DeWitt Clinton

I tried retouching the last set of photographs to compensate for the peculiar coloration, but wasn’t particularly satisfied with the results. However, since it was mostly an issue of saturation, I just dropped the set to greyscale instead. I’m much happier with the pictures this way…

San Francisco isn’t that bad. I was able to spend a few hours shooting pictures at a little beach a few minutes away from my apartment. I used a Nikon D70 on these, but only had a 24-85 lens, which wasn’t really what I needed at all. And before you comment, the D70 (and that [...]

Given my new unhealthy obsession with commuting, I’m thinking of creating a web site called “bestcommutes.com” or something. Basically, people would be able to post their favourite routes and ways of getting from A to B. The site wouldn’t need a particularly sophisticated interface or engine — it would simply contain the step by step [...]

The thread on social networks and email got me thinking about the real future of email-like correspondence. My suspicion is that SMTP-based email won’t go away completely for a long while, but we will stop thinking of “email” as our primary message delivery mechanism. Email has a number of advantages: It scales very well. It [...]

I had a bizarre dream last night. I’m sitting with some friends back in NYC at a bar and I started telling them excitedly about a new feature that Google had introduced to Gmail. This was the gist of it: Gmail had added a link to the top of the page called “Friendsterizations”. When I [...]