This post goes in a different direction but I like where it begins:
Akira Watanabe, head of Olympus’ SLR planning department, said that 12 megapixels is plenty for most photography purposes and that his company will henceforth be focusing on improving colour accuracy and low-light performance.
A quotation from the interview with Watanabe may be found here.
LCC bomb damage maps: I have only one alert set up in Ebay, to be notified whenever anybody puts up for sale The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-45. Just last year one copy sold for almost $300. The pictures linked here are free and right here on my computer screen. That’s even better than interlibrary loan.
Portishead: Magic Doors Audio DNA 3: A nifty, circular visualization created using Processing.
User Privacy Settings By Geography: A Flickr Study: I’m not sure how this data was collected but if the author’s claim is correct—that each of the map markers represents a sample of one million Flickr users—then it’s a revealing study of online privacy norms.
stolenstrategies: A great idea for a Flickr group. From the group rules:
things that have been translated into code.
images must be split into inspiration and outcome.
real thing on the left, coded thing on the right.
by Flickr user Quasimondo
Boundaries from flickr georeferencing: Tom Taylor has created a map displaying neighborhood data based on geotagged Flickr photos.
eiðibýli: A bunch of Icelandic houses.
Photos tagged with null: It’s a null set.
Clusters of photos tagged with rad: Don’t worry, I’ve already named my next band The Rad Clusters.
Pictures of actors portraying architects in movies
Sepia No More: The Medium, on Flickr’s often-overprocessed style.
As art-school photographers continue to shoot on film, embrace chiaroscuro and resist prettiness, a competing style of picture has been steadily refined online: the Flickr photograph. …
Rebekka Guoleifsdottir, one of Flickr’s most popular photographers, is the leading exponent of the site’s style. An art student from Iceland who turned to social networking to acquire commissions for her drawings, she came to photography relatively late. Tellingly, she learned to work Flickr before she became proficient with a camera. She discovered how to create the minicollections called “photostreams”; how to create images that would look good shrunk, in “thumbnail” form; and how to flirt with the site’s visitors in the comments area to keep them coming back. As perhaps is always the case with artists, Guoleifsdottir’s evolution as a photographer was bound up in the evolution of her modus operandi, a way of navigating the institutions and social systems that might gain her a following and a living.
First Wedding - my strobist experience: Advice for photographing a wedding.
Jennifer Trausch
[via hawktrainer]
Trausch uses a 235 lb. polaroid camera to capture her amazingly clear images. Hawktrainer recommends the Skateland series; so do I. Especially the shot named Larry. There’s an interview with her from 2007 on The Daily F’log (along with a picture of her using the camera).
The Sky in Motion
[via migurski]
It’s a particularly striking example of a timelapse capture of the night sky, taken on Eagle Island, Maine.
Supersize mind
[via blackbeltjones]
the Extended Mind Thesis . . . fits my life intuitively. I feel that both technology and media extend my mind, and mingle it with other minds. This is why I do what I do; I like that promiscuity, that cultural reproduction.
‘Untouched’ East German flat discovered
[via hawktrainer]
It appears the inhabitant of the humble flat fled in a rush.
Grocery brands from the Socialist state filled the kitchen and old bread rolls still lay in a string bag.
A wall calendar showed August 1988 and an empty bottle of Vita Cola, Marella margarine, Juwel cigarettes and a bottle of Kristall vodka were in the kitchen.
The only foreign product to be found was a West German bottle of deodorant.
See also the most popular bookmarks tagged ‘abandoned’ on delicious.com.
The Siege of Leningrad ended 65-years ago today
[via bldgblog]
Old photographs from the Siege of Leningrad superimposed over photographs from the city as it is today. (English translation of the original page.)
“rising like alien plants on the terraformed lakebed”
[via mtchl]
In order to minimize the carcinogenic dust storms off of barren Owens Lake, the City of Los Angeles built a series of over 5,000 irrigation bubblers on the lakebed at a cost of $425 million. Pruned compares these bubblers—sad, broken sprinklers, really—to fountains:
since time immemorial, fountains have been creating micro-climates, cooling gardens, palaces and sartorially bedecked aristocrats. The array of bubblers, you could say, is also a type of weather modification system: an anti-dust storm.
Looking toward EveryBlock’s future
[via migurski]
Adrian Holovaty announces the EveryBlock publishing system will go open-source when their grant ends five months from today. With so many smart people able to get their hands on that code, I wonder how long until we have the beginnings of a Craigslist for location-based local news.
I also wonder if this decision by EveryBlock will force Sufjan Stevens into open-sourcing his album-writing formula so the rest of us can release material based on the other states.
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