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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Noah Kalina →
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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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The Neighborhoods →
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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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Tom Leininger Photography →
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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
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Patricia Lupton →
An animated cartoon series about punk rock zombies!
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.