Matt Blaze
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Matt Blaze's Bio
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
Matt Blaze's Posts
Matt Blaze has 159 posts.
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@Doreen32128 @grumble209 Liberace doing hippy music!
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Matt Blaze Boosted@alienghic @ai6yr Thank you. Please understand that for the last 24 hours I've been dealing with a barrage of people directing their anger at me for one or more of:
- defending this policy (I am not)
- failing to acknowledge that the US government has annoying policies, too (I did, actually)
- failing to acknowledge that some people have it worse (ditto)
- failing to be sufficiently apologetic or sympathetic to people yelling at me for one of the above.
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@alienghic @ai6yr Thank you. Please understand that for the last 24 hours I've been dealing with a barrage of people directing their anger at me for one or more of:
- defending this policy (I am not)
- failing to acknowledge that the US government has annoying policies, too (I did, actually)
- failing to acknowledge that some people have it worse (ditto)
- failing to be sufficiently apologetic or sympathetic to people yelling at me for one of the above.
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@ai6yr @alienghic The Internet can have unrealistically high expectations sometimes.
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In response to this post@dntlookbehindu Already missing it, and I haven't even been to the last one yet.
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@alienghic I'm afraid I have no power or influence to change this.
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Matt Blaze Boosted@BPlanZ It's an almost deceptively good photo, too. I love the way the intersecting wires evoke a stylized bird.
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Re-upping this at the risk of re-kicking what turned out to be a weird hornet's nest.
Starting tomorrow, most travelers to the UK (including just for flight connections), except holders of UK and some EU passports, will need to get an "Electronic Travel Authorization" prior to departure. It can apparently sometimes take a few days, so be aware. (Yes, this includes US passport holders.)
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/113784818995093933
@mattblaze thanks for the reminder mine was authorized in about 9 minutes, it’s a great system.
by Bruce Acton ;
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Matt Blaze Boosted"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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Matt Blaze BoostedOfficially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
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Matt Blaze BoostedThis was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.
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Matt Blaze BoostedQueensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
Slow down, don't move too fast, and make all the pixels last at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131
#photography
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@BPlanZ It's an almost deceptively good photo, too. I love the way the intersecting wires evoke a stylized bird.
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@ai6yr Yikes.
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This is, of course, an oversimplification. Lange was an obvious master of formal composition as well as the technical craft of photography, and Adams, who served for decades on the board of the Sierra Club, fully understood the power of photography to influence public and political opinion. But the two approached their artistic practice from very different perspectives.
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Wow, I'm really wearing out my block button today. Better order a spare.
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Lange was first and foremost a documentarian who saw herself as an activist. Her most famous work was done for the US Farm Services Administration during the depression (e.g., her iconic "Migrant Mother" portrait). She sought to use photography to expose injustice and improve the world.
Adams, on the other hand, saw himself first and foremost as an artist. He sought to elevate photography as an art form.
(They were close, with deep mutual respect.)
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In response to this post@karlauerbach @yuhasz01 Presidential immunity is a bitch.
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It's also instructive to compare Adams' work from Manzanar with that of another great 20th century photographer who was granted access: Dorothea Lange.
Adams took a superficially upbeat approach, portraying his subjects as highly relatable, ordinary Americans making the best of things under somewhat difficult circumstances.
Lange showed them more as victims, emphasizing the rough conditions and fundamental injustice: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/dorothea-lange-39-s-visit-to-the-japanese-internment-camps/fwVR8MHEGsn72g?hl=en
Both were subversive, though in different ways.
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@david That's where I can best give them all due consideration.
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