This Won’t Hurt a Bit: On My Wall. Free-ish.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: I like affordable art. Everyone else does too. It seems like every week there’s a new outlet for wallet-friendly prints. But I’ve latched on to an even more novel idea lately: free Art. In fact, I’m pretty much psyched about anything that costs me zero dollars. Zero is a number this economy can handle.

Malia and the Purple Camera

There are so many photo-based recollections of the inauguration that my head is swimming just trying to keep up.  If you want your head to swim too, check out CNN’s 3D Photosynth extravaganza, dubbed “the moment”.
I’d rather keep it simple and compile shots of Malia taking shots.

Flickr, Planes, Disasters, Saviors.

I’ve been thinking about planes since one landed outside the building I was in Thursday, and since I was already thinking about this whole flickr/getty business, I toggled over to my flickr tab and searched for “hudson” and “plane”.

Holy Opposite-Day, Batman! A Magazine is Hiring!

Deputy Photo Editor Position PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, has an opening in itsmidtown Manhattan office for a Deputy Photo Editor.

Aaaand we come full circle…

In July I wrote a post for PhotoShelter’s blog about the planned collaboration between flickr and Getty. The gist was that Getty is big, bad monopoly that is taking over the world.

If Wishes Were Horses

There have been so many interesting images recently in the ether that it’s hard for me to keep up. It’s either been an uncommonly compelling week, or I’ve had too much of this orange flavor “all natural” energy drink.
Perhaps the latter, because that looks like a horse in the Target aisle.

Tilt-Shift Maker, I Have Mixed Feeling About You.

There’s a new machine on the market that will make you into an instant Laforet (not really. it’s hard to be that awesome), and it makes me uneasy. It’s called tilt-shift maker and this is what it does:
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Whoa, my little divers turned into littler doll-like divers! I want to do another!

Fernwood Camp We’ll Ever Loyal Be

You really do learn things from Facebook. Today I learned about the fan group for my beloved all-girls camp in Maine. My mom went there too. I’m obsessed with it in a very healthy way.

Richard Kalvar, Maine and Me.

excuse the crummy iphone picture quality
I went home to my mom’s house in Maine last week and saw an old friend: a postcard that has been tucked in her mirror for a good long while. I think I sent it to her the summer I was a maid on Martha’s Vineyard in college.

Smile for your Official White House Portrait

Whoa, is that a cat in the White house?!  I stopped short the other day at this formal portrait of Socks that accompanied an article about his waning health. Barbara Kinney took the shot. I did a little research and found Barney in a similar pose:

Barney looks distracted.