John’s Weston-super-mare photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/floyduk/sets/72157603490024890/
This week’s picks:
Chris
Photophlow

Paul
Nicholas Nixon - The Brown Sisters - Thirty-three Years

Ben
The Gitzo 90th Anniversary Traveler Titanium tripod

Rolf
Linux Photography
Helen Levitt photography exhibition

Jeff
Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan video

John
The Genius of Photography
The Genius of Photography book

Transcript
This is the transcript of the text conversation we were having as we recorded the show. It won’t all make sense. But it’s a fun peek behind the curtain.

[14:52:48] Benoit Marchal says: Is this close to right time?
[14:53:03] John Arnold says: Hey Benoit, Yes we start shortly
[14:53:07] John Arnold says: You all ready?
[14:53:11] Benoit Marchal says: I’ll be with you in a minute
[14:53:18] John Arnold says: Great
[14:53:18] Benoit Marchal says: Do I need to call you?
[14:53:22] John Arnold says: You’re the first to check in
[14:53:30] Benoit Marchal says: OKay, good
[14:53:32] John Arnold says: I’ll start a skype session and invite you soon
[14:53:37] Benoit Marchal says: Good
[14:53:44] Benoit Marchal says: I’ll be back in a sec’
[14:53:50] John Arnold says: ok
[14:59:57] Benoit Marchal says: OKay, I’m back
[15:00:05] *** John Arnold added Chris Marquardt to this chat
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[15:00:08] *** John Arnold added Jeff Curto to this chat
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[15:00:10] *** John Arnold added Rolf Steinort to this chat
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[15:00:12] *** John Arnold added Paul Giguere to this chat
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[15:00:20] John Arnold says: Hi chaps
[15:00:26] John Arnold says: JUst having a small technical issue here
[15:00:34] John Arnold says: Once I can hear skype calls I’ll do the invites
[15:00:45] Chris Marquardt says: alright, we won’t go away
[15:00:59] Benoit Marchal says: No coffee then?
[15:01:11] Chris Marquardt says: café you mean?
[15:01:18] Benoit Marchal says: espresso
[15:01:25] Rolf Steinort says: TEA!
[15:01:27] John Arnold says: Tea!
[15:01:28] Chris Marquardt says: john is a brit, he’d most likely drink tea
[15:01:30] Chris Marquardt says:
[15:01:35] John Arnold says: John IS drinking tea
[15:01:46] Benoit Marchal says: Enjoy
[15:01:56] Chris Marquardt just had a yummy espresso at the latour café around the corner

[15:02:08] Paul Giguere says: (coffee)
[15:02:09] Chris Marquardt says: very franophile here.. actually my studio is in the french quarter in tübingen
[15:02:50] Jeff Curto says: I made my own damn espresso drink… real men grind their own beans.
[15:03:02] John Arnold says: Grrrr
[15:03:14] John Arnold says: Skype is screwing me about - Going to stop and restart it
[15:03:17] John Arnold says: Be right back
[15:03:20] Rolf Steinort says: did you roast it yourself?
[15:03:20] Benoit Marchal says: I got the grinder for Xmas. Can’t wait untill I’m done with my stock of pregrinded coffee
[15:03:25] Chris Marquardt says: oh, you mean those over-roasted american beans, jeff?
[15:03:33] Paul Giguere says: Back in a minute
[15:03:49] Jeff Curto says: I roast it *and* I go to Ecuador to pick the coffee.
[15:04:00] Chris Marquardt says: hahaha, good one
[15:04:06] Rolf Steinort says: Uphill both ways….
[15:04:10] Jeff Curto says: Keeps my legs in shape.
[15:04:13] Jeff Curto says: Exactly.
[15:05:56] Paul Giguere says: back
[15:08:21] John Arnold says: Ok I think Im working
[15:08:48] Jeff Curto says: better living through technology… saving us weeks by the minute…
[15:09:03] Chris Marquardt says: yeah.. that and the paperless office
[15:09:16] Chris Marquardt shoves a big pile of paper aside

