Links.
Remember blogrolls? Before algorithms decided what was worth reading, people just linked to other people. Consider this a continuation of that tradition — friends, creators, and projects I think are worth your time.
Photography
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Noah Kalina
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Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina is an artist and photographer based in Lumberland, New York, known for portraits, long-running personal projects.
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Hotline Show
Noah Kalina's Hotline Show is a podcast where the photographer muses on creativity, cameras, chickens, and whatever else is on his mind that week.
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Newsletter
Noah Kalina's newsletter is a long-running dispatch covering photography, rural life, chickens, and whatever caught his eye lately, with nearly 200 issues in the archive.
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Archive
A deep archive of Noah Kalina's photography, browsable image by image and well worth getting lost in.
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Tears
Noah Kalina's tearsheet archive, spanning over two decades of editorial, commercial, and portrait work from Wired and the New York Times to record covers and ad campaigns.
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Domino Sugar Factory
Noah Kalina's dedicated photo project documenting the historic Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn before and during its transformation.
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Everyday
Noah Kalina's legendary "Everyday" self-portrait project, now over 9,400 days and counting since he started photographing his own face every single day in 2000.
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Bedmounds
Another Noah Kalina project, this one a quietly obsessive collection of photographs of unmade hotel beds from his travels.
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Lindsay Elliott
Lindsay Elliott is a Vancouver photographer with a warm, playful eye for lifestyle, portraits, and commercial work.
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Rob Stephenson
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The Neighborhoods
Rob Stephenson's Substack newsletter photographing and uncovering the stories of New York City one neighborhood at a time, working his way through all five boroughs.
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City of Sound
An interactive map companion to Rob Stephenson's Neighborhoods newsletter, letting you navigate all of New York City's neighborhoods visually across all five boroughs.
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Tom Leininger
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Tom Leininger Photography
Tom Leininger is a photographer whose moody, dramatic black-and-white projects find unexpected depth in suburban routines and everyday domestic life.
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Newsletter ##30##
Tom Leininger's newsletter and blog, "##30##", where he sends dispatches from the Midwest on photography, creative life, and whatever else is rattling around his head.
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Jay Fram
Jay Fram is a Portland-based photographer with 25 years of experience capturing real people and places for agencies, architects, and Fortune 500 companies.
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Mark Gamba
The work of photographer and all around good human, Mark Gamba.
Arts & Design
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Carolyn Hazel Drake
Carolyn Hazel Drake is a Portland and Phoenix-based artist and arts educator whose textile, ceramic, and collage work finds a gentle dissonance between the sacred and the mundane.
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Michael DiTullo
Michael DiTullo is an industrial designer whose 20-year practice spans Nike, Honda, Google, and beyond - the kind of person who thinks deeply about the objects people live with every day.
Indie Web & Tech
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Seth Werkheiser
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Blog
Seth Werkheiser's personal site, home base for the founder of the Social Media Escape Club, where he blogs about indie web life, music, and the joys of figuring out your own DNS settings.
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Social Media Escape Club
Seth Werkheiser's Social Media Escape Club, a community and resource for creative people who want to ditch the platforms, own their audience, and make their website and newsletter do the heavy lifting.
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Media & Entertainment
Professional Friends
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Darsey Landoe
Darsey Landoe is a Portland art director and designer whose work spans print publications, museum exhibits, and brand campaigns for arts organizations, nonprofits, and social enterprises.
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Jack Coleman
Jack Coleman is a Portland-based strategic communications consultant offering integrated communications strategy, copywriting, and public relations for organizations across healthcare, nonprofits, and beyond.
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Diego Palma
Diego Palma is a digital strategist specializing in growth marketing and business design, with a portfolio spanning projects from the UN to HBO.