I went to see Sky Ferreira play at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on Tuesday night. What a set she played! Here are some of the photos I took.
4/11/2013
Sky Ferreira at Rickshaw Stop
Lori Spooner is a culinary genius
My friend Lori threw a party this past weekend, and she did some cooking. Here are the results.
3/6/2013
3/4/2013
Lil Buck and his crew at TED 2013
If you haven’t heard of Lil Buck, read this. I photographed him and his crew outside our hotel last week during the TED conference in Long Beach.
Joshua Prager at TED
I was in Long Beach last week to see my good friend Joshua Prager give a riveting talk, related to his book Half-Life, at the TED conference. Above you can see the talk that he gave at the TED talent search in New York last fall. Below are a few of the photos I took of Josh at TED on Friday.
10/27/2012
10/24/2012
Carine Roitfeld
Carine on rue de Lappe in Paris during fashion week, September 2012.
Leica M8 + 35mm Summilux-M
10/1/2012
9/19/2012
Testing Tumblr
This month, I’m shooting a lot of film as a project and won’t be able to post much. I will, however, be posting now and then to my Tumblr at notes.rickyopaterny.com.
3/11/2012
When I go home, I don’t start a second life—it’s more of the same. There are no Saturdays or Sundays.
3/8/2012
Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society – Telegraph
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of Freedom. I can spill water on it and it would still work! So it’s pretty good technology. And what’s more, it will work great 10 years from now. So no wonder the capitalists hate it. It’s a bad business model.
2/28/2012
2/5/2012
Courage and criticism
Courage is not a virtue frequently associated with the criticism beat, but it lies near the heart of [Pauline] Kael’s achievement—not because she was unsqueamish about praising and slamming movies (though she was) but because, from the time she wrote her first review until the moment she retired, in 1991, her authority as a critic relied solely on her own, occasionally whimsical taste.
1/29/2012
1/24/2012
Visualizing President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union
Here is the speech’s full text, and here is a Wordle.
11/26/2011
Charlie Brown by Loud Crow
The Charlie Brown Christmas app from Loud Crow is the best thing I’ve seen on the iPad in a while. It’s surprising, beautiful, and absolutely delightful for what it is. Along with Aweditorium, it’s one of the few apps that makes a tablet feel like a special device and not simply a repackaged version of the PC.
11/24/2011
Real books are physical objects
The reproduction has been done painstakingly, and conjures up an almost tactile sense of the handmade original. A mourner is always searching for traces of the lost one, and traces of that scrapbook’s physicality—bits of handwriting, stamps, stains—add testimonial force: this person existed.
The poet Anne Carson’s “Nox,” review : The New Yorker
11/23/2011
The sketchbook of Susan Kare
Kare’s first assignment was developing fonts for the Mac OS. At the time, digital typefaces were monospaced, meaning that both a narrow I and a broad M were wedged into the same bitmapped real estate — a vestigial legacy of the way that a typewriter platen advances, one space at a time.
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
The lost interview
I went to the theater to see this lost interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 that was originally shot for Triumph of the Nerds and came away from it inspired. Because what other executive in Silicon Valley would ever cite Picasso and Thoreau? And that he did makes me believe that, perhaps, there’s a place in the Valley for someone like me.
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Jobs ‘The Lost Interview’ Teaser – YouTube
Erin McKeown and the problem with streaming music
To make the monthly minimum wage of $1,160, a musician needed to sell 143 self-pressed compact discs. To make that from Spotify, they would need people to stream their songs more than 4 million times — not humanly possible unless you happen to be Lady Gaga.
Is my passion for Spotify destroying the musicians I love? – San Jose Mercury News
11/22/2011
The old Banana Republic store facade
One of my favorite things about going to Stanford Shopping Center when I was a kid was seeing the old Banana Republic store.
Store info and other Republic Business | Abandoned Republic
11/20/2011
A few photos from the Occupy movement
Taken with my Leica M8 and 40mm Leica Summicron-C. I’ll be adding more photos soon.
