Geek, tech fan and amateur photographer. By day I'm the Operations Manager at Púca, a Dublin based mobile marketing company.
My main photoblog is at elliottucker.net
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Too Many Angles on Suffering? - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
“it feels awkward when you get to a scene of violence, tragedy, or chaos, et cetera, and there are more photographers around a subject than there are even people at the scene.”
Interesting to see the other side of crisis photography. While the images we see spur us into action, seeing a dozen or more togs pointing their cameras at the same injured woman is a bit off putting.
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Great night for statgazing. Mars is nice and bright.
For an added bonus, point a cheep pair of binoculars at Orion's belt. The milky splodge is the Orion Nebular.
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Good discussion on Google/China news on This Week in Google #25
I highly recommend listening to this week's episode of This Week in Google ( http://twit.tv/twig25 ) for a decent, intelligent debate on the Google/China news.
Not dumbed down for a mass market, TWIG is a perfect example of new media just working and offering very high quality content for what is, on the grand scale of things, probably quite a niche interest.
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Calling all Project365ers, new spinoff project - Chooseday. #project365 #chooseday.
This year has seen more people taking part in their own Project 365 than ever before (totally unfounded stat). For the uninitiated, Project 365 is where you take a photo a day for a year and make it public by posting on Flickr, Facebook, Pix.ie, your blog, whatever. It's a pretty tall order and sometimes inspiration can be a bit tricky to come by.
To help with ideas, a few twitterers, namely @kesouthall, @RoryWallace, @nonsequitir and now myself (@elliottucker), have started a spin off project called Chooseday. Each week, a theme is chosen for the Project365 photo to be taken on Tuesdays (get it?). Themes are chosen by members of the project's Flickr group. Take a pic, send it to the Flickr group, tag it and tweet about it using the hashtag #chooseday, and ya done! Anyone can join,post and suggest themes. The Flickr group is at http://www.flickr.com/groups/1363923@N22/ This week's theme is 'buttons'. Join us, it will be a laugh. I have my first #chooseday read to go. Just need to find a connection to t'web.
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Man rides his horse through a bonfire.
In San Bartolome De Pinares, a man rides his horse through a fire in honour of St Anthony, the patron saint on animals.
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As Athy's water crisis enters it's third day, desperate measures will be taken.
From tomorrow, we will be forced to wear Stillsuits. Practical as they may be, they can get a bit whiffy round the crotch.
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This is a "moderated" comment in the Daily Mail regarding the beating to death of a looter in Haiti -
"Why is our money being pledged to bail out these neanderthals, nothing can be done to sort these kind of animals out, they are worse than a pack of wild dogs.
Uneducated, undeciplined, unprincipled, maybe the earth quake like the great flood happened for a reason, I certainly will not be donating a penny" - Lou, derbyshir
Isn't humanity just lovely sometimes.
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