Where are the hot photo spots in your city? Eric Fischer took the time to create city maps based on Flickr’s geotag data. Tourist photos are red, locals are blue, and yellow is unknown. If you are a tourist, this is a great way to find out where the locals hang out.
Tag: photography
The Decisive Moment
“There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment” —Henri Cartier-Bresson Apparently the decisive moment even applies to shuttin’ off the TeeVee. I really like the photographs in Stephan Tillmans’ Luminant Point Arrays project. He captures these beautiful minimal images that I’m sure I’ve seen a million times without ever thinking … Continued
Stunning Time-lapse Video of Yosemite National Park will Take Your Breathe Away
Being on Half Dome that night felt like being on another planet, a smooth granite surface under our feet and endless space spinning overhead. The morning’s sunrise felt like the first proper sunrise we’d ever witnessed. —Project Yosemite Project Yosemite captures spectacular vistas in photographs and time-lapse video; it shares what you will find in … Continued
Kind of Sued
Copyright is tricky business. The problem with “fair use” is that even if you’re in the right you can still get sued out of existence. The internet has changed the way we interact with creative works, yet we are still governed by a hazy doctrine from 1976. Andy Baio details his experience with his pet … Continued
Ink on Glass? A New Look at Photo Printing
Turn your digital photos into glass. Upload your favorite photo to Fracture and see the results of printing ink onto the back of shatter-proof glass. I’d love to see one in person. It’s a unique way to simplify the printing and framing process. It may even inspire me to print some photos!
30-Hour Liquid Nitrogen Burgers
I would love to see a copy of this book. We know from experience that the photography will be absolutely gorgeous. From the NYT: The cheeseburger, for instance, requires the meat to be cooked sous vide for several hours. Freezing with liquid nitrogen ensures that the crust will stay crispy while the center stays perfectly … Continued
4 Seconds a Day with 50 Tiny Dots
The world’s smallest stop motion character animation, certified by the Book of Guinness World Records. The animation was created by the folks behind Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animation. From Nokia’s Blog: Shooting only four seconds of footage per day, the team worked painstakingly to produce the movie. Rather than create a model for the lead … Continued
NASA
Historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr, the fruit of a collaborative effort between Flickr , NASA and the Internet Archive. This move will widen the audience for the great images that have long been available at NASA Images.
Web 0.2
This is what the desktop on the first typing/computer class I had in school looked like. Booted up from a disk and everything. We would use the typing program and repeat the cryptic sentences in our books. Sentences like, ‘Ask a lad; ask a lass, all Jacks fall’. Yes we had typing books for our … Continued