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"Decapitation Strike", by Timothy Snyder, America's leading expert on tyranny throughout history
https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike
The nominations "Trump" is making have one and only one purpose: to achieve the dictatorship he has been craving since long...
SNL, Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Funs6yyE
World War T is looking up these last few days. Here's an update on the Bullshit Volcano's latest BS regarding PA:
...it's time to watch Michelle's speech of yesterday, October 26, 2024:
Michelle Obama delivers remarks in Kalamazoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im_dNaO7L4&list=RDNS-Im_dNaO7L4&start_radio=1
America's mental health professionals have finally decided they can't keep quiet any longer:
https://www.psychopac.org/open-letter
So they're stating what should be painfully obvious to everyone but is obviously not. Their open letter was featured today in the NY Times.
Rally in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, October 16th, 2024, featuring many Republican officials and Vice President Harris. Watch and save your soul:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FaxwxPFbaY
Vice President starts at 15:00, finishes at ~41:00.
...
In 2017, photographer William Moon, going by photowhitehouse, made this photograph at the White House. The subject predictably claimed later that the picture was “photoshopped”, because he hoped that no one would believe this reflects his actual appearance. Unluckily for...
Or has it? In many states, during the runup to the November 5th, 2024 election, millions of voters' registrations are being systematically deleted, changed to "inactive" or purged altogether, using a variety of criminal, GOP schemes to target voters whom they expect...
I recently had an opportunity to help a new Swedish friend, photographer Janne Lindahl, with an article covering a great deal of the basics of color management for photography. It's written in Swedish, naturally, but Google Translate does an almost-perfect job of translating, which was...
My take on what makes him tick:
1) His only goal in life is to prove to himself that he’s the ultimate “winner” and “killer”, meaning simply that he has to get the better of more people, in bigger ways, than anyone else.
2) His remarkably absolute devotion to that...
Trump's political Teflon coating is at least a hundred times more effective than Reagan’s was in his wildest dreams. Why?
by Thom Hartmann May 23, 2024
That article contains the most complete list of Little Shitler's...
My best article yet for ELEMENTS is the featured piece, forty pages and twenty images. Interview questions and answers. Published April 4th, 2024. The primary drawback is that it's not viewable without a subscription, then neither would it be with a print-only pub! The magazine and its...
I've never heard it put quite so succinctly as Robert Reich did in this wonderful, six-minute video. If you love your country, your family, the American land, sanity, justice — whatever — share this video:
...
I have always found the UI's and the built-in documentation for Google's many software offerings (excepting their travel agent-like program) to be monumentally confusing. Today I finally found a support person (by chatting with no fewer than seven different ones) who knew her stuff...
On a personal, and education-related note, a beautifully done article about the 54-year history of my major at the University of California at Berkeley (i.e. at Cal) has recently been published in both the printed and online versions of Breakthroughs Magazine. It contains two of my...
Addendum: Nov. 4, 2023 (at the end)
I just got the new Kipon Mamiya 645 lens to GFX smart adapter in the U.S. Mail from their U.S. distributor in Washington State, 6 days after ordering it. Unfortunately the Focal Length metadata situation is royally screwed up. The expected failure...
And how "No Labels" is one of many projects to cement that horrific outcome:
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-no-labels-agenda-is-more-disturbing-d5
Required reading! Thom Hartmann's article published June 16th, 2023
My Experiment to Compare the Power Consumption of Heat Pump Mode Versus Energy Saver Mode
Over the last eleven days I ran a series of experiments which limited the number of variables to two: heat pump modes and water usage levels. Rheem insists that their Energy Saver mode is more...
(Updated February 1, 2023 after a long series of experiments revealed surprising results)
How to Save a New Schedule
After opening the app (EcoNet version 6.x, not the slight variant called Rheem EcoNet nor the other slight variant called Ruud EcoNet), click the central area of the first screen...
(Updated January 31, 2023 after a long series of experiments revealed surprising results)
This series of three articles is about my quest to optimize the energy efficiency, operating cost and indirect pollution effects of a new heat pump water heater using the controls in Rheem's EcoNet...
Suppose that you're checking some of the key settings of your Fujifilm GFX 100S by looking at your custom "My Menu" tab in the main menu area of your camera and you see this (this is how mine is set up):
What kind of RAW file will the camera be saving when you trip the shutter?
The interface says...
