Alfred's Notes: Archive

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Aug 19th

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Photos with poems

I went to the Grolier poetry book shop in Harvard Square to do research for a new project. In specific I was searching for poems that were written to compliment photos. I’ve been interested in the idea of what non-traditional, more verbose captioning can do to an image. After some searching with staff, we found Street - Poems by Jim Daniels, Photographs by Charlee Brodsky. The images by...

Aug 16th

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+ http://www.commshakes.org/ - Only till Sunday

Aug 13th

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35 years of the Brown Sisters

I visited the MFA this past friday thanks to the free-ness provided by the Highland Street Foundation. I spent most of my time there with the Nicholas Nixon Brown Sisters exhibit, now onto 35 years of portraits with the 4 sisters. That missing space in the grid is waiting for the 36th photo to be taken and placed in the gallery this summer. Although I kind of like it the way it is: the presence...

Aug 3rd

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MIT Media Lab

I stopped by the MIT Media lab today for a tour from a friend. The space feels like an advanced playroom - freshly opened boxes of gadgets, wires connecting half built objects and a vibrant array of oversized toys within big open spaces. Here are a few of the groups/projects that caught my interest on first glance: ——————————— ...

Jul 29th

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“You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people...”

– Paul Graham - http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

Jul 28th

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Watch

Dancing Helix. A clip from a recent a photo session.

Jul 28th

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Watch

Started amateuring around with the video on my D90. This is a clip from a boat ride to ipswich.

Jul 28th

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Jul 27th

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city shell by the city shore

city shell by the city shore doesn’t quite twist your tongue in the same way… At the magazine st community pool in Cambridge, MA.

Jul 22nd

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Giant Present Project

I made a giant present and dollied it around cambridge. Check out the somebody must be in love photo series.

Jun 27th

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Field Day in Cambridge

I organized a little field day in Cambridge by the charles river and turned it into a little photo series.

Jun 19th

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I know exactly what I did 28 days ago

In an effort to be more mindful and have a record of how I’m spending my days, I’ve been keeping a new journal. The template for it is simple and requires me to write a few categorized lists of what I have to show for my day. The current breakdown looks like this: -what was the most important thing about today feeling: morning, afternoon, evening reading: music: Ideas: Business: Personal:...

Jun 2nd

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Map updates

The map has taken on a life of its own. Now with flags of our friends’ houses and thumbnail pictures.

May 19th

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New theme: Designless

The designless theme is ideal for those who make posts on a weekly basis and want to create multiple pages or highlight offsite links. The title and top bar colors are customizable as well as the background, text, link, and link mouseover colors. I made this design to use on my own blog but also submitted it to the tumblr theme garden for others to use. http://www.tumblr.com/theme/9154 If you...

Apr 6th

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“If these things came to pass they would recount how Kino looked and what he said...”

– The Pearl - John Steinbeck

Mar 15th

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Tumblr Theme - Flyover

I took my first stab at creating a tumblr theme. The purpose of this was to just get me up to speed with the platform because I have a couple ideas of themes I want to spend some solid time on and create. Although I won’t be using the “Flyover Theme” myself, I think it can be useful for someone looking to give each of there individual posts more weight. Here is the link to the...

Feb 25th

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Photo in The National - Abu Dhabi

One of my photos of Minas Viejas in La Huasteca was published with Alexis Okeowo’s travel article in “The National”. Read about our adventure: Land of the Lush - The National

Feb 6th

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50 square foot map of Boston

There it is. I stitched it together from 40 11x17 (tabloid) slices. Each slice is a highly detailed rendering from google maps at the third closest zoom level. Example below.

Jan 4th

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Nov 23rd

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Super Simple v1.2- Pixelpost.org Template →

I got around to fixing that browse page bug on this template for pixelpost.org. Hooray, v1.2

Nov 17th

Nov 16th

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The Endowment Effect

“Losses are more bad than gains are good” When something is given to you, it becomes part of your “endowment”. Taking a risk and losing it would be more detrimental than a potential gain. Examples: When purchasing a car, in one condition you are offered a model fully loaded with all the features. You are then allowed to strip the features from the car to receive your...

Nov 12th

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“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories...”

– Milan Kundera - “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

Oct 30th

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“Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in...”

– Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel

Oct 28th

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New blog

I decided to get out of http://www.pixelpost.org/ since I want to do more than pictures now. If your interested in doing a photo only blog I highly recommend it as a platform. I designed this theme for it. I plan on making my own theme for tumblr once I have the time.

Oct 28th

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