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i was afraid this would happen someday. - Mladen Srdić
omg.. .. @Thomas, dude get a life.. these type of streams are not conducive to your image . solly.. I can take a jab at the person with whom I am most comfortable with !! :)_ LOL - Peter Dawson
No way, spam on FF, I see why there ias a block feature now :-( - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl
That is one of the more creative spam messages I've seen. Tom Harrison is right - where's the part about how joevita needs to get $25 million out of England? - Hutch Carpenter
I wonder when will the porn spam start? Or has anyone seen some already? - Colide81
i don't know if it is spam, but i remember seeing some groups. - Mladen Srdić
I like how this thread turned into a talk on friendfeed spam, needless to say its amusing - BCK
@BCK the pictures are nice, it's just this is the first real friendfeed spam I've seen that I can think of so I for one wanted to mark the occasion. - Colide81
I'm doing 366, so for awhile, I was just forcing myself. However, I'm finding that carrying my camera everywhere, I always find *something*. So, it's not forced anymore. Then again, working in Downtown LA, it's pretty easy to get some good street photography. Aside from that, I'd also try to photowalk with a friend. (Sorry if that wasn't what you were going for!) - Bryan Villarin
Jeremy, we have a saying in Romania: "Pofta vine mancand." Translated, it means: "You'll get hungry once you start eating." Take your camera with you and force yourself to take interesting photographs. The thought process will whet your appetite. - Raoul Pop
Go with a friend. The enthusiasm is geometric, not algebraic. - Dave Roth
Good initial responses, I appreciate it. I have been one to keep my camera with me, for sure. I also agree with the philosophy of the more you shoot, the more you take good pics and enjoy doing it. My problem is I have been doing it for awhile and got into a bit of a rut. Also, my day is pretty routine, so finding new photo opps can be difficult. Getting to new locations/photo opps is a bit of an undertaking. - Jeremy Hall
@Bryan Villarian Your point about being in downtown LA is a good one. Bit city has more of what I'd enjoy photographing variety-wise, and I live in small town Utah County. My "commute" to work is 3 miles. Great commute, bad for variety and photo opps. - Jeremy Hall
Jeremy, in that case, there's nothing wrong with taking a break. It might give you a fresh perspective on things. - Raoul Pop
Get some new glass - let you get a different take on the same old same old. - Andy Roth
I switched formats. I put down the DSLR and bought a new-to-me Yashica (film) Medium Format TLR. The images are square format so framing is different and since it's film I really have to slow myself down and compose the shot and think about the exposure. It makes photography a craft for me again (I find that digital makes me a very lazy artist, sometimes). But before I got the Yashica, I'd just switch from my DSLR to just taking photos with my iPhone. Mix it up a bit. - vicster
shoot only with certain lenses for a few days. If you only shoot macros for two days for instance you can find all kinds of ways/things to shoot to make abstract photographs. By forcing yourself into a certain lens frame of mind it builds creativity. Do searches for imagery that you like and see what other people are doing with it. - Thomas Hawk
If you are bored, try going somewhere you have never been before. As Thomas recommended, try shooting with a specific lens. I will often go to the same location, but with different lenses each time. It is amazing how different I see the world through each lens. You will surprise yourself with the new and different images you will create using this technique. - Jeff P. Henderson
Jeremy - set up a project, whether it be dedicating yourself to a specific lens (as Thomas Hawk suggested) or trying to find a particular pattern in the subjects around you. Also, I get most of my inspiration from what others are doing. I look at Flickr daily and filter my FriendFeed by Flickr. Another thing I like to do is look at past pictures and alter your processing dramatically. This can spark new creativity while shooting as well. - Justin Korn
I find experimentation helps get things going again. Pick a single subject and think of as many different ways to shoot it. Maybe choose to shoot everything with one particular setting, or lying on the ground, or standing on a chair. Learn something new about your camera or lens or flash. Hope that helps. - Kenton
Trying finding some other local photogs to hit the streets with - perhaps the thrill of learning new tricks will inspire you to shoot more. - Tom Harrison
Find a photo you really like and try to duplicate it, or take a new photo of anything and process it 5 (or more) different ways.... - Wolfman-K
