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Category: Photos

  • Headphone portraits

    A few weeks back, I started taking photos of my coworkers in the creative department as they sat at their desks wearing headphones. Almost everyone in the office has their own unique brand/model, and I noticed that in some cases those choices strongly reflected their personal biases towards style, quality, or indifference to electronics. The thing I envy most about designers is their ability to listen to music whilst doing their work. Music is also the best part about the moments of my job where I’m not writing, but looking at spreadsheets and wireframes.

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    All of these were taken and processed with VSCO CAM, an idiosyncratic and crashy camera app for iOS that excels at reproducing the look of film photography. VSCO makes a bunch of Lightroom presets that are fantastic looking and expensive enough that only pros would buy them, but this app is just 99c and I quite recommend it as long as you understand that its effects are applied as stacked layers (the order in which you apply them ultimately matters).

    Audio-Technica QuietPoint noise-cancelling

    Apple earbuds with remote (old design)

    (He’s since moved on to the) AIAIAI Tracks

    Sony PIIQ

    Nixon Trooper (these broke this week)

    Incase Sonic

    Klipsch S4i

    Not sure, but these might be old Audio-Technicas
    Sony MDR-XD100

    Bose A2E

  • Visiting Italy

    I’ve just gotten back from two weeks in Italy, about 50% of that time on business for a client-side conference. I logged as much as I could on the road at http://hipgeo.com/sangsara, which turned out to be a pretty nifty service now that they’ve enabled offline posting in their iOS app. You take photos or write short posts, and those are geotagged and uploaded to your stream when you have a connection. At the end of it all, you can create a “trip post”, which summarizes your movements on a map. Here’s my Italian trip summed up in too much detail.

    A trio of us Sapient guys landed in Milan’s Malpensa Airport, stayed a night, then rented a car and drove down to the sleepy beachside town of Ravenna, then went back up to Milan where we spent the rest of the trip, save for a day in Florence. Here are some photo highlights (I decided to travel light with just my iPhone), the rest are on my Flickr.

  • New office day photos

    The SapientNitro Singapore team moved into our new offices today, a few hundred meters deeper into the CBD area. I used the excellent “1-bit camera” iPhone app to document this historic occasion in Classic Mac-dithered black and white.

    If you see the place in color though, it’s really quite nice.

  • Australia, Days 5-8 on the Road

  • Australia, Day 4 in Photos

    Took a ferry out past the Sydney Opera House on a ferry to Manly Beach, where we ate great steak and ribs, followed by really good Hakata-style ramen in the evening at a place called Ryo-Tei near St Leonards, staffed by a trip of Japanese Australian girls and some dudes in the kitchen.

  • Australia, Day 2 in Photos

    A weekend market in Paddington, a museum exhibit about Sydney’s convict history, and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

  • Australia! Day 1 in photos.

    Used the iPhone as my only camera today and it worked out quite well.

  • Going to Tokyo Again, Figuring Out a Camera Configuration

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    After all that, seeing a single color photo just fires some pleasure center in the brain, so I don’t know… maybe I’ll change my mind again.

    But if anything, going black & white will free me from the temptation to do this to every photo.

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