Tuesday, June 30, 2009

From Walkman to iPod

Analogue cameras are still loved by a lot of people but what about the walkman? Read this fun article of a kid that was asked to trade its iPod for a Sony Walkman for some time. The comment I liked the most was along the lines of:"Glad all the technological change took place before I was born ... !"

Yuri Arcurs

Yuri Arcurs is the world’s top selling microstock photographer and has one serious micro stock photo studio. Via strobist.

30 Exceptional Web Designs

Sean Geng has compiled a list 30 exceptional web page designs for your inspiration.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

cover art at it's finest

Jason Munn designed a beautiful cover for my friend's band the "The Echo Falls". I do like many more of Jason's pieces for their apparent timeless appeal.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A - Z Twitter Creative Elite to Follow

Jozef has compiled an A-Z list of creative elite designers and bloggers to follow on Twitter.

Lensbaby Composer

What is the Lensbaby Composer? The composer is a ball and socket designed lens that allows a photographer to deliver smooth selective focus. Similar (to an extent) to a tilt shift lens but much less expensive.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Designer’s Favourite Fonts & Why

Jacob Cass sent out a tweet asking my followers what their favourite font was and why.

Donny and Marie's Star Wars

Donny and Marie's Star Wars with special guests Redd Foxx, Kris Kristofferson and Paul Lynde. It horrifying but I can't stop watching it!

Saturday, June 20, 2009

iPhone DSLR Remote

If you've been itching for an excuse to marry your photography hobby with your addiction for all things Apple, there's now an app that will let you take photos with your Canon SLR from your iPhone.

Perfectible Worlds

Perfectible Worlds, 2007 by Sage Sohier.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

shootq.com

shootq is a web-based studio management solution that automates your business and gives you the freedom to focus on what you love

lukaszlenckowski.net

Lukasz Lenckowski is a fairly serious amateur photographer. See how he sees the world through his lenses.

Top 10: The architecture of Star Wars (pt I)

The Architects’ Journal selects the most important buildings from a galaxy far, far away

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

scene360.com

scene360 is celebrating their 10th year on the web with the relaunch of their site.

Iconfinder.net

Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.

Friday, June 12, 2009

A few links

thewebblend.com is a design news aggregator that keeps current with summaries of the latest in web related news and trends. myinkblog.com is the creation of Andrew Houle and is designed to be a resource for web and graphic designers alike.

vendor client video

This video has been going viral among agency folks like wildfire. A comical look at the vendor client relationship.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The SUPER Compact Cameras

A new breed of cameras is solving the dilemma of wanting to carry a camera with you at all times of the day but neither being happy with the pictures of a point and shoot nor wanting to carry your SLR camera and bag all day long. My strong favorite at this point is the Panasonic DMC-LX3K but there are also Sigma DP2 and Canon G10 to reckoned with. The Serious Compacts Blog provides great reviews of all the available models!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Video installation for the elevators in New York’s Standard Hotel

This video installation (by director/artist Marco Brambilla and Crush Toronto) for the elevators in New York’s Standard Hotel takes elevator passengers on a visual trip from hell to heaven on the way up, and from heaven to hell on the way down. Civilization.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Crop and Post!

New feature on the morgueFile, crop and post. On any image display page, look for the crop and post link under the image. You can crop the image to a size you need and post it in your blog or project, or to share with a friend. Give it a try.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Fascinating Digital Painting Tutorials

Smashing magazine has published a huge list of fascinating digital painting tutorials. If you're interested in learning to create art through this medium, here are over 40 tutorials to help you.

New Digg ad model

Digg.com is rolling out a new advertising platform — Digg Ads. Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay. Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go

You can now use Google's Street View's smart navigation to travel to a new place just by double clicking on the place or object you would like to see.

Vote for the next Hasselblad Masters!

The top 100 finalists in the Hasselblad 2009 Masters Awards Competition have now been selected. This year the voting to determine the final 10 is also open to the public! Images are now online for viewing and voting.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

mrg.bz, morgueFile for tweeting

Introducing http://mrg.bz, morgueFile for tweeting. Now morgueFile has its own internal link shortening for use with twitter or any other service that requires shorter links. Visit any image page on the morgueFile and look for the mrg.bz links right below the image to give it a try.

Art vs Design Competition - Deadline Extended

Are you an Artist or a Designer? Art vs Design competition extended the deadline until midnight tonight. $25 entry free only. Enter your work for a chance to win an exhibition and other prizes.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt is from London, in 2000 he started photographing in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style.

Monday, June 1, 2009

40 Amazing Online Photography Magazines

As an introduction to the wonderful world of online photography magazines, smashingmagazine put together a list of the biggest and best that they could find.

Glowing monkeys!

Spending time with scientist friends from NYU it is not often they get excited about anything I hear about in the news regarding science, but this they think is very exciting. Glowing monkeys! What makes it so exciting is this is the first genetically modified primates that can pass their modifications to their offpsring.