StuntboxDavid Sleight is a design and product director who makes interactive things—mostly for the web, but always for humans. This is his website.2024-02-25T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/David Sleightfeed-reply@stuntbox.comPhoto: RIP, Flaco the Owl2024-02-25T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/flaco-the-owl/
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<p><abbr>RIP</abbr> Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who became a pandemic-era totem of <abbr>NYC</abbr> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/nyregion/flaco-owl-central-park-zoo.html">resilience and hustle</a>.</p>
<p>Whether you regard his year in the urban wild as the result of an act of <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/what-should-be-done-about-flaco-eurasian-eagle-owl-loose-new-york">vandalism or emancipation</a>, his untimely demise is lamentable and sets back conservation efforts—however imperfect—of a species under threat. Regardless the cause, we all would have preferred a different ending.</p>
<p>I shot this image of him way back in 2017 during a visit to the Central Park Zoo, while I was renting what a photographer friend would call a “crazy sports guy lens.”</p>
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Photos: Smoked City2023-06-07T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/nyc-wildfire-smoke/
<p>For the third time in as many years, the fallout from far-flung wildfires reached New York City. The eerie ochre pall it cast over Manhattan recalled recent scenes from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Skies_Day">West Coast</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia">Australia</a>, and at least one dystopian sci-fi movie (yes, <a href="https://vfxblog.com/2018/01/31/blade-runner-2049-las-vegas-framestore/">really</a>).</p>
<p>I was in office during the worst of it and grabbed my camera, heading up to the roof to document what I could.</p>
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<p>All of these images were exported using Fuji’s Provia color profile, the one used as the default or “standard” profile on my X-T5, without any additional color adjustments. Gives you a sense of how dramatic it was.</p>
<p>If there’s a silver lining, it’s the hope that this made an impression on some people who’ve thought they were unaffected by the ongoing destruction of our habitat. As New Yorkers who’ve now gotten a crash course in AQI levels can attest, no one is invulnerable. It’s a small planet. What happens in one part of it can—and often will—affect others.</p>
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Mixed Messages2023-04-03T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/prisencolinensinainciusol/
<p>Last week’s episode of <cite>Ted Lasso</cite> resurfaced a 51-year-old Italian pop song that’s the perfect anthem for the generative <abbr>AI</abbr> boom.</p>
<p>A montage late in the episode plays out to the tune of Adriano Celentano’s 1972 Euro-hit “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol">Prisencolinensinainciusol</a>.” If you don’t pay close attention it’s easy to miss that, while it sounds like Adriano is singing in English, it’s actually <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1497401513790707">complete gibberish</a>.</p>
<p>It’s been covered by Boing Boing (<a href="https://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html">multiple</a> <a href="https://boingboing.net/2015/09/03/what-does-english-sound-like-t.html">times</a>) and NPR’s <cite><a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/11/04/164206468/its-gibberish-but-italian-pop-song-still-means-something">All Things Considered</a></cite> before, but if you’re unfamiliar with it, the song recreates what American English sounds like to someone who doesn’t speak the language.</p>
<p>I may have heard it on the radio as a kid without realizing it, but the first time I really encountered it was at an Alamo Drafthouse screening of <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)">Arrival</a></cite>, where they played it in the pre-show reel (a brilliant touch). I remember how much it messed with my head and how I had to <em>really</em> concentrate to tell my brain that the words I thought I was hearing weren’t actually words.</p>
<p>I hadn’t connected the two before, but that makes the song a close spiritual relative of the current crop of chatbots—pattern recognition machines that mimic the order of language, but lack any sense of true meaning.</p>
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Click to Cancel2023-03-23T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/ftc-click-to-cancel/
<p>If you’ve ever tried to cancel a newspaper or magazine subscription, you likely know how maddening it can be. While a lot of effort goes into making signups as frictionless as possible, let’s just say the industry swings the other way when it comes to unsubscribing.</p>
<p>The most infamous variation on this theme is making readers call to cancel subscriptions, even if they signed up for that subscription digitally. Then they’re forced through a gauntlet of upsells and <em>yes but are you sure you’re sure</em> questions in an attempt to turn them back. In the industry it’s known as, “click to subscribe, call to cancel,” and the FTC is <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/federal-trade-commission-proposes-rule-provision-making-it-easier-consumers-click-cancel-recurring">pushing back</a>.</p>
<p>This paragraph from NiemanLab’s <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-ftc-proposes-a-formal-click-to-cancel-provision-for-subscriptions/">writeup</a> has the gist of it:</p>