Great feedback everyone. Thanks so much for the ideas. I know I'll get it going again, but the creative ideas of how are going to be fun. Thanks! - Jeremy Hall
Whenever you stop or pause for something, look around and take a picture - I get a lot of mine while standing in line, or in parking lots, or other day-to-day life kind of places. And to echo what was said above - the more you shoot, the more enthusiastic you get about shooting. Once you start, it's easy to keep going. Failing all that... take a trip somewhere and get a change of scenery. - Eric
The September PhotoChallenge (Trevor Carpenter) is coming up, which is one thing I plan to do to get the creative juices flowing again. Anyone else planning on participating? - Jeremy Hall
These are all great suggestions. Sorry I don't have anything to offer that hasn't been said--I hope I don't have to use any of these, but I'm sure I will one day. - Stephen Shelton
“If my site is slow at the moment, it's because I'm getting a ton of traffic from StumbleUpon to this post: http://www.raoulpop.com/2008/0.... Let's hope my little server can hold up. :-)”
Need better hosting, on the cheap? Let me know :) - Bradley McSpinn
Brad, I'm with SliceHost right now, and I love them. I run my own VPS and have complete control over it. And the SliceHost guys are very helpful. Couldn't be happier. If it turns out that my little Linux box needs more power, I'll upgrade to the next plan. Thanks for the offer though! :-) - Raoul Pop
Wow. This is my busiest day of the year, by far. Amazing what a few nice Stumblers can do to your site traffic! - Raoul Pop
Cool post. That's a lot of storage! - Tom Harrison
He's always been a great public speaker and known how to engage an audience. - Patricia(Trish not Patty)
if so then he is improving. his speeches used to be the worst. long......................... I mean really long...................... I mean boring..................... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .......you still here? - Noah David Simon
depends on the song... but about a $1... without DRM I might be willing to go as high as $2 but it must be a good song - Shawn Duffy via twhirl
depends on the price of the whole album and the number of tracks the CD has :-P - Jérôme
good question. All depends if its online or offline.... finding some old vinyl, or some cool underground record in limited edition I'm willing to pay a lot... On the net, I expect to be able to find anything in a nearly free version, so I won't pay as much... I mean, what do you pay when the internet can be considered a copy machine.... when everything is a copy of a copy of a copy, what is better than free? - Peter Efland via twhirl
(last time I bought music "online" I was ordering CD's from cheap-cds.com so, as an artist, I'm curious) So....iTunes has set the standard at 99 cents? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
$1 for a song. I happily pay that vs the trouble to find it for free. An album, $10. That's what I gave Trent Reznor for the free Ghosts NIN album. I like what Geoff Smith is doing with the RSS expanding subscription album. I paid him $14.95 for "0's and 1's" and the album lives in my iTunes Podcast section and he adds songs to it for free. - Adam Turetzky
Let's clarify. This is single tracks. Online. I'm ignoring "albums" because I think they may be obsolete. Maybe you get a per-track discount for buying a set of tracks :) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
in what format? digitally? at a concert? on a CD? as a serenade from the toddler living down the hall? edit: oh, ok. well, then, approx $1 (considering the number of tracks on my average CD and what i pay for the CD as a whole). - idnan
I'll pay $10/album very relunctantly... does that mean that's what I think it's worth? I think a fair price is more like $0.05 to $0.10 per track. - Tad - just Tad
I frequently pay 99 cents and am happy to do so. - Mattb4rd
Tad, I'm curious. You don't think music is worth much. Do you hate music? Do you hate artists? What's up? :) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
i'll definitely pay the full price for albums that are good all the way thorough. unfortunately that doesn't happen a lot. i'll pay $1 for tracks up to 192 bps; $1.50 for tracks at 320 bps. - EJ Flavors
a dollar is two kilos of rice, can feed a family for a couple of days .. a song, and they are usually not worth listening to twice, is not very valuable in comparison ... so, as close to free as possible. - gregory lent
99 cents for a digital track, and absolutely no DRM. - Tom Harrison
Not at all - I honestly feel that musicians should not rely on sales of their recorded content for any income at all. Digital files are already free - that should be leveraged and used to promote things that are scarce - live concerts, rare "autographed" items, personalized stuff, etc. etc. Music sales are an obsolete income avenue. - Tad - just Tad
