http://douglemoine.com Work, photos, journal, hyphy, minimalism, maximalism, modernism Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:42:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh gosh, hello again. I stepped away for a second, and the next thing I knew a month had passed. Anyway, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the Internetz to the Cooper Journal, a blog that we're publishing at work. Launching it was part of the reason why ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/07/cooper_journal/ The guy on the left, in the black hat; the one who looks like he just stepped out of a Coen Brothers movie. He was on the floor during every game of the NBA Finals. Who the heck is he? Anyway, you gotta give him credit for breaking the mold ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/06/crazy-finals-guy/ I've got the killer app for the NBA television-viewing experience, something that will melt faces around the world and provide the league with yet another license to print money. (Props to Justin and Zidane who sparked this idea last night as we watched Game 3.) You could call it: NBA 360, ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/06/nba-trash-talk/ The New York Times recently ran some photos that were taken from the train carrying Bobby Kennedy's body between Washington to New York. The photos themselves are amazing documents of a nation in mourning, people from all walks of life lining the tracks, holding signs, saluting or just watching, but ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/06/rfk-funeral-train-a-breaking-up/ Chicago. A man is about to get on a routine flight. Suddenly he pauses and decides to walk away. He doesn't know why. An hour later the plane goes down in flames. It's dismissed as chance ... Britain. A woman has an image of a black mountain that's moving, with ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/dismissed-as-chance/ Muxtape has blown up -- just a matter of time, I guess -- but I hope this doesn't mean that they'll add a bunch of "features" to it. It's basically two things -- the homepage where you pick a mix, and the player where you listen -- and it doesn't ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/muxtape-non-interface-interface-excellence/ I like to tell myself that I don't read stuff like this, but Esquire's got a pretty excellent list of "75 skills every man should master". 33. Hit a jump shot in pool. It's not something you use a lot, but when you hit a jump shot, it marks ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/essential-information-mixing-drinks-tying-knots-arguing/ Mark Cuban is not afraid to talk about the blockbuster trade that wasn't ... [Donnie Nelson, Avery Johnson and I] went back and forth about whether or not we should trade Devin [Harris]. We knew he was a good point guard, with the potential to be amazing. What we didn't ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/the-nba-where-accountability-happens/ See, I criticize Flickr, and then this thing comes along to demonstrate once and for all its inherent goodness. No Flickr stylez or post-processing necessary. Via Sorry I Missed Your Party and BuzzFeed. http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/flickr-okay-i-take-it-all-back/ It's hard to ignore the fact that Flickr promotes a distinct style of photography; I say "promotes" because Flickr's "Explore" tab displays photos that are deemed "interesting" by Flickr's "interestingness" algorithm, and the photos in this area are generally characterized by what many are now calling "Flickr style." This is ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/the-flickr-style-ugh/