Adam Kuban: Kublog

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Shooting ‘cue with the Nikon D60 loaner

IMG_7506, originally uploaded by a. graham. I’ve got a loaner camera from Nikon after having done a podcast with the folks there on food photography. It’s been a good camera so far, though I think I still need to get used to its features before I can get some really amazing photos out of it. [...]

Silver Jews Show

Silver Jews, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, September 6th, 2008, originally uploaded by craneboy. Earlier this month I went with my friend Justin to see the Silver Jews play. I didn’t realize until we got there that this was a pretty big deal, since this is like maybe the second time Jew-in-chief David [...]

It would be funny if it weren’t so true

I would find this headline from the Times funny if the news behind it weren’t so terrifying. As if any reassurances from Bush are worth a hill of beans. I think a Times copy editor was employing some dry gallows humor here.

Where I was on 9/11

Jake Dobkin asked on Twitter: Where were you? Because I wanted to elaborate on my 140-word answer, I’ll give a little more. I was on the R train from Bay Ridge, heading in to work at Martha Stewart Living. I was already late—I realized last-minute that I had to iron my pants before leaving. Everything [...]

Olbermann: ‘Nine Eleven, TM’

Olbermann says it: The Republicans’ use of 9/11 to stoke their nonsense has been a disgrace. They should be ashamed of themselves, yet they aren’t. Olbermann sums up their despicable manipulation of what was a truly horrible day. Country first, my ass. [MSNBC]

Tamara Shopsin’s bomb

Tamara Shopsin is a pretty strong designer. When I opened the op-ed page of the Times this morning, I could tell that the illustration there was hers before even reading her illo credit. I think it’s the simple linear style and the way her illustration could be read as both a bomb and an on-off [...]

Twittering has been very good for Kublog’s traffic

It’s up from about 9 hits a day average to an average of 30 hits a day over the last two days. Most of the new traffic has been from the link off the home page of my new Twitter account. After the jump, you can see the referrer log.

Noooooo! Voiceover master Don LaFontaine dies

In a world where Don LaFontaine no longer lives, our moviegoing experience is a little poorer. The voiceover master died this morning due to complications from a collapsed lung. Says the Hollywood Reporter: Before his death, he had provided voiceovers for an estimated 5,000 movie trailers, including “Batman Returns,” “The Terminator,” “Cast Away,” “The Elephant [...]

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Gutter, week 3 results

We lost our first and second games but clobbered the team we played in the third game. I rolled in Games 2 and 3. Game 2 opponents were The Gutterfingers. Also a pun involving the butter/gutter thing. And they’re a nice team, too. They were fun to bowl against. I rolled a 103. Not horrible, [...]

Most recent Flickr blocked list

I have a rule. If I don’t know you and you favorite one of my Flickr pix and don’t have any photos available publicly yourself, I BLOCK YOUR ASS. Especially if you have no profile info filled out and/or no contacts. I don’t think it’s in the spirit of the Flickr community. And more important, [...]