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A visit back in time to Istanbul

Ted Drake — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:18 +0000

There were two places I wanted to visit while living in Europe: Iceland and Istanbul. I made it to Iceland earlier and this week I finally visited Istanbul. It’s a wonderful city and I could talk about what I saw and learned for hours. I’m going to cheat and let my photos speak for themselves.

A year of Paris photos

Ted Drake — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:31:36 +0000

A year’s worth of Paris Photographs.

Photographs of CERN by Satoru Yoshioka

Ted Drake — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:33:48 +0000

The world is looking at CERN this week as we prepare for one hell of an experiment or the creation of a black hole that eats the world. CERN has been building the largest particle accelerator and is hoping to solve numerous physics questions over the next few years.

My friend, photographer Satoru Yoshioka, was invited to photograph the facility in 2007. He had previously photographed SLAC, the particle accelerator at Stanford University in California, J-PARC / Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, KEK / High Energy Accelerator Reserch Organization in Japan, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and KamLAND.

Satoru’s photographs have inspired me over the years. It’s nice to see his art combined with amazing scientific endeavors.

A day off in Paris

Ted Drake — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:59:44 +0000

Yesterday was the International Workers’ Day (May Day). We not only got that day off, but today as well. Don’t tell anyone, but I still logged in and worked on Yahoo stuff both days. Just don’t let Sarkozy know, I’d hate to have my visa pulled for not taking the required time off.

Today I used my extra time for shopping. I was hoping to buy an Aeron chair for work, as the provided chair is killing me. I could buy an Aeron off ebay in the US for about $600. It costs about $400 to ship it. But, could I get a similar price in france? $1,000 is roughly equal to about 650 euros right now. The same chair in a Paris store is selling for only 1,700 EUROS! Ouch!

Needless to say, I didn’t buy anything during my shopping expedition. I did look around. More importantly, I walked around, enjoyed the weather and got this great shot of Pont Neuf.

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History of Albumen Photographic Prints

Ted Drake — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:34:54 +0000

I found this site about Albumen prints at Stanford while discussing the use of paper vs. glass in photography to a co-worker that had no idea what I was talking about.

My Paris Photos – a photoblog

Ted Drake — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:53:46 +0000

I’ve started yet another web site. Somebody stop the madness!

I’ve uploaded 5,000 photographs to my Flickr account. Almost half of those photos were shot in Paris, France. Hidden amongst the snap shots and bad food photos are some really good photographs.

MyParisPhotos.com is my new web site. It’s a photo blog that lets me highlight individual images. I’m still working on some formatting stuff, but it’s ready to be seen.

Flickr and Library of Congress join forces to create an amazing repository of images

Ted Drake — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:12:19 +0000

Flickr is working with the Library of Congress to integrate historic photos into Flickr Commons. This is a great way to add folksonomy, i.e. tagging, to a library of images. Flickr users are able to add new tags to the images.

Not only that, the images are amazing! I love this shot of generators in a Tennessee powerhouse

Connecting the online photographs to create a virtual world

Ted Drake — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:16:30 +0000

The recent TED conference featured this demo of a Microsoft sponsored project. It gathered photographs of Notre Dame on Flickr, analyzed the images to determine their spatial relationship to the building, and built a seamless, panoramic, three-dimensional representation.

Think about this concept. You are on vacation and take a picture of a landmark. After you upload it to Flickr, the image is matched with other images and the metadata is shared. Eventually, we will have virtual representations of the entire globe, not from an anonymous airplane or satellite but from the viewpoint of people.

Here’s a video that describes the project better.

Orca Live – the lost tapes

Ted Drake — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:33:46 +0000

The hills were alive with the sound of music in San Diego during the early 90′s. It was a heady time of fraternity and musical exploration. Bands such as Drive Like Jehu, Three Mile Pilot, Uncle Joes’s Big Ol’ Driver, Fluf, Heavy Vegetable, rust, Trumans Water, Boilermaker, Lucy’s Fur Coat, White Glove Test, Chichilla, Deadbolt, Rocket from the Crypt, Physics, and Powerdresser met in a small bar near the airport to support and entertain each other.

The Casbah held a special concert at the peak of this movement. Orca, a San Diego supergroup, was formed from members of many San Diego bands. More than a dozen guitars, bass, and drums packed the tiny stage. In fact, there was probably one musician for every 4 members of the audience that night. I brought a camera and my friend Donnie brought his tape recorder.

I was afraid our bootleg of the concert was lost forever. Fortunately, I discovered it while selling much of my stuff for the move to Paris. A friend at work ripped it to MP3 and now it is yours to enjoy. It is 45 minutes long and consists of one multi-part song. Listening to the song brings back vivid memories of the commotion, the heat of packed bodies, and the overall good will of the show.

Download: Orca at the Casbah (mp3, 47mb) – This link should work now.

Update

Rob Crowe had this summary on the Pinback mailing list:

this was obviously before the invention of floor pedal tuners.

from what i remember, rick froberg(pitchfork, drive like jehu, hotsnakes) was the main wrangler.

So, he got me and travis nelson (heavy vegetable, other men), O and johnny donhow (olive lawn, fluf), atom willard (rocket from the crypt), denver lucas (powerdresser), gary davis (custom floor,inventor of the boneless), and todd swank (crankshaft, foundation skateboards) together for 2 practices and 1 show.

no one from ujbod was in it.

whatamess
Rob Crowe

Humane Exposures – Photography of the homeless and imprisoned

Ted Drake — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:53:07 +0000

Humane Exposures, a San Diego based organization, has an interesting new photography book coming out soon. Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time documents the lives of women behind prison.

Photojournalist Susan Madden Lankford thought-provokingly explores the kaleidoscope of alienation, personal despair, desperation, and fragile hopes of women caught up in the state’s zeal for incarceration. Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time is the product of more than two years of photographing and interviewing inmates and correctional staff at a more-or-less typical women’s jail in the United States.

Humane Exposures

Look for this book to hit the stores in the next month or so.