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<p>Specifically, “if you can sign up online, you must be able to cancel on the same website, in the same number of steps,” according to the FTC. Sellers must also “take ‘no’ for an answer” instead of continuing to pitch new offers when customers call to cancel a subscription.</p>
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RIP, DPReview2023-03-22T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/dpreview-shutting-down/
<p>Well, this sucks. After almost 25 years, <a href="https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close">DPReview is shutting down</a>.</p>
<p>It’s hard to understate what a go-to resource DPReview has been over the years, especially their excellent technical reviews. Literally every digital camera purchase I’ve made for over two decades, from the slightly goofy but fun-as-heck <a href="https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp995">Nikon 995</a> to my current <a href="https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t5-initial-review">Fuji X-T5</a> workhorse, involved checking in with one of their reviews. And its user forums were actually useful, too. (Shocking, I know.)</p>
<p>But Amazon is pulling the plug. The surprise announcement is short on details, but promises more posts between now and April 10, after which the site will be “locked.”</p>
<p>I hope some of those entries will speak to the business fundamentals. Was it making money? Was it enough to be a modest self-sustaining business, but not enough to satisfy the balance sheets of a massive corporate parent? Did it drive a substantive amount of referral purchases to Amazon from readers clicking through those reviews? Did they float the idea of a sale? Subscriptions? (I would have paid for one in a heartbeat.) Sponsorships from camera manufacturers, who all benefited from the attention the site brought to their gear?</p>
<p>Also, there’s this worrying bit about the site being available after it’s locked “for a limited period.” Is a generation’s worth of digital photo history about to disappear?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the popular stars of their YouTube channel, themselves snagged from another photo venue five years ago, have <a href="https://petapixel.com/2023/03/21/chris-niccolls-and-jordan-drake-join-petapixel-to-lead-its-youtube-channel/">already landed</a> at a surviving competitor. The show must go on, it seems.</p>
<h2 id="update-june-20-2023" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="https://stuntbox.com/blog/dpreview-shutting-down/"><span>Update, June 20, 2023</span></a></h2>
<p><em>Phew</em>. After a weird month or so during which the site was “officially” shut down but mysteriously still posting new content, DPReview has <a href="https://www.dpreview.com/site-news/8298318614/dpreview-com-looks-forward-to-a-new-chapter-with-gear-patrol">announced</a> that they’ve been acquired by Gear Patrol. The short (and good) version is that the site will continue on.</p>
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Photos: Graffiti2023-03-15T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/graffiti/
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<p>Scenes from the office neighborhood, shot one year ago to the day.</p>
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Fujifilm X-T3,
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Getty Sues Stability AI2023-02-07T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/getty-sues-stability-ai/
<p>More legal <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion">shots fired</a> in the <abbr>AI</abbr> world, this time by a heavyweight.</p>
<p>Getty brings a player into the mix with the resources to mount a substantial and sustained legal challenge, as well as the deep experience of a large corporation whose entire existence revolves around vast intellectual property holdings.</p>
<p>Despite all the drama, this legal challenge seems like the most straightforward and mundane question in the whole debate: Do <abbr>AI</abbr> companies have the right to snarf up all these images to create their works? (When it comes to the <em>copyrighted</em> material of Getty and others, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say, “Hell no, obviously,” but that’s for the courts to decide.)</p>
<p>The more complex questions still lie ahead, when we start to consider the legal status of the works created by these tools once the inputs are clean.</p>
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Anywhere But Here2022-12-19T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/leaving-twitter/
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<p>Twitter was an accident from the start, and not always a happy one. Years of feckless leadership have brought it to the present crisis, a bit like that famous line from <cite>The Sun Also Rises</cite> about how Mike Campbell went bankrupt: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”</p>
<p>Enter you-know-who, an erratic billionaire whose own tweets long ago crossed the threshold of self parody. Touting Silicon Valley’s dozy brand of techno-libertarianism as an operating principle, his ownership sends clear signals that any hopes for thoughtfully guided decency and community on the platform have likely gasped their last.</p>
<p>For those of us who’ve been around “the bird site” since the beginning, it’s a bitter coda. The place has been heading south for a good long while, but it’s also where lots of us found—and re-found—our tribes. For web nerds of my generation, first came blogs, then came Twitter. (Okay, okay. There was Usenet and message boards before that, but c’mon, really.) You might think your home town sucks sometimes, but that doesn’t mean you’re any happier watching an arsonist burn it to the ground.</p>
