URME Surveillance — Leonardo SelvaggioThe principle method is by inviting the public to wear a photo-realistic, 3D-printed prosthetic of my face. When a user dons the prosthetic, camera systems equipped with facial recognition software identify that user as myself, thus attributing all of their actions to the identity known as “Leo Selvaggio.” In this way, […]
Winter Festival Photography
I was asked to take pictures at the kids’ school for the Winter something or rather. It was a combination of an art show, an unveiling of the holiday lights, and a concert representing a variety of classes and clubs. I’ve been watching a video series from National Geographic on taking great photographs. It certainly […]
Actually Turning on Heroku Dyno Access
Heroku got rid of the their free access a while back. I have one Node JS app on there that knits together a Slack form and WordPress site. I went to the trouble of upgrading to the bottom tier paid account with Heroku. It’s $5 a month. At that point, I thought I was done. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-27
Vince Chadwick on Twitter: “I’m here at the “gala” concert in the EU foreign aid dept’s €387k metaverse (designed to attract non politically engaged 18-35 year olds — see story below). After initial bemused chats with the roughly five other huSecond round of second life . . . Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social on Twitter: “The […]
Concert Photography
I got a last minute request to photograph Trinity’s student music show a few weeks ago. I was hesitant. It was the night of their state championship football game which I was photographing. I knew I’d have 3000+ photos from that and would have spent about 4 hours taking pictures. The idea of adding several […]
Road Trip Photography
When we go on long road trips my wife insists on driving. If I’m not sleeping I tend to try to take pictures. It’s an interesting challenge. Much of the time we’re on the highway moving along at 70mph and that makes it a bit like reverse sports photography. You have to see the thing […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-20
10 KB ClubThe 10 KB Club is a curated collection of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB compressed size. See this GitHub repository for the source code of this website. […]
Photography and Progress
I’ve been taking pictures now for around 15 years. I start the clock around the time my dad brought a DSLR to our house and decide to leave it for me to use. It was a Canon Rebel XT and I still have it. This is the camera that made me realize I could take […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-13
Christo Grozev on Twitter: “For me, one of the most memorable moments was when we got access to the leaked #Runtastic data of Gordienko – a trained GRU assassin. The data had his pulse history on a per minute basis – and we found his pulse spike on the da Twitter is Going Great!another event […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-06
NetNewsWire – On Following Twitter Feeds with NetNewsWireIn NetNewsWire 6 we added the ability to follow Twitter in NetNewsWire. It’s an RSS reader, not a full-blown Twitter client, but it does allow you to follow timelines, mentions, and searches. Bike: Innovative Rich Text EditingWatching the video and thinking about the small details of tools. Also […]