Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Smithsonian Photography Initiative launches click!

The official goal of click! is to start “an unprecedented dialogue about the ways photography enables people to document and actively interact with the world.” The site is split into themes: Who We Are, What We Do, What We See, Where We Go, What We Want, and What We Remember. Writers, visionaries, artists, and various [...]

Focusing in on pinhole photography

Chad met Eric Renner at SPE. Eric and Nancy Spencer are the Blurb authors behind on deaf ears, a book of their assemblages captured through pinhole photography. Chad really liked the book and how passionate Nancy and Eric are about pinhole photography. Turns out they’re behind Pinhole Resource, a non-profit organization and site seriously devoted [...]

Things we do on our days off: Ben races Big Wheels

Go, Speed Racer! Go! Last weekend, Ben represented Blurb in San Francisco’s BYOBW Race. (That stands for bring your own Big Wheel.) Robin, our Senior VP of Marketing and Business Development, donated the vehicle. Then Ben tricked it out with our logo, NASCAR-style. Picture a bunch of adults riding plastic kiddie trikes down hill, around [...]

Takes some sharp talons to grip this Book of the Week

The parrots of Telegraph Hill fly outside my apartment windows. It’s sort of thrilling to see something so exotic so close in such a big city. Matthew Jorgensen probably gets a much bigger rush photographing birds of prey, considering how close he gets. He is the photographer and author behind Raptor, our Book of the [...]