A new artist has nothing to leverage if they can't make any money initially from music sales. Would you buy artist merchandise, then? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
leverage? nothing beats practice, quality is pretty good leverage - gregory lent
Dude, gregory. I guess you think a lot of music is crap. We're not talking about crap. I specifically said "good song." This implies that you liked what you heard. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Most signed artists spend tons of time playing live gigs before they're discovered. The internet helps level that field a bit - especially if the band has a brilliant web designer to help. I'm not saying it's easy or fair or a great situation, but the fact remains that digital files are FREE once they're released onto the internet. Whatever I pay for them I'm doing out of a sense of charity. I'm disgusted that so much of it still goes to the labels. They're increasingly irrelevant. - Tad - just Tad
I think .99 a track is reasonable for a non-drm version. At the moment I pay much less - my $14.95 a month Zune Pass gives me access to a huge library. I try out new artists, keep what I like and ditch the rest. I really, really like treating music the way I treat cable tv... as a subscription. - Soulhuntre
Signed artists get advances to pay for recording and touring. They usually end up in a hole they can never climb out of. What about unsigned artists? Do you still feel their music is worth a few cents a track? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
$1 a track is a great deal. Especially when one considers a $1.50 for a soda or a coffee that you'll just urinate out in the toilet within hours, or a bus ride, or change in a parking meter. If it's a good song I can listen to it over and over for years. That's surely worth a $1 at least. - Jason Kaneshiro
This thread is very enlightening, I must say. I wonder if other types of art which can be shared online are looked at the same way. Photos, Graphics design, digital books? Very interesting. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
If the $1 goes mostly to the artist then I'd feel a lot more comfortable about paying that much for their albums. - Tad - just Tad
the time and effort to figure out how to steal it - Rodfather
Photographs are a lot easier to control than music. Most people won't listen to a song at a low bitrate (or at least won't pay for one) but would be willing to pay for something of high quality. I can publish a photo on the web at 72ppi which will look great on your screen but crappy or very small if you try to print it yourself and hang on the wall. I can control access to the high ppi version by selling prints. Since there's a physical element involved and a quality element involved it's different. - Lindsay Donaghe
The value proposition for music should also depend on those physical elements... why would I want to buy an actual "hard copy" of music? Maybe I get a kick-ass cd booklet with some cool art and lyrics... maybe I get some remixes that aren't available digitally... if you want to make money on music at this point there needs to be some scarcity involved. - Lindsay Donaghe
But is a photograph worth more than a song? You can always burn a song to CD if you want a physical element. :) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Once something is translated into a digital format and perfectly copyable with almost no effort, it is essentially free. People only pay for things because they can't get them other ways. People may be willing to donate/tip to support the creation process but most people will take what's free if it's available that way. - Lindsay Donaghe
Right, Rasheen, I can burn it to CD but that doesn't give me anything scarce. If you as an artist make a CD with special features I can't download otherwise then it's WORTH something... the digital version of the song that I can burn to cd, copy for my buddy, post on a music service or put up on an FTP server is literally priceless.. - Lindsay Donaghe
Now I see why some artists don't want their music online. A lot of work goes into making just one song. Especially if you are producer, writer, and performer. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
I would be more likely to buy a t-shirt with a creative presentation of song lyrics (take for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/b...) or some cool art with the artist/band name for $15 than I would to pay $15 for an album (or $1 each for 15 songs) if I wanted to support the music and I could download it free through other channels. - Lindsay Donaghe
$1 for a high quality DRM-free file (with an album discount, say $8 - $10 for 12-16 songs) is very reasonable to me, and that's why the Amazon MP3 store has gotten a lot of my money lately. - Tudor Bosman
