I’ve been a big fan of Trey Ratcliff’s photography since last summer. The type of photos he does are called HDR. I’ve played with HDR a bit myself, but I’m limited by my equipment (no DSLR, just a Panasonic that will take three bracketed shots that sort of work)… and my skills, of course. Some people hate HDR, because it requires so much post-processing, but I’ve always loved colors and lights, and HDR seems more real to me than traditional photography in some ways.
What’s cool about Trey is that he’s been taking photographs for less than a year. He travels the world for work and has photographed places most of us will never see, all over Asia, and even Iceland and Chernobyl. I love his urban photos and I’ve been hoping he’d get to NYC. This past week, he did, and the result here doesn’t disappoint!
The other day I posted an open plea in reference to the the whirlwind surrounding Kathy Sierra:
Please take this opportunity to use your power and influence to open a dialog about what we will and won’t accept socially on the internet. Be the louder voice…
… I know that new media can do it differently, without involving regulations and legislations. Show us what you’ve got.
It looks like some good things are happening. Initially there were calls for a blogging boycott, but I think this is much better- today is Stop Cyber-Bullying Day. Some high profile bloggers are posting about it.
A great place to go for more posts and information is the Stop Cyberbullying Ring . Cyber-bullying happens in blogs, forums, MySpace, YouTube… and as a parent it’s something I know I have to stay on top of.
I’m in a rush at the moment, but I just wanted to say how glad I am that the conversation is happening. I don’t want to see any mandatory filters or requirements, but I’d love it if there were more ways for people to control what they see, similar to the safety filters on google searches.
And again, please don’t feed the trolls! Don’t respond, don’t argue back. The blogging gods gave you a delete button in your comments, use it!
The other night I had all those great ideas that I lost (I was able to recover a couple of them, but of course in the daylight they don’t seem so great.) But the other morning, just before I woke up, I had a dream of a product I think is genius!
There’s a technology out there called “electronic paper” or “e-paper”. I have no idea how it works, but it’s basically a thin, flexible computer display. I think Macy’s or some other department store used it recently for in-store ads.
In my dream, I was seated at a restaurant. The server handed me a menu, and when I opened it there were little e-paper screens next to the listed specials. I was able to activate these screens and a video of the chef began, explaining the menu item, ingredients, etc.
Is that a cool idea? I would love to see something like that, I think it’s a great use of the technology.
To all embroiled in the scary situation involving Kathy Sierra (which, sadly, is nothing new, I’ve been called horrible things on the internet myself, and I’ve seen people take internet fights into real life):
Please take this opportunity to use your power and influence to open a dialog about what we will and won’t accept socially on the internet. Be the louder voice.
Have faith, there’s so much more good than bad, you all know that or you wouldn’t be in the industry. The “mean kids” are not going to go away. Shout down the bad, drown it out with overwhelming good.
I think know that new media can do it differently, without involving regulations and legislations. Show us what you’ve got.
Last night as I was attempting to get to sleep early for once, my brain switched into overdrive.
All kinds of wonderful, easily implemented ideas came flooding in. I lay there both wanting desperately to fall asleep because I was just exhausted, and wanting to leap out of bed and scribble down all these ideas because I just knew they’d be gone by morning.
I stuck with option one, and still didn’t manage to fall asleep until nearly midnight. I should have gone with option two, because as expected here I sit the next day, with barely a glimmer of all those great ideas left in my brain. I know one was a great, simple idea for a post here, and another involved doing a podcast!
I used to, years ago, keep a pad and paper next to my bed to capture ideas that hit me as I was dozing off. Obviously I need to do that again. And I have a feeling, if I’d simply taking the time to put my thoughts on paper last night, I would have fallen asleep faster than I did, accomplishing both goals at once.
I’m going to go take a walk and see if I can recapture some of it, those thoughts must still be in there somewhere! Hmm, podcast…?
And again, please don’t feed the trolls! Don’t respond, don’t argue back. The blogging gods gave you a delete button in your comments, use it!
A little snooping around shows that the 