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Barry Diller, the veteran TV executive who has cut a restless swath through the cable and Internet industries, is seen as something of a techno-visionary in the world of corporate media. His 1994 adoption of a Mac Powerbook and discovery of email merited a flattering New Yorker profile that attempted to portray him as a geek. (In his circles, I guess he was.) Diller has spent the last several years assembling and running the Web conglomerate InterActiveCorp. But his worldview remains heavily shaped by his Hollywood background, and it typifies the response of many a complacent media executive to the rise of blogging.
"Self-publishing by someone of average talent is not very interesting," he told The Economist in 2006. "Talent is the new limited resource." At a technology conference that year, he declared, "There's just not that much talent in the world, and talent almost always outs."
Diller's view echoes that of avowedly elitist polemics like Andrew Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur." According to this perspective, talent is a resource of fixed supply. The existing institutions of the publishing and broadcast world are already doing an efficient and thorough job of finding all that talent and giving it a platform. And all this other stuff that's spewing forth from the Web's profusion of blogs and podcasts and videos? It's just dross that obscures the real talent's output.
Beyond the obvious arrogance, this view misreads and underestimates the Web in several ways. It's a mistake to think of human creativity as a kind of limited natural resource, like an ore waiting for society to mine; it is more like a gene that will turn on given the right cues. Diller and his ilk envision the Web simply as a new distribution channel for the same old stuff, and human expression as a static commodity, uninfluenced by the medium that bears it or the social environment in which it emerges. Their view values each bit of expression based on marketplace worth and potential breadth of appeal, but ignores any worth the expression may have to the person who made it. Most narrow-mindedly of all, they assume that yesterday's filtering methods will remain reliable and sufficient tomorrow, no matter how radically the environment changes around them.
This is a recipe for failure. Yet, despite these flaws, despite its condescension and its inflexibility, Diller's attitude remains widespread among media company leaders. They are rightly afraid that it will be harder for them to work the same way and maintain the same profits in the new media world; but they are deluded in believing they have any choice in the matter. Already, today's Web has evolved well beyond the familiar shape of Diller's picture. It is expanding the opportunity to manifest talent even as it is exploding the agreed-upon structures for rewarding the works that talent creates. These changes are wreaking havoc with the music industry, whose youthful customers have moved into the new world faster than the companies that sell to them. The same crisis is now beginning to engulf television, movies, book publishing — everywhere that physical goods can be replaced by digital files, and anywhere that the old gatekeeping model of talent recognition can be eroded by the demotic currents of the publish-everything Web.
Diller and his species of executive have always excelled at finding rare talents that can, at their best, enchant a mass market. But this very success has blinded them to the different, more diffuse sort of talent present among the Web's millions of contributors. Of course talent isn't universal, nor is it evenly distributed. But there is far more of it in the world than Diller's blinkered vision allows. On the Web it can reveal itself in a far wider range of ways, and far more people will have a chance to cultivate it. It will never be perceived in a uniform way; you and I will recognize it in very different places and judge it in very different ways. But it is surely there — and, fortunately, denigrating it will not make it go away.
Because the Web comes to us on a screen, it has been easy to misapprehend it as the next phase in the evolution of television. The advent of blogging looked to some observers like the latest mutation of reality TV, which dissects the lives of ordinary people on a mass stage. But there's one defining difference: on a reality show, only a few people get the opportunity to participate, and those who win the chance remain at the mercy of the show's producers. In articles that explore how blogging can turn lives inside out, rendering the private public, references abound to "The Truman Show"– a 1998 movie about a man who discovers his life is an elaborately staged TV program. Truman Burbank, that movie's protagonist, is a victim, practically a prisoner, with no choice in his performance. Bloggers, on the other hand, are volunteers; they may have little power over whom they reach, but they have unprecedented control over what they say and whether to keep saying it. No one can vote you off the island of your own blog.
