Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Nikon Digital Learning Center Nikon gets the Flickr bug. Blog: Nikon is translating its educational and promotional work to Flickr's social-networking and photo-sharing medium. [CNET News.com] 9:52:07 PM

Sacred Mountain Wu Tai Shan Wu Tai Shan. Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain. [MetaFilter] 9:48:08 PM

Chicago Sunsets Revisited Can you touch the rain clouds...??. I know that their hasn't been a post in a while, but the weather has been miserable and not much worth shooting. I have some pictures that I have taken that I will use for fill-ins in the future. This set is kinda cool because directly in front of my balcony were rain clouds that are present in the first few pictures. The sunset was nice because it fell into a cloud that was above the land line. Enjoy and it's nice to be back. You will see the dark cloud above that stretched for miles to the north. One of my favorites of the set. Thanks for visiting and please comment. (Please click on any to enlarge) [Chicago Sunsets] 8:04:26 PM

More Hurricane News Hurricane Dean: Massive Storm Hits Mexico, But Weakens Rapidly. As Hurricane Dean approaches Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, sustaining winds of more than 150 miles per hour, aid agencies, including World Vision, are preparing relief supplies in preparation for a response after the storm makes landfall. [World Vision Latest News] 8:00:54 PM

Vintage Vegas Vintage Vegas Postcards. [Link: The Vintage Vegas Postcard Museum][via] [Eye of the Goof] 6:11:25 PM

LG House Malibu 8/22 'The 9'celebrates a birthday!. The web's most viewed video show 'The 9' celebrated it's first anniversary on July 9. Gee how time flies! What a great year. Plus, check out the new sound and graphics on the show, we are sure you will enjoy the improvements [MariaSansone.com] 6:07:20 PM

M.I.A. Today is Officially M.I.A. Day. I'm at a loss for words to describe Kala, the second album from London (by way of Sri Lanka) tastemaker M.I.A. She's certainly without borders; globe-trotting from Liberia to India to Jamaica to Brazil to Japan to Baltimore for a grab-bag of tribal, almost jarringly disjointed, array of sounds and beats. And regardless if her skills as an MC are up to snuff or her reliance on male producers (here Switch, DJ Blaqstarr, Timbaland, and Diplo lend a hand) is in question, songs like the Bollywood scorcher "Jimmy" and the frenetic voodoo of "Bird Flu" are examples of pop music its freshest and most dangerous precipice. Polarizing as she may be, by cutting and pasting Clash samples ("Paper Planes") or Oxfam philosophies ("World Town") into giddy collages of melody and third-world representation, M.I.A. is taking a major stab at being both earth's reigning diva (move over Bjork) and its 21st century conscious. It's hard to try and convey the joy of such a dizzy album when one of your colleagues does it so much better. Listen Here Buy Kala at Amazon [donewaiting.com] 7:28:58 AM