thephotosociety.org

thephotosociety.org is a group of contributing photographers for National Geographic Magazine, committed to telling the world’s stories through pictures.

USB drive digital camera

A USB drive that is also a digital camera? Talk about James Bond spy style! These palm-sized cameras by Japanese toy camera maker, Power Shovel, are USB powered and can take both video and photos, written directly to the USB flash drive. Insert a MicroSD card (up to 16GB) for expanded storage and use it as a regular USB storage drive as well.

Little Printer

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

The most shared articles of 2011 on facebook

Facebook looked back at 2011 to find out the most popular articles on its platform. Here’s the “top 40 shared articles in English” list that Facebook just made public:

Your Photo Data Is Safe…Underwater?

Markus Thompson, found a camera at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of British Colubmia. He salvaged the camera, poked around a little bit (determining that the camera had been dropped into the water in August 2010), recovered the data off the card and, using Google+, found the owner.

ACOPAL's finalist

The Beijing World Art Museum - ACOPAL's Inaugural Exhibition in China is scheduled to open September 2012 at the World Art Museum in Beijing. See the finalist here. There is some amazing work from the best realist painters in the world, definitely worth checking out.

Curiosity Rover

Mars Science Laboratory Mission Animation

new york shots

Shots captured with disposable cameras left in new york's lovely parks.

John Tyler Christopher

John Tyler Christopher is an illustrator from Seattle, Wa., currently based out of Atlanta, Ga. A member of Studio Revolver, his work has appeared on the covers of Witchblade, as a designer for Star Wars Miniatures, and in the pages of Dungeon & Dragons, a variety of White Wolf publications & Mutants and Masterminds. He enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, painting, playing his ps3 and waxing intellectually about the shear awesomeness of the Gorn.

Movember

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.

Clever ad campaign for TheShelterPetProject

The Shelter Pet Project is a public service ad campaign focused on spreading the word that pets in shelters are wonderful and lovable, and encouraging potential adopters to consider the shelter as the first place to find a new best friend.

The Man Who Invented Email

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai holds the first copyright for “EMAIL”—a system he began building in 1978 at just 14 years of age. It was modeled after the communication system being used at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. His task: replicate the University’s traditional mail system electronically.

Sapient Nitro Idea Engineer's Music video.

This is the most epic self promotion video- ever!

15 YouTube Tricks

If you can sit through it, some good ideas if you are looking for examples of viral utilities on youtube.

Midnight Sun | Iceland

Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day.

viktor skurko

viktor skurko is a pirate, a scoundrel and a lover of watercolors.

Catvertising

To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world's first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all in-house. Ask yourself, what can cat videos do for your business?

theforeignview.com

Announcing the foreign view. theforeignview.com not only offers pictures of the new york city’s imaginary, but also custom tours designed to suit your interests and capture your experience in New York up close.

newsblur.com

Newsblur is visual feed reading with intelligence. Hand-crafted by @samuelclay in New York City.

LG Optimus Hyper Facade in Berlin

Very cool LG Hyper Facade event in Berlin, thanks liz.

From the desk of Chad Silver

From the Desk of Chad Silver, Screen Printing & Vinyl Graphics, represents the work/art/projects created by Chad Silver & his constellation of collaborators & associates

videoliberty.org

Free as in beer videos! videoliberty.org is a database of open-licensed video content. Find or publish open-licensed video clips now!

Honda Unveils All-new ASIMO with Significant Advancements

It can run at 9kph and hop on one or both legs, and more.

Lenses and perspective, or distortion on a face for beauty.

Stephen Eastwood ask the question, Why do you use long lenses and what's the advantage or disadvantage for it? Its worth checking out the images he posted for comparisons.

9 websites that tell you the possibilities of CSS3

With the introduction of new CSS3 features few years back, it enables designers to save more time and resources while creating wonderful effects without using either images or Javascript.

Bullet time

Surf gear company Rip Curl and Time-Slice Films, the visual effects house behind the "bullet time" visuals first seen in The Matrix, have partnered up to take digital camera arrays where they've never gone before: In the water to capture surfers in action.

Lisa Marie Bové

Lisa Marie Bové is a visual artist living in Buffalo, NY. Although she is primarily a photographer, she enjoys the exploration of other mediums.

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will pass by Earth on November 8

NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. Scientists are treating the flyby of the 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity – allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass.

Banana!

Banana! via Tristan Bethe

A Year in New York

Living in New York Andrew Clancy would grab his Canon 7D, or S95, and shoot footage of what was going on around him. It seemed like a never ending project and you could stay filming life in New York for a long time. Eventually he put the camera down and started to edit. Here’s the end result.

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

Mona Simpson is a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University.

Nikon DSLRs for Just $2

Amazon is selling the Photive ML-L3 Wireless Shutter Release Remote for Nikon DSLRs for just $2 with free shipping.

khanacademy.org

Learn almost anything for free. With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 224 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.