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Paul Octavious Is A Beautiful Artist

0 Comments24. Jan, 2012

Sometimes you stumble across someone’s work and you know you are in the presence of greatness.  Today that happened for me with Paul Octavious.  Lens has a piece on his beautiful series of photographs (and video) of a hill in Chicago.  I was jealous by the second photo. Things got worse when I looked at [...]

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Do You “Like It”?

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Do You “Like It”?

2 Comments08. Dec, 2011

Monkeywhale, that is.  And Stephaniesid!  Before they left town after making a smash hit music video for their song, “I Like It” with us, the fine folks of Stephaniesid left us four autographed copies of their brand new album Starfruit to give away to you kind Monkeywhale supporters.  It’s the holidays, people, and we’re all [...]

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Elliott Erwitt Hopes He Hasn’t Taken His Favorite Picture Yet

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Elliott Erwitt Hopes He Hasn’t Taken His Favorite Picture Yet

0 Comments06. Dec, 2011

Elliott Erwitt is one of my very favorite photographers. No matter how many times I look through his photos, I laugh and sigh and drool and learn something new every time.  In May, Lens published a wonderful interview with the 82 year-old photographer (conducted by his son) as the International Center for Photography prepared his [...]

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Life Without Facebook

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Life Without Facebook

2 Comments05. Dec, 2011

Harvey found this ridiculously funny video today and I can’t help but share it all around,  just like I imagine everyone else on the internets is doing today.   Kudos to the guys at Nice Piece Productions who made this inspiring little gem.  Who knew such a brilliant commentary about Facebook and the sad state [...]

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Why San Disk Cards Are Awesome (or Canons, I guess)

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Why San Disk Cards Are Awesome (or Canons, I guess)

1 Comments01. Dec, 2011

Our partner Vijay sent us a link to an article on engadget (via The Verge) last weekend about a Canon EOS 1000D that was found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean by a scuba diver after being lost for a year with, wait for it, photos still intact on the card!  Better yet, photographer [...]

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stephaniesĭd “I Like It” Music Video: Behind the Scenes

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stephaniesĭd “I Like It” Music Video: Behind the Scenes

0 Comments22. Nov, 2011

First up I should admit I’m a fan.  Second up I should say Harvey’s got a head full of ideas right now and I’m totally jealous.  Third up I should say that ever since stephaniesid played our Save the Monkeywhale Fest a couple years ago and I actually witnessed a room full of people collectively [...]

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