Two friends and I went on a photo trip a few months ago. We went to the Owens Valley to make landscapes. None of us is an accomplished landscape photographer. Our motivation was to have a good time together doing something we like to do. Still, we were serious about it. We scouted locations during… [Read More]
Controversy
We had a little of what passes for controversy on this blog last month. Two whole comments! A couple of other people (you know who you are) said that they’d post something, but so far have not followed through. I did run into Hunter shortly after he posted his “you ignorant slut” comment. I asked… [Read More]
Creating inside the box
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said in a recent Business Week interview, “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do.” Replace “innovation” with “creativity” (I’m not sure I can tell you the difference, but “innovation” is not a word that resonates as well with artists) and “frugality” with darn near any constraint,… [Read More]
Photographic computing: some good news
[Another technical post. I promise to get back to art next month.] My last post, the one on multicore processors, ended on a down note. I don’t feel great about the future of multicore computing. However, there’s something else on the near horizon that’s going to dramatically increase the performance of photographic computer systems– the… [Read More]
Multicore chips: clever or cop-out?
[This post is unabashedly technical, and contains nothing that you absolutely need to be a good photographer. I couldn’t help myself.] You’d have to be living in a cave to miss the big switch in personal computing from a single processor per chip to two or four, with eight coming soon. The power dissipation of… [Read More]
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