My outboard brain.Tumblr (3.0; @banjo)http://rustedbicycle.com/<a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html">BibliOdyssey: Victorian Infographics</a>: <p>I’m going to prep that time machine just as soon as I gather all my quills and inks.</p>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/307973167http://rustedbicycle.com/post/307973167Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:45:38 -0500<a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/10-essential-photography-e-books-for-the-holidays?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">10 Essential Photography E-Books for the Holidays</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/284666596http://rustedbicycle.com/post/284666596Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:48:36 -0500PhotographyBooks“There’s no trick here, guys. No system. No diagram. No hack. No tips, no webinars, and no Digg-able bulleted lists. It’s simply work.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.43folders.com/2009/08/04/enough?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+43Folders+%2843+Folders%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start | 43 Folders</a></em>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/282665819http://rustedbicycle.com/post/282665819Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:57:28 -0500Creativity<a href="http://io9.com/5391563/lovecraft-101-get-to-know-the-master-of-scifi+horror">Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master of Scifi-Horror - hp lovecraft - io9</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/282615142http://rustedbicycle.com/post/282615142Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:20:29 -0500BooksCthulu<a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-find-and-use-scripts-in-gimp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">How to Find and Use Scripts in Gimp</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/282610241http://rustedbicycle.com/post/282610241Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:17:05 -0500Photography<a href="http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/">How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/281130435http://rustedbicycle.com/post/281130435Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:03:30 -0500OutboardBrain<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush">As We May Think - The Atlantic (July 1945)</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/281127115http://rustedbicycle.com/post/281127115Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:00:59 -0500OutboardBrain<a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5168454/how-to-create-stunningly-realistic-high-dynamic-range-photographs">How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/277729961http://rustedbicycle.com/post/277729961Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:29:42 -0500Photography<a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/gimp-an-introduction">GIMP – An Introduction</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/276291253http://rustedbicycle.com/post/276291253Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:09:50 -0500Photography“A picture is what you take when you accidentally mash your hands on the shutter release while your camera sits idle on the living room table. It’s when you bump the camera while it hangs from your shoulder and snap that oddly angled picture of your feet. It’s the photos you took of your friend just because they asked you to. It’s also generally what most of us are shooting the first time we pick up our cameras – myself included.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/stop-taking-pictures-start-creating-images">Stop Taking Pictures, Start Creating Images</a></em>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/274839418http://rustedbicycle.com/post/274839418Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:07:00 -0500Photography<a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/creepy-high-voltage-installations.html">Creepy High Voltage Installations</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/272599316http://rustedbicycle.com/post/272599316Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:03:34 -0500LinksWeird<a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/photographingkids?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">4 More Tips for Photographing Children</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/267105677http://rustedbicycle.com/post/267105677Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:05:00 -0500Photography<a href="http://photofocus.com/2009/11/30/25-photo-composition-tips/">25 Photo Composition Tips | Photofocus</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/264973747http://rustedbicycle.com/post/264973747Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:17:00 -0500Photography<a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/10-ways-photography-has-changed-my-life?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29">10 Ways Photography Has Changed My Life</a>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/262251835http://rustedbicycle.com/post/262251835Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:31:00 -0500Photography“The most important thing is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s. Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/on_writing:_a_memoir_of_the_craft.html">Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft</a></p> <p>I’ve put off reading this book, mostly because I loathe that section of the bookstore. I see all these books about writing and feel they are the domain of people who dream of being writers but never do. If I go there, then I am admitting that I am that person. I read one book about writing after my senior year of high school, a gift from a teacher, and never touched another for fifteen years.</p> <p>But I kept hearing about this book and figured I’d give it a shot. To be perfectly honest (why stop now), I had a low opinion of King not too long ago. I’d read many of his books in high school, enjoyed these books in my basement bedroom with fake wood paneled walls. But then I went to college and majored in English lit. Best-selling horror was definitely not in the canon, so to speak. And I became something of a literary snob.</p> <p>And then last year, I read The Dark Tower. I found it gritty and heartbreaking, frustrating and elating. It’s art. There’s a reason this guy has cranked out so many books. He’s got some goddamned talent. These books killed the last of my university snobbery. I began to enjoy Harry Potter in public.</p> <p>Stephen King does not need my approval, my praise of his memoir. I’m writing this for me. And the thing I want to say is that On Writing is an entertaining tale packed full of useful nuggets like what I’ve quoted above. I’m reminded of all the bullshit management books I read in business school. But those books always felt like one obvious axiom in the middle of a story about how some white guy made a lot of cash in corporate America. They smacked of someone wanting to capitalize on their success. But this is different. This book reads like someone amazed with his life, his luck. It’s more like he’s writing the book for himself, as if he might understand the life that has befallen him. It’s like King is passing on some of his knowledge to pay a debt for his good fortune.</p></em>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/103588975http://rustedbicycle.com/post/103588975Mon, 04 May 2009 23:14:00 -0400WritingBooks<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/v8XgFqPrUn1jmdcvxTu3MM0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Vermont</p>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/102997791http://rustedbicycle.com/post/102997791Sun, 03 May 2009 13:10:00 -0400Pictures<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/v8XgFqPrUmyfy01nplIHeCuBo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One cup *invites* another. Bull-shit.</p> <p>Also: Vermont.</p>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/102248701http://rustedbicycle.com/post/102248701Fri, 01 May 2009 09:04:00 -0400Pictures<p>A guy could make a lot of money setting up ad-based web sites with urls based on popular web addresses as commonly mis-typed on a BlackBerry. You are welcome. </p>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/102063545http://rustedbicycle.com/post/102063545Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:35:00 -0400<a href="http://tinyhouseblog.com/">Tiny House Blog - Small House Living</a>: <p>This must be luddite day!</p>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/99329260http://rustedbicycle.com/post/99329260Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:24:19 -0400<p>Don’t look down when you walk. Look ahead.</p>http://rustedbicycle.com/post/89990468http://rustedbicycle.com/post/89990468Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:04:08 -0400