{"id":12797,"date":"2008-06-24T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/06\/photos-smoke-fire-floods-weirdoes.html"},"modified":"2008-06-24T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:04:27","slug":"photos_smoke_fire_floods_weirdoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/photos_smoke_fire_floods_weirdoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Smoke, fire, floods, &#038; weirdoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/pandemonium.html\">People as smoke<\/a>: the simple tricks of long exposure produce a ghostly presence.&#160; [Via Marc Pawliger] <\/li>\n<li>The Big Picture showcases the wrath of nature:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>I used to play soccer against the guys from Cedar Rapids, IA, and I hate seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/06\/mississippi_floodwaters_in_iow.html\">the city submerged<\/a>.&#160; Scroll down as the photography  gets more and more striking.<\/li>\n<li>Smoke from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/06\/california_fires.html\">the northern California fires<\/a> cast a bizarre light over the Bay Area last week.&#160; Apparently the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-1000\">T1000<\/a> got <a href=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/universal\/site_graphics\/blogs\/bigpicture\/cafire_06_16\/cafire15.jpg\">caught in the flames<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Vintage photo manipulation:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Wired New York features <a href=\"http:\/\/wirednewyork.com\/forum\/showthread.php?p=29988&amp;mode=threaded\">a wealth of early photos of the city<\/a>. Among them you can find at least one example of rudimentary (yet surprisingly decent) photo manipulation.<\/li>\n<li>Sam Haskins talks a bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samhaskinsblog.com\/?p=194\">how composite photos were made in the time before Photoshop<\/a> and shows an example. &quot;At the time there was zero retouching after the event. Now of course I have the luxury of scanning the transparency to clean and refine the image in Photoshop &#8211; God bless its digital socks.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/06\/15847.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Doing their own thing:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Phillip Toledano has created a photo essay of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/galleries\/phone_sex_operators\/01pso.php\">phone sex operators<\/a>&#8211;a surprisingly articulate, diverse, and self-aware crew.&#160; (Fair warning: The photos are tame, but some of the blurbs beneath them are fairly frank.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/06\/15849.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/142636\">Return of the \u201970s Weirdos<\/a> features 1978 &amp; 2008 photos of a group of early Microsoft employees.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/142636\">Via<\/a>]&#160; Referring to aging dudes working for MSFT these days, a friend of mine calls the shuttle bus from Seattle to Redmond &quot;The Ponytail Express.&quot; <\/li>\n<li>You never know what you&#8217;ll find via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/americangothic\/interesting\/\">American Gothic tag on Flickr<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/06\/15865.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People as smoke: the simple tricks of long exposure produce a ghostly presence.&#160; [Via Marc Pawliger] The Big Picture showcases the wrath of nature: I used to play soccer against the guys from Cedar Rapids, IA, and I hate seeing the city submerged.&#160; Scroll down as the photography gets more and more striking. Smoke from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}