<p>If there’s a silver lining, it’s the little glimmer of creative urgency coming from everyone figuring out where to head to next. With bad actors sitting atop all the other dominant venues it feels like a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2Bsq5PDmU">Kang vs Kodos</a> moment. Something new (or old?) is needed.</p>
<p>Suddenly, all my journalism colleagues are jumping on Mastodon. Tumblr has returned from the dead with a new marketing push. People are even posting on LinkedIn, for Pete’s sake. And then there are the old-timers like me. The ones with <em>blogs</em>, who once again are whispering the letters “RSS” like a mystical incantation.</p>
<p>For my own part, I plan to ramp my Twitter usage down to pretty much nil. I’m not deleting my account because A) I want to retain control of my identity on the platform, and B) on occasion there might be something work-related that <a href="https://twitter.com/stuntbox/status/1603451517142536192">deserves to be broadcast to the widest possible audience</a>, “ick factor” be damned. I’ve dusted off <a href="https://mastodon.social/@stuntbox">my Mastodon account</a> and will be posting stuff there that would otherwise have gone to The Bad Place.</p>
<p>I’ve also made a technical tweak to this site that I’ve scratched at for years but wasn’t motivated enough to follow through on until now: the ability to create title-less posts, which lets me publish <a href="https://stuntbox.com/blog/note/">short notes</a> here that are on the level of a tweet/toot. We’ll see how that experiment goes.</p>
<p>You can’t go home again. I don’t imagine any of these will fill the Twitter of Old-shaped hole in my online communities, but it’s a path that leads someplace else. And right now that’s where lots of us are headed.</p>
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Creepy Houses2022-10-31T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/creepy-houses/
<p>To me, nothing says “haunted” like a tumbledown house with a mansard roof. Turns out <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2022/10/27/why-victorian-houses-look-haunted/">I’m not alone</a>. Happy Halloween, y’all.</p>
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Photo: Gowanus Painting Crew2022-04-26T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/gowanus-painting-crew/
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<p>A paint crew works on a building overlooking the Gowanus Canal. Shot during a morning walk.</p>
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Photo: Reverb2021-11-04T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/reverb/
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<p>A saxophonist catching some reverb in the downtown Canal Street 1 train station. Shot three years ago, during the before times.</p>
<p>This reminds me of a story about Opus 40, near where I grew up. Sonny Rollins—known for exploring how sound bounced around and changed as he moved through different performance spaces—infamously jumped off the stage there in middle of a concert, broke his heel, and spent the rest of the gig playing <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xayp5/when-jazz-is-punk-remembering-the-time-sonny-rollins-kept-playing-with-a-broken-foot">flat on his back</a>. Depending on who you ask, he was either trying to hear how it would sound, ticked off at his newly re-lacquered sax, or maybe just a little high. Possibly all three.</p>
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Photo: Mouse House2021-10-04T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/dont-block-the-box/
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<p>Construction underway on Disney’s new headquarters in Hudson Square, Manhattan.</p>
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Photo: In America2021-06-25T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/the-poets-never-anger-anybody/
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<p>The Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park, photographed 10 years ago to the day. Found while rummaging through some old shots.</p>
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How the Ultra-Wealthy Dodge U.S. Taxes2021-06-12T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/how-the-ultra-wealthy-dodge-taxes/
<p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax">Blockbuster reporting</a> from my colleagues at ProPublica this week that uses newly revealed <abbr>IRS</abbr> records to document how the richest individuals pay a vanishingly small portion of their gains in taxes, especially income tax.</p>
<p>This reporting confirms what many have suspected but few have been able to prove with direct evidence, and highlights <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-higher-tax-rate-than-a-billionaire">stark structural inequality</a> in the American tax system. For more about the decision-making that drove the publication of this material, <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/why-we-are-publishing-the-tax-secrets-of-the-001">this write-up</a> from our bosses is also worth your time.</p>
<p>I’m very proud to have played my own small part in helping get this one launched. All credit to the truly talented reporters, editors, and specialized teams that put this remarkable work together.</p>
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Social Media Theme Parks2021-05-31T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/social-media-theme-park-ideas/
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/28/22458555/florida-deplatforming-law-twitter-facebook-snap-pinterest-tiktok-youtube-google">Perfect shade</a> from <cite>The Verge</cite> about Florida’s new, and almost certainly unconstitutional, “deplatforming” law—the one with the self-serving exception for a certain mouse-themed media company.</p>
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“Another Pipes Company That Had the Bright Idea of Buying Into Media”2021-05-19T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/another-pipes-company/