We talk too much about television as an antecedent to the Web, and not enough about the telephone. When the telephone arrived in American homes and businesses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was some uncertainty over how people would use it and how using it would change their lives. Some social critics worried that the telephone's insistent intrusions would undermine the status of the home as a refuge from the world's pressures. Others feared that the phone would erode the shared public space of our communities and disengage us from social life. Telephone conversations were neither private nor trusted. Party lines and operators meant conversations were likely to be overheard; con artists took advantage of the new technology to prey on the naive.
Today the telephone has become our most trusted and confidential form of everyday communication. If we don't want a conversation to leave electronic tracks, we pick up the phone instead of sending an email. Businesses that want to verify our identities will call us and speak to us. At a time when we are just beginning to grapple with how to use the Web, the telephone offers comfort and familiarity. It is the Web, now, that poses threatening new questions about privacy and anonymity, and the telephone that reassures with the warmth of the human voice and the intimacy of real-time connection.
In "America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940," the sociologist Claude S. Fischer argues that our customary mode of discussing new technologies leads us astray by casting the technology as the protagonist and the human user as a victim. We should not inquire into the telephone's "impacts" or "effects," Fischer writes: "That is the wrong language, a mechanical language that implies that human actions are impelled by external forces when they are really the outcomes of actors making purposeful choices under constraints."
This is good advice for Web critics, too. Like the telephone before it, the Web will be defined by the choices people make as they use it, constrained by — but not determined by — the nature of the technology. The most significant choice we have been making, collectively, ever since the popularization of Internet access in the mid-1990s, has been to favor two-way interpersonal communication over the passive reception of broadcast-style messages. Big-media efforts to use the Net for the delivery of old-fashioned one-way products have regularly failed or underperformed. Social uses of our time online — email, instant messaging and chat, blogging, Facebook-style networking — far outstrip time spent in passive consumption of commercial media. In other words, businesspeople have consistently overestimated the Web's similarities to television and underestimated its kinship to the telephone.
One reason blogs have flourished is that they sit comfortably at this divide between communication types: they partake of some of the characteristics of each, in proportions that vary depending on the style of the individual blogger. Some blogs are simply vehicles for conversation among friends. Some are exclusively public discourse. But many take advantage of blogs' potential to cross back and forth over this line. A post meant originally for a small circle of friends may "go viral" and catch the attention of millions; a broadside post from a public figure may spark a back-and-forth exchange in the comments. This mutability can be breathtakingly powerful; it can also be treacherous. Either way, whenever we observe an instance of it, we sense we are witnessing something that could only occur in this form, via this medium — something uniquely bloggish.
Once we acknowledge that the Web inherits at least as much from the telephone as from the television, complaints about the "problem" of the Web's abundance appear in a different light. In a 2007 article, James McGrath Morris, a journalism historian, wrote, "There is a point when there are simply too many blogs. With 30 million blogs today, we may well have reached that point."
He was not the first, nor the last, to raise the "too many blogs!" alarm. In November 2008, Time's Michael Kinsley wrote, "How many blogs does the world need? There is already blog gridlock." The question, echoing a legion of similar skeptics, sounds reasonable at first. But what if he'd written, "How many telephone calls does the world need"? Did someone tell Kinsley that he needed to read all those blogs? If they keep multiplying, whose party are they spoiling? Most blogs are read only "by the writer and his mother," says Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. If he is right — and no doubt, in some cases, he is — does that make them worthless? If blogging's only accomplishment was that it got more people to phone home to mom, Web-style, why would anyone object?
The sheer volume of blogs evokes a peevish resentment among some observers, as if the outpouring represented a personal affront. How dare all these people presume on our attention! Do they really think that anyone is listening to them? It is certainly possible to blog into a void — to post and post and never get a visitor or a comment. But it's unlikely many of us would persist with such unrewarding labors. Most blogs have some sort of audience, however tiny — moms and beyond. Where do these readers come from? More often than not, they are other bloggers. Observers steeped in the values of the broadcast world identify this as a failure: Look, the only people who care what you're doing are already in your club! But in fact, as they say in the software industry, this reciprocity is not a bug at all — it's a feature.
