"My own long-term goal is to publish at least 1,000,000 photographs before I die." Good long term goal. My husband is a subway photographer and has nearly 18,000 photos of trains only on his website as accumulated over the last few years. I wonder if he'll get even close to 100k!
- Tamar Weinberg
My only photography goal is to start taking pictures again. I stopped for some reason as I started getting distracted by my other interests. :(
- James (@willia4)
Just to get better. I hope I'll have more time taking shots too.
- Chris Nixon
GET a real camera without my husband freaking out about the price tag!, learn how to use it, post fabulous photos on Flickr! which dump over here
- Susan Beebe
Sell my Leica Digilux 3, and just get the most out of my new Leica D-Lux 4 while documenting the first year of my daughter.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Take tons of pictures of my kids and go to a photography show of some kind
- Shevonne
to finally pursue my lifelong dream of taking up photography lol
- Cardeen winedrunk
I want to break into the pornography industry ~ hear it's a big money maker!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
To try and round up some freelance work and get more involved in the local gallery scene...and always looking to refine, re-invent, and learn.
- Susan Dennis
Take less pictures, but with higher attention to quality.
- David Cook
Considering taking a photography class. I'd love to really learn how to work with film.
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My two photography goals for 2009 are 1) Actually learn the non-auto functions of my camera besides manual focus and "No! Don't Flash at distant things" and 2) Get better at low light and lunar photography.
- Daniel Cornwall
To be better than I was a year before, to hopefully have a proper dSLR, and to have made some spending money from my photos. And to have fun.
- Grant Bierman
To have a camera I could shoot a gnat from 100 yards with. and to take some classes so that I can use it. Ok, 50 yards...
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
take 4x the photos I took in 2008 and publish once a week to flickr
- Mark Interrante
To take enough photos in 2009 that I fill all the hard drives of my new Drobo.
- Bob Gannon
I have a new camera, so first learn how to use it properly. After that, remember to use it regularly and not just grab my iPhone.
- Rochelle
I want to shoot more with Thomas Hawk. I also want to edit more of my photos.
- Robert Scoble
Get geared up with my 5D, learn some good lighting skills and start taking my food pics to build my portfolio.
- Derrick
Build a Macro Studio and take better food photos for blog. Meet with the local photographer photo-walks. Play with my new UV filter.
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Getting a quality camera and developing my skill is one of my retirerment plans; a don't think that will happen in 2009.
- Robert Hafer
To meet more photographers in real life and go on adventures with them.
- Trey Ratcliff
I want to continue to get better with my camera. I've only been shooting really for a little over a year so I'm still learning. I also want to shoot some studio sessions as that is something very new and challenging for me.
- C.C. Chapman
Thanks to this thread, I took out my Canon Powershot S1 manual (three years old) and figured out how to 1) Take pictures in sepia, 2) Successfuly work the delay time to take a photo of myself and 3) Use the successive photo feature. I used the last on my cat, but I couldn't get him to move, so not worthwhile to see. I look forward to trying a few different things a month and seeing what happens. Thanks for starting this thread!
- Daniel Cornwall
"Today we bring you a great collection of portraits of the most iconic people throughout history. Portraits explore the relationship between the subject and the photographer or artist and usually continue to impress the viewer years after they have been created. The common thread running through all of these portraits is superlative design. Each is a masterpiece in its own right, from the medieval painted portraits right up to the most current photographs. This collection is arranged in alphabetical order and is by no means complete. We encourage you to post comments as to which portraits we’ve missed, that you feel should be part of this collection."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
some of the world's most iconic portraits in this set.
- Thomas Hawk
Flickr needs to get their Community ducks in a row and stop using blatant content destruction as their only corrective action. Heather, in particular, acting as Community manager, needs to step up her game to a more adult level and learn to let the Flickr Community grow without her motherhood. More tomorrow, if the mere mention of her name as Community Manager on Flickr doesn't get me deleted.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
yeah hostility sometimes happens when without warning or any possibility of correction you destroy literally thousand's of hours of people's work. Other people's work that didn't belong to you. Work that they invested not only thousands of hours of work and energy on but significant emotional energy as well. Especially when plenty of things could have been done to remove material that...
