Today’s Links (15/04/08)

• Epson R-D1: Sensor cleaning
  I need to do this - my pinhole bodycap has revealed quite a bit of dust on the sensor.
• Through the Viewfinder: A Tutorial
  I assume this would be next to impossible with a rangefinder? I might try to cobble someting together involving an old twin lens reflex, a couple of close-up filters on my 50mm and a precisely-measured ‘smokestack contraption’. Or just take pinhole through-the-viewfinder photos for extra silliness.
• Fire Eagle : Gallery - Getting Started
  There are now some Fire Eagle apps listed, a couple of which I’d not seen before. If anyone wants an invite, I have 4 going spare (it’s a potentially very useful service that lets you tell the web where you are).
• cityofsound: Monocle: design notes
  Fascinating look at the design of Monocle’s site.
• Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
  Piece profiling Jan Chipchase of Future Perfect fame.
• Where have all the cheap, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computers gone? « gilest
  It seems to me that the ‘long-battery-life’ bit is the main problem. Why is battery technology so shit? (Or is it that screens, chips, etc. are too power hungry?)
• Sunday Herald: Around The World In 80 DVDs
  Nice long-running world cinema feature by Alan Morrison. Shame the website is lagging behind the newspaper.
• The Art World Is Often Accused Of Being Aloof And Too Out Of Touch For The Public To Engage With The Glasgow International Festival Of Contemporary Visual Arts Aims To Change That But It Wont Be Easy (from Sunday Herald)
  Barry Didcock’s intro to the Gi. Quite a headline, that!
• Glasgow international - A. Vermin
  Cracking show in the basement of the State Bar on Holland Street.
• Luke Fowler: Winner of the First Jarman Award for Artist Film-Makers
  Congrats Luke!
• six twenty nine on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  A nice, very Flickr-ish example of the ‘long photo’ idea the site is using to justify the limitations on video uploads. Bonus: it’s a sunset, not a cat!
• Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar
  My next lens…

Posted at 12am on 15/04/08 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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