- Toro: synchronization primitives for Tornado coroutines
I took a break from Motor to make a new package "Toro": queues, semaphores, locks, and so on for Tornado coroutines. (The name "Toro" is from "Tornado" and "Coro".) Why would you need something like this, especially since Tornado apps are [ ... ]
- Motor: Iterating Over Results, The Grand Conclusion
- Street Portraits
I'm taking Richard Rothman's "Photographing People" class at ICP this fall. Yesterday he sent us out into the street to find a spot with nice light and photograph strangers there. I haven't done that since I made the Strangers project last [ ... ]
- Faceless Killers
The fall games are out and New York City is plastered with promos, like for Halo 4: For Black Ops 2: Assassin's Creed 3: And this arresting poster for Borderlands 2: You surely see the same pattern I do: they're all faceless. (They're all men [ ... ]
- Motor: Iterating Over Results
- Gloria and Rhoda
I took some more photos of my dwarf hamsters tonight. This is Gloria, as far as I can tell: ... and this must be Rhoda: Rhoda seems to be scratching herself up lately, particularly her nose. But she's tough enough to survive Sandy and I'm sure [ ... ]
- The Whisperers
The New York Times's photo blog has posted a spooky, beautiful project, "The Whisperers" by Kuba Kaminski: In remote northeastern Poland there lives a group of elderly Orthodox devotees who are said to possess special powers. They can [ ... ]
- Hurricane
CREDIT: NOAA/NASA/GSFC/SuomiNPP My girlfriend Jennifer and I survived. We live in Stuyvesant Town at 14th Street and Avenue B, a few blocks from the famous exploding Con Ed power station. Like most of Manhattan south of 40th Street, we [ ... ]
- Upaya
- In Transition
I'm resuming a project I started almost three years ago, taking portraits at transitional housing buildings in NYC. The people in the photos I took last time lived in the facilities when I took their pictures; yesterday I went back to one of [ ... ]