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- Thomas Hawk
I just noticed the following on the above photo: This image was moderated as SAFE, PHOTO by Flickr Staff. What does that mean? I can't mark it as anything other, so I imagine they NIPSAd it?
- Pierre Honeyman
A lot of my photos that are NIPSA'd on Flickr are labeled "safe photo" Pierre. When they NIPSA your photos they prefer to do it behind your back. Put a unique tag on the image and then see if you can search for that tag and have it come up. Probably not. Flickr likes to hide speech that is critical of them. You won't have that problem here at friendfeed. If someone doesn't like something here they simply block you. It's a lot easier that way.
- Thomas Hawk
Yeah, I put a unique tag on. I requested a review of the image with the question "What does this mean?"
- Pierre Honeyman
Let's see if I get a response. But damn, that was fast.
- Pierre Honeyman
Indeed Pierre, they like to nip dissent in the bud. Funny that Stewart Butterfield could say the word "fuck" in a public interview on a video promoting the site when he worked for Yahoo and ran Flickr, but they censor your photo for it. I wonder if the fact that your message is critical of them has anything to do with the censorship in this case.
- Thomas Hawk
I have other identical photos with worse language that are not NIPSA.
- Pierre Honeyman
Have they ever responded to you when you've requested a review Thomas?
- Pierre Honeyman
It's not the language Pierre, it's the fact that it's critical of flickr at a time when a whole hornet's nest of people are angry at them right now after they nuked a very active a popular group on th esite.
- Thomas Hawk
Pretty much that's it Pierre. Terrence responded to my request for a review on the photo of the museum painting that they censored and refused to uncensor it. I asked him a respectful question as to why a painting of the backside of a woman in the all ages Institute of Art in Chicago needed to be censored but that the sculpture David which features full male frontal genitalia did not...
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- Thomas Hawk
They'll probably label this one under the "thou shalt not rant" "Guideline"
- Pierre Honeyman
Heather apologized for the team and un-NIPSAd this photo. That was a classy move that I greatly appreciate.
- Pierre Honeyman
The actual mail that Heather sent me is in the comment stream of that photo.
- Pierre Honeyman
I just quit "fuckr" forever! I'll never be back there. It was a great place to share info & images but when Yahoo got their grubby little hands on it, it went Disney-stupid fast! So if anyone here knows of any photo/video-sharing free site that truly does not censor, please let me know!
- Ben Hardy
Thx for liking, but I simply MUST insist that you also weigh in! I want to get some good Google Voice info out of your comments... here, on the Current.com page, Facebook, whatever.
- Sarah Lane
What, you gonna deny a poor little woman with a brain tumor? I think not. ;)
- Sarah Lane
Also! My Google Voice number is in this segment for all to admire. And so's my cell phone number, but I tried pretty hard to blur that one out. :)
- Sarah Lane
I have some good stuff, will post tomorrow during the living hours.
- Eric
from iPhone
Sorry, Sarah - can't be monitoring FF *all* the time... :) I honestly haven't used Google Voice much for some of the same reasons you mentioned. For some reason my number is firmly stuck in my head, but I haven't given it out to many folks (more out of laziness than anything, since my friends all have my cell number already). Haven't run into the issue with voicemail (even though I have...
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- Thomas
Sarah - you're right - it pretty much sucks if you don't give out your Google Voice number. The lack of Visual Voicemail integration is also a big let-down. I've experimented with it by distributing my GV number to Facebook contacts who I don't want stalking me (I made a group for them). I've found that the inbound calling, and SMS forwarding is really cool and works flawlessly. Outbound calling and voicemails requires a visit to the GV mobile page (which I keep open in Safari on my iPhone).
- Ankush Narula
Thinking about it some more, I can see a use where you give the GV number to all your creditors and potential telemarketers. I use my land line for that now, but eventually I want to get rid of that. Another use - if you want a number in a different area code. As someone who wants to eventually sell a screenplay, it might behoove me at some point to get a number in the 310 area code to...
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- Thomas
I love Sarah because she hasn't abandoned FriendFeed like the rest of the geeks. Keep using it Sarah! I'm even more a follower now than ever.