People who have no experience blogging often fail to understand the essentially social nature of the activity. Blogging is convivial. Bloggers commonly blog in groups, whether formally (as with our Salon bloggers) or simply through the haphazard accretion of casual connections. In these groups, what you contribute is obviously important; but so is where you choose to place your attention. Reading is as much a part of blogging as writing; listening is as important as speaking. This is what so many bloggers mean when they claim that "blogging is a conversation": not that each post sparks a vigorous exchange of comments, but that every post exists in a context of post-and-response that stretches across some patch of the Web, link by link, blog to blog.
In "The First Word," her book about the origins of language, Christine Kenneally describes the scene when two apes trained in sign language first encountered each other: "What resulted was a sign-shouting match; neither ape was willing to listen." Anyone who's ever witnessed a deadend flame war online knows the feeling.
For communication of any stripe to take place, listening must somehow be involved. Knowing how to listen is no less essential in keeping a blog than in any other encounter with other people. For bloggers, listening takes many forms, including following other bloggers (or subscribing to their feeds), reading comments, and checking the referrers to find inbound links. When all these channels are open, a blogger can feel embedded in a buzzing hive of attention and support and argument. Of course, that means that if the channels close, the author can feel abandoned, betrayed.
Bloggers, most of them solo bootstrappers of their own stream of self-expression, are the most autonomous writers the world has yet seen — the least dependent on others to publish their words. (This is a central difference between the individualist blog and the collective wiki — the other Web-native writing form that achieved popular success this decade. On a blog, you alone can edit your words; on the typical wiki, anyone with an account can change anything.) At the same time, of all the species of writer, bloggers are the least insulated from their audience, most vulnerable to the ebb and flow of attention and response. They are both alone and in a crowd. Their solitude can inspire self-indulgent ranting; their sociability can tempt them into self-serving pandering. But every now and then they manage to hold their balance in this paradoxical position for an extended, exhilarating spell.
"Each blog," James Wolcott wrote in 2002, "is like a blinking neuron in the circuitry of an emerging, chatterbox superbrain." This striking image cuts two ways. It's alluring to think you might be participating in a grand barn-raising for species-wide consciousness via the Web. It's creepy, too: What if doing so costs you some part of your separate identity — what Nicholas Carr calls a "loss of selfness," a feeling of "slowly being emptied," a sense that "we are beginning to blur at the edges"?
That is certainly a possibility. Any act of public expression, of "putting everything out there" — your political arguments or your creative work or your personal story — is a gamble. We offer something to the world; we cross our fingers that our contributions won't simply be ignored or derided or misappropriated. Sometimes we're surprised at how much we get back, and sometimes we feel used.
Either way, we are going to keep at it. Whatever the outcome of each of our individual bets, we can now see that collectively they constitute something unprecedented in human history: a new kind of public sphere, at once ephemeral and timeless, sharing the characteristics of conversation and deliberation. Blogging allows us to think out loud together. Now that we have begun, it's impossible to imagine stopping.
Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg is director of MediaBugs.org. He is the author of "Say Everything" and Dreaming in Code and blogs at Wordyard.com.
