Bill and Jeffery dig into where creative legitimacy actually comes from now that gatekeepers like ASMP and Magnum have lost their grip, and talk about why they stopped chasing metrics and just make the show for its own sake. They also swap stories about a QR-code standoff at the Air and Space Museum and their shared guilt over unfinished projects and letting themselves have fun, before closing with Photographer of the Week Hiromix, whose 1990s film self-portraits look decades ahead of Instagram.

VII Canon ad

Dr Ali Mattu on YouTube

Clyde Lawrence “Guy I Used To Be” on piano

Apple Reference Image

Hiromix article

Hiromix on Canon

Bill and Jeffery talk through a buggy macOS beta, a $10 thrift-store flatbed scanner, and the endless search for a good digital asset manager, then get into why they both might be pulling back from Instagram and just taking photos for themselves again. They also swap stories about vintage audio gear, dream up a DJ-style internet radio show, wrestle with headphone pad mysteries, and close with Photographer of the Week Szilveszter Mako’s whimsical, paper-textured portraits.

Qwestlove with Barry Manilow

PixlPath

Harman Kardon 430 Receiver

Mend It Mark on YouTube

Cool House Jeffery Used to Visit

Tom Hoops’ “Underexposed”

MixCloud

PotW SZILVESZTER MAKA“ on Instagram

Bill and Jeffery ramble from brushes with celebrities and growing up before the internet to a deep dive into old Mold-A-Rama toy machines, vanishing physical media, and why modern life feels so overwhelming, before wrapping up with this week’s featured photographer, Arthur Elgort.

Freedom Train

Mold-A-Rama

Mold-A-Rama Gorilla

Ebba Forsberg Album on Apple Music

PotW Arthur Elgort

Estella Warren in bucket picture

Episode 375 opens with a personal reflection on the death of photographer William Coupon, a friend Bill made through the show years ago, and a broader conversation on grief and mentorship. Bill also describes vibe-coding a custom Mac app with Claude Code to automate uploading episodes and drafting WordPress posts. The back half covers David Hockney’s photographic collage work and how scale affects whether a piece works as a print versus a wall-sized object, plus a preview of an upcoming episode on the new Spielberg film.

Pals with Coupon

William Coupon NYT Obituary

Michael Jackson “She’s Out Of My Life”

Duane Michals NYT Obituary

Quantel Paintbox

David Hockney Photographic Collages

Ansel Adams in AI color? Yuck! Do we ever get past the fear of complete failure and should we? Color grading footage and getting lost. Montana native Robert Osborn is our Photographer of the Week.

Danziger response to the AI Ansel Adams print

Degas “Woman seat beside a vase of flowers”

Bill’s portrait of Alon at a piano

Burden video of “Shoot” (User discretion advised)

Robert Osborn mini-doc

Robert Osborn website

How to teach an old dog new tricks by learning new skills, tools, and processes. Also some discussion of first stage movie making and William Gottlieb as our Photographer of the Week.

Jacob Collier Berklee Commencement Speech

William P Gottlieb on Wikipedia

Big long conversation about change and mental health, then a trip down a used camera rabbit hole. Emma Summerton is our Photographer of the Week.

“Bowling Alone”

John Stewart talking about AI

PotW – Emma Summerton

Sandra Huller in Vanity Fair

Jeffery & Bill are back to discuss the amazing pictures from Artemis II and the cameras they used, as well as whether doing something without it trying to be great is doing it at all. Lillian Bassman, who has a show at The Met in NYC right now, is our Photographer of the Week.

Lunar Eclipse from space – Artemis 2

Strong Songs – Both Sides Now

Liza Minelli and Michael Feinstein

Hockney Documentary

David Hockney – Painting with Light

Lillian Bassman on Wikipedia

Is it worth going backwards in order to go forward? Finding yourself again in things you thought were in your past. Pioneering documentary photographer Alice Seeley Harris is our Photographer of the Week.

“Conjuration” by Pepper Adams

“Blame it on my Youth” played by Keith Jarrett Trio

Ze Frank “The Wave” video

Alice Seeley Harris on Wikipedia

We’re back!! At least every once in a while when we feel like it. This time to discuss Bill fixing the battery door of his beloved Pentax, how changing technology is effecting the reasons why we make things, and whether anyone has a good reason to buy a new camera anymore. Helen Levitt is our impromptu Photographer of the Week.

The Quest for Perfection Is Stunting Our Society

Kodak Brownie 3a

Helen Levitt at MoMA

Eggleston at David Zwirner