#117:Refreshed
The best from this week | 2.16.18 |
About Time
Click over to thehandandeye.com and you'll see things look a little different. After almost five years, we decided to blow the cobwebs off and redesign the site a bit. It's still a work in progress, but I think it's much better.
The new layout features much larger photographs, a new home for monthly playlists on the bottom of the homepage, and vertical image layouts on some of the section pages, like on our Goods and Travel pages, to look better on mobile phones.
The new layout also allows us to emphasize some of my new areas of interest, namely blogging about travel and some how-to type stuff, like how to sharpen knives and how to take long exposure photographs. When I started the site five years ago, I was a passionate amateur photographer and the images were ok, but in the last few years, I think (hope!) the've gotten more interesting and worthy of this layout.
It's funny how a fairly simple refresh like this breathes new life into the creative process. I'm excited to add more posts, so keep an eye on things in the next few weeks. Thanks!
THE WEEK IN LINKS:
Japan’s pimped-out work trucks. (Colossal)
The Jimmy Buffett profile you didn’t know you wanted to read. (New York Times)
Jason Isbell: My life in five riffs. (YouTube)
Quincy Jones has a story about that. (GQ)
And
In Conversation: Quincy Jones. (New York Magazine)
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder: An Expat’s Love Letter to New England. (Boston Magazine)
Craftsmanship—The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset. (Hackernoon)
70 Years of Ferrari: How Craftsmen and High-Tech Robots Build the World’s Most Famous Cars. (Wired)
A Race to Photograph the City’s Disappearing Diners. (New York Times)
Long Ex
Taking long exposure photographs is one of the easiest ways to create surreal images. All you need is a tripod, a remote shutter and a little patience.
SHOP REFRESH
Along with refreshing the site, we also went ahead and refreshed the Hand and Eye x Huckberry Shop. Click over and you'll find a new curated selection of gear we love.
FOLLOW
For truly incredibly surreal landscapes: @xar
WATCH
“The most successful thing I do is how I live. I really mean that. Vert quiet. Very uncomplicated. Half the time in country. I have a wonderful garden. Travel a lot. And all this doesn’t mean money.” -Ward Bennett