The reality is that I generally use Amazon because it's convenient and it doesn't put DRM on the music. $1 is still more than I'd like to pay BUT if $0.90 of that went to the artist I would feel a lot better about it. I'd be surprised if the artist actually gets $0.05 of each sale. That's the real travesty. I wish it were easier to do things the way NIN does, but you have to have an established fan base for it to work. - Lindsay Donaghe
I'd pay up to $1.25. Interestingly enough, I can recall paying $2 (after tax) for vinyl singles as a youngun. Since these had B-sides, this meant that people were paying $1 for a song a long time ago, and it seems we don't think they should cost any more today! - MiniMage via NoiseRiver
Whenever I see a thread like this I'm always tempted to ask how much is the work you do at your job worth? Countless hours (more than a 40 hour work week for sure) goes into to creation and production of a single song (not to mention investment in equipment/software). I make some of my music freely available but if it's something that I've put a lot of work into I'm more hesitant. - m.0
The work I do at my job is all dependent on how much people are willing to pay me. It's a free market with lots of competition. Fortunately for me there aren't many other people 1) who are able to produce with the combination of skills I have OR 2) able to put up with the BS that comes along with my job OR 3) willing to put up with the BS that comes along with my job. The difference is I get paid for the act of performing my job, not so much for the outcome (service vs product). - Lindsay Donaghe
What I actually produce can be easily copied and distributed... therefore the product itself is not actually worth much... but someone paid me for the process because they didn't have the skills to do it themselves. That's something the music industry needs to embrace. Performing is a service... a cut digital copy of a song is a product. Digital products are (ultimately) free. People pay for what they can't get for free. - Lindsay Donaghe
Don't get me wrong though... I have great emotional attachment to whatever I produce so TO ME it's worth a hell of a lot because of the simple time and effort put into it... but since it's digital (code, graphics, design) it's not worth much unless I can protect it and make it scarce which generally goes against the purpose of software/websites which are intended for other people to use and access. - Lindsay Donaghe
I think that's the dilemma that digital distribution have presented us. As a audio engineer/composer I perform a service for my clients that in turn generate income from a product that mayultimately be perceived to be free. I think somewhere along the way we have come to treat the storage medium (ie: CD's, Vinyl, mp3's) as the actual product. Where as the actual product something a bit more intangible. If the product is free then there's very limited ways to generate income for the service. BTW, I'm throwing all this out there just as food for thought.:) Sidenote: performing isn't always an option for some in the industry. - m.0
While some views on digital media are disappointing, at least it gives me ideas of other ways to create value and possible demand. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Rashen, re: other artforms, look at flickr and 3dwarehouse, tons of work for free. It does devalue the work of people selling their products via other means, I'm not sure what to do about it, just making the connection between artforms. edit: movies and tv shows too, btw, lots of money goes into those little movie files people pass around. *shrug* - sergiooo
@Lindsay so if anything digital should be free, does that include movies, software, books, photographs? If you follow your line of live performance to be the only money maker - that means we'll replace recorded music with live performance, books with author readings, and movies with plays. That's basically going back to the 1800s. No movie actor is going to make big hollywood pictures to promote their "personal brand." - Jason Kaneshiro
@Jason - yes, that's the conundrum. Movies are an experience... you go to the theater to see them before they're released digitally. They can also embed product endorsements so you pay by watching advertisements. They are actually a good model to follow. Software is tricky... if you can control it via DRM then it's scarce and you can make money off of it. Software for consumers is kind of a lost cause in my book... that's why I work for enterprises to make custom software and they pay me for my service - Lindsay Donaghe
Photgraphs I've already said how you can control and make money... Books haven't been settled yet. If you can PDF them, then yeah, they're free other than if you embed advertisments or endorsements of some kind in them. Paper books (which the majority of people still prefer) are a physical product so they're safe for now. When stuff like the Kindle gets super cheap, then they're game as well, I'd think. - Lindsay Donaghe