[15:09:34] Rolf Steinort says: my boss gets all the mails printed out…. ;-9
[15:15:18] Jeff Curto says: what the fuck do you mean “no embarrasing bits”?
[15:15:27] Chris Marquardt says:
[15:17:56] Chris Marquardt says: could I ask everyone to please mute their microphone while not talking? this’ll keep the overall audio cleaner and make it easier for john to edit later.
[15:18:18] John Arnold says: good call
[15:27:09] John Arnold says: BTW Ben - sorry about the france/belgium thing.
[15:27:33] Benoit Marchal says: Since Hercules Poirot us Belgian are used to it
[15:27:50] John Arnold says: I know but I also suspect it’s tiresome.
[15:27:56] John Arnold says: so sorry
[15:28:04] Benoit Marchal says: never mind
[15:28:12] Chris Marquardt says: nah john, you’re just being british
[15:28:18] John Arnold says: of course!
[15:37:24] Jeff Curto says: We Mac users *love* to point out that we can run Windows on our Macs when we *have* to…. sort of like a forced march with full pack.
[15:38:51] Paul Giguere says: Stepping away for a minute
[15:39:09] Paul Giguere says: I’m acutally doing this from my office at work
[15:39:13] Benoit Marchal says: “you can clean my sensor”, is that an honest proposal?
[15:39:21] John Arnold says: understood mate - no prob
[15:39:37] John Arnold says: probably not Ben!
[15:39:51] Jeff Curto says: In some cultures, “would you clean my sensor?” will get you thrown in jail…
[15:39:57] Chris Marquardt says: benoit: sure, if you sign the release form in case I mess it up
[15:40:03] John Arnold says: hah
[15:41:52] Paul Giguere says: I’m back
[15:41:55] John Arnold says: k
[15:58:02] Jeff Curto says: when speed dating… wear a low-cut blouse.
[15:58:15] Chris Marquardt says: who, me?
[15:58:25] Jeff Curto says: You handsome devil you….
[15:58:37] Chris Marquardt says:
[15:58:56] Chris Marquardt says: believe me, you don’t *want* to see me in a low-cut blouse
[16:02:06] John Arnold says: everyone ok for time?
[16:02:13] Chris Marquardt says: yep, I am
[16:02:16] Paul Giguere says: Good for now
[16:02:22] Rolf Steinort says: yes
[16:02:24] Benoit Marchal says: No problems
[16:02:27] John Arnold says: great
[16:02:33] Chris Marquardt says: gonna record Happy Shooting in an hour.
[16:02:37] John Arnold says: k
[16:02:42] John Arnold says: well be done in time
[16:02:47] John Arnold says: we’ll
[16:02:47] Benoit Marchal says: I have located the photo on your Flickr. The tumbnail is not engaging at all. It should have cropped the pirate flag instead.
[16:02:58] John Arnold says:
[16:07:28] John Arnold says: oh god - not Nikon??
[16:16:43] Jeff Curto says: back in a sec….
[16:16:45] John Arnold says: k
[16:17:08] Rolf Steinort says: i am away too for a sec
[16:18:00] Jeff Curto says: back.
[16:18:02] John Arnold says: k
[16:18:51] Benoit Marchal says: I got the URL wrong, what is it again?
[16:19:03] Rolf Steinort says: back
[16:19:12] Jeff Curto says: photophlow.com/
[16:19:13] John Arnold says: http://www.photophlow.com
[16:19:39] Jeff Curto says: http://www.chrisjordan.com/
[16:19:49] Jeff Curto says: I’m gonna talk about this guy’s work
[16:20:24] Jeff Curto says: here’s a video about it:
[16:21:48] Jeff Curto says: http://wmarc001.bcst.yahoo.com/yahoo/chrisjordan.mov
[16:22:09] Chris Marquardt says: don’t click this .mov now or it’ll kill your recording bandwidth
[16:22:18] Jeff Curto says: exactly. Thanks
[16:22:19] John Arnold says: yeah
[16:22:28] Benoit Marchal says: Mine is this: http://titanium.gitzo.com/
[16:27:02] Benoit Marchal says: Sorry, I turn off the microphone so I can make noise here
[16:27:15] John Arnold says: It’s cool
[16:27:16] Chris Marquardt says: good thinking
[16:27:32] Benoit Marchal says: But then I need a lead-in or… I answer and you don’t hear me
[16:27:35] Rolf Steinort says: http://jcornuz.wordpress.com/
[16:28:51] Rolf Steinort says: http://www.sprengel-museum.de/v1/englisch/smhframes.html
[16:40:39] Jeff Curto says: http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com
[16:42:13] Jeff Curto says: Thanks…
[16:42:29] Paul Giguere says: Thanks mcuh all. Sorry about the phone in the background.
[16:42:38] Chris Marquardt says: don’t worry, it’s a podcast
[16:45:25] Chris Marquardt says: Great panel and show, I have a very good feeling about this one.

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