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Thomas Hawk
Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light
LA Sheriffs Unlawfully Detain Photographers' RIghts Advocate - http://discarted.wordpress.com/2009...
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Sheriff Officer humiliates, threatens, and illegally detains photographer. WATCH THIS VIDEO. Digg here: http://digg.com/world_n...
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LASD Officer Richard Gylfie, Photography is Not a Crime - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
Jeff P. Henderson, Aperture Image, Craig Sheldon and 5 other people liked this
More than anything I was disappointed in how Gylfie bullies Nee and especially how he threatens to turn his name over to the FBI to have him detained and inconvenienced in the future simply because the officer has the power to put his name on a list. As photographers we should not be subjected to this sort of harassment by law enforcement. Using 9/11 and terrorism as a bully pulpit is no excuse. It is simply not illegal to photograph subways. This video should make you mad. Abusive cops like Gylfie don’t deserve to wear the badge.
- Thomas Hawk
Please take a second and WATCH THIS VIDEO. This sort of thing should not be happening in America.
- Thomas Hawk
how can the situation be improved? do officers require additional training to become familiar with the law? or is oversight lacking by superiors?
- Mike Chelen
Mike, it's just pure and simple ego on the part of a cop who wants people to bow down and worship at his feet and who wants to make up the law as he sees fit. I'm sure this officer knew it wasn't illegal. He just is a bully and probably gets away with it 99% of the time. It's our job to make sure he doesn't get away with it this time. Threatening to put photographers on restricted FBI travel lists is really, really, bad stuff. He shouldn't get away with this.
- Thomas Hawk
Why Won't Google's GMail Team Stop Spamming Me?
Jeff P. Henderson, gioia ulderigo, Stefan Baeurle and 10 other people liked this
You slept with GMail Team's wife?
- Matthew DeVries
Everyday I get numerous messages from Google's "Gmail Team" about messages left on server. I don't want them. These are spam to me. It is a pain to have to delete them all every single day. How can I stop them from showing up in my email box? I can't seem to find a setting in gmail to deal with these unwanted intrusions into my life. Why can't I opt out of this barrage of harassment...
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- Thomas Hawk
Stop using gmail, would be my first suggestion. It isn't reliable; convenient to have and use under certainty circumstances for sure, but not really reliable. I certainly wouldn't count on it for important business use (but I'm sure you're not doing that anyway).
- Kittyburgers
o.O Show me a single company's email service with a better up time than gmail. I know my corporate email system has been down more in the last month than gmail has in the last decade.
- Matthew DeVries
I'm sure there are numerous services around the world that are more reliable. My ISP's mail servers, for example, are more reliable. There are lots of systems in place around the globe.
- Kittyburgers
from IM
Furthermore how can we "BLOCK" them from sending us any more spammy messages? I hope to see them work on this annoying problem. Its getting way out of hand alright. At least if we're able to block them it won't show up in my direct messages but get kept somewhere else where it's out of my view.
- Jeunelle Foster
to g or not to g
- VAL D.
actually I really love gmail and I really appreciate all of the spam that they do filter out of my life. I just wish that they would allow me to opt out of these damn left on server messages. Does anyone know if there is a way I can get Apple's email system to somehow automatically dump anything from the "gmail team" to the garbage bin or somehow to convince Apple's own spam system that this is spam. I've tried to train apple's email reader that this is spam by marking it spam but they still keep coming.
- Thomas Hawk
I would think that of all people, the gmail team would be sympathetic to this problem.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, why don't you just build a filter?
- Matthew DeVries
Is it really from the Gmail team or spoofed emails?
- imabonehead
How do you know it's the Gmail Team? It could just be spam spoofing as coming from the Gmail team.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Maxamad, I'd be surprised if this is the case. In general gmail does an *amazing* job at killing all of my spam. I might get 2 or 3 spam messages a week out of thousands probably that I would get otherwise. If this many spam messages are now getting through with spoofed sending all from the gmail team than that's just as big a problem for the gmail team to be aware of. I think that these are in fact actually from google though.
- Thomas Hawk
Perhaps you're actually part of the Gmail team and you forgot about it? :P
- imabonehead
Good point, but if I'm part of the gmail team now I've somehow missed the paychecks. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Why would the gmail team send you anything related to your facebook password. Did Google buy facebook when we weren't looking and integrate it into gmail??
