Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’

Read the Times, Save Dartmouth

Ran across an interesting ad on the New York Times‘s home page today: (Note, the image is a composite of two screenshots as my screen is quite small.) So. Save Dartmouth. I must have misunderstood that the ruckus over Dartmouth’s alumni constitution and its system of having alumni vote for half the Board of Trustees [...]

16th August 2007 | Tags: ,
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Laforet Does the Tilt-Shift Thing

If you thought tilting and shifting a lens was only for fancy architecture and design magazines, well, my friend, you would be wrong. At the end of May, the Times put together an audio slideshow featuring sporting events shot by Vincent Laforet using a tilt-shift lens. The presentation has been making the rounds, but it [...]

23rd June 2007 | Tags: ,
Posted in journalism, multimedia, photography | 1 Comment »



When to Talk Elitism: The Times is great, but how’s its timing?

After I got back to San Francisco last night, I paged through the New York Times‘s list of most e-mailed articles. It’s one easy way to catch up and sort through the news after being offline and away from the papers. I started reading Frank Bruni when he was in Italy. He’s now the principle [...]

26th June 2006 | Tags:
Posted in food, irony, journalism, money | No Comments »