TCF Ep. 574 - Nathan Myhrvold

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Nathan Myhrvold is a prominent scientist, technologist, inventor, author, and food photographer. In a 14-year tenure at Microsoft, Myhrvold led advanced technology and business development groups, founded Microsoft Research, managed an R&D budget of $2 billion, and served as the company’s chief strategist and chief technology officer. In 2000, after retiring from Microsoft, Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures (IV), which he leads as CEO and one of its most prolific inventors, with more than 900 U.S. patents awarded. Food and cooking have been passions of Myhrvold since childhood. While at Microsoft, he worked nights at a Seattle restaurant with chef Thierry Rautureau and then obtained a culinary degree at Ecole De La Varenne in Burgundy. In 2007, he founded The Cooking Lab, a culinary research laboratory, photo studio, and publishing company. In 2011, he published a five-volume, 2,500-page cookbook, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. His three-volume book Modernist Pizza was published in 2021. Websites Nathan Myhrvold Modernist Cuisine Irving Penn Edward Weston Chico Portfolio Review Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Lensrentals.com Curious Society Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club. Working with the most
0:13.9	respected names in contemporary photography, charcoal selects and delivers essential
0:19.3	photo books to a worldwide community of collectors.
0:23.2	Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to their collections.
0:30.7	Join the club by visiting Charlecotebookclub.com and use the promo code The Candid Frame at checkout checkout and receive a 10% discount on your first
0:41.1	membership payment.
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0:50.5	They carry the most popular brands and models of cameras, lenses, and anything you need for video, lighting, post-processing, and more.
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1:13.1	their newsletter at lendsrentals.com forward slash newsletter. When putting together a resume,
1:22.0	a rule of thumb is to limit it to just a single page. Today's guest, Nathan Mirvald, would have an impossible time doing that if he had to, which he doesn't.
1:33.9	Along with being the former chief technology officer from Microsoft and the co-founder of his own company, Intellectual Ventures,
1:40.8	he is also the co-inventor of over 900 US patents issued to his corporation and its affiliates.
1:49.0	However, it's his passion for food that led him to earn a culinary diploma in France and eventually become the principal author and photographer for his books on cooking, beginning with the modernist cuisine, the art of science and cooking.
2:05.2	Through his efforts, he reimagined what food photography was and could be,
2:10.0	and led to amazing innovations in approach and technology.
2:14.2	He brings together science, artistry, imagination, and good food in a way that only he can deliver.
2:21.8	This is E-Body an X, and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
2:30.2	Thank you so much for making time for me. I'm glad we were finally able to make this happen.
2:55.2	Yep. I've really enjoyed your work and finding out more about it, man. You, sometimes I think I'm busy, and I just look at the litany of things that you're doing going, man, I'm a, I'm a slub compared to this guy. But there's a lot to talk about with you. So one of the things that I'm kind of want to start with is that when I talk to photographers of a certain generation, you know, I ask about, you know, sort of the moment where
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