RT @cacophonyart Wow, I can’t believe this find. All back issues of Dwell from Oct 00-Nov 08 that you can read online. http://tiny.cc/cdMmL (via @saymayday)

Also, look at our kid DJ Greyboy on the cover of the July/August 2007 issue: (while you’re at it, you can read the whole damn thing)

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i know absolutely nothing about this guy(girl?) but he(she?) is a flickr contact and he(she?) posts cool shit almost daily-like.

My new digi

So after months of looking for a new digital camera, I settled on a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. Unfortunately, I found out that the black version (LX3K) has been sold out everywhere online for months. Amazon seemed to have them but was way more expensive (!) than other retailers.

I happened into Camera Land, a scant few blocks from the office in midtown recently to find that they not only had the Black DMC-LX3K in stock, they had it for $429 (as cheap as I’ve seen it anywhere) so I bought it on the spot.

I’ve maintained for years now that this race to stuff more megapixels into small-sensor cameras has been doing more harm than good, as all you end up with is really grainy/noisy photos. You can only stuff so much info onto a tiny sensor. Panasonic in particular has taken a lot of criticism regarding noisy images, especially at higher ISO speeds. They seem to have taken a lot of this to heart, and in the design process of the LX3K, eschewed upping the megapixel count (from the DMC-LX2) in favor of giving it a fast and wide f/2.0/24mm lens. This, coupled with Panasonic’s awesome optical image stabilization makes the LX3k an awesome low-light MACHINE. Did I mention it does buttery 1280×720 video at 24fps?

watch my flickr page for more.

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i ordered another one of these lovely little bastards for my 3G iPhone. it appears to be sturdier than the one for the earlier version, not so much fiddly drilled out bits at the bottom.

bonus points for identifying the album art.