Kodachrome Christmas

Chow Editorial came up with the idea to shoot the "Last Kodachrome Christmas," as well as shooting it digitally.  See the full gallery of shots here at the link above, with more info here:

First, major respect to anyone who has shot food spreads on film in the last 50 years. Shooting our Last Kodachrome Christmas was an unexpected challenge. Our photographer, Chris Rochelle, came up with the concept. He bought the film on eBay; it was at least a year old and we didn't know if it would even work. So we shot in digital as well, just in case. Here are some of our outtakes, notes about what was going on behind the scenes, and a comparison between the digital and Kodachrome versions.

These Times

I am very optimistic about print as a technology... Imagine if we had been getting our information delivered digitally to our screens for the past 550 years. Then some modern Gutenberg had come up with a technology that was able to transfer these words and pictures onto pages that could be delivered to our doorstep, and we could take them to the backyard, the bath, or the bus. We would be thrilled with this technological leap forward, and we would predict that someday it might replace the Internet.  --Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute; former CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time

On the flip side, The New York Times announced today that they will stop printing the newspaper and will be fully digital by the year 2015...

Here's A Way To Make Your iPhone 4 Really Look Like A Leica Camera

via Gizmodo.  Read full article here.