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Camera-less Seeing and the Art of Cropping
I don't need an Xpan to make panoramics, and I don't need a 501CM to make squares. For me the real beauty of using a large format view camera is that the image is conceived in my mind and not restrained by film size; by viewfinder shape or coverage; or by the format's aspect ratio. Unlike medium and small format cameras (including D-SLR's), it is nearly impossible to hoist a view camera to the eye to frame an image. Further, because the large format image is rendered upside down and laterally reversed on the ground glass (the image is as ones eyes perceive it before the complex brain corrects it), the ground glass view is difficult to reconcile for all but the most experienced users. This very nature of the format requires the photographer to learn how to see and frame exclusive of the viewfinder. For some this is a serious challenge and shortcoming of the format; for others, like myself, it is pure liberation. My photographs are bound only by the limits of my imagination and never by any constraints imposed upon me by a camera or tradition. During any given week, I view a great number of photographs that I believe would be strengthened by a simple crop. Although most photographers shoot with the 1:1.5 aspect ratio of D-SLR's, this does not mean that one is required to visualize or process/print the full 1:1.5 frame. Even more, too many photographers are caught up with the issue of pre-cut mats being available only in this size and pre-made frames being available only in that size – stop it! Aren't your photographs considerably more important than their finishing? If your photograph is stronger by cropping it square, crop it square! It may cost more to finish the print by doing so, but aren't your photographs worth it? You'll find in this article three of my photographs. All originated from 1:1.25 negatives (or 4×5), but take note that none were finished with that aspect ratio. All three images and their framing were visualized without a viewfinder, and I deliberately framed the three important edges and in post-production cropped away the remaining unwanted edge (regardless of the final print's inability to fit off-the-shelf mats or frames)."The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera". Dorothea Lange
If you're not already seeing and framing your images without the assistance of your camera, here's a challenge for you: Next time you think you've got a photograph, resist the immediate urge to set up and start firing. Consider this pre-exposure editing. Set your camera off to the side and become one with your subject. Study it carefully and quietly, and determine your framing and edges before grabbing your camera. Take as much time as you need; rarely are great photographs made in haste. Once you've gotten this figured out, then get out your camera and capture the image that you've already created in your mind (and crop at will).
Free your mind and your camera will follow.
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Review: Guy Tal's Creative Landscape Photography eBook
Guy Tal is a longtime friend and co-leader of our infrequent joint workshops (disclaimer made!). He's also a gifted photographer and writer, and his internationally-acclaimed images and articles have been featured in such publications as Outdoor Photographer Magazine (US), PhotoLife (Canada), Digital Photographer (UK), as well as his own beautiful coffee table book, Exposures. In the current genre of landscape photography writing, I place Guy's writing at the very top. I'll be honest; most of what gets passed off as the best publications of our medium do little more than regurgitate what has already been regurgitated ad nauseam. Most of them are obsessively focused on gear and gear-based techniques, with few ever tackling more spiritual (if you will) and emotional approaches to landscape photography.
Designed as a companion to Guy's Creative Landscape Photography workshop, this process-based instructional text is aimed at intermediate and advanced photographers who want to unlock their creative potential and evolve their craft. There's also plenty of gear-based content for those who are still struggling with fundamentals. The book is well organized and features sections on the creative process; concept; visualization; composition; capture; processing; and presentation. It's also filled with a number of Guy's stunning images and accompanying text that explains his thought process and motives behind these particular photographs (no useless EXIF and aperture/shutter speed info!). There are also numerous exercises intended to aid in the evolution of your imagery (yes, "homework"!).
Taken a step further, creative photography is about the expression of subjective ideas, emotions, and sensibilities through the unique beauty of natural elements and using the medium of photography. A creative photograph is the result of venturing beyond the mere act of recording scenes and objects with a camera. Rather than thinking about what you want your viewers to see when looking at your work, think instead about how you want them to feel.
The eBook contains a whopping 86 pages, and at only $9.95, it may very well be one of the best valued eBooks I've seen. And at only $9.95, you can't afford not having this eBook in your collection. Get ready to move to your photography to the next level…
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It's All About the Light…
Wherever there is light, one can photograph. Alfred Stieglitz
Last night I gave a presentation to the Santa Clarita Valley Photographers Association (SCVPA) (a great group of people, and a more organized and attended-to camera club than I would have ever imagined). The most ironic thing about teaching and presenting is that I always learn as much as the audience. No matter how often I may speak about my work and my philosophies, I learn something about my photographs and beliefs every time.As I moved through and talked about the 96 photographs I shared with the SCVPA, I was alerted to my use of any and all light. It's not a new discovery, and other photographers often comment on my use of whatever light. The fact is, I have a photograph(s) in my collection to represent virtually every hour of daylight. The notions that there are only "golden hours" or "sweet light" under which to practice photography have been perpetuated for far too long amongst the nature and landscape photography community. It's enforced by books, workshops, online photo forums, and far too many photo instructors. It's time to change this line of thinking, for believing that photography can only be practiced for a few sweet hours of each day and then setting out to capture only specific images that capitalize on that sweet light is akin to photographing with dark blinders on. Any light is available light, and how you choose to see it and whether you choose to photograph under it determines the diversity of your abilities, your vision, and your work. I'd venture that photographers are missing a lot of beautiful photographic opportunities when they're locked into a singular and exclusive method of photographing.
