One way

nickd — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:55:54 +0000

Tree

nickd — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:55:27 +0000

Abbey

nickd — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:54:19 +0000

T

nickd — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:53:43 +0000

Belmont

nickd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:42:34 +0000

Harvard

nickd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:42:01 +0000

Paper mill

nickd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:41:41 +0000

Outpost

nickd — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:50:59 +0000

Crossing

nickd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:49:02 +0000

Belmont/Broadway

nickd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:48:30 +0000

Jefferson Park

nickd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:47:18 +0000

No house

nickd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:46:48 +0000

90/94

nickd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:45:55 +0000

Clybourn

nickd — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:11:44 +0000

Dearborn transfer

nickd — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:26:06 +0000

Anna

nickd — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:40:37 +0000

Point

nickd — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:45:28 +0000

(untitled)

nickd — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:44:49 +0000

Drupal images.

nickd — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:09:35 +0000

It seems that Drupal severely botches the quality of my photographs upon resizing them. (Check my Flickr page for a few such examples.) I'm looking into it, but the solution may involve yet another redesign.

Edit: I changed the layout to be 950px wide. This will significantly favor 1280px wide monitors, which isn't terribly amenable to 12" laptops, but if this is going to focus on pictures then that's probably what's needed.

I also plan to resize images myself on my computer before I upload them, which should not affect their resultant quality.

Lastly, I'm going to update the most recently posted image to reflect this change.

Damen/Thomas

nickd — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:17:11 +0000

Hanging bike

nickd — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:21:24 +0000

Marie

nickd — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:20:40 +0000

Scotch and iPhone.

nickd — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:42:11 +0000

Scotch and iPhone. Scotch and iPhone. Let me tell you about Scotch and iPhone. My roommate, Austin, recently bought an iPhone. Scotch and iPhone is when you play with Austin's iPhone while drinking scotch, preferably Tomatin 12-year, because you don't want something quite as peaty as a Singleton when you're playing with an iPhone. We're talking quality interaction design on all fronts here. We at the Swiss Invasion of Liechtenstein (the name of our apartment) take Scotch and iPhone very seriously.

You don't ever want to drink too much scotch while playing with an iPhone because then it just gets stupid. We are talking a very small amount of scotch with the iPhone. The above photo shows you how much scotch I drank when embarking on Scotch and iPhone last night.

Can we just talk about how completely insane it is to talk about "playing" with a cellular phone? One year ago, it would be more like "trying to use", "trudging through the menus of", or "getting frustrated by". But now we're playing with the thing, and that is just completely astonishing.

Which is perhaps the entire point of Scotch and iPhone. I don't drink any cheap scotch during Scotch and iPhone, because the iPhone - this iPhone - would get angry. Nobody wants that. Because this device seems anthropomorphic, full of character and flaws and it responds well and it just feels alive. It sounds terrible and weirdly romanticized, but you totally know that it's entirely true if you've interacted with one.

I look forward to Scotch and iPhone with my own iPhone in a month or so.

Idolator: The Black Kids Hype Must Be Stopped

nickd — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:26:00 +0000

Jess Harvell is my new hero and I want Santa to give him ten billion dollars for Christmas.

Gary Voth: Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm "Normal" Lens

nickd — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:32:34 +0000

bbum: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens

nickd — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:32:01 +0000

Fraser Speirs: The Second Step in Photography

nickd — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:31:03 +0000

James Duncan Davidson: More on the Best Deal in Photography

nickd — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:30:32 +0000

I own a Nikon D80 with a 50mm f/1.4. In the next two days, I'm going to make another lens purchase: a wide-angle zoom. To coalesce some of the discourse on a recent movement back towards fixed lenses in favor of quality optics over the compositional freedom of a (usually f/2.8 at best) zoom, here are links to four trenchant blog posts.

Humanized: Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software

nickd — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:15:20 +0000

In-depth article by Jono DiCarlo about the pitfalls and peaks of community-based software engineering.

Institute of Failure

nickd — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:51:33 +0000

"Situated on the ungraspable border between deadpan irony and high seriousness, The Institute of Failure dedicates itself to the documentation, study, and theorisation of failure as it occurs in all aspects of human endeavour."