander](http://one37.net/blog/5/3/2013/the-necessary-cult-of-ted):
> TED is absolutely cultish. But it’s a cult for the sustenance of beneficial ideas. Elitist, morally unsound, isolated, self-congratulatory, and tone deaf? Yes. All of those. But useful and, in some respects, daring?
Every good movie ends at the right time, while bad series would drag its ending long enough until there’s no juice left to milk.
Stages like TED are necessary platforms to share knowledge, but TED needs to stay back, invisible, neutral and politic-free in order to keep the number one destructor of ideas, of technology, of entertainment, of design, …, of mankind, at bay: ego.
One key element that is missing from TED is an “off” button, and someone who has enough guts to push it before it turns into cancer to the bodies of great ideas and self-sustaining construct that it has helped spread throughout the years.
| Less, But Not Least ★ | alesserphotographer.com |
From CJ Chilvers’ Manifesto:
> Constraints become a necessity because our brains seek the path of least resistance. Our brains crave the automation. It’s less painful. The brain would love to produce safe, bland fluff. When we enforce a constraint, we throw a boulder into the path of least resistance and force the brain to create to a path less traveled.
It might sound silly and maybe I’m just a little naive to think this way, but I believe that we (the smart ones) could stand to learn something from our dumb dogs.
| Made in England ★ | davidadriansmith.com |
Born and Raised Original Design Sketch © David Smith
“The combination of turn-of-the-century equipment and processes in my studio creates amazing results in this project which blends technology and tradition together” says Smith, the traditional ornamental glass artist from UK, who created the artwork for Mayer’s latest album.
And as Mayer describes, “The album cover is the last expression of what anything else looks like other than the way your music sounds. You can own a person’s album on iTunes, be a huge fan, listen to their record all day but never see their video, never see the live show and also never see any of their liner notes, just the cover as it comes up on your iPhone, or iPod. So then I realized, the most important thing is just that cover. Everyone who listen to the record will see that cover.”
There are a couple of different renditions of the artwork, along with a bunch of memorabilias, on David’s page. In particular, [the short movie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdfreJmK9R4) by [Danny Cooke](http://dannycooke.co.uk) is equally great of a craft.