- Jesse Stay
I agree that giving it to people who I really don't want to have my number is nice. If you don't really want to hear from them, just let it go to voice mail. And if you do, no worries, you can add them to your friend group. Also if you're in some networking environment, you really don't have to worry about who exactly you give your number out to. I did try to tie it to my Skype account but it did not like that at all.
- Jerry Perez
I like GV's send to VM between certain times. So when I sleep I don't have to hear a phone ring unless so are so important to me I allow your call to come through. This way I can sleep but still receive potentially emergency phone calls. Also, I have used one is a home phone replacement so if people call it, it will ring my phones, my gf, and the kids. And I can see other great...
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- Philip Griego
Google Voice works really well *if* you have a good application to deal with the Voicemails. I installed GV Mobile on my (jailbroken) iPhone. Since they recently added the "use GV as voicemail" feature, I find that I'm using it a lot more than before. The basic problem with GV is that it's not a voicemail replacement, as such (though it has that sort of functionality now). It works best...
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- Otto
I'm using Google Voice and like it. It's still better than the crappy voicemail from the cable company or cell phone company. I don't have any app to run it on my phone and don't need one. I voice dial to get the messages. Works great.
- Dave Friedel
I use GV as the voice mail for my Podcast. Works great for that. Also use it for all of my phones, ...well, that is mmm, okay. I really wish it was a bit more flexible.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Hate the lack of support to visual voicemail and that I have to go to Google Voice's page to make a call if I want my number to show on outbound calls. LOVE the fact that I can give my GV # to potential employers so they don't have to worry about reaching a number I'm not at.
- ChiliMac
If I could get Google voice to just let voicemails go to my IPhone I'd be happy.
- ChiliMac
google voice just seems redundant. unless you give up your cell phone (which nobody will do) its just another way to do the same thing with (as you said) one more phone / log in / password / gadget. It wont last. Friend feed, Skype, and Twitter are NEW ways to communicate. I just got rid of my TV to watch everything online (Hule, Twit.tv...etc.) This was a way to get rid of a redundancy. Creating consolidation tech is where its at, not new ways to do old things, I think it will fade away. Gr8 vid.
- echostreamer
The real feature for GV is small business. So many telcos have SMBs over a barrel with terrible features. These people can't afford a PBX with forward and follow features. They could hook up a GV number, including their established line, and allow for forwards to any number, without the need to put 5 different numbers on their business cards. This is really a killer feature, and visual voicemail won't matter to those people. (also posted to current)
- Eric
I'm probably a minority here, but since I have an Android phone I'll chime in: GV works like a charm (including masking my number on outbound calls/sms) using the GV app for my phone.
- FFing Enigma
Favorite Google Voice feature: voicemail transcription sent to my cell via SMS and/or email.
- Shea
from BuddyFeed
""Finally, this kind of sensibility is coming to the king category of consumer electronics -- television." Viewers who watch on their computers (or a computer hooked to TVs) have vastly more choices. According to the Fancast website, which provides links to online video, there are more than 1,000 former and current TV series with full episodes on the Web. Common among many who have cut the cord is a sense of rebellion, not against TV but against service providers. They believe their way of watching represents the future of TV -- online and on demand. "The No. 1 factor of why people watch online is convenience," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board consumer research center. The cable industry knows it could be in for a fight. "Clearly this is a growing trend," said Alex Dudley, spokesman for Time Warner Cable, which has 14.6 million subscribers nationwide."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
If you could get some of your friends to dress up as Ron Howard, maybe get a sign for around your neck that says "Audi 5000" and wear the cat-lady outfit, you could go as FriendFeed...
- Thomas
LOL! That thread is not going to die, even in spirit eh? :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Lol, what happen to Dr. Girlfriend? I'm going to a Halloween party. I'm planing to go has Leo I was going wear a box around my head and cut out a hole to make it look like a screen with the twit logo. Lol
- Fee501st
from email
Dr. Girlfriend only works if you have a Monarch.
- Veronica
I came across this 'dead Barbie' suggestion while hunting for ideas (http://familycrafts.about.com/od...), which'd work with the recent pink rant. Kinda.
- Amy
BALLOON GIRL, BALLOON GIRL, BALLOON GIRL.
- Dave Friedel
Im too short to go has Monarch, but i could be Dr. Venture! Also i 2nd the Zoey idea!