- April Russo (app103)
Just mark it all as spam and setup filters to send it to spam automatically.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
April, I think they are sending me a notification that someone else's facebook spam contained a dangerous link so they didn't forward it on to me. It's these notifications that I'd like to somehow stop. Maxamad, I've marked them as spam in Apple's mail program dozens of time. They don't go to spam. I'm not sure how to set up a filter with my apple mail client to automatically route this to the garbage.
- Thomas Hawk
Oh, I meant filters in Gmail...I'm not sure how they work with Apple's mail since I don't use IMAP
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Create filters in the gmail web interface. The tags you create in gmail will be seen as folders in Mail.app. Just make the filters in the web interface, and Mail.app will behave the way you want automatically.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Ahhh, in the gmail interface, I hadn't thought about that. Thanks Maxamad and Jason. I just created a filter to apply to anything from "Gmail Team". These are now all deleted. We'll see if this fixes my problem in my Apple mail inbox. Appreciate the advice.
- Thomas Hawk
You can create filters in Mail.app too; they might be called "rules" but anyway you can access them through file>preferences IIRC. (I get gmail through Mail.app and have never had this problem at all but maybe that's only because I download everything to start with.)
- Deborah Fitchett
I think all the emails that GMail flags like this have something resembling a virus attached. Since a virus can often be attached to email from someone you care about they don't just want to move them to spam since you might want to actually get that email, without the virus, or tell someone you know they have a virus. If they aren't from people you know then a filter is one solution though it may delete email from someone you care about too.
- Ed Millard
Kittyburgers, Its a matter of opinion and YMMV but GMail has certainly been more reliable and better at combating spam than any other email provider I've had, including corp. Paul B. did an awesome job in his previous life. GMail POP support alone is a winner. You might not want to use it for business purposes because of "free email" stigma, though Google has a free service to use your domain name. You can claim privacy but unless you are encrypting your email any ISP on either end might be reading it.
- Ed Millard
Kittyburgers, we use gmail for our corporate email and I can definitely say we will *never* go back to internal email! As for privacy, there is no system that is totally private, ISPs or internal mail.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
upgrading my Media Center PC to Windows 7.
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I really like the changes they made to MC in Win7. It just keeps getting better
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I'm looking forward to trying it out. I'm hoping that it fixes a problem I was having with my XBox 360s not being able to connect to my Vista PC without rebooting the PC that's cropped up over the course of the past few months. Hoping that all works well. It looks like the upgrade's going to take a long time. It's been running for over an hour now and still is only on stage 2/5 and only 20% done with the "gathering files, settings and properties" stage.
- Thomas Hawk
Oh you upgraded? I always wipe and do a fresh install. When I got my retail copy of W7 it took about 15 minutes to install the whole OS. I use MC with my XBOX360 all the time with no probs, hope it fixes yours!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
yeah, maybe I should have done a fresh install. didn't want to have to reinstall all my software though. We'll see how it goes.
- Thomas Hawk
You'll definitely want a fresh install of Windows 7.
- Kol Tregaskes
hmm... 88% of the way through 2/5 now. I tried to nuke my windows Media Player library (the likely culprit for the upgrade taking a long time) prior to the upgrade but Vista wouldn't let me delete the file saying it was "in use." Figured I'd upgrade, then nuke it and reimport my music.
- Thomas Hawk
Takes a while the upgrade but I did the upgrade rather than clean install from Vista to 7 with no issues and also resolved old niggling Vista issues, so hopefully will do the same for you.
- Russ G
Yeah I have upgraded five Vista machined and clean installed six XP machines. No difference between performance afterwards, so I would say no probs upgrading.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
the main reason why I upgraded was to hopefully fix the problems I had with my XBox 360s not being able to connect to my PC without a reboot every time. The upgrade's made it to step 3/5 now. Seems stuck on "expanding windows files (21%)" though. But I'm sure it just needs more time.
- Thomas Hawk
A couple of my machines got stuck at the same point actually Thomas, just let it go it will stop again later, but it will get through. My average time for upgrading is around two hours.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Getting further. On step 5/5 now it looks like. "Transferring files, settings, and programs." 41% done of step 5.
- Thomas Hawk
72% of step 5/5 is now done. Damn, this upgrade may end up bleeding into a second day.
