August 31, 2006

August 30, 2006

Ikea: Det är bara ett vanligt hundben | Ett foto i den senaste Ikea-katalogen har blivit en global snackis. Orsaken är att den föreställer en lycklig familj med hund, där en speciell kroppsdel på hunden har mycket mänskliga drag. Arbetsnamnet på nätet har blivit ”the swedish sausage”.
The Bridge | More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world.
Results for the Slow Motion challenge

August 29, 2006

Photoshop Painting Techniques: Hair and Fur | If you haven't already, you will at some point in your design career be forced to composite hair or fur into a project. The specific reason isn't important. But how are you going to do it? Use a plugin? Not any of the ones I've seen. Copy and paste hair from another image? Too much of a pain, what with the complex masking and color matching. So what will you do, paint the hair follicle by follicle? Absolutely. But it isn't anywhere near as time-consuming as it sounds.

August 26, 2006

Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut | Now, coming upon this post as you are, unawares, I feel I ought to clarify the title (which was alternately going to be sex libris) straight away by telling you what this post is not, in fact, about. By “library smut” I am in no way referring to the photo books on native peoples, or the illustrated health manuals, or any of the other volumes which, in your childhood, you lurked about the library aisle to find with the sole purpose of sneaking guilty glances at naked bodies. Nor am I referring to the “risqué” novels by Miller, Cleland, Réage, or Lawrence you leafed impatiently through as a teenager. No. What I’m talking about here is the full-frontal objectification of the library itself. Oh yeah.
...moleskine - a photoset on Flickr
Daguerreotype Photographs the Old Fashioned Way | Patented by Daguerre in 1839 after ripping off substantial portions of the technology from Joseph-Nicephore Niepce in the 1820s and 1830s, the Daguerreotype was heralded at the time as an amazing invention. The Daguerreotype remained popular for only a short time (25 years or so at the most) because it was (and remains) expensive, irreproducible, and tricky to make in the first place.
History of the playboy rabbit head logo
The Coffee Achievers | Digitized from a 1984 VHS tape. This is one of the famous Coffee Achievers tv spots, meant to encourage people to DRINK COFFEE. You can see how we here in the 21st Century have to laugh ourselves senseless at the idea that paid ads were necessary, and not even for a particular brand of coffee, just the product in general.

August 20, 2006

Flickr Related Tag Browser | surf Flickr's 'tag space'. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of 'related' tags, based on clustered usage analysis.
Speegle | Speak Perfect Web Search.

August 19, 2006

Fontifier | use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.
Amorphophallus Titanium | A celebrity of the plant world, the Amorphophallus Titanum, or "the corpse flower," is a rare bloom that's native to Indonesia and known for the extreme smell that it emits when it opens. Last week at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, "the Titan," as it's also sometimes known, bloomed for the first time in New York since 1939.
Dr. Stephen Hawking sends a message to Yahoo! Answers community

August 18, 2006

Photo fraud in Lebanon | (flash)

August 17, 2006

Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law | Photography, of course, lost its innocence many years ago.
Flickr: The Bed Jumpers Pool

August 16, 2006

Viemärihyttynen | Jos heräät aamulla hillittömään hyttyskutinaan, jota ei vielä illalla ollut, olet todennäköisesti joutunut viemärihyttysen uhriksi. Se iskee sisätiloissa, erityisesti öisin kaupunkialueilla, ja sen pistot aiheuttavat usein voimakkaan allergisen reaktion. Veijari on hyvin varovainen ja lentää äänettömästi. Sitä onkin vaikea havaita.
Ray Fenwick on Flickr
Daily Type | a creative project run by several russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.

August 15, 2006

The Shape of Song | What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see--literally--the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the crystalline beauty of Philip Glass.
BBC Radio 1 Documentaries - Kraftwerk | Pioneers, 20 years before their time, they invented much of what we recognise as the tools of electronic music. But quite apart from being inventors they were funky as hell and became the most sampled artsits ever. Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos presents Kraftwerk, so much more than 4 geeky German blokes who loved bicycles...

