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ISO 12,500 on the Highway

A few shots while driving home from DC at 65 mph after dark. The grain is strong, but the pictures have a kind of filmic, Ed Ruscha feel.
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Q: What Was Bush Doing While the Economy Was Melting?

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A: Reading books.

Thanks to spinmaster Karl Rove, we now know that our supreme leader is not a philistine book burner, but a learned man of letters. In Rove’s new career, to rehabilitate his puppet’s legacy, he offers this WSJ column on how he and W. competed to read the most books and pages over the last few years. While it’s plausible that Bush actually read the listed books, a few investigators have done the math, in particular this analysis over at Book Patrol, which comes to the conclusion that it is unlikely Bush could have plowed through his list in so little time.

The above picture, I’ve just learned, is actually a fake. This was disseminated not long after 9/11 when Bush was reading along with an elementary school class down in Florida as the planes hit the towers. Snopes.com nailed the fraud here. I hadn’t realized though, that the book they were reading, America, A Patriotic Primer, was written by Lynne Cheney. Perhaps the only thing better than Oprah to enhance book sales is to have your husband be the vice president.
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Rainy Empire State Views

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Chelsea Holiday Windows

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Union Square Station

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Painting in the Window

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Snowy Night

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Speaking of Books...

Virtual books, that is. This Japanese recycling and “ecology zoo” promotion website has some very cool 3D popup books which you can view at any angle. It’s something that would really scare W.
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Animated Film Celebrates Publisher's 25th

A beautiful PR stop motion animation to celebrate a U.K. publisher’s 25th anniversary by AptStudio. Warning: it appears that books were irrevocably harmed in the name of art. The horror! The horror!


This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
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First Snow (from Bergen Stn. Stairs)

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Holiday Lights, Bokeh Style

Any lens can do this, but these were taken with the new, creamy Nikkor 50f1.4G with 9-blade aperture.
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Feels Like the Seventies

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Don’t know if the recession will lead to 1970s era unrest and urban blight, but this seen on Livingston Street may be a scene of things to come.
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Empire Fulton Ferry Park Panorama

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Vinegar Hill Seagulls

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Dumbo

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Christmas Tree at Con Ed

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ISO Urban Landscaper (Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn)

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Fulton Mall at 7:30 AM

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Trash Day

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Pomeranians

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Winter Cometh

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The Last Leaves at Night

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Sensor Noise

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Shooting into the sun with my D40, I can force a weird kind of sensor flare which exaggerates chromatic abberation and causes purple and green fringing. Looks kind of cool, perhaps analogous to a light leak in a film body.
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New Asphalt on Carroll Street

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Barren Trees

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