Author: Rick Klau

Sean showed this to me yesterday, and it’s still cracking me up: [youtube MDJ8-Kcan6M](Click through to the post to view if the video’s not showing in your aggregator.)

Took a walk this morning with Robin and the kids, and I loved how the shadows of the trees showed up in contrast with the brick labyrinth pattern at the Riverwalk Amphitheater. (Original photo, with larger sizes, is here.) Disclosure: the camera I’m using for the next few months, the Nikon D80, is a loaner…

Robin told me last night we had to get something at Ikea before we could get on with our night out. (Be honest, what good date doesn’t start with a trip to Ikea?) But as we got close, she turned into the new mall area anchored by Macy’s, and much to my surprise, there it…

This may be the best recruiting video ever made. Tell me you wouldn’t kill to work here (btw, it’s Connected Ventures if you’re wondering) after watching this: [vimeo 173714]

Maybe you saw the news about Barack Obama taking back his MySpace profile from a volunteer. Jerome Armstrong, co-author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics with Markos Moulitsas (the guy behind DailyKos) shared his thoughts on what this meant, and Joe Rospars, the director of Barack’s New Media operation,…

Saw the full moon last night over our back deck, and remembered reading in The Digital Photography Book that there were some cool ways to use Photoshop to take two shots of the same image, then combine them to show the moon in its detail while simultaneously showing the surrounding area. (Scott documents the process…

I couldn’t stop chuckling at this article in yesterday’s Naperville Sun: With Democrats controlling all three prongs of Illinois government – the House, the Senate and the governor’s administration – Naperville needs an insider to fight for the city, Mayor George Pradel said. “It makes so much sense (having) Democrats down there,” Pradel said. “They…

Picking up the thread, Erik points out that there’s a lot of room for improvement when it comes to blogrolls. I’m not sure that FeedBurner’s the right answer to solving all of the things he points out (traditionally, we republish and/or manage existing info, rather than creating it originally), but I like where this is…

In between mowing the hay, getting the garden ready and chasing the kids, I got a little housekeeping done on the site today: Fixed the search engine. It was pointing to the internal WordPress search engine, which wasn’t working. I didn’t have the energy to debug that, so I punted and just pointed the code…

As you might recall, I got back into “real” photography this past Christmas when I received a Nikon D50. The last four months have been a ton of fun as I’ve re-learned how to frame shots, tweak the aperture to force perspective, and play with ISO and shutter speed to get just the right shot.…