Thoughtful doc on art today

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities.

But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era. presspauseplay.com @presspauseplay Facebook: on.fb.me/y4gEK1

Christmas swim

Photographs here :http://www.flickr.com/photos/moogan/sets/72157628563400197/

doubleplusgood ingsoc

doubleplusgood ingsoc
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Porthcawl Christmas Swim 2011

Porthcawl Christmas Swim 2011, a set on Flickr.

Winter Solstice Gathering

Winter Solstice Gathering
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Coney beach - Grice family on the beach, mulled wine.

Sparklers on the beach

Sparklers on the beach
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Shooting the sunset

Shooting the sunset
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Took my old Minolta X300 out. Loaded with a 24 roll of Kodak Colorplus 200 ASA film I had free with my last developing.

SoundCloud suffers DDOS attack

Message from Soundcloud

We would like to apologize for yesterday's service outage.

Audio message from Alex:
http://soundcloud.com/alex/thanks-and-were-sorry-at/s-4SBID

On Tuesday October 4 at approximately 8:40pm CET, our Operations team were
alerted to an unusually high amount of unidentified traffic leading to a complete
network outage. Within minutes, our CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Operations and
all available Operations engineering resources were deployed to investigate
the issue and we worked around the clock to locate and resolve it.

We identified the problem as being a major distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attack and initially resolved it around 6.30am CET.

After seeing the service stabilize for a few hours yesterday morning, unfortunately
a second denial of service attack occurred around noon CET as the attackers adjusted
to our preventive measures. This attack delayed full mitigation until we were able
to implement more robust measures which are now in place. Around 7pm CET last night,
our scalable defensive measures were in place and we were able to stabilize the service
gradually. As of this morning, all services are fully back and operational.

Our databases including your data were not affected by these attacks. Rest assured
that we'll do everything in our power to prevent such an outage from happening again.
Our engineering teams will continue to assess the situation moving forward.

Again, our sincere apologies for letting you down. We are humbled by the continued
support you've shown us in your Tweets, comments and emails, proof that the
SoundCloud Community is special.

Thank you,

Alex, Co-Founder and CEO | Eric, Co-Founder and CTO

Late Summer

Late Summer
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Nikon Facebook PR blunder "A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses..."

Crass error, most likely an intern with the social media PR firm used to update the Nikon facebook page. Over two thousand mostly angry comments.

"Do any of our facebook fans use any of the NIKKOR lenses?" asks the insightful poster. Note the "any". Completely clueless.

and the follow up comment from Nikon...

Elvis Festival 2011 - Walking to Hi Tide

Elvis Festival 2011 - Walking to Hi Tide
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

|Olympus XZ-1, processed in Aperture and Topaz Labs Lens Effects.

Breaking wave

Breaking wave
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Shot with Olympus xz-1 sequential mode, RAW, Stitched in PSE9, processed with Topaz Labs Adjust.