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I bought a tiny Flip Mino HD camera in December in order to record some small video clips while bouncing around Europe. Video is awesome but the effort that goes behind it is astonishing. It's easily 10x more tedious than still photography. That being said, I think the impact you can achieve video is worth the effort.

So far I've only messed with small snippets and cliche time lapse+music stuff. The 90 second rule imposed by Flickr is an interesting constraint. It forces you into this mindset of treating video as an extension of still photography. i like that.

LIFE Magazine is working to put their massive photography archive online at http://www.life.com however in the mean time they have partnered with Google to host a huge number of images via http://images.google.com/hosted/life

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will include millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
The new service, available at http://images.google.com/hosted/life, debuted Tuesday with about 2 million photos. Eventually, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life's library so they can be viewed on any computer with an Internet connection.
The new gallery gives Google a head start on Life's Web site, which is scheduled to begin showing off the photo archive in late February. Life will draw upon its editors' expertise to pick the best shots from the archives.
About 97 percent of Life's archives have not been publicly seen, according to Life.

(via AP News)

It is really hard to describe how I feel today, the election of Barack Obama is a true inflection point for our society. I wasn't alive when Americans landed on the Moon, but I have to imagine it felt a little like last night.

I have to admit that I was old enough to understand both. I was and still am amazed by all the hard work and innovation that went into landing men on the moon. But this story has been amazing and so much more emotional, and full of hope. The moon landing seemed like the end of a major effort; this feels like a fresh start with many possibilities.

Carl Madson

So RED is starting tease people with rendered bits of a new camera they're about to announce (November 13th I think). I'm really curious about the details of this device as I'm due for a new camera in the next six months. If the price and specs are tempting enough I'd be willing to switch from Nikon to RED... imagine that!

Looks like my latest light painting resonated with a lot of people, it's currently #1 on Flickr Explore for 10/15/2008. As with most of my photos there's never a clear idea before hand, just lot's of improv and luck I guess.

This was shot on the Pacific coastline of San Francisco around midnight, that orangish glow to the right is the Golden Gate Bridge. I used a 30 second exposure and a Nikon sb800 speed light to create this image. The green inner arc is the backlight LCD dispaly on the flash. These clear nights on the coast are rare and it just happened to be a full moon too which made for some fantastic night shooting.