May 8th, 2008
(Not photography related.)
A series of reviews I wrote some four years ago, comparing the Sennheiser HE90 “Orpheus” headphone with a number of others in its price-no-object class. Yeah, I used to be a headphone audiophile… and yeah the language gets a little overblown (the HE90 headphones originally went for $7500 a pair). Originally posted to Head-Fi, but recent downtime over there suggests these need a new home.
Reviews after the jump.
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May 6th, 2008
From the caption: “MIT Senior Haus’ annual weekend-long Steer Roast party started at 5pm on Friday, April 2 2008 with the lighting of the fire pit and traditional mud wrestling (featuring Haus housemasters Henry and Cynthia Jenkins) and continued until well past the bands finished playing late Saturday night.”
More photos of the party that (rumor has it) once got MIT listed as the #25 party school in the country by Playboy magazine are up here.
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April 30th, 2008
Andreas Mershin of MIT’s Flying Club was gracious enough to take Ricardo Ramirez and myself up in a Cessna 172 for an aerial photoshoot around MIT. For all Andreas warned us about the risk of getting airsick in a small plane, I rather enjoyed the ride. The Cessna was light and nimble in a way that made your average commercial airliner seem like a lumbering beast… More aerial photos of Boston and MIT here.
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April 28th, 2008
It says something about the changing world of photography and the rise of the photographer-driven stock houses that Discover magazine just put out a call on Digital Railroad’s Research Network asking for an image to be used on the cover of their next issue. (Discover is a major national publication; DRR’s Research Network is an image-request site linked to their Marketplace stock-photography sales portal integrated into the Digital Railroad monthly-fee-based online image archiving service.)
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April 18th, 2008
It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged a hack at MIT– time to fix that. Check out the PhotoShelter hack gallery for pics.
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April 17th, 2008
Microstock is a big deal in the photography world. John Harrington’s post celebrating the demise of the LuckyOliver microstock site demonstrates pretty well the kind of hatred towards microstock that exists in the professional photography world as a result of those websites’ wholesale decimation of the conventional stock industry — and some would say the entire photography industry. I’m not sure how long that’s going to last, though.
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April 2nd, 2008
(main image caption: ‘21′ director Robert Luketic stares off into space during the filming of the movie’s opening scene on the Harvard Bridge in Cambridge, MA on April 22, 2007. ‘21′ is the film adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s novel Bringing Down the House, about a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who made millions counting cards at blackjack.” PhotoShelter Collection Link)
Whenever the ‘21′ movie crew was filming around MIT, I was there with my camera.
“Filming for the movie adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House took place in front of Killian Court on the afternoon of Monday, March 19 2008. Here, (left to right) Kameron (Sam Golzari), Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), and Miles (Josh Gad) walk down the sidewalk as part of a scene.”
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March 30th, 2008
I spent the last week lazing around New Orleans. For a week-long break, it’s pretty much perfect. Unlike Boston, the weather is nice and warm all the time, there are no open container laws, and you really don’t have to do much of anything if you don’t want to. (okay, the last part applies to anywhere you go on vacation. Whatever.) Of course, I brought my camera.
A building in the French Quarter, corner of Royal and St. Philip. Mamiya RB67, 50/4.5 Sekor-C, Delta 3200 @ 1600 in T-Max.
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March 6th, 2008
Ever since I saw the portrait of Vladmir Putin shot by Platon, I’ve had it in my head to try the combination of overhead-softbox and desaturated high-contrast treatment that I liked about his work. This portrait of MIT graduate student and “Beauty and the Geek” contestant Chris Follett is the result.
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