<p>Verizon and AT&T have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/business/verizon-aol-yahoo-sale.html">both</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/business/att-discovery-merger.html">announced</a> the unloading of major media portfolios that they acquired just a few short years ago. The moves unwind deals that aspired to smoosh old-school telecom pipes together with ownership of the content flowing through them. As some noted at the time, history has not looked favorably upon those kinds of deals.</p>
<p>Josh Benton, writing after news of the Verizon deal to dump Yahoo and AOL first broke, has some <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/05/someone-new-thinks-they-can-make-yahoo-and-aol-good-businesses-in-2021/">solid takeaways</a>. His point about “media scale” vs “platform scale” should be of particular note for publishers. I’ve heard a lot said about achieving scale inside publishers over the years, often with an envious eye cast towards tech companies in the Valley. But those companies are playing an entirely different game at an entirely different level. Enough so that it’s just not a useful model for comparison. As Benton notes, “Trying to play their game guarantees you’ll lose.” Publishers need to focus on differentiating their products and knowing their audiences before they grow them.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/business/warnermedia-discovery-kilar-zaslav.html">WarnerMedia side of things</a>, one wonders if the recent stir caused by their soon-to-be departing chief will ultimately benefit incoming management. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/business/media/warner-brothers-movies-hbo-max.html">broke a lot of dishes</a> by moving towards the simultaneous theatrical and streaming release of Warner’s movies sooner than anybody expected. But that leaves his successors poised to reap the benefits without being the bad guys.</p>
<p>As for what private equity will do with the assets they’re picking up from Verizon, well, the <cite>Onion</cite> has that one pretty well <a href="https://www.theonion.com/private-equity-firm-heartbroken-after-realizing-there-n-1846813478">nailed</a>.</p>
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Junk in the (Space) Trunk2021-05-17T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/space-junk-hits-a-tipping-point/
<p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/">Ominous news</a> from the crowded sky above our heads:</p>
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<p>…low-Earth orbit is finally on the verge of becoming too crowded for comfort. And the problem is now poised to get much worse because of the rise of satellite “mega constellations” requiring thousands of spacecraft, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, a broadband Internet network.</p>
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<p>For more background, check out this <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-elusive-peril-of-space-junk">2020 article</a> from the <cite>New Yorker</cite>. Or for a good example of what happens when this goes badly, skip right to the Wikipedia entry for the 2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision">Iridium-Kosmos collision</a> mentioned in the <cite>Scientific American</cite> article. The teeming space around our planet impacts us down here on Earth <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/study-finds-nowhere-earth-safe-satellite-light-pollution">in other ways</a>, too.</p>
<p>Link spotted via <cite>Nature</cite>’s Briefing <a href="https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup/">newsletter</a>. I subscribe to a spare few email newsletters, but <cite>Nature</cite>’s has been a recent addition and it’s consistently interesting and informative.</p>
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The Sound of Mars2021-03-12T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/the-sound-of-mars/
<p>The Perseverance rover has returned the first-ever <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/audio/">audio recordings</a> from the surface of Mars. If this doesn’t give you a moment of awe, I don’t know what will. There’s also a great collection of <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/">raw images</a> and <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/">multimedia</a> <abbr>NASA</abbr> is adding to as the rover’s mission unfolds.</p>
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Photo: Election Day2020-11-07T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/election-day/
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<p>Spontaneous celebrations swept across our Brooklyn neighborhood Saturday, after the news broke that Joe Biden had clinched enough Electoral College votes to become the next President of the United States.</p>
<p>People <a href="https://stuntbox.com/bucket/IMG_2501-1080p.mov">cheered in the streets</a> while apartment-dwellers hung out of their windows to bang pots and drivers honked their horns. Meanwhile, <a href="https://stuntbox.com/bucket/IMG_2502-1080p.mov">hundreds gathered</a> at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch in Grand Army Plaza, and thousands more celebrated throughout the day in neighboring Prospect Park.</p>
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Photo: Lost in the Woods2020-10-09T00:00:00Zhttps://stuntbox.com/blog/lost-in-the-woods/
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<p>An abandoned shopping cart, found half-submerged in a Prospect Park stream. I have questions.</p>
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Fujifilm X-T3,
XF 10–24mm ƒ/4 R OIS
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