All light is available light. Sweet light is any light you choose to photograph under. The Golden Hours extend from sunrise to sunset. With few exceptions, failure to create photographs under any light is not a failing of the light; it's a failure of vision. Take off the blinders and be free.
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Business & Marketing Books for Photographers and Artists
A number of guidebooks for photographers and artists have proved helpful in developing my art, my business, and my marketing skills. The following books grace my shelves, and having read them all cover to cover, I can attest that all contain pearls of wisdom that will help to enhance your career and help you through the common hurdles that all artists face. You'll notice that my selections don't deal with contracts, pricing, or negotiation. They instead focus on career and longevity: marketing; self-promotion; adversity; creativity; work ethic; and so forth.
Although listed in random order, I recommend that you begin by reading Bayles's and Orland's Art & Fear. Enjoy!
David Bayles and Ted Orland: Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Brooks Jensen: Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life
Paul Dorrell: Living the Artist's Life
Maria Piscopo: The Photographer's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion
Alyson B. Stanfield: I'd Rather Be in the Studio!
Elyse Weissberg: Successful Self-Promotion for Photographers
Cay Lang: Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist
Mary Virginia Swanson: THE BUSINESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
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On Assignment: T-Mobile
As a professional photographer I have photographed people, events, products, and places, but until a few weeks ago I had not yet done any professional architectural work. Coincidentally, my name landed on T-Mobile's desk as a referral, they contacted me, and we began to discuss how I could help them with their needs. T-Mobile needed expansive and eye-catching interior and exterior photographs from two of their flagship Los Angeles-area stores for their real estate/development ventures, and I was happy to help. And then they asked for my architectural portfolio. Gulp. They were acquainted with my personal fine art work, and I had the nerve to assume that this would be good enough to land me the job. Despite the lack of an architectural portfolio, I have a strong visual aesthetic and a love for great architectural photography, so there was no doubt in my mind that I could deliver what they needed. So when they asked for my architectural portfolio, I offered the unspeakable: they would only have to pay me if they were happy with the work I produced. They accepted, and in a long one-day shoot, I produced and delivered more than double the number of images they had requested. I hired my good friend, Rob, as my lighting expert and assistant, and we enjoyed a challenging and invigorating day at two of their stores. The T-Mobile team was very happy with my work, and I was paid in record time. I couldn't have asked for a better outcome.
The photographer's moral to this story? Don't undersell yourself. Deliver more than expected. Be creative with your negotiations. Don't be afraid to hang yourself out there and take risks. Be amazing with your customer service. Be flawlessly professional.
Note: Only the left and center photographs are mine in the attached T-Mobile advertisement .
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Photography Podcasts
I do a lot of driving each year. Shortly after receiving an iPod, I found out about these wonderful things called podcasts. Photography-based podcasts for me have now largely replaced music while traveling, especially when I am traveling on photography business. These podcasts help to inspire, inform, and place me in a photographic frame of mind, ready to start seeing and photographing when I step out of the car. What follows is a short listing of my favorite photography-based podcasts. They're intelligent, inspiring, and often uplifting. Give them a try:
History of Photography, by Jeff Curto. These are recorded from Jeff's class lectures and should be considered required listening. You cannot stand on the shoulders of giants if you don't know from where they came.
Camera Position, by Jeff Curto. NOT Jeff's class lectures, but rather his own personal musings on a wide variety of important photography topics.
LensWork – Photography and the Creative Process. If you know the publication LensWork and Brooks Jensen's writing, you can expect more of the same intelligent discussion and thoughts from his podcast. One of my favorites.
