Launched: My Photography Website

I've been spending my free time over the last few weeks working on my new photography website. My good friend Cedrick Osborn did the graphic design. I did the XHTML/CSS and backend programming.

The site is pretty basic feature-wise, but gets the job done. It has about 200 of what I consider my best photos, some of which have never been published.

Take a few minutes and check out my new site: davebullock.com. Let me know what you think in the comments on this post. If you dig my new site, don't forget to tell your friends and blog/twitter about it!

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links for 2008-06-18

• Micheal Franti Filming In Brazilian Favelas I just recently watched Favela Rise and I was interested to read the Spearhead is filming in the same favela that movie took place in. It turns out they were asked to leave for the day by the druglords. Sounds like it was a good move that they (tags: favela spearhead drugs brazil franti)

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links for 2008-06-12

• Bad Religion NMOH Deluxe (Limited Edition) Last year I did a photo project for Bad Religion's limited edition re-release of their latest album. My copy is in the mail, stand by for photos when it arrives. (tags: photography bad.religion)
• Zell Cartoon Zell has a brilliant idea on how to increase productivity at the LA Times. Genius. (tags: lat latimes zell)

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Go Lakers!

The Library Tower (AKA the US Bank building) is showing its Lakers pride with a custom lighting job on their crown. I'm sure you know that the Lakers won tonight's game. Go Lakers!

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Vonage: Internet Telephone Service

I've been a Vonage subscribe for over 5 years now and I've been very happy with their internet based telephone system. Basically if you get Vonage you don't need a phone line, just an internet connection. When you sign up they send you a little box you plug in to your network to which you connect any standard telephone. Once you plug everything in you get nation-wide long distance for free for about $25 a month or you can get a 500 minute plan for $15 a month.

You can transfer your existing telephone number to it or get a new one. It's just like your normal phone service, but has some other cool features like the ability to simultaneously ring your cell phone and your home. You can also get a soft phone that you can use on your laptop from anywhere that has internet access. Right now they are offering 2 month of free service for both you and me if you sign up [click here to do so].

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links for 2008-06-05

• LolCat of the Day Oh noez! (tags: lolcat burn toast)

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Wired.com Gallery: Nanoimpellers Fight Cancer

UCLA scientists are working hard to fight cancer and their latest creations could target tumors directly. I toured the labs making these new nanomachines called nanoimpellers and took photos for Wired. You can check out the photos along with a brief intro I wrote by clicking here or on the photo below:

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Upper Playground / The Last Laugh Grand Opening

On Sunday I shot some photos of the grand opening of Mister Cartoon's new shop in my building: The Last Laugh / Upper Playground. I just posted the photos over on blogdowntown:

Click here to see Upper Playground / Last Laugh Opening gallery.

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Email Fun: Catch-alls, Joe Jobs, SPF and Spam

I no longer have a catch-all email address. For years the email (qmail) server that I run was set up to receive anything @eecue.com. So if you sent an email to asdflakhjflakjsf@eecue.com or daveisameanperson@eecue.com I would receive it. This was helpful as it allowed me to create addresses for every site that I submitted my information to, such as target@eecue.com, amazon@eecue.com, etc. That way if those companies sold my address to a list I would know they were responsible for the spam.

This seemed like a good idea until I started getting dictionary Joe Jobbed a few years ago. A Joe Job is when someone sends emails from your account to discredit you. In my case it was just a spam bot sending spams from random addresses @eecue.com. I don't think it was an attack on me, I just have a short domain name that has a catch-all address.

The joe-jobbing caused me to receive thousands of bounce messages. Today I finally decided to turn off the catch-all functionality in my email server. First I dug through my archived mail to find any important addresses that I still needed to receive mail at. I added aliases for the ones that would be hard to change. Any address that was easy to change I just logged into the site it corresponded to and changed it to my main address.

After getting rid of the catch-alls I set up a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record on my DNS server. SPF is a record on a name server that tells mail servers which IP addresses are allowed to send email for that domain. Luckily I only ever send email from my personal mail server so that was easy to fix.

These changes should greatly reduce the amount of spam and joe-job bounces I receive.

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Donate and Fight Women's Cancers

A few weeks ago I ran in the Revlon Run / Walk for Women, a 5K that raises money to fight women's cancers. I was originally planning on walking, but I decided to run instead. My final time as 34:54 and I came in 2,359th place out of about 65,000 people. I ran in honor of my beautiful, wonderful, strong mother who is a 5+ year cancer survivor.

There is still time to sponsor me, so far I've raised $220, but I would like to raise $2,000. You can click here to sponsor me. Thanks!

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Phoenix Mars Lander: Live Coverage For Wired.com From JPL

On Sunday I spent the day covering the historic landing of the Phoenix on Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. It was an exciting assignment for Wired that entailed four separate trips, one to Goldstone in the Mojave and three to JPL. Here is some of my coverage from the landing, click on the screen-grabs to read the articles:

Screen-grabs hosted by flickr.

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links for 2008-05-24

• Trumbo This looks like a great movie about a great man who wasn't afraid to stand up for what he believed in. (tags: movie trailer trumbo dalton.trumbo)

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My First <del>Sony</del> Wired Podcast(s)

I'm covering the Phoenix landing on Sunday from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Today was my second trip to JPL in as many weeks. I had a chance to interview two of the Mission Managers and I recorded them with my totally awesome Sony PCM-D60 using an excellent Sennheiser MD46 microphone and listening to it all with my Sennheiser HD 25-1 II headphones.

