Today, I finished making olive bread. It takes two days to ferment into sourdough. It goes well with guacamole, cheese or even as a sandwich bread.
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What’s The Best Lossless Image Format?
Looking at the test results, the bottom line is that most modern lossless image formats, like WebP and JPEG XL, provide big gains in efficiency compared to even the most optimized PNG.-Johannes Siipola, "What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL." siipo.la. July 27, 2021. I've been favoring png over … Continue reading What’s The Best Lossless Image Format?
Photopea.com
"Free online [image] editor supporting PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. (Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Sketch, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW)."https://www.photopea.com/ A javascript implementation of many of the common features of Photoshop. Supposedly easier than GIMP.
Postcards, A Taxonomy
A Flickr album of postcards. It's more interesting than you'd think. Looking through some of these, I realized that my photography tends to fall in the onlooker, perspective, street scene, interiors, road side monuments, dining & drinking, and food related styles.
File Hierarchies: Images & Email
Every now and again, I come across something that makes me realize there is something about me that is different than most people. It happened this week while reading A World Ordered Only By Search by L.M. Sacasas, which is, in part, a commentary on an article Monica Chin's File Not Found in The Verge. … Continue reading File Hierarchies: Images & Email
unDraw
"Create better designed websites, products and applications. Browse to find the images that fit your messaging, automagically customise the color to match your brand and use it as a normal image, embedded code or directly in your design workflow."https://undraw.co/
The Great Empty
The New York Times has photos from around the world showing empty public spaces and gives a visualization to the meaning of social distancing that they are calling The Great Empty. Worth a look.
Unsplash
"The internet’s source of freely usable images. Powered by creators everywhere."-Unsplash
NASA Image and Video Library
You can browse NASA’s Image and Video Library online; you can also access it via NASA’s API. Through that interface, you can search by caption, keyword, location, photographer, year created, and other fields; in return, you get structured data on each media file. The library was launched two years ago, bringing together more than 140,000 … Continue reading NASA Image and Video Library
New Ways of Seeing
"A four-part series on BBC authored by journalist and artist James Bridle examining how technology is changing visual culture." —New Ways of Seeing
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