On Thursday I received an email from JPG telling that the magazine is shutting down, because the makers of the mag couldn't make it work financially (here is a link). What a shame! IMHO the whole concept as well as the content of this magazine was beyond what all the other photo magazines had to offer. So the notice came on Thursday telling that they were going to shut down everything on Monday. Obviously, there is a lot of commotion in the JPG community now. The latest news are that the big bang came to the attention of some potential investors. Fans are now also discussing how the mag could be saved and started a page called savejpg.com.
What surprises me is...there were never many commercial ads in the magazine, but it was printed on very expensive paper. At the same time they provided each issue as a free download on their website. This was all great, but now that they are shutting down it shows that it was probably a bit too idealistic for the real world. The point I don't understand is, why would you never make any changes to your product during all that time, if it doesn't bring enough money in? And then shut everything down from one day to the other and tell your "community" that it won't exist anymore starting from Monday? LOL
New Year's Eve Fireworks?
It just came to my attention that the year is over. Does anybody know a good location to photograph New Year's Eve fireworks in New York City?
Spheres
Taken in Princeton on election night.
Modulo
This little piece of art is called "Modulo". It's not a photo, but I found it pretty, so why not sharing?
Images that represent basic mathematical operations, isn't that some kind of a contemporary art cliché? The modulo operation computes the remainder of a division. In this case I divide each pixel's X and Y coordinate by a fixed value and encode the remainder in the same pixel's red and green value respectively. The fixed divisor determines the size of these squares and the modulo the color gradient. The more appealing way of debugging programming code. However, sometimes you just don't know if it's your eyes or your code that needs to be corrected...
Hot Chicks!
I'm running out of headlines. Plus, it's fun to watch visitor statistics going up when using words like these.
At this point: greetings to all new visitors! :-)
Curvy Lady
Probably more curvy than lady...