A pleasant surprise, thirty-two years after publication of my book Joseph Holmes Natural Light.
https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2022/03/book-reviews-4/
Thank you Tim Parkin, and on landscape, an online magazine from the UK for landscape photographers. ...
Don't miss Arnold's magnificently conceived, 9-minute video message to the people of Russia, posted late on Tuesday, March 15th, 2022:
Не пропустите великолепно продуманное 9-минутное видеообращение Арнольда к народу России, опубликованное поздно вечером во вторник, 15 марта 2022 года:
On...
As "Trump" is German for Bullshit.
Little Vladimir, the world's #1 terrorist, strikes again, proving that the power-hungry, skilled liar is humanity's worst enemy.
Any populace that is either ignorant about the basic facts of democracy or otherwise unable to keep a wannabe dictator from...
This face reveals plainly the quintessence of the thing that National Defense is for. The life-long, KGB spy master has finally come fully into his own, but his character has never changed and has been as obvious as the contrived non-expression on his face ever since we’ve known him.
If WW II...
Election fraud is alive and well in America, and has been thriving for decades if not longer. It's millions of times bigger than voter fraud. And this appalling fact means that American elections absolutely are rigged. Trump was right about that, but of course he was lying about who was rigging...
On January 17th, 2022, photographer Matt Payne published on his site the podcast titled "Printmaking In Landscape Photography - A Panel Conversation". This is a conversation organized by Matt with three photographers known for their special work in photographic printmaking: Michael Strickland,...
I’m decidedly not a virologist, but I do pay attention, and it strikes me that a glaring omission continues to be made in explaining to us all about how viral infections and vaccines work.
A viral infection is a race — a race that starts when a virus gets into you and successfully enters a cell,...
There has been and continues to be a long-standing problem with the way that methane is described as a greenhouse gas (GHG). The proper way to describe the strength of the various GHG’s using a pound of CO2 emitted (or a pound in the sky) as the benchmark would be to say A) How much heat is...
The fate of the American republic, and therefore of democracy worldwide, hangs by a thread. That thread will either prove to be a lifeline or will be cut, most likely by next Monday, January 17th, 2022.
The Freedom to Vote Act and the updated Voting Rights Act must reach President Biden's...
This L-plate from Rogeti (pictures below), a new player in the camera L-plate market appealed to me with a couple of aspects of its design — the diagonal brace for stiffening of the vertical arm of the one-piece plate (my preference to a full-wide, two-part plate design) and the inclusion of a...
The new book of this title, by perhaps the most dynamic and accomplished trio of climate saving heroes on the planet, provides the best blueprint for what all of us together and each of us individually can do to turn the tide and win the climate battle. But there is no time to waste.
Here...
I am pleased to announce a new feature of eight of my images in the Gallery section of the very lovely Elements magazine of fine landscape photography has just been published.
Here is the cover of this third issue ever, the May 2021 issue, from the publishers of Medium Format Magazine. The...
Updated June 30, July 2, August 8, 2021 and April 5, 2022
Including:
Zoom Ratios/Percentages for Live Viewing in the EVF and on the LCD;
EVF and LCD Viewable Regions While Zoomed In to Various Degrees;
Playback Mode Viewing Characteristics/System Features;
Suitability of Live View and...
There are only two things that one needs to know to thoroughly understand our 45th President.
The first is simply that he harbors good will toward no one.
The second is that his one great purpose in life is to prove himself to be the ultimate "winner" or “killer,” in the lingo of his family,...
Lawrence Lessig has another great new project to help save the republic. Ending the winner-take-all practice of the Electoral College process will return presidential elections to the principle of one person one vote and reclaim this most fundamental aspect of democracy from the catastrophically...
After many months of work in preparation, today I have announced, here on my Profiles page, the following:
1) The DCam Series — Five new RGB working spaces which I have designed specifically for use with digital camera captures, in a series of gamut volumes and shapes to meet every digital...
My Test Results
Testing primarily with two Epson wide format printers, the Stylus Pro 9900 and the SP 11880, I have run more than 150 experiments, carefully conceived to reveal which methods of printing from Photoshop CS5 on the Mac work correctly and reliably so.
This topic is one, which...
which I recently did for SilberStudios.tv has been posted at: http://www.silberstudios.tv/videos/joseph-holmes-landscape-photos
Check it out!
On Thursday, January 21st, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States, in what is surely one of the three worst rulings in the history of the court, perpetrated a heinous crime against American democracy and the future of the American people. The five justices responsible were naturally: John...
