“‘Do you see this glass? I love this glass. It holds the water admirably. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring. When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light beautifully. But when the wind blows and the glass falls off the shelf and breaks or if my elbow hits it and it falls to the ground I say of course. But when I know that the glass is already broken every minute with it is precious.’”, Ajahn Chah
Bing Launches New Look
I typically don’t tend to write too much about my work on this site, but I’ve decided to correct that moving forwards. So, interspersed between my photography and daily musings, I’ll drop an occasional note about the awesome place I work at each day - Bing.
Last week was a big week for us as we launched our new visual look which was picked up in the press. Here’s a few of the articles:
- Bing Strips Down Results Page To Make Google Look Like “Search Overload”
- Microsoft ‘De-Clutters’ Bing Search Results
- If this is what a Metrofied Bing looks like, more, please
- Bing Goes Search-Retro With Cleaner Look For Results
I have an amazing team of designers and program managers who were responsible for this effort. Sally Salas, one of the awesome leaders in my team, did a great job of explaining the changes on our blog if you’re interested in more details.
We’re getting lots of positive feedback from folks, as well as input into what people would like to see moving forwards. We’re taking in all the input and working on many more exciting things to come.
Incentive structures work. So you have to be very careful of what you incent people to do, because various incentive structures create all sorts of consequences that you can’t anticipate. Everybody at Pixar is incented to build the company: whether they’re working on the film; whether they’re working on a potential direct-to-video product; whether they’re working on a CD-ROM. Whatever their combination of creative and technical talent may be, we want them incented to make the whole company successful.
—Steve Jobs
Super moon. Taken from Kerry Park. Headed over there last night to see the moon rise behind the space needle. Despite the fact that it was packedwith photographers, it was a pretty nice atmosphere actually. Definitely had a nice summer feeling about it. Also ran into colleague and friend Andy Chu which was a nice surprise. Here are a few different images (and treatments).
Went for a walk with my good friend & colleague Sameer this morning and ran across an interesting British couple whose kids had carrierd a sofa out to Gasworks Park for a photoshoot.Was a perfectly surreal scene. We chatted with them for a few mins before moving on (really nice family). I managed to squeeze in a few shots before we left.
This is why the best camera, is the one that’s with you.
Tomorrow (Sat 5/5/2012) there’ll be a “super moon”, when the moon is 14% closer and 30% brigher than normal. It should be a clear night so i’ll be looking for somewhere to shoot. Here’s a shot I got from Kerry Park a couple of years ago around roughly the same time of year. I took this using a Medium Format camera on film. Want to try it again on digital. Hopefully the moon will be in the same place - right behind the needle.
Photos from La Push. Drove up on Saturday afternoon, stayed overnight in a motel in Forks and spent the day hiking around beaches and temperate rain forests. This is our first time up on the Olympic Peninsula in a couple of years and we loved it. Will definitely be going back or more weekend trips thru the summer. I really want to see an awesome sunset on Ruby or Rialto beach.
