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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 [ ... ]
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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 [ ... ]
Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes How to find the best multicolumn index for a complex query.