Thought on Photography, with Paul Giguere. Paul creates a great podcast, with excellent interviews, thoughtful questions, and intelligent insight.
The Candid Frame, by Ibarionex Perello. Ibarionex has smooth voice and is an engaging interviewer.
You'll notice that absent from my list are any gear- or technique-based podcasts. The reason for this is simple: they're not very interesting to me and they won't make me a better photographer. With limited available time for podcasts, I choose to listen to those that inspire and inform me, and ultimately those that make me want to keep coming back for more.
What other good and creative podcasts can you recommend?
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I just bought a 360 two weeks back. To play rpgs, that I missed on my ps3. I have to say the controller seems better fitted to my hands. I am a big guy, like 6 foot 4 and 260 pounds. so maybe its just me. But the controller seems to have longer handles. and it seems heavier... which is a good thing. Better for throwing, when you nerd rage, but it just seems better to use. and the thing seems to be designed around my thumbs. not just a random nice looking design. I just wanted to bring this up. I have been playing playstation for over 10 years, but this controller seems to really fit my hands. I think this is a plus for the xbox that no one ever mentions. Thank you and good luck. --- Dr. Darrell of Michigan Got a Xbox a few days ago, Now playing: Fable 3. . . . . . . . . Blame Republicans for the government shutdown. | |
A lot of people prefer the Xbox 360 controller over the Playstations. Not to say the Playstations is terrible, but I prefer the 360's. The X1's controller is building off its predecessor with some cool new features =) --- Xbox One Day 1 edition Pre-Ordered via Amazon~ Xbox 360: Bad Luck Ink ~]=|~ Wii U NNID: BadLuckInk | |
BadLuckInc posted... A lot of people prefer the Xbox 360 controller over the Playstations. Not to say the Playstations is terrible, but I prefer the 360's. The X1's controller is building off its predecessor with some cool new features =) Most people prefer the X360 controller, and the X1 controller improves upon it. Even though the PS4 controller looks much improved, I couldn't imagine liking it more than I LOVED my X360 controller. My friend is buying PS4, so I'll try it out. --- 33 things to know about X1: http://www.oxm.co.uk/61886/features/the-xbox-one-33-things-you-need-to-know/ | |
Well the PS4 controller is going to be larger than even the Xbox 360 controller so think about that. The only major difference is that the PS4 controller has a touchpad on it while the Xbox One features rumble/feedback for the triggers. --- GT: ZiiX360 PSN: BoxFighter85 PC: i7 930@4Ghz | EX58 UD5 | GTX 460 SLI | 8GB DDR3 | 500GB Spinpoint | Vertex 2 180 SSD | Cooler Master HAF X | VG236H | |
People always bring up the controller in console wars. In general people seem to enjoy the 360 controller more than the DS3 but in terms of actual quality of the controller I say the DS3 has it beat. Controller design and functionality 360>PS3. Build quality and durability PS3>360. --- RebelGameMaster: You can't say poop is better than french toast because some people like the taste of poop. Proud day one adopter of PS4 and Xbox One | |
Because it's not really debatable. The Xbox controller is objectively superior to the PS controller. It has been proven by science. --- Every time you point out that something is an opinion Jesus shoots a kitten in the face. | |
I've never liked the sticks(they suck) on the PS controller. | |
If Sony had kept the same design for the DS4 as the DS3 I would have said it would make a difference between the consoles. But after holding both controllers I can certainly say the Dualshock 4 feels amazing.. IMO MS made the One controller worse. I hate the new size as it feels cramped in my hands. The weight also bugged me as it now feels too light. In terms of new features the feedback trigger seem like a neat (gimmicky) but neat feature. The touch pad could become a big factor is utilized by developers correctly. --- i7 3700k 4.8GHz, 16GB G.Skill DDR3 1900Mhz, GTX 690 | |
specialed1583 posted... People always bring up the controller in console wars. In general people seem to enjoy the 360 controller more than the DS3 but in terms of actual quality of the controller I say the DS3 has it beat. I am an xbox guy, but that is one issue I've had over the years. The quality of their controllers is awful. I'm not hard on my xbox controllers either. I don't throw them or anything like that. I try and take good care of them. That is something I hope they improve upon with the X1. --- The world should realize with increased clearness that Evangelicalism stands or falls with Calvinism. (Dr. B.B. Warfield) | |
I'm actually really excited to get a feel for the new PS controller. It seems like they got a clue from the 360 controller this gen. The form factor on the grips, the triggers that are actual triggers now (though let's hope that ADS/fire in mapped to L2/R2 or custom controls is the norm), etc. The analogs are still in the wrong spot, but hey....at least they spaced them out a bit so your thumbs don't start to cramp up if your hands are any larger than that of a 10 year old girl. --- GT/PSN: Evel138 Lucky Number http://fav.me/d6gbf9y |
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Stop in and say high to Evan the host. He loves local history and the old house. Usually open on the hour Wed to Sunday. Check ahead.