- Fee501st
lol! I didn't think you would really answer that, i was just being silly! :D I'm watching Leo's
- Fee501st
I watched Leo's for a while earlier. About as riveting as I expected a party revolving around an OS install to be... :)
- Thomas
well Today's TZ is all about Windows 7! That close enough ;)
- Fee501st
Maybe I'll watch it while my win7 iso downloads. BTW, if anyone pre-ordered windows 7 from the Microsoft Store, has GMail, and is still waiting for their download e-mail, check your spam folder. That's where I found mine. Never mind that an email from the same domain was let through a few weeks ago. Not intentional by Google at all, I'm sure...
- Thomas
You could always dress as a modern Hamlet. Its not that difficult. Just wear all black, walk around with a skull and look like you are being crushed by the weight of your ennui. :)
- Carlos Urrutia
You should dress as Dr. Horrible's Penny!
- Jason Wong
from iPod
I have used Aperture for a while. I will check this out though.
- Spencer
I used to use LR, but when Aperture 2 came out, I switched over. I gave LR a couple days worth of trying and what not and I still have the same problem with it: its too cluttered and does a poor job of having the tools I want/need where I'd like to have them. The flickr export is indeed nice, but I have a plugin for Ap2 that does the same thing. Maybe one other day I'll sit down with LR and find it easier, but thats not today and its not LR3.
- Almond Butterscotch
Do they have gigabit on the ship? I smell a high seas LAN party. ^^
- David C. Cooper
Heck yeah! No one will give you crap when you hop on your laptop rather then lay out by the pool. Gaming on vacation would be mandatory. Screw the sight seeing, show me where the free hotspots are!
- ChiliMac
OLD MAN RANT: I refuse to call it "Wiilis" Tower. When they tear it down and put up a new building, they can call it any fool thing they want. But I refuse to call it "Willis Tower".
I think my favorite parts is when the puppy leave the frame to get a running start to jump onto the rottweiler. Absolutely adorable! :D
- Heather Nielsen
My favorite part is when the puppy tries to hang on the Rotti's ear.
- Chris Granade
bobbymiller: Where the Wild Things Are…after they grew up and started interning at the Reel Good Show. Featuring my stupid face, Mike Johnson, Jake Strunk, & Anthony Carboni. Leave us a comment/rate if you dig it. Full show coming later today with the filmmakers behind Happy Birthday Harris Malden. I have watched this 3 times in a row already, I... - http://annieisms.tumblr.com/post...
I'm thinking that seems wrong to me. Now they'll go after Skype and others I'm sure. Trying to force old fashioned rules onto new technology.
- Richard Bitting
applying old paradigms to new ones. Good luck with that.
- Garmon Estes
Flickr: Discussing Youtube Removes Video of Maguire Properties Guard Harassing Photographer in Photography is not a crime - http://www.flickr.com/groups...
"So it's official, Youtube removed the most recent video of a Maguire Properties' security guard harassing me while taking pictures of The Gas Company Tower. I am going to upload the video to another account and suggest that everybody download the video using vixy.net and then upload it to their accounts. This moved by Youtube is absolute BS. Who knows why they agreed to remove the video, but the entire encounter took place on a public sidewalk. There is no expectation of privacy! If you would like to tell Maxwell/The Youtube Team what you think about the removal of this video here is the email to respond to and the case number. support@youtube.com Make sure to put this info in the subject: Re: [#519691802] YouTube Support ----------------------- Here is the email I received from Maxwell/The Youtube Team Hi there, Thanks for your email. We have removed the material in question for a privacy violation, pursuant to our Community Guidelines. It may take some time for video search results...
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- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Unfortunately it appears that YouTube is removing videos taken of people on the public street in public situations. When you are in public there is no expectation of privacy. To censor a video because someone objects to being in a video is poor company policy. Apparently this video (no longer there)...
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- Thomas Hawk
This....ok, this is my worst nightmare. I cannot be held accountable for your maiming and/or death if you do this to me: http://www.buzzfeed.com/markwma...
Was that directed at me. Discriminating against us 'one-lung' people is illegal you know. And for the record, I think V would pass out cold if someone jumped out at her in the toilet.
- Dave Friedel
Dammit, now the evil bone has awoken... -_-
- Carlos Urrutia