As far as going "back to the 1800's" we may eventually go back to a time previous to that where works of Art were commissioned by the rich and eventually were available to the public as well. Or maybe (wishful thinking) there will come a time when people don't have to work for a LIVING and will work because they want to create things for other people to share... That's what would be nice. Create because you want to, not to pay the bills. - Lindsay Donaghe
Canon DSLR with IS. How will they sell there expensive lenses. Hope it is true but I cant afford to upgrade anyway. - CJPhoto
Still waiting for 5D successor, I want full frame sensor as well. - Jody C
I haven't seen the mention of IS in the camera, and as others have suggested, Canon already sells a lot of expensive lenses with IS, and may therefore be reluctant to put it in the body. - Dave Roth
There are some good, technical reasons for IS to live in the lens, not the body. That aside, I don't see canon moving IS to the body without also moving to a totally new mount (and series of lenses). - Matthew Davidson via twhirl
Seems cool. And it will be interesting to see the 5D successor as well. But me, my 5D is only 7 months old... I'll use it 'till it croaks. - Tom Harrison
The in body IS was a translation error. They were talking about lens IS compatibility. - John Ford
I'm disappointed to see that it has more megapixels on the same size sensor. - TranceMist
TranceMist- What would you expect? That's how it works. At least it's not more megapixels on a smaller sensor. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
I think that it is 100% okay that Microsoft makes this Windows only. This is a legitimate avenue to add value to Windows. If Apple can make things like iPhoto mac only as a value add to their OS, why shouldn't it be okay for Microsoft to do something similar for Windows? - Joe Beda
@ Joe Beda perhaps because the OS is not the value add - seriously, competition is great but you running Vista yet? All of this user generated content App rush (don't forget Adobe & flash issues) is good for users generating content ... fwiw not an apple v msft issue when downstream app cos are historically crowded out by Windows OS - creep - Scott Moskowitz
I should be clear -- I think that it is in Microsoft's best interest to have the player work everywhere (ala silverlight). However, on the creation side of things, I think it is a great way for Microsoft to make Windows more compelling. Obviously as a user we'd like to see everything be cross platform, but I think it is legit for MS to only offer the creation software on Windows. (Can I get Apple's Aperture on Windows? What about Final Cut Pro?) - Joe Beda
I see nothing wrong with Microsoft making PC only software. But it still doesn't mean I can use it on my Mac. - Thomas Hawk
It doesn't seem to play well with Parallels/XP either. Once I installed the plug-in, every visit to the Photosynth site crashed IE. On an unrelated note, the language of the notice regarding their lack of cross-platform support is very un-Microsoft (not in a bad way). Anyway, looking forward to giving it a shot once they get a handle on the traffic spike. - Tom Harrison
The TED demo of this software was one of the coolest and most inspiring things I've seen re. software (esp. M$ software) in a long time. - Hillary Hartley via feedalizr
format independence & with it OS independence will be a boon to computing ... we are analogs not digits - Wes Schadenfreud via twhirl
Interesting. Maybe it's just the New Yorker in me talking, but a person could reside in the area captured just inside the title photo of that NYT article. I don't know what I would do with a house that large. - Tom Harrison
I can't even fathom a 16,500 square foot condo, never mind a 56,500-square-foot mansion. I would have enough furniture to maybe fill a walk in closet. - Michelle Martinez
think of what it must cost to heat rooms that large... - edythe
Imagine what it would cost to cool those rooms in Texas! Yikes! - Michelle Martinez
This first blogs were websites with posts made in reverse-chronological order -- many authors didn't even use headlines. Things like RSS and comments have been added onto the format as extras over time... I have never bought the argument that comments are a defining property of a blog. - Tom Harrison
There are still some "blogs" that don't allow comments - silly. - Kimberly J
I'd *love* comments on my blog. I'm fairly new at this only having done it for a few years, and only recently have I discovered social media, so I know it will take a while to get even a few comments per post. It's sortof silly, but I was excited when Mo Kargas *liked* one of my entries here and then I got a few diggs on digg. :) - Mattb4rd
@Mattb4rd, if you've been doing this for a few years then you are a veteran compared to me! :) - Mark Dykeman
Ha! Mattb4rd is totally a veteran. I started blogging last December. :) - Here's... possible248!
