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The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
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Category Archives: photography
Two photo sets for a chilly morning
During this past weekend, my wife and I made a quick trip to the Tampa Bay area to visit my in-laws. Below, I’ve embedded a couple of photo sets from the trip. The first is four shots of a sunset … Continue reading
Posted in photography, travel
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Why the White House situation room photo is so powerful
[Last update: 5/5/2011, 12:11 pm, CST] [This is a post about why photography is a unique and powerful medium, even in an era when I spend a lot of time preaching to people that learning to edit video on the … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, photography
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Stuff I love on the Internet: Supermoon edition
Here’s a slideshow of photos people have uploaded to Flickr using the tag “supermoon” that, according to some super-secret algorithms, are considered to have a high degree of “interestingness.” Perhaps a bit less interesting, but more personal, here’s a photo … Continue reading
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Help solve the mystery of the stainless steel inner tube thing
[See note at the end of this post.] During a vacation in Maine last week (the vacation photos are here, but it now seems like a month ago), I saw a stainless steel inner tube-like thing (if you’re reading this … Continue reading
Posted in photography, search
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The AP photo that BP hoped would never appear
Link: Boston.com I predict this AP photo by Charlie Riedel will win a Pulitzer. It is one of those images you will remember forever — it is that searing. Despite me being a teenager at the time, I can still … Continue reading
Posted in observation, photography
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Get your news from print: the recyclable medium. It’s like being a content vegan.
I feel certain that after you read this PDF from the Congressional Research Service about the global e-waste crisis, you’ll join with me in starting a worldwide movement to encourage people to stop consuming content from e-waste producing devices (that … Continue reading
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Flickr now lets anyone be a gallery curator
Flickr has long had a feature called “sets” that allows a user to organize groupings of photos in any way the photographer wants to share them. Flickr recently added another feature that, at first, seems to be the same thing … Continue reading
Online, in print — it’s all about capturing, sharing and preserving the story
Boston.com’s “Big Picture” collection of moving photography of flooding from the southeast makes me think there’s an instant magazine in there somewhere (see yesterday’s post).
Posted in media, photography
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Images of 9.11.2001 that we’ll never forget
Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” is displaying some incredibly moving photography related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. These images are worth all the words I could possibly write.
Posted in observation, photography
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I buried the album cover
Via the BBC, I learned a few moments ago that today is the 40th anniversary of one of the most iconic photographs ever taken, Iain Macmillan’s shot of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road. Of course, we all know the photo … Continue reading
Creativity inside the boxes
There are several reasons I love what photographer Peter Norby did on his Flickr account the other day. If you are viewing it as I am seeing it (on the morning of April 29) all 12 photos appearing on the … Continue reading
Joi Ito has captured and released some freesouls
The ‘boxed set’ version of Joi Ito’s new book, FREESOULS Captured & Released Years ago, I decided my friend Joi Ito knows everyone. And not just that, he knows everything. And not just that, he is everywhere. And not just … Continue reading
Posted in books, copyright, photography
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Saturday snaps
Here is a set of photos I took earlier this week on the Gulf coast. If you are familiar with the area, they were shot near the Alabama-Florida border at Perdido Key, Florida, at Needle Rush Point.
Life goes on
I don’t typically blog about the launching and closing of magazines or magazine-related online ventures. However, when it involves a once grand, but now abused, magazine brand, I make exceptions. So, here’s a brief timeline of this topic on RexBlog: … Continue reading
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Slowly returning to the grid
View as a flickr slideshow. I’ve posted a set of photos on Flickr that follow my seven-day adventure of making a loopback Windsor chair at the John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. Never have I worked so hard while … Continue reading
Posted in observation, photography, travel
Tagged folk art, John Campbell Folk School, NC, Windsor chair, woodworking
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