- Thomas Hawk
Is a clean install quicker?
- Greg GuitarBuster
OK! It's installed, rebooting now.
- Thomas Hawk
Had to reboot in safe mode to nuke my old WMP library. I'm going to start over with a smaller library in hopes that things go better for me this time around. Reimporting my music now.
- Thomas Hawk
Congrats on the Win 7. It's a pleasure. However, do not try to play the Beatles Remastered CDs on it, the DRM prevents these from being played on Windows 7. Go figure.
- Yaniv Golan
wow. totally blown away that my Mac was able to connect to my network after the upgrade the first time with no trouble.
- Thomas Hawk
Smiling Tonight - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Processing my first batch of images with the new Lightroom 3 beta. So far it feels slower than Lightroom 2.
kinobe, Conor Ogle, Alex Scoble and 2 other people liked this
I've seen speed improvements with LR 3B but my catalogue is probably far smaller than yours TH, but develop seems quicker. Liking the new features so far as well especially publish
- Russ G
The new capture One 5 Rocks. Only thing missing is image management...
- World Wanderer
hmmmm... that was the fourth time I've had to quit firefox in order to get LR 3 beta to respond. grrrr...
- Thomas Hawk
again. grrr. It seems that LR 3 hangs when trying to export a photo and it gets stuck until you close Firefox, then it exports it and you have to relaunch firefox (at least for me on a pretty powerful new MacBook Pro). bummer.
- Thomas Hawk
Doesn't happen here on Windows 7 64bit. I also use Firefox heavily. LR3beta is FASTER than LR2, with the same size library. That said, Jeff's exporter is faster than the export-to-flickr capabilities in LR3.
- Ryan MacLean
Graffiti. It’s Good for Blight. Or Is It Bad? - Bay Area Blog - NYTimes.com - http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
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"On Tuesday, one of the Bay Area’s most prolific graffiti taggers is scheduled to be arraigned in San Jose. This could be interpreted as a welcome crackdown on a likely vandal, or another sign that art and the state don’t ever get along. “Girafa,” otherwise known as Steven Free, 30, of San Francisco, is charged with 10 felony counts involving $40,000 in property damage. Milpitas police had also sought Mr. Free for “Giraffe” vandalism. Mr. Free is currently out of jail, after posting $100,000 bail. His arrest has prompted calls by some Bay Area bloggers to “Free Free” and has revived the old graffiti debate. Critics say that Mr. Free and his ilk damage property and should face the consequences."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Good graffiti is like art. I generally view it as an upgrade over the dreary calamity of many urban centers. I recall riding the train into Philadelphia and seeing Jay Cee (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) There's a level of appropriate space that gets tricky and I'm not a fan of tagging, which I find has no real aesthetic value. But ... good graffiti, seems like a bright spot in a dark world.
- AJ Kohn
We don't get to put it up to a majority rules vote what someone does with their property. It's not about whether people are skilled artists or not. It's about people who decide that the law doesn't apply to them somehow. If you knew what people in my neighborhood go through having to constantly clean up after graffiti. Some of the people, like me, are disabled and it is a HUGE hardship...
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- Spidra Webster
Well Spidra, I'm not making heroes out of anyone and I'm okay with fining folks when appropriate. I simply think there's a better use of time in our courts and jails. And that much of this wouldn't be an issue if urban infrastructure was better addressed. I despise tagging and have complained to local city officials about it proliferating. *shrugs* Sure you can argue slippery slope on...
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- AJ Kohn
Sorry if it seemed I was addressing that comment specifically to you, AJ. I wasn't. I just burst out sometimes because the enormous load of press, etc. in the SF Bay Area that considers these guys heroes really pisses me off. Sometimes I don't say anything because the peer pressure is too much. Other times I can't stand it anymore and post a rebuttal even though I know that I'll probably get jumped on for being too square.
- Spidra Webster
I've personally seen and shot many of girafa's murals. Last month they demolished the old tuna cannery plant in San Francisco. Was it private property? Sure. But it was private property that was abandoned and had no purpose other than to sit there for decades in an industrial section of town. Inside that building (and now long gone) was an amazing mural of an SF Girafa in a SF Giants...