August 14, 2006

Me | The idea is simple, the result is stunning. On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since. In 2004, Lee compiled all of her daily images into a montage with a wistful musical score. In the fast-paced parade of images you're about to see, each second of screen time represents about one week's worth of pictures.
Swing portrait | On April 15th, 2006 we went to a remote sound studio outside of Las Vegas to capture the greatest golf swing of our generation. We took a Phantom v5 digital camera, usually reserved to study military defense systems. This camera boasts the ability to shoot up to 4000 digital still photographs per second. We then turned it on Tiger Woods...

August 13, 2006

Read Print | your free online library.
Carlos Tarrats | photography.

August 12, 2006

TileToy
FlickrStorm | search on Flickr with some Magic.
Red alert | by zefrank (mov)

August 11, 2006

5 Steps To Being More Photogenic | So the question is, why do some people always seem to look good in pictures? Truth is, some people have a triggered response when they are in front of a camera. They do certain things that make them look better. You can also develop a triggered response that makes YOU look better.

August 10, 2006

Record Runner
FontShop Free Fonts and Font Download
Mark Simonson: Let’s Talk Type!
Smithsonian Photography Initiative | we hope to open new doors for you — both to the Smithsonian's extraordinary collections of photographs and to an understanding of the integral roles photographs play in our lives. Beyond offering more information about where to find photography collections throughout the Smithsonian, our website aims to be an educational tool, serving anyone who wishes to study, explore, and enjoy photographs of many kinds.

August 09, 2006

http://www.prankmike.com/ | A few of us at work have been pranked one too many times by a certain coworker by the name of Mike. He was out of town for a few days and we had some extra cardboard laying around. This is what happens when you push creative IT workers too far! Enjoy your new office Mike!

August 08, 2006

Helvetica | is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
Upside-Down-Ternet | My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.

August 07, 2006

August 06, 2006

Jere Majava: Suomalaisten weblogien verkosto keskustelevana julkisuutena | Tutkimus perustuu laajamittaiseen osallistuvaan havainnointiin, vuoden 2005 tammikuusta vuoden 2006 huhtikuuhun toteutettuun virtuaalietnografiaan. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa hyödynnetään blogien välisiä suhderakenteita kartoittavaa verkostoaineistoa yhteensä 257 blogista ja niiden välisistä linkityssuhteista, sekä syksyllä 2005 eduskunnan käsittelemän tekijänoikeuslain herättämää mielipiteenvaihtoa kuvaavaa 280 blogimerkinnän keskusteluaineistoa.
FlipClips | Turn your digital video clips into paper.
WeAreTheWeb.org | Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom.
Stendhal syndrome | a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly 'beautiful' or a large amount of art is in a single place.

August 05, 2006

August 04, 2006

PIKAPIKA | lightning doodle project.
Posters are forever | James Bond posters have become one of the most popular items of film memorabilia. Launched to advertise Dr No in 1962, the posters have continued to become extremely popular and successful. With some of the rarest original posters reaching thousands of pounds, the world of James Bond posters forever continues to astound, aspire and entertain.
Photoshop Automator Actions v3.0 | includes 11 new actions.
Hackers Clone E-Passports | A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year.

August 02, 2006

Cool Hunting: Six Swim Toys | Summer's peak calls for something a little more inventive than an inner tube to distract from soaring temperatures. From a hydrofoil that can hit speeds of 17 mph to a floating table tennis game, these water toys will keep young and old cool and happy.
Hups, makasiinipalo olikin vain vahinko!
AguaSonic Acoustics

August 01, 2006

The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn't know
BRAVIA advert | 70,000 litres of paint, 358 single bottle bombs, 33 sextuple air cluster bombs, 22 Triple hung cluster bombs, 268 mortars, 33 Triple Mortars, 22 Double mortars, 358 meters of weld, 330 meters of steel pipe, 57 km of copper wire.