@Kimberly J, @Tom Harrison - I would say that comments have become part of a blog's composition since the major free blogging platforms (Wordpress and Blogger), plus virtually every one that I've encountered in the past year, have the potential for comments. However, some people disable the functionality or control it, according to their wishes. - Mark Dykeman
Mark - I like that you describe your blog as a studio and it's a cool analogy for broadcasting. Now with all the widgets you can add a blog it makes easier to add interactive features and a rich media experience while including traditional publishing in the sense of writing, reporting, commenting and sharing your personal throughts with with the world. I think we can say that there are different types or categories of blogs. I have two "broadcast channels" and one is more personal while the other is more informational. The both are my voice. - Larry Kless
I see nothing wrong with a blog that doesn't enable comments, even if it's not the norm. - Laura Norvig
@Laura Novrig - sure, it's personal choice as to how the blogger handles comments. I'm just saying that the functionality is built in to most blogging platforms - effectively it's a standard. - Mark Dykeman
Blint and the SFMOMA can kiss my...time to get a group of photogs to all go in together? Let me know when the beg to apologize. - Justin Korn
It is pretty crappy. To accuse someone of using a telephoto to spy on his employees is a crappy charge and not something that one ought to get kicked out of a museum for. If the SF MOMA doesn't want their employees that sit in the atrium appearing in photos then they should not have a "photography is allowed policy" per their website in their atrium. Simon Blint is like plenty of other assholes I've run into over the years. A power trippy person who gets upset when someone challenges their word. - Thomas Hawk
thanks Justin, appreciate the digg and support. - Thomas Hawk
TH: This is absolutely ridiculous! I don't have that much (any?) power, but I'm going to do everything I can do get this story out (not that you don't have enough followers/supporters) - Justin Korn
"Blint obviously knows nothing of photography because the 14mm ultra wide angle lens on my camera body was about the furthest thing possible from a telephoto lens." Ultra-LOL - John Worthington
Sigh. Amazing that they are still being jerks about photography. - Robert Scoble
It appears that they have (just?) changed their policy on the website. "Photography is not permitted in the galleries. Flash photography is permitted only with a handheld camera in the Atrium." http://bit.ly/4sm86V - Jauder Ho
Jauder: But TH was in the Atrium, and he wasn't using a tripod, so his camera was handheld. Do you interpret the policy as 'only flash cameras are okay. Cameras without flashes are not'? - Kevin Fox
So 'handheld' must only be point and shoot... - John Worthington
Kevin: Upon initial reading of the policy, for some reason I fixated/associated it to mean only P&S. My bad. I do not like what happened to TH and would definitely like to see a reponse from MOMA addressing this. - Jauder Ho via twhirl
sounds like the Curator of the SF MOMA needs a slew of emails , in protest . Perhaps a large photography meetup at the SFMOMA . Press Office commassistant@sfmoma.org - fotographic
A photowalk with video camera would be lots of fun! Then we could have a segment about "what to do if you are accosted by an asshole." :-) - Robert Scoble
I'm in for a photowalk over there. I just sent an email to the curator as well. - Justin Korn
Sounds like a good human interest 'new story' for a local TV station or Newspaper. Works every time - Charlie Anzman
@Erica incompetence at a high-level position like that where interfacing with the public is priority #1 is exactly the sort of reason he should be severely reprimanded or terminated. That's the last thing a museum needs is bad press. - Pete Delucchi
Thomas - want to come visit DC's Union Station with me? - Andrew Feinberg
Reprimanded yes. Fired? Only if he has an established pattern of this sort of behavior. - Erica Baker
I dugg the post, and sent an e-mail to relay my astonishment. Looking at the other staff members' e-mail addresses on the PR contact page, it was pretty easy to guess at Simon's. - Tom Harrison
like, dugg, shared and whatever else you need to help :) - Tim Hoeck
I'm sorry you got kicked out, Thomas! What I really don't understand about his accusation of your spying (and it seems to be a common excuse to try to stop photography these days) is that newer P&S cameras are capable of crazy zoom. If someone were spying, do they not think they would want to be the LEAST conspicuous? It makes no sense. - carlotta fancypants
I can't believe this happened. I hope everyone talks up this issue and something changes. I noticed that people react differently when you use a DSLR instead of a small point-n-shoot. - Tom Newman
Ppl freak out when I pull out my DSLR..... - John Staton
But more and more people have DSLRs these days -- I think they will just have to get used to it - Brian Sullivan
I just delicious tagged and anonymous tipped your story for SFist... we'll see if they pick it up... - Richard Walker
Tomorrow night I'm going to see two friends who work in the SF MOMA dungeon. I'll ask them about this miscreant. - Richard Walker
I left an hour before this happened but not before I had to body check the over zealous security girl who literally got within 6 inches of my personal space because I refused to acknowledge her 2nd request to turn my off camera. - Mrsth
Simon Blintz is a douche nozzle. He needs a good kick in the nuts. - Noel Kleinman
Something tells me he's going to have come to his senses by Monday. - Pete Delucchi
Holy sh**. I took tons of photos at the Louvre and no one cared. - sergiooo via NoiseRiver
Ridiculous. This type of stuff really annoys me and makes me wonder about the future of public photography in general. I'm amazed at how quickly our photographic freedoms are being torn away by unbased bias and fear. GRRRRRRR. - Sam Dodge
This man needs to loose his job over this incident. Not even a public apology should save him from getting canned. I've had a similar incident regarding my camera at a NY Islanders game in the Nassau Coliseum and have been following Thomas Hawk's series of posts about the museum with interest. David Pogue wrote about this as well after a motocross event incident a few months back. - Tony Vota
Oh, and one more thing to all of you that are trying to make this an issue of Hawk's or Blint's character, I think the real issue stems from trumped up "security" meant to keep us "safe."