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- Thomas Hawk
Girafa broke the law painting inside the tuna cannery. I broke the law trespassing inside the tuna cannery to photograph it. Nobody was harmed, nobody was out any money. I see nothing wrong with either.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas: I think it's all a matter of where. Like you said, abandoned or industrialized sections of town that look like the street level of Blade Runner could use some art to lift the spirit. But, put that on the side of the Transamerica building or ... Coit Tower and it's not appropriate. Both instances are breaking the law, but one is essentially harmless while the other is not. Yet -...
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- AJ Kohn
TH. The difference is you took a photo they left something that will cost money to repair. Not that I'm condoning your behaviour you cheeky monkey. That said I'm sure you know the story of our prolific Banksy; and the local council that decided to paint over one on private property against he owners wishes... Taggers like Londons tox and milk can rot though. Although saying that I think they've been stopped, haven't seen a tag in a while. Maybe I'm just blind to them now
- Phill Price
from iPhone
Except that in the case above Phill it cost no money to repair for either. The structure was demolished. It didn't cost anymore to demolish it with the art on it or not on it. Just pointing out that there are many times when graffiti is done in such a way that it doesn't cost or harm anyone. Frequently graffiti artists paint on abandoned, neglected, industrial structures and I think that's quite a bit different than spray painting on somebody's home front door.
- Thomas Hawk
Speaking of your own Banksy, I always liked this quote by him: "The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff. They expect to be able to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you're never allowed to answer back. Well, they started the fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back."
- Thomas Hawk
Great quote thomas!
- Louis Simoneau
from fftogo
i like that quote. a couple of years ago, i was driving up a major artery from central athens to the north end of the city, an avenue full of signs and ads, and i thought to intentionally try to avoid looking at them, to NOT be bombarded with their messages... to think about other things. i couldn't do it for very long. i tried again on several occasions and i find it impossible. i...
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- tmt
Getty Images Launches “Call for Artists” on Flickr - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about my first six months experience selling images through Getty’s Flickr Collection. While overall I’ve been pleased with my experience with Getty, one of the things that I always felt was a limitation was the fact that the Getty/Flickr program was invite only. And while literally thousands of Flickr photographers have been invited thus far (the Flickr/Getty private member only contributor group on Flickr counts over 12,000 members and Getty says that the collection now includes over 60,000 photographs) there wasn’t really a way for a photographer to try and be included in the program if they didn’t get a Flickr invite. Until today.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm not the target audience for this (my stuff is too "all over the place" and not high enough quality) but I'm encouraged that this seems to be opening up for the little guy and not some Flickr Clique like it originally seemed. The whole point of Flickr should be inclusiveness and community and strapping the Getty wall into the middle of it really pissed me off. I don't think any...
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- Sam Posten
Flickr: Discussing Being Political on Flickr can be dangerous in U.S. Politics and the World; Political Debate & Discussion Blog - http://www.flickr.com/groups...
Kol Tregaskes liked this
"For some unknown reason ( I can only guess right now ) some left-wing liberal yahoo at Flickr decided to delete my account . . . . I am positive that it was because of my persistent critiques of Obama because I have not violated any of the rules of the game in here . . . . They gave me no valid reason so far . . . . I never use profanities, have no porn content, and all of my graphics are originals, not copies or cut and pastes from the internet as so many do . . . . . If you care about freedom of speech and political dissent, please email flickr and tell them a thing or two for Outrageous2009 . . . . ."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Another in a string of critical posts by another flickr member claiming to be deleted *without warning* for posting content critical of President Obama.
- Thomas Hawk
This is still trending. Oi. I wasn't a fan of Bush (though it's not my country - take it with a grain of salt), but had not heard of accounts deleted because folks had been critical of him. I'm not trying to make a dandertoe argument here, but it should be non-partisan, at least. And seriously, would giving someone a warning really hurt that much?
- Ryan MacLean
you know, it takes about 10 seconds to ID stuff like this guy was doing, except against bush. it's still there.
- andertho
Yeah, I totally agree andertho.
- Ryan MacLean
some examples of his stuff remains here as google image caches http://images.google.com/images...
- andertho
Getty Images Launches "Call for Artists" on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Last Train to Clarksdale - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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That’s the Way the World Goes Round, Plate 3 - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Sweet. What is this?
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
lighting at the Chicago Institute of Art
- Thomas Hawk
interesting. You move around quite a bit! :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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