The first interview is with Joe Guinn, Mission System Manager:

My second interview that I recorded today is with Barry Goldstein, Phoenix Project Manager:

Screen-grabs hosted by flickr.

A funny anecdote: After interviewing Goldstein in Mission Control I asked him to move into some better light for a photograph with a good background. When he was walking over there I signaled Reuters photographer, Mario Anzuoni, to follow me so he could get a good photo as well. After I shot my photos Anzuoni took his, which is now up on Reuters. Here are some other great photos of the San Diego fire by Anzuoni.

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links for 2008-05-22

• LolCat of the Day Haha Crocs. (tags: lolcat crocs)

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links for 2008-05-20

• Awesome POV Bike Display I want one of these. Actually I want two of them. (tags: pov microcontroller bike bicycle)
• Video From Last Weekend: Search and Rescue Training Put together by Jeff Lehman. Look out for me in a funny hat and on rope. (tags: sbsar sar cave rescue training)
• Remote Camera Trigger Mayhem A cool article from the Reuters blog about shooting a big horse race. Very many cameras all triggered remotely, ftw. (tags: photograph reuters pocketwizards photojournalism)

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links for 2008-05-19

• Retired LAPD "Film Cops" May Be Replaced With Real Police I've always thought that the retired police that the film crews use to stop traffic don't properly enforce the laws due to their close relationship with the studios. It looks like they may be replaced with real on duty police officers. (tags: lapd filmla filming downtown.la)

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Dane Reese: Where are you?

I'm trying to get in touch with Dane Reese. He was an inspirational teacher when I was in High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you know or if you are Dane Reese and you're reading this, click on the Email button on the left hand side of this site and let me know how to get ahold of him. Thanks!

UPDATE: I got in touch with Dane. He's doing well and just recently got his PhD in Education (Transitive Learning).

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links for 2008-05-13

• Kittens on a Treadmill Great, now we need a treadmill. (tags: cute cats treadmill)
• LOLCat of the Day Kitty-seat! (tags: cute lolcat)
• Bar Monkey Everyone needs one. (tags: bar.monkey monkey japan)

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Wired Gallery : Metallic Glass

A gallery that I shot for Wired.com just went live this morning. The process for creating the metallic glass is pretty cool. The materials they are producing will end up finding tons of commercial uses in the near future.

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links for 2008-05-10

• Up the Yangtze - Trailer This is going to be a great movie. (tags: china three.gorges.dam yangtze)
• Noise - Trailer Tapping a primal urge that everyone experiences leads the protagonist of this movie to smash cars when he finds them with their alarms on. Brilliant. (tags: noise.movie noise car.alarms smash)
• Hamlet 2 - Trailer Ok this looks hilarious. (tags: hamlet.2)

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links for 2008-05-03

• Couple Rides Train From Wedding to Reception This is awesome! (tags: wedding reception public.transportation matrimony)

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links for 2008-05-02

• Britain's Got Talent Surprise Ok this rocks. (tags: britain's.got.talent michael.jackson awesome)

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Bunny Walker

After I was walking back from the protest today, I saw this totally awesome pipe-smoking fellow walking his fat fluffy bunny:

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Coachella Coverage for Wired.com

I spent the weekend shooting Coachella for Wired.com. Here are the posts I haven't linked to yet. Click the screengrabs to see the photos:

Screengrabs hosted by flickr.

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Coachella: Hot Saturday Afternoon

Here's a link to some of the shots I took today on Wired.com's Listening Post:

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Coachella Day 0: The Setup

I'm liveblogging from Coachella for Wired.com. I just put up my first post featuring some photos I shot last night of the staging and art. I'll be posting a few times a day for the duration of the show. Check it out:

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links for 2008-04-23

• First Completely Outsourced War This movie is going to be hilarious. (tags: movie war.inc war)

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links for 2008-04-22

• What will you do for Earth Day '08? Google's cool mashup for Earth Day. (tags: earthday)

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Now Accepting Comments

For years my blog allowed comments, but the system was hard to figure out and people rarely commented. Recently I have noticed a few sites using Disquss to power their comments and I decided to give it a try. It's easy to use from both a publisher and a user's perspective. One nice feature is the ability to export all the comments, which I'll likely do once I finish the rewrite of the software that powers this site. I hope you'll leave a comment if you enjoy reading my blog and viewing my photos. Thanks!

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links for 2008-04-19

• Chinese Knock-Off Painter's Self Portraits These are amazing. (tags: art)

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links for 2008-04-18

• Charlie the Unicorn Part 2 Awesome. (tags: charlie.the.unicorn)

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links for 2008-04-17

• LOLCat of the Day pt. 1 Loading.... (tags: lolcat)
• LOLCat of the Day pt. 2 Cute! (tags: lolcat)

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links for 2008-04-16

• Second Hellboy II Trailer This movie looks amazing. It's going to be much better than the original (tags: hellboy sequel)

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links for 2008-04-15

• Theremin Playing Cat Awesome. (tags: cat theremin)
• Do I really need it? A great list of questions to ask yourself about your possessions and items you're about to buy. (Post from last year) (tags: unclutter possessions things)
• Sony's Foam Commercial The next in an amazing series of adverts that started with millions of bouncy balls spilled down a San Francisco Street and tons of paint exploding on an English town. (tags: sony commercial)
• LOLCat of the Day The password is nom. (tags: lolcat)

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links for 2008-04-10

• Biologist Rupert Sheldrake Stabbed in Santa Fe "...if you have to get stabbed, Santa Fe is the best place for it to happen" (tags: santa.fe stabbing biology)
• LOLCat of the Day Oh noez, future douche bags. (tags: lolcat)

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