This was what, like 3, 4 weeks ago now? something like that. A really enjoyable couple days out on the California delta. I was just getting used to the sony at that point. Good camera, fast, does OK in low light. It’s not terribly durable; my frame of reference is a professional DSLR like the D750 I have, though. I think it might just be in that category of camera that everyone else has, that needs to be in a padded case when it’s not in use. I’ve dented a couple corners and filled it with sunscreen, destroying the flippy LCD. I’ve removed it, making the camera a little slimmer, but I wish it’d been a little more durable to begin with. It’s an excellent carry-around camera, and amazing for street shooting. The experimental post I made the other day was all shot with it. It’s small, silent, and produces really good results in decent light. So, even if this one bites it, I may buy another just like it. And a pouch to protect it.
Posted on 2015-08-12T22:21:01Z GMT
Today was great; I got to meet a bunch of cool hardware folks (and “one novelist”:http://robinsloan.com) at “@genmon’s”:http://interconnected.org/home/ hardware-ish coffee. Lots of good ideas flying around, and everybody seemed to like the “watch”:http://ourglass.watch . Some other fellows had an interesting museum-y thing, and another guy had a bunch of little gadgets he’d made based on the electric imp. I’ll update this with a link to Matt’s post when he puts it up, with actual names. I was too busy sort of absorbing all the good ideas to really take it in. But: Look at that photo of Tom. Sunburnt as hell and not a single fuck given.
Posted on 2015-08-07T03:57:13Z GMT
Ah, market street north of third: the real heart of the city, beating with activity. I love this part of town the most; it’s the most inhospitible to sanity but also the most alive place in the whole city. You get a sense of the scale of the place here, like no other. This is somewhat experimental, as I edited the photos on my phone. I may hate it and delete it later.
Posted on 2015-08-06T01:50:53Z GMT
These are more or less random, just things that happened. No narrative, no metanarrative. They’re all with the new camera, a Sony R100v4. It’s really really good for a pocket camera. Like, way better than my first couple dslrs, in every way but maybe durability. It’s already got quite a few dings. We’ll see.
Posted on 2015-08-05T06:42:56Z GMT
I know I should break this into several posts or whatever, but I really don’t have the time or patience. I also feel a little bad about these photos, in that I hung out with a ton more people than are pictured here, and none of them are in any of my pictures, because I was kinda busy getting to know them and talking about exciting stuff that wasn’t photography. Also, it’s hard to carry an SLR in swim shorts. I was going to name a bunch of names here, but I’d be sure to miss someone and I don’t want to do that. So: If I talked to you, it’s safe to assume that I valued that interaction. Everyone there was pretty rad, from the organizers to the other speakers to the attendees. Things that happened, in no particular order: I got lost (several times). I broke my watch, then broke the programmer, then gave my talk anyway. We walked to a black sand beach over the hill, and went in the water untill the jellyfish came. Swimming in safer waters. Swimming in a pool, most days; afternoon naps. Many, many good ideas were floated, and some of them maybe even ran with (Use rust! build hardware! Change the future, and do what you can to include everyone in it!) Midnight tacos were had. I spoke to a room of ~100 people about how to build their own smart watch. I sat all day at the airport, because I got the cheapest ticket and then couldn’t change it. I was chased out of the Guadelajara airport by mosquitos, only to return hours later, and finally get home. That about covers it.
Posted on 2015-08-02T06:20:47Z GMT
