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. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/haight_and_a_sign_in_civic_center/360/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/haight_and_a_sign_in_civic_center/360/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/haight_and_a_sign_in_civic_center/360/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/haight_and_a_sign_in_civic_center/360/0005.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt 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. <div class=”center”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20142658530_4c69dce909_h.jpg” alt=”See shop and women”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20304470226_44790c896e_h.jpg” alt=”meter maid car”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20142699508_061d6eb999_h.jpg” alt=”vendor”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20336769501_fb5c2b4ea2_h.jpg” alt=”guy staring, hotel”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20304467336_3478ae8cbd_h.jpg” alt=”Arcade on market”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20144087759_95e38a6fa7_h.jpg” alt=”wheelchair man and dude on phone”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20337078201_448675ac63_h.jpg” alt=”girls in the market”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20322584092_9ec59f380b_h.jpg” alt=”tourists on bench”> <img src=”https://images.matt.pictures/market_street_mini-essay/361/20142701228_8e44c378b8_h.jpg” alt=”Ferry Building, looking towards treasure island”> </div>
Posted by matt 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. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/evenings_and_cats/362/0007.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt 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. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0005.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0007.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0008.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0009.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0010.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0011.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0012.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0013.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0014.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0015.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0016.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0017.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0018.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0019.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0020.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0021.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0022.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0023.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0024.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0025.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0026.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/the_week_of_magma_conf/363/0027.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-08-02T06:20:47Z GMT
There’s an idea that’s been rattling around all day today: The photograph as anecdote. That is to say, they’re not really evidence, but just a thing someone saw one time. It dovetails nicely with things I think/believe about truth, objectivity and the possibility that they don’t exist in photography. “A photograph is neither true, nor false, just as a sentence is neither red nor blue.” A smartass will go print a red/blue text on a color printer, but you get the point: Photographs are not vehicles for truth. They are vehicles for telling stories. The story here: I got on a plane bound for Santa Fe from SFO. I tried to sleep for the first twenty minutes or so of the flight, then resigned myself to being awake, and started looking out the window. I’ve always been addicted to these views, snapping pictures whenever I can see anything at all. This time, it was a bit shocking. Tiny mountain lakes, no snow, and every reservoir has at least a bathtub ring, some that look so wide and have been there so long it’s getting hard to distinguish them from the landscape. All visible from 27,000ft. We landed, and as you could maybe tell from the previous post, Santa Fe has been good. But these pictures need to get out there. maybe next I’ll post my stuff from pride, something upbeat. We’ll see. <div class=”center”> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0001.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0002.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0003.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0004.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0006.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0007.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0008.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0009.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0010.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0011.jpg’ /> <img src=’https://images.matt.pictures/lakes_in_the_eastern_sierra/364/0012.jpg’ /> </div>
Posted by matt on 2015-07-06T05:36:15Z GMT
