In June of this year I made a quick five day trip to Rome for a set of meetings. It’s been years since I’ve been to Italy and even longer since visiting Rome. And I just loved every moment. The people, the language, the food and the Italian spirt on every street and every interaction. I carried one camera and one lens everywhere and tried to capture little moments here and there.
Oh, Italy. You are amazing. I miss you already.
We have been wanting to visit Iceland for a long long time. We made plans and had a trip on the books for April 2020 but that trip was canceled due to the pandemic. Two years later and a lot has changed and we felt like it was a safe time to make the trip.
Iceland is truly magical. Many Icelanders believe in elves. And after my first trip I can imagine why. So much rich history combined with a breathtaking landscape and the heavenly northern lights makes for a place of wonder. Our first trip was too short. We only had time to visit Reykjavík and a portion of the southern coast.
But we will return. No doubt.
(All color photographs made with a Hasselblad 503cw and Kodak Portra films. Black and white photographs made with a Leica MP and Kodak Tri-X 400. Developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab in California.)
These photographs were taken in February, 2022
All photographs taken with a Hasselblad 503cw and Kodak Portra 400 film. Developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab in California.
These photographs were taken in February, 2022
All photographs taken with a Hasselblad 503cw and Kodak Portra 400 film. Developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab in California.
I very much enjoyed this recent interview with Matt Mullenweg (founder of Automatic, developer of WordPress and the most recent owner of my beloved Tumblr).
This particular response from Matt was my favorite part of the conversation
I will add that one of the most amazing things about the technological revolution was allowing for economics of abundance, not scarcity. Things get more valuable the more copies there are. We were talking about the positive flywheel of open-source earlier. WordPress gets more valuable the more free copies there are. Now we’re getting more things to introduce scarcity and the value of scarcity into the web, perhaps even programmatically with stuff like NFTs. The difference between what’s come before — from tens of thousands of humanity’s advances — is this idea that, in the world of bits instead of atoms, you and I don’t have a zero-sum way of prospering. We can both benefit from the same thing. We can perfectly copy that software and that actually enables entirely new business models that are pretty exciting. Or maybe that it’s not a business at all, which is okay. Everything doesn’t have to be for profit.
My love affair with the internet, online communities and the web came from this ethos. And it still does today.