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Around The Horn
6 January 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at the week in photos, the Golden Globes Red Carpet, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Poon, camera wars, more interesting things, an M4 MacBook Pro vs. a Dell Tower, Alan Adler, state net neutrality laws and January 6.
- The Associated Press showcases its Week in Pictures curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch.
- Reuters presents 57 photos from The Golden Globes Red Carpet.
- John Banville reviews Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold. After meeting Arnold at a party in New York given by John Huston at the 21 Club, Arnold was to become Monroe's semi-official "court photographer" for the rest of her short life." There are some wonderfully intimate, tender and witty photographs in this big sumptuous volume, as well as ones that capture, as only the still camera can, the insecurity and pain behind the ever-smiling facade," he writes.
- Tim Adams features Virginia, 1965, Irene Poon's 1965 image of her sister in a sweet shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. "Poon, now 83, worked as a curator and art historian at the San Francisco State University art department for 45 years, helping to build its collection of 300,000 images stored on slides and creating multiple exhibitions including landmark shows about the settlement of the American west and the role played by Asian communities in the gold rush and beyond," he writes.
- Mike Johnston wonders, Who's Winning: Nikon, Canon, Sony or PanaLeica? Comments seem to indicate the big three are not in the race.
- Thom Hogan continues debunking Interesting Things Written on the Internet with the latest installment in his always amusing series.
- Jim Kasson is Photoshop Benchmarking the M4 Macbook Pro and a Dell Tower after getting an M4 Max MacBook Pro 'Spoiler: it's pretty darned fast," he writes.
- Erik Vroons reviews Auto-Photo: A Life in Pictures that "celebrates the quirky self-portraits of Alan Adler: a photo booth manager from Melbourne who built an imaginative relationship with the analog machines he tended to for over five decades."
- Meg James reports Federal Court Decision Won't Change California Net Neutrality Law. Same for New York state, among others. "Absent an act of Congress, the FCC has virtually no role in broadband any more," Ernesto Falcon, a program manager for the California Public Utilities Commission, said. "The result of this decision is that states like California, New York and others will have to govern and regulate broadband carriers on our own." It's a new ballgame.
- Jason Kottke revisits video evidence of what happened January 6 four years ago. It's one example of pictures not lying despite the gaslighting since. Miles Parks details the many ways that January 6 Is Set to Be Different This Year.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...