FAST PHOTOSHOP WITH 32-BIT CODE AND LARGE IMAGES?
SUPER-FAST BOOT AND APPLICATION LAUNCHING?
Since the dawn of Photoshop, those of us interested in making high-quality images (images requiring a large pixel count) have had to suffer...
In response to my long articles on medium format quality issues, I have received, either directly via e-mail, or from postings to discussion forums, a number of comments from other photographers which echo my own experiences with quality control and/or my expectations for off-the-shelf quality...
ADDENDUM ADDED at the end, April 24, 2009
It's really a gigantic topic, but I want to share some of the important things that I've had to learn during my recent efforts to get an optimally-performing medium format digital camera system built and to learn how to use it effectively. My take on this...
MEDIUM FORMAT DIGITAL CAMERA OPTICAL PRECISION
or
PROBLEMS IN THE LAND OF PRECISION
Mainly written in early March, 2008
Completed July 8, 2008
Updated and Published April 5, 2009
Incorrect Image Link Fixed April 15 HERE
Thanks are in order for Elmo Sapwater of ImagingInsider.com and Michael...
Update: July 2, 2009: As of late June, a version has been created which does run in 10.5 on PPC, so a release should be imminent. Please refer to Mark Dubovoy's new article on Luminous-Landscape.com about Helicon Focus, which acknowledges a small part of the work I did on Helicon Focus and comes...
(updated April 24, 2008)
For some time it has been clear to me that the changes we're seeing in the arctic, especially, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that we have long since passed critical major tipping points in the Earth's climate system. Perhaps the most important surprise from the...
SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE
OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
DECEMBER 10, 2007
OSLO, NORWAY
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many...
Seriously, Al Gore's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize for his tremendous commitment to educating the people of the world about the consequences of our unsustainable mistreatment of the sky is another major turning point in the effort to prevent the unfolding global catastrophe from taking us to...
On Friday the 17th of August, 2007, a news report on NPR revealed that the extent of the Arctic sea ice had, surprisingly, just reached a new all-time low extent (area), a full six weeks ahead of the expected seasonal minimum, meaning that the low ice extent for 2007 would be a record low by a...
Please take a minute to watch this fabulous video spot that does something we've been needing for a long time, a way to visualize accurately this invisible but critically important process: Black Balloon.
Or this newer one, brilliantly illustrating the immense scale of our pollution: ...
UPDATE August 30, 2007 -- Movies of Eight 3D Gamut Comparisons Added
UPDATE October 23, 2007 -- Details of the inkset(s) for all four of the new machines has been updated in three places as noted with an asterisk *.
Epson Stylus Pro 11880, 9880, 7880, 4880, Epson UltraChrome K3 with Vivid...
On today's installment of Fresh Air, on National Public Radio, the climatologist Kerry Emanuel, professor at MIT's Deparment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, gave a very succinct explanation of how it is that human-induced atmospheric changes are indeed responsible for the major...
A new study conducted by NASA, authored by 48 scientists, warns that the so-called tipping points for the Earth's climate are much closer than previously thought. The critical thresholds for atmospheric CO2 levels may be "much lower than 450 ppm", meaning that we may already be beyond the...
A long article based on an interview of myself by Peter Eastway, Publisher of Better Photography magazine in Australia, has just been published.
Better Photography
(Update Nov 3, 2006)
Two Giant Crises Meet Opportunity for Solutions in California Ballot Measures
Last night, November 1st (2006), President Clinton addressed a crowd of over three thousand supporters of Prop 87 in San Francisco, giving a speech that if heard by the voters would result in the...
This outstanding how-to magazine from Australia features a 20-page article which I wrote recently on ten of my favorite imaging tips. Copies are available on newstands there, by subscription, and online at www.betterphotoshoptechniques.com. The newstand price shown, $24.95 per copy, is in...
It will be my pleasure to be guest instructor at the Fourth Annual Photography and Fine Art Printing Summit with Alain Briot and Uwe Steinmueller from November 10th to 13th, 2006, in Page, Arizona. Please visit Alain's page or my workshops page for more info on this and my other workshops,...
May 10, 2005 (minor revisions 5-11-05)
(See supplemental notes at the end 11-13-05 and 2-10-06)
Major News for the Digital Printmaking Community:
EPSON 9800, EPSON 7800, EPSON 4800
From Joseph Holmes http://www.josephholmes.com
New EPSON Printers and Inkset Announced Today, Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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