December 2009
SHOES: Weekend Photography Challenge →
Image by kk+
We’ve all got them – so this weekend’s challenge shouldn’t be too hard – should it?
Shoes come in all shapes, sizes and colours and they reflect the personality,…
The Manhattan Declaration Part X: Summary →
The Manhattan Declaration, as it turns out, is an attempt by a bunch of religious conservatives to try to defend their least defensible policies (read: indefensible). As a result, it was not…
HJHOP Podcast: Creationist Adventure-Kid Jonathan... →
Well, here’s another episode of the HJHOP podcast—number 16, in fact. I never thought my audience would let me live long enough to produce this many. In this episode, I examine a little item…
Scienz teeching →
This monumentally silly page on the CIF belief bit of the Guardian website was probably just there to stir up knee-jerk responses. (There are, naturally, thousands of comments.) But, hey, my…
Canon Powershot SX20 Review →
I’m fairly familiar with the PowerShot cameras so was keen to see a model with a maxi zoom lens. There is a lesser specked model — the Canon PowerShot SX120 IS — but I figured the adventurous…
OK, everyone stop what you are doing... →
Do me a favor and look around and see if my keys are there. Fuck. HJ
The Manhattan Declaration: Euthanasia →
In my last post I wrote about how the Manhattan Declaration is a call for the religious sacrifice of human beings to a god on a scale never before seen in human history - in terms of the death and…
How to take International Street Portraits →
Few things are more enjoyable than traveling in a foreign country and using your camera as a bridge to connect with locals. Especially in countries and areas which are under developed, you may find…
Bhopal →
Suketu Mehta writes of greed and irresponsibility over Bhopal. :
Union Carbide and Dow were allowed to get away with it because of the international legal structures that protect multinationals…
8 Things to Bring on a Photowalk →
This Guy Might Be Packing Too Much - Image by Brian Auer
This year I have challenged myself to doing 52 Photowalks. I’m leaving the house once a week with my camera and taking photos of…
The Manhattan Declaration Part VIII: Religious... →
Imagine that a solar eclipse strikes the nation. Under the guidance of its religious leaders, the government immediately starts to round up people to be sacrificed. The idea is that, once enough…
Top 20 Popular Point and Shoot Digital Cameras →
Last week we published the Top 10 Popular DSLRs – listed in order of popularity with our readers based upon their purchases at Amazon over the last month or two.
Today we’re publishing a…
My lecture notes for today.... →
I’m serious—this is everything that I am doing in class today. My students are going to be giving final presentations about their websites during exam week, and it is my job to prepare them for this…
SF Contest stories are online →
at TheScian.com. Enjoy. The authors would be glad to see your comments and—am sure—would happily respond. The stories are a break from the past. They are uncompromising, and hence, I hope, will…
Creationists fuck up everything very badly. →
I’m sorry, but this must be a short post. Tonight, at the recommendation of Animala, I have come across something so incomprehensibly awful that I have to do it up as a podcast, and it is going to…
Science vs religion →
A cartoon on geekstir.com
How To Handle Unwanted Critique of Your... →
When I first started posting my photos online, I longed for people to take a look and comment on them, but then sometimes I wished they just hadn’t bothered. Not everyone is going to love…
Ironic News International →
Rupert Murdoch and his son & heir and employees are getting a bit stressed about the world-wide-web as a threat to their unfeasibly large income stream. For instance, in today’s Guardian,
…
By me in the BMJ: the dodginess of drug company... →
Here’s a piece by me in the British Medical Journal this week, published online already, and in the print edition this Friday. It’s a head to head with Vincent Lawton, who until recently was head of…
The Manhattan Declaration: Shutting Down Debate →
There is something monstrously arrogant in claiming that one gets one’s morality from God. The speaker is saying that, “The mind that gave birth to these moral principles is the mind of an…
Holiday Food Images and Thoughts to go With ‘em →
If you are one to photograph absolutely every single solitary moment of your life, you’ve probably attempted the holiday meal. In honour of Thanksgiving and upcoming Christmas, here are a few…
I have totally found my new crack... →
Ironically, it is a show on A&E called Intervention. Here’s the plot: someone has an intervention. Fucking brilliant. You spend 45 minutes illustrating what a great life has been lost, spend two…
November 2009
Your Last Chance to Get 25% off Our Portraits... →
Just over a week ago here at DPS we launched our very first downloadable ebook (note: this is not a hard cover book) – The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography – a guide designed to …
25 Spectacular Light Painting Images →