All sorts of power-tripping security guards and police have become accustomed to people immediately accepting restricted rights with the magic words "post 9/11."
The reason it is such a hot-button issue is that most people have not pushed back against the Patriot act and all it (theoretically) allows law enforcement to restrict.
But sure, go right ahead and make this a "Diva" vs. "Employee" issue.
And may thee forever lack moisturizer on thine inglorious vacations. - Richard Walker
Sorry this happened to you Thomas, it's strange to see how close minded and arrogant are some of the people in art institution. What happened to you and to me last week is a sign of the times: photography is increasingly seen as a danger as it cannot be controlled. http://digg.com/arts_culture/A... - Davide Bedin
I still type http:// as well. I don't care really.. It's the unix in me, I'm used to typing - Bwana McCall
I think me dropping the 'www' (and the 'http://') happened when I stopped using bookmarks now that I think about it. - Akiva Moskovitz
I find it annoying when some websites require you to type www or get a 404. As for capitalizing "Internet", it keeps the spellcheckers happy. - Here's... possible248!
@possible248 my pet peeve is companies that issue an SSL cert for company.com or www.company.com but not both - you get a cert warning if you enter the wrong one. - Sparky
I'm with you, Akiva... I don't even remember when I stopped doing it. THE WORST though, are the people who have the dubx3 habit, and when you tell them to type a URL w/ no dubx3 required, they automatically type it in. ie: http://mail.server.exchange but they type http://www.mail.server.exchang... and get UPSET when they can't connect... lol =\ - Mona N.
It depends on how the DNS settings are set by the site owner. In 95% of the cases, most sites now deliver with or without the www. Some sites (for whatever reason) don't set the DNS settings to deliver without it. Moral - If you don't see it without, then try it with. - Charlie Anzman
Mona, I like the fact that you type 'dubx3' when it's two characters longer than 'www'. - Akiva Moskovitz
CTRL + Enter in the address bar after typing just the domain root, like "google" then CTRL + Enter. Unless you're on a Mac...then I dunno. Stopped typing WWW since I learned that. - Josh Haley
I think I stopped using www back when slashdot.org was just getting hot... - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Mona - that's a pet peeve of mine as well. One of the few habits that drives me nuttier than that is when a person puts a working web address into a search engine query field... which usually ends up being MSN's. - Tom Harrison
I use google toolbar and just the name. Lazy. Yup. - Toby Graham
don't browsers add the www if they don't find something without it ? @possible248 the Internet and an internet have 2 different meaning or am I wrong ? - Olivier
@josh: command+enter does the trick on a mac - Danielle Knopf
i use opendns' shortcuts.. 'ff'=friendfeed.com, 'g' for gmail, 'gr' for google reader, 'l' for localhost etc. ;-) - AJ Batac
so do I AJ, but for those sites where I need to type, the old school habits come out. - Bwana McCall
for other sites, i enter the name and just hit CRTL+ENTER. if it's not .com, im skipping it unless it's really necessary. :-) - AJ Batac
{Anything}+CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER by the way is {Anything}.org - AJ Batac
{Anything}+SHIFT+ENTER is {Anything}.net ;-) - AJ Batac
Well at least you don't still type http:// too. Not that I know anyone who does that. How outdated! >_> - Arlan Koizumi
Me too, but after ordering 200 moo cards I found out (the hard way) that if you don't type in the "www" before your linked in profile, it doesn't go to your profile - just the front page. How can such a well-respected web brand not have that option?! - Vince DeGeorge
I think the Expedia commercial "Expedia....DOT COMMM" drove it home. I can't remember when I stopped, really. I've been on the web since it existed. Hmm. Maybe once I learned to set up a webserver and made all my domains work either way? - TxVoodoo
