The Big Picture:

The universality of our lives is never so evident as when we feature a collection of „slice of life“ photographs from around the world on The Big Picture.

Before I read the text I scrolled through the photos and that’s exactly what I thought. Have a look for yourself.

The New Yorker:

For “Photographs Not Taken,” a new book published by Daylight, the photographer and writer Will Steacy asked photographers to abandon their usual tools and make a picture without a camera. The result is a photo book entirely void of pictures, composed instead of essays written by photographers about those moments that never made it onto film, and the reasons why not.

That’s really interesting. The New Yorker also posted an excerpt from the book. I liked it.

Brandon Remler:

The beauty of the X-Pro1 here is that its low profile yet high quality allowed me to shoot unfettered since nobody really takes notice of you with a small retro style camera.  But as we know the images that the camera produces are amazing!I shot most of the action shots at ISO 1600.  I did change occasionally from ISO 1000-2000 for all the images.  Click to enlarge them.  Exposures varied but safe to assume many at 1/250 with apertures F/1.6 – 2.2.

Brandon shot a concert with the X-Pro 1. The ISO Performance and overall image quality of the camera really are amazing. And since Brandon only shot JPGs the images could have been even better if he had shot in RAW.
The combination of size and quality really is the strength of the X-Pro 1.

Zack Arias:

Importance of blogging. Photo editor was researching Coca-Cola execs, found my blog post detailing my shoot there and called me for a job.

Bryan Jones:

CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better.

CodeKit finally left the beta and I just bought my license. It really is THE app if you are using LESS, SASS, Coffeescript or anything like that. I love it.
Sadly it’s not available in the Mac App Store and only purchasable by credit card.
I also like his approach for pricing CodeKit. Have a look yourself and decide how much it is worth to you.

Battle.net:

We’re pleased to announce the Diablo III open beta weekend, which offers open access to all players with a valid Battle.net account! Beginning this Friday everyone is invited to log in and help us put the game and servers through their paces in this three day stress test as we march toward the game’s release on May 15. You can begin downloading the Diablo III client right now!

From Friday, April 20 at 12:01 p.m. PDT (noon), until Monday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. PDT you’ll be able to log in, team up with friends, and play each of the five heroic classes to level 13 as you fight to save the world from the impending demonic invasion.

Wowowowowowowow. I’m on the road on the weekend, so I am not able to play, but I’m really looking forward to Diablo III. We’ve all waited long enough.

Yesterday with the publication of the „The Next Web“ article about QUOTE.fm I had two realisations. First of all, time differences suck and second, different languages are bullshit. They lead to unnecessary barriers. If everybody would speak one language things would be a whole lot easier.

I thought about switching to english a lot the last few weeks or maybe months. I link a lot to english writing blogs and post recommendations with english comments on QUOTE.fm. Not once anyone complained. The analytics numbers also didn’t drop, so I guess my readers are cool with that.
The majority of articles I read are written in english, I listen to english speaking podcasts and often my thinking happens in english phrases, which is kind of crazy. So it seems pretty clear which way to go.

From today on going forward I will switch to english for one month[1. There will be one interview in german, which I’m currently putting together.]. Let’s see how it goes. Maybe it sucks, maybe not. I hope my english skills will get better over time. Thinking about it will definitely not help anyone. So I’ll just give it a try and after the month I’ll decide if I want to stay with english or switch back to german.

500px:

• Retina Graphics: Updated for the new iPad

• Download HD Photos: Tap the Download button on a full-sized photo that is for sale in our Market

• Photo Location Support: See where geotagged photos were taken

• Improved Navigation: You can now find your photos, your favorite photos, and friends‘ photos by tapping „You“ in the sidebar

• Improved Search: use tags or photo names to explore 500px

• Improved NSFW filter

500px ist eine sehr schöne App mit der es echt Spaß macht Fotos zu durch stöbern. Jetzt gibt’s auch endlich Retina Unterstützung.

Hamburg, März 2012, Canon EOS 5D