Light Painting in its many forms has been a growing trend on Flickr and other photo sharing sites in the last couple of years. These images are attention grabbing and full of amazing color, movement…
White Supremacist Poetry Slam! →
It’s back. This is the feature where I use my expertise as a writing teacher and give back to the community. I give the aspiring racist puke poets at Stormfront.org the frank and honest reviews that…
Community cohesion →
What exactly is “community cohesion”? I’m way too stupid to understand what “community” means in any thing other than general terms. So, it’s lucky that OFSTED inspectors seem to have a robust…
The Manhattan Declaration Part IV: Responding to a... →
I am still not clear on how you get to come up with the judgment of “bigot” on the writers of the Manhattan Declaration. A bigot is a person who unfairly or unjustly identifies a group of people…
Truth in homeopathic advertising... →
Does anyone else see what’s wrong with this picture? WHO WANTS A NON-DROWSY SLEEP AID!!?!?!@$@%!11 I’m sure the honesty is inadvertent. That is all. HJ
An Interview with Set Designer Raffy Tesoro →
In this post Dustin Carbonera interviews Set Designer Raffy Tesoro. Raffy has answered a number of questions as well as walking us through some of the shots he’s been involved with creating…
The end of prophesy, or When is wrong finally... →
For the last several days, I have been pondering the question of what it would take to convince a conspiracist or end-times prophet to admit that they were wrong. You hear someone like that asshat…
10 Ways Photography Has Changed My Life →
In this post Lisa Newton from Travelin’ Local shares 10 ways that her life has been changed by photography.
Has Photography Changed Your Life?
It has certainly changed mine, for the better.
Baby Man Cometh... →
Before we start, what is this a close-up of?
I started getting a sniffle last night. By this time tomorrow, I will be in the fetal position underneath my coffee table begging for someone…
Vision from Delusion →
You remember how after Anita Ikonen failed to demonstrate that she could see inside the human body she popped up in the empty chat room a few hours later, where she left this graffiti:
10:31…
The Glass Menagerie: Choosing your Best Lenses →
Image by canonsnapper
‘Choosing the right lenses is tougher than picking the right camera. Kim Brebach from Get the Picture explains why.’
Traveling Lightly A wise photographer…
This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums... →
Weekly Assignment
First, Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers. I hope you had an enjoyable holiday!
We finished our Kinetics assignment this week, and one of the things that…
What is it about reality tv wannabes? Also,... →
The line between reality tv and the news is getting perilously thin.
I mean, you have one jackass putting together the perfect media hoax a few weeks ago (the Barfing Balloon Boy—really, it…
I have no idea what I am doing... →
The humanities have a hard time conducting “research” in the scientific, controlled study sense. Every so often, these sorts of proddings of the universe seem like they would be really useful. Take,…
All bow before the mighty power of the nocebo... →
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 28 November 2009, The Guardian
This week the parliamentary science and technology select committee looked into the evidence behind the MHRA’s decision to allow homeopathy sugar…
THANKSGIVING: Weekend Photography Challenge →
Image by ckirkman
Many of our readers are, as they read this, recovering from one of their biggest holidays of the year – Thanksgiving – which was this past Thursday.
While I know…
Is the media getting it, little by little? →
I saw an AP story out this afternoon that suggests that a lot of people have pointed out that the locked-in Belgian is in all likelihood being used as a human Ouija board. Coma recovery case…
The Manhattan Declaration Part V: Kinds of... →
The Manhattan Declaration is a declaration written to present a particular religious view on moral issues regarding life, marriage, and religious liberty. The Declaration is so filled with holes and…
Canon EOS 7D Review →
A guest Review of the Canon EOS 7D by Patrick Dean from NeutralDay.com.
The 18 megapixel Canon EOS 7D is a significant leap forward for the prosumer line of EOS DSLR cameras.
It…
Bodie Hodge: I'd rather a Jew die than fib to a... →
Another possible title was, “Bodie Hodge Makes God Facepalm.” Bodie Hodge, consistently the dumbest person at Answers in Genesis by several orders of magnitude (impressive, that), but who…
Confirmed: Georgia Purdom worst female molecular... →
From AiG:
“Dr. Purdom, with a PhD in molecular genetics from Ohio State University, is (to our knowledge) the only female PhD scientist engaged in full-time research and speaking on Genesis for a…
Pay Attention to Foregrounds →
Photo by acampm1
Here’s a little ‘question’ for you to ask next time you’re out and about with our digital cameras.
Next time you’re taking a landscape or urban landscape shot…
The Manhattan Declaration IV: Government... →
Religious liberty means that the government has an absolute obligation to ban the raising of pigs and the selling of pork, demand the wearing of hats, the practice of giving patients blood…