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Re: Pride Sunday Headlines: Dolores Park Filled for Another Dyke March Day

Thomas Hawk — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:43:00 -0000

Hey Jay, you are illegally using my images on your site and violating my copyright. I've already made two DMCA contacts over your infringement. Do I have to sue you to get you to take them down?

Re: 10 Reasons Why Flickr is the Best Site on the Internet for Photographers

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:36:02 -0000

You get out of Flickr what you put into it. If you are getting single hand view counts maybe you are not contributing the community and engaging with others. I get 150,000 - 200,000 views fairly consistently every day. I routinely get image inquiries about images people find there that lead to image sales.

Re: 10 Reasons Why Flickr is the Best Site on the Internet for Photographers

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:32:29 -0000

facial recognition tools would be awesome!

Re: Generative AI is a Minefield for Copyright Law

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:52:13 -0000

“I really don’t think imagery should be owned, including my own. If it’s part of our world, it’s like owning words. How can you own words? It’s just stuff to use.” John Baldessari

Re: Instagram Co-Founder Doesn’t Like What the App Has Become

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:57:43 -0000

Instagram gives me the willies.

Re: Midjourny Founder Admits to Using a ‘Hundred Million’ Images Without Consent

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:53:13 -0000

“I really don’t think imagery should be owned, including my own. If it’s part of our world, it’s like owning words. how can you own words? It’s just stuff to use.” John Baldessari

Re: Twitter vs. Flickr: A View Count Comparison for Photographers

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:58:46 -0000

Valid criticism. Hence the "unscientific" disclaimer in the post. I actually announced that I was running the test on both platforms, Flickr and Twitter, where it may have been seen by users on either.

I suspect different photographers would have different outcomes. One thing that is true though is that Flickr's Explore can dramatically boost view count. I'd suspect that being retweeted by the "right" account on Twitter (say Elon) could also have a tremendous boost to view count. Mostly I just focus on engaging on both platforms, but thought it was an interesting test to run for myself personally, even if unscientific.

Re: SmugMug and Flickr Create Nonprofit Foundation To Preserve Cultural and Historical Photographs

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:19:37 -0000

Thank you Don MacAskill, Ben MacAskill and George Oates for working on this important project. Flickr's commitment to the long-term preservation of our shared photographic heritage is one of the main reasons why I've entrusted Flickr with my own photographic archive as a photographer. Happy to have a Pro account on Flickr and help support such a great team who are maintaining such an important collection of images on the web.

Re: Vernacular Photography: The Joy of Collecting Found Photos

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:04:46 -0000

Thanks for the encouragement Jim and always love seeing your photos on Flickr as well. Definitely scan your dad's old slides and share those as well. :)

Re: Vernacular Photography: The Joy of Collecting Found Photos

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 13:18:39 -0000

Thanks Les, yes, it's been a lot of fun -- and yes, the Clouse family does have a certain edge. I was able to find the obituary of a woman online, Polly Clouse, who is one of the Clouse children in those photos.

Re: Persistent Remote-Work Rules Could Well Kill SF's Downtown Hospitality Scene

Thomas Hawk — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:10:28 -0000

good times. :)

Re: Friday Morning Constitutional: BART Board OKs First Fare Hike In Two Years

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:35:18 -0000

Maybe raising the BART fares/fees will encourage more of the work from home people to come back to work in the City again. Very smart.

Re: Persistent Remote-Work Rules Could Well Kill SF's Downtown Hospitality Scene

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:34:58 -0000

I was going into the office at 1 Montgomery five days a week before the pandemic. Now I go in maybe once a month and work from home the rest of the time.

Option 1 going into the office: wake up, shower, shave, put on pants and a shirt, pay for the gas to drive to West Oakland BART, pay to park at West Oakland BART, have to put on a mask to ride the BARt, pay for BART, pay $17 for a salad for lunch, pay for BART home, pay for gas to drive from the station home. Maybe spend 1 hour of my day (30 minutes each way) commuting. Have to deal with a lot of internet sites being blocked where I work using a Microsoft PC.

Although the drug/addicted homeless are not as prevalent downtown as other areas there still are a lot there. It's not that they are so awful but you get the horribly smelling BART car from time to time, or some guy who decides to yell and swear obscenities at the top of his lungs in the BART station, or the lady who slaps your said $17 salad out of your hand as your walking back to your office from work as you watch it splatter all over the pavement and have to go buy another one, or the guy who tries to ram his city rental bike into you in the crosswalk (fortunately you jump and he only clips your leg).

You get the idea.

