Photography

After having kicked out Wordpress and moved to a Hugo generated static site, next up are two other useless subscriptions that aren’t doing anything other than costing me money:

A beautiful lush essay and homage to an ubiquitous typeface without a name.

I think Facebook rolled back their block of Pixelfed but they’re right to be spooked. Showing a bunch of pictures in a stream hardly seems like a technological challenge. And what are all the people working at Instagram doing other than figuring out novel ways to track you and serve you ads?

The MSF year in pictures is an unsparing overview of the circumstances that the rest of the world has to live in. Grim.

A beautiful elegy for photographer Matthieu Chazal by Paul Salopek on the epic Out of Eden Walk.

When I still did photography, I read everything I could find about how cameras work and this is the mental model I built up back then.

An interesting story about the interaction between loving the outdoors and Instagram culture.

I have my first name as my user name in a bunch of places. I’ve had my Twitter account (Twitter.com/alper) for a very long time but my Instagram account (Instagram.com/alper) got a lot more attention after Instagram got really big. A couple of weeks ago I lost that account.

I had kinda forgotten about Soigneur, but then I ran into this amazing set of photos of racing bikes in the city. That new race bike seems to be getting closer and closer.

First I hear about Mauerkrankheit—and I’m not the only one—but a politically triggered rise in mental health problems would explain many things both past and present.

An incredible treatment of moving to New York that manages to make SF more than a bit lame in comparison.

I found this picture on twitter this morning.

Reality captured in photos by Istanbul cab driver Sevket Sahintas. There’s an equivalent series here in Berlin that is not being captured as far as I know.

Watching this level of conflict photography always gives me the itch (and there are tons and tons of stories not being caught still even in this age of ubiquitous digital) to start shooting again. RIP Yannis Behrakis.

Gisteren met wat Flickr gebruikers afgesproken op de NDSM-werf en daar de hele boel vastgelegd.

This summer I shot a roll of color film I had lying around using my trusty Yashica D medium-format camera. The subjects were passers-by in our Amsterdam office. The results were better than expected.

The sidewalks of the newly renovated Marnixstraat:

Yesterday the next ARCAM lecture was held in the Brakke Grond by Jurriaan van Stigt of the firm LEVS.

This Wednesday was Foursquare Day, but I don’t know who went. We just had ours recently and I just dug up the pictures from my camera:

Een kleine fietstocht lansg het IJ voor een toekomstig project:

Verbazingwekkend snel en pijnloos:

This entire weekend was taken up by Amsterdam Music Hackday for which Alex, Dirk and I had planned to build a prototype version of a surface table projector for music discovery.

Lots of fun to ride my second time at the Hague spring alleycat: Paria. Great guys, lots of speed and fun. Looking forward to more riding and maybe getting into polo.

Quite pleased with this picture Toby took of me at a splendid lunch at Frank:

A small post about the Interactive Environments exhibit at my alma mater. I had to be in Rotterdam anyway that day so I decided to drop by.

Last week I trod off to Haarlem along with most of the usual suspects for the Rethinking Media event: “Show me the Money”organized by Dutch Media professionals. Along with the people from the Dutch online scene, there were a lot of professionals from the media industry present which proved to be an interesting mix 1.

Shirky schreef pas zijn anatomie van het nieuws in: “Rescuing the Reporters” waarin hij een krant ontleed in nieuws en restmateriaal en dan ook nog dat nieuws splitst in zelf-gemaakt en uit andere bronnen afkomstig.

Jumping all over the randstad these past weeks. Some gems to be found:

New city, new group, same rituals:

I’ve never come as close to a depiction of paradise as with this picture:

I had my Yashica D repaired and also recently acquired a lightmeter to make the process of shooting easier and now I’m slowly but surely shooting stuff with it.

I’d promised the guys over at the fixie hyve some decent quality pictures of my bike. Shooting pictures of a fixie is something of a thing. So yesterday I went out and shot some:

Last day in San Francisco we went up to Twin Peaks for this absolutely stunning view over the city:

Freshly one day back in from San Francisco some adjustments need to be made. The time difference has been reduced from 9 hours to 8 thanks to our splendidly European invention: DST. Along with the time difference there is also a slight difference in daylight and a large difference in temperature (15ź centigrade) and precipitation (nearly non-stop rain the past day).

My days in Berkeley/Oakland 1 used to be filled with:

It’s nice to have friends who are pushing their bounds photographically to try and improve their skill and to see them improve leaps and bounds as a result of that.

A while back we went to the World Press Photo 2008 exhibition in Utrecht with some capoeiras and looked at the pictures many of us had already seen after the first announcement.

Back from holiday, the surf was mostly flat but a good time was had, judging from the pictures on Flickr 1.

The summer may not have brought the best weather but still good times are around. This week finishing off some work before we’ll be going on an ill-prepared week long surftrip somewhere along the French Atlantic coast.

Reboot 10 is over and in my experience they simply get better every year.

It’s been a week but I’ve just gotten around to processing them after the event. Here’s a small selection of capoeira pictures:

The barbecue (and the alcohol) also make for some interesting group pictures. There’s the traditional group with everybody on it: