July Print Sale starts tomorrow. N/t.
Even more sprawling: So I made an offer on a new house yesterday, and it was accepted! (Now you know why it's been a bit quiet around here lately.) The new house is on the far side of town, so the neighborhood and its environs will be new to us, but the house itself has literally everything on my checklist—not only of needs, but of nice-to-haves as well. (Even, I belatedly realized, a heated room off the garage that's separated from the rest of the house that could have been custom-designed as a good place for coffee roasting. A surprising bonus.) There's a big back yard for the dogs. (I've been scoping out web pages like this.)
Most notably, my home office space will increase greatly. The new house has a finished, dry basement which will be the new TOP Planetary Headquarters for my continuing plan of becoming an Internet tycoon—and it actually is kind of sprawling, if you can believe it. My realtor didn't have her nifty laser measuring device with her yesterday, so I can't report the square footage of the new office, but it's at least five times larger than what I have now. Maybe more. (Thanks again to all you print buyers and donors from the "Help TOP Move" sale!)
I really can't post a photo yet. It's a privacy issue—the people who are selling the house still own it. I'll post plenty of pictures as soon as we close in August, however.
No more Aperture: You've probably heard that Apple has announced it will cease development of Aperture, in favor of a replacement called "Photos." (And could they have picked a worse name? I'll be waiting for their new apps "And" and "To," because those will be even harder to specify in a search.) Here's an article on TechCrunch telling you all about it.
(Personally I feel somewhat vindicated, because this is why this former AppleWorks loyalist decided against going with Aperture when I checked it out a few years back. Say what you will about Photoshop—and granted it has changed enormously, although that's one of the good things about it—but I've been using it since 1996.)
Nicole Lewis's "Happy Camera Day!" article
Camera Day: So did you have any idea that June 27th was National Camera Day? Me neither. But Nicole Lewis at Flickr Blog made a nice short post with pictures of various cameras and some photographs made with them. Not a lot new for most of us, but pleasant and nicely done just the same. (Stamatovic & Son apparently has no website, in case you're wondering.)
Ut by Terakopian: If I were a photography collector, I'd probably collect portraits of photographers—even without trying, I've accumulated a few nice ones over the years, and I enjoy good ones I come across online. Speaking of the latter, check out Edmond Karatopian's portrait of Nick Ut.
Sony A7 back: I've heard of several projects like this. Chiek Imaging in Seoul, South Korea, uses the Sony A7r as the basis for a megapixel camera with view camera movements. People are definitely having fun with the A7's.
New TOP: Also on the TOP news front, Hugh Crawford is making splendid progress porting us over to Wordpress. We don't quite have light at the end of the tunnel yet, but there has been great progress.
Fascination: Three days ago there was a very interesting article by Arthur Lubow published at the World's Best Photography Magazine, a.k.a. the NYT. It's all about posthumous redaction of photographers' work, centering around Vivian Maier and Garry Winogrand.
Personally I'd like to see Leo Rubinfien's Winogrand show at the Met, because I have yet to see a single posthumous Winogrand I thought was any good. To me it's a sow's ear that has soaked up way too much hopeful effort to make it into a silk purse*. I remain open to the possibility, however. Just in case.
Mike
(Thanks to numerous tipsters)
Open Mike is the Op/Ed page of TOP. Usually, it's off-topic. Not so much today.
*For non-native English speakers, "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear" is an old expression that dates from 1579 in England. Wictionary defines it as "to produce something refined, admirable, or valuable from something which is unrefined, unpleasant, or of little or no value."
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