Option 2 working from home: wake up, stay in my t-shirt, shorts, barefoot, walk upstairs to my spacious attic and log into work on my better, faster Mac with much better tech and nothing blocked on the internet. Take a 10 minute break at some point during the day and maybe hop on the rowing machine in front of the 85 inch LCD television (still in shorts) Go downstairs at 11am and make yourself a much nicer/cheaper salad, hang out with the dog while you work. Maybe stop working at 4pm or so and go take the dog on a walk at a nice clean safe off leash park with redwoods within walking distance of my house, say hi and catch up with a bunch of neighbors with their dogs also at the park. Walk back home from the dog park and make some dinner.

There are some things you miss working at home. I used to like to go to SF MOMA all the time as a member, but don't really want to go back again until you don't have to wear masks. I used to wander around the city after work and take photos, etc. I'll probably start going in again at some point maybe just a little to do those sorts of things again, but it sure is easy to get used to this WFH thing.

Re: Instagram Identity Feature

Thomas Hawk — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:13:03 -0000

Flickr.

Re: Apple VP talks Apple TV 4K living room takeover, gaming and the future of the streaming platform

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 24 May 2021 18:20:09 -0000

More likely that someone who has influence to fix these problems will see it here and have them fixed (hopefully) vs. sending the issues into the black hole that goes nowhere inside of customer service departments at places like Apple or CNBC.

Re: Apple VP talks Apple TV 4K living room takeover, gaming and the future of the streaming platform

Thomas Hawk — Sun, 23 May 2021 10:32:17 -0000

But will CNBC still lock up 2x a day and require an app relaunch? And will I still have to type in a stupid code on a website every few weeks when I want to watch an app and put in my xfinity credentials over and over and over and over and over again? And will my large photo library ever play on AppleTV? And will Apple still pause my TV show right in the middle of it demanding that I re-enter my Apple ID password for the 400th time on the device?

Re: The Lost America Project: 30-Years of Urban Exploration Light Painting

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 11 May 2021 13:02:18 -0000

A fantastic photographer and body of work. Highly recommended. Keep up the great work Troy.

Re: Google Photos – Bait, meet Switch

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:04:55 -0000

This is what I see when I go to the link: https://www.flickr.com/phot... If I have to pay first to see the higher tier plans that's confusing for the user. Even if I wanted to pay though I would not. What's to say Google will not just pull the plug on Google photos entirely like they did with Picasa, Google Buzz, Google Wave, Google+, etc? Google's track record has not been good in this regard. I'm not really interested in putting money, time and energy into something that may not be here next year at all.

Re: Google Photos – Bait, meet Switch

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:53:53 -0000

If you go to their promoted page where they sell you storage it does not show any plan over 2TB. If in fact they offer one it's not indicated on this page. https://one.google.com/abou...

Re: SF Supervisors Create 12 New Commercial Districts Ahead of Ballot Vote on Retail Vacancy Tax

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:20:19 -0000

Actually the image with this story is one of mine not RW18 :)

Re: Saturday Links: SFO Starts Screening For Deadly Chinese Coronavirus

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:17:07 -0000

I like the photo you picked for this story. :)

Re: Saturday Links: San Francisco's Never-Ending Excrement Issue

Thomas Hawk — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 14:47:02 -0000

Expect a lot more over the next few years.

Chesa Boudin: “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness.”

Re: Do I Really Need a Drobo as a Photographer?

Thomas Hawk — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:40:38 -0000

I've got 4 Drobo 5Ds that hold all of my photos (originals plus a backup copy of each original on a different Drobo locally). I'm about ready to buy my 5th. Have used their products for a decade and am very happy with them. The units have a slot for an SSD which speeds up their performance considerably.

Re: Day Around the Bay: Recall Effort Begins For Sup. Sandra Fewer

Thomas Hawk — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:45:52 -0000

"State Department of Justice records show homicide, rape, assault and robbery have doubled on BART — from 234 incidents in 2015 to 481 incidents last year — after six years of relative stability. The agency reported 323 violent crimes on BART in 2019 through August, a 3% uptick compared to the first eight months of last year."

I wonder what percentage of crimes are committed by fare evaders.

Re: Number Of Homeless In SF Could Be More Than Double the Point-In-Time Count

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:20:39 -0000

The homeless are attracted to San Francisco and continue to live homeless on the streets of San Francisco because San Francisco is one of the few American cities that will allow drug addicts to live on the streets and do their drugs every single day, day in and day out. If you use meth or heroin daily in most other American cities you will eventually end up arrested -- but in San Francisco you can go on abusing your drug of choice every single day for years or until you overdose and die. It's cruel to the addicts and reduces safety for the citizenry.