ZEIGER from █▀██▄█▀▀█ on Vimeo. Fed up with the growing number of projected moving ads in their Berlin subway station, a group of [artists] decided to fight back in a non-destructive way using minimally invasive ad...
Archive - March 2011
Discovery’s Final Mission in Pictures
From NASAtelevision The era of the space shuttle is over and the pictures and video are all that remain of that time. Universe Today showcases some of the most beautiful images from Discovery’s final mission to...
The Future of Google
I just had an epiphany. No, not an epileptic seizure. And, I am not talking about the religious festival called by the same name or a vision. No, I am talking about a sudden intuition [why didn’t you just say so?]...
Take A Tour of A Lexar Manufacturing Facility
From LexarMediaInc How is your Lexar memory card made? It’s all incredibly automated. Take a factory tour with this video. Here are some trivia: The clean room is 100x cleaner than a hospital operating room...
Spectacularly Beautiful Sun Plasma Photo
Featured Site: How about this for an out-of-this-world photography? Alan Friedman uses his Little Big Man 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope connected to a Mac to take some seriously spectacular pictures of the… Sun...
Use Metacognition To Become A Better Photographer
Before you turn away in disgust at another use of a fancy word, consider that “metacognition” is a big word today in our schools. This means that our kids are being taught everyday about it and how it will...
Sleeper Photography
Featured Site: Naomi Leshem – Sleeper's Series In Street Photography we take pictures of people going about their daily business unaware that we are photographing them, capturing and preserving a slice of...
What If… Cats Had Thumbs?
f we dare to admit it to ourselves, we don’t know what our cats do all day at home while we’re away at the office. If you let your cat roam outside freely [oh, perish the thought], you really don’t...
Joel Meyerowitz, Street Photographer
“The photographer was a guy named Robert Frank…” from Olivier Laurent on Vimeo. In this video, award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz talks about working for Robert Frank and taking his own first...
Olympus XZ-1 Review @ DigitalCameraReview
“Worthy of consideration as a G12 or P7000 alternative.” We’ve added a new Olympus XZ-1 [QuickPrice Check] Review to our Reviews Matrix. DigitalCameraReview has posted their review of the Olympus XZ-1...
The Under-Served Enthusiast Group
Thom Hogan has an excellent piece on the under-served Enthusiast photographers group. It seems that no camera maker is specifically targeting this niche, instead cloberring together a hodge-podge of solutions that is...
Barcode Movies
What you are looking at is the 1942 Disney movie Bambi compressed into a barcode. Every frame of the movie is compressed into one line and the whole movie fits into the barcode you see above. Amazing, isn’t it...
The Staff of Life: Bread
Tartine Bread from 4SP Films on Vimeo. I remember going to the bakery as a kid with my Dad and, if you went early enough when the bakery had just opened its doors, you could catch the baker making the bread in the oven...
Panasonic Announces Pricing For 2011 Lumix Cameras
PANASONIC ANNOUNCES PRICING FOR ITS 2011 PREMIUM LINEUP OF LUMIX DIGITAL CAMERA MODELS SECAUCUS, NJ (March 8, 2011) – Panasonic today announces pricing for its LUMIX DMC-ZS10, LUMIX DMC-ZS8, LUMIX DMC-TS3 and LUMIX DMC...
The Enchanted Miniature World of Slinkachu
ost of us walk by uninterested to what lies at our feet. We’re careful not to step on stuff, but otherwise scarcely give a second glance at the objects lying on the ground. But from March 3 to April 4, 2011, you...
Fujifilm FinePix X100 Presented in UK
Fujifilm’s Finepix X100 – Focus on Imaging from Olivier Laurent on Vimeo. Fujifilm UK’s Theo Georghiades, senior business manager, presents the Finepix X100 camera in this video for British Journal of...
World Photography Organisation Honors Bruce Davidson With Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award
The World Photography Organisation has announced today that Bruce Davidson, the renowned American photographer is to be awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at this year’s Sony World Photography...
This 3D Flyover Map Goes One Step Further Than Google Maps
From c3ttd Who can deny the usefulness of Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth? However, C3 Technologies, a Swedish spinoff of the aerospace and defense company Saab AB, has taken this technology one step...
Hair-Raising Helmet Camera Video
Valparaíso Cerro Abajo 2011 from Toño on Vimeo. These helmet video cameras are gaining in popularity and are ideal when you want to record your trip, like say bicycle racing down the twisting and steep hill roads of...
This Chicken Came After The Egg(shells)
Kyle Bean solved the “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” conundrum by making his chicken from eggshells. View more pictures at: Kyle Bean. source laughingsquid Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window)...
Life-like Robot Face Brings Us Closer To A.I.
From GeminoidDK In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a simple experiment to determine when computers would have acquired artificial intelligence (A.I.): if we cannot tell the difference between a computer and a real human...