Very interesting upstairs/downstairs tour of a historic house. The collections and re-creations of late-19th/early-20th century life were well done. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and personal. Be sure to check out the hair art.
If you're looking for a trip through historic Cumberland, this should be one of your stops. This house has been around for a long time, sponsors events to share history such as teas and student activities, and the tour guides know everything. I did an article on this house and the new owner was the one to give the tour,... More
Got personal tours and were able to walk "behind the ropes." Astounding collection of (upper middle class) household utensils, artwork, amenities, and elegance from the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Guides were awesome!
The one room school house is great, they do school days for groups of children. The house is wonderful and they have activities througthout the year for children.
A beautifully furnished and decorated home from the late 1800's, early 1900's was an hour well spent and highly recommended for those who enjoy house tours!
This was a nice place to visit and see how the upper middle class lived in the later 1800s. The tour hostess was very knowledgeable and most of the house is shown during the tour (the upper 3rd floor is not included). The servant's quarters in the basement were particularly interesting to see.
This is a good tour of a victorian era home. Tea and pastries before the tour is a nice touch. Tours begin on the hour.
This house is huge, owned by an influential rail road baron family in Cumberland, which was the Queen City to Baltimore's King City. It is just huge for such a small town sitting on Washington Street with lots of other mansions. An excellent tour. An undiscovered gem. They start off the tour with hot tea and cookies. You will learn... More
We were passing through Cumberland and wanted to stop and see some of the sites there. Fortunately, we had found through the web, something about the Gordon-Roberts House. It's a beautifully restored home with wonderful Victorian furnishings. Our tour guide was well-versed not only in the house but also the lifestyle of those who lived there. They started our tour... More
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- CYS INVESTMENTS INC's earnings per share declined by 10.8% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. We feel it is likely to report a decline in earnings in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, CYS INVESTMENTS INC increased its bottom line by earning $3.63 versus $1.67 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 47.6% in earnings ($1.90 versus $3.63).
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Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - J.D. Drew finished with two hits and an RBI, while Jon Lester outdueled Dan Haren as Boston topped Los Angeles, 4-3, in the second installment of a four-game series.
Lester (2-1) turned in six scoreless innings where he allowed four hits and fanned eight with a pair of walks. Jonathan Papelbon recorded a scoreless ninth to post his fifth save.
"I felt all right early on, I had good fastball command," Lester said. "They hit a lot of foul balls and I had to grind it out."
Jacoby Ellsbury also drove in a run while Jed Lowrie scored twice for the Red Sox, who have won the first two in the set and six of seven overall.
"They made Jon work hard, but he had enough stuff to get people out," Boston manager Terry Francona said.
Bobby Abreu and Jeff Mathis knocked in a run each for the Angels, who have dropped three of five.
Haren (4-1) was trying to become the Halos' second five-game winner, along with teammate Jered Weaver. He took the loss after giving up five hits and four runs -- two earned -- with six strikeouts and three walks over six full frames.
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