March 05, 2006

Photos of Torino

- New Media Musings

I love this Flickr photo set of 461 photos taken by kk behind the scenes at the Torino Winter Olympics -- especially because I'm heading to Italy for the first time in two months. Good times -- and considerable... ›››

Category: Photography

February 19, 2006

Interviewing Elisabeth Shue

- New Media Musings

I've been a huge fan of actress Elisabeth Shue for the past 20 years, so it was a big personal thrill to speak with her at length Friday night during the special screening of her director-husband's film "Teach" at... ›››

Category: Photography | Video/videoblogging

February 18, 2006

Updating IHT’s Flickr stream

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

(A little light blogging from the Holiday Inn Kensington on a cloudy day in London town.) Earlier this week I pointed to the International Herald Tribune and its Flickr photostream from Turin and wondered about clearing copyright for the... ›››

Category: General | Photography | copyright | iht | olympics

February 11, 2006

Lime close-ups

- New Media Musings

It's a brilliant day here in the San Francisco East Bay, about 70 degrees outside. Decided to try out my camera's macro lens for the first time, so here are a couple of lime photos I posted to Flickr.... ›››

Category: Photography

January 20, 2006

Stunning day

- New Media Musings

I took these top four shots with a loaner Nokia N90 2-megapixel camera phone this afternoon. Pretty sweet -- both the shots and the phone. I'll be writing more about the N90 soon.... ›››

Category: Photography

January 11, 2006

Adam's best photos of 2005

- New Media Musings

Adam Fields, who's been instrumental in pushing Ourmedia forward for the past year, has gathered together some of his best photographs of 2005 on Flickr. Nice stuff....... ›››

Category: Photography

December 31, 2005

NY Times' Year in Pictures

- New Media Musings

The New York Times, per usual, has some amazing images of the Year in Pictures, like the one above by Vincent Laforet. Unfortunately, they continue to refuse to use a landing page -- only a javascript popup -- so... ›››

Category: Photography

December 29, 2005

Moblogged photo nominated TIME best photo

- New Media Musings

Michael Tippett of NowPublic notes that a 'moblogged' photo was nominated as a best photo of the year by Time magazine -- the emblematic shot taken by Adam Stacey with his camera phone minutes after a terrorist bomb went... ›››

Category: Citizens media | Photography

December 12, 2005

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Personal media: A visual collage

- New Media Musings (feed)

I made a 4-minute collage of photographs and video in a new piece titled Personal media: A visual collage. It's set to copyrighted music by Alex Woodard (used with permission), with photos taken by me and also drawn from... ›››

Category: Citizens media | Photography | Video/videoblogging

December 11, 2005

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A new threat to privacy?

- New Media Musings (feed)

On Thursday I blogged about Riya, a new photo-tagging service that uses facial-recognition technology to identify the people in your party pix. In a Wired News commentary, Jennifer Granick says that When similar systems start crawling the web, we'll... ›››

Category: Photography | Web/Tech

December 09, 2005

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Riya's photo search tool

- New Media Musings (feed)

Come on, can this be true? Riya Photo Search: Our face recognition technology automatically tags people in photos so you can search for just the photo you want. In your album. In your friends' albums. On the web. Haven't... ›››

Category: Photography