2013-05-14
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What if pixels weren’t necessarily supposed to look like little squares and sit in the so-called “right order”? What if what we call “real” or “true” images were not the only way the World around us can be represented? What if photographic data was just… data? What if it could be reinterpreted?
Free on the App Store. Images from Fast Co Design, via George Oates.
2013-04-22
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Berlin at night from space, with the old west and east still visible:
“Berlin was divided into two parts for over 40 years,” explains Christa Mientus-Schirmer of Berlin’s city government. “And although we’ve made a lot of progress in the 20 years since the wall fell, we haven’t had the money we would have liked to equalise the two parts of the city.”
Daniela Augenstine, of the city’s street furniture department, says: “In the eastern part there are sodium-vapour lamps with a yellower colour. And in the western parts there are fluorescent lamps – mercury arc lamps and gas lamps – which all produce a whiter colour.” The western Federal Republic of Germany long favoured non-sodium lamps on the grounds of cost, maintenance and carbon emissions, she says.
Guardian quote via chriswoebken.
2013-04-04
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imagistapp, commenting On (New) Ways of Photographing and Consuming.
[citation needed]
Seriously. Instagram’s image presentation is so devoid of context that it’s laughable. There’s barely any attention paid to location, and none to time (the existence of the latergram tag indicates how poorly that’s handled). Speaking of tags, the presentation of those is also laughable.
I mean, I think I know what (Joshua?) is getting at here, but I really really don’t agree, for all that I accept that Instagram’s capture and upload seems to have set a standard for getting images posted.
(via imagistapp)
2013-03-27
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Remember the ISS photography maps from Nathan Bergey? The ones where he asked “Draw a dot for the location of every photo of Earth taken from space what do we see?” Well, everyone loves an animated gif, so here’s the final “mission mapped separately” image rejigged as an animation.
It’s a little janky, because despite being a developer not a designer I ended up wrangling this in Photoshop, but hopefully you like it anyway.
2013-03-25
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Visualisations of all the (geotagged) photos taken from the International Space Station, by Nathan Bergey.
The full article is well worth looking at.
2013-03-20
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Impossible Project, 2010 - Color Shade, First Flush. It may seem heretical to some, but I miss the beautiful painterly aspects of those first few packs of Impossible Project film. They were so beautiful, like a photograph trapped between a dream and a painting. Hard to believe it’s been three years already
Heather’s right; it is hard to believe. I first saw this post in its Twitter version, and my reaction was a sort of stunned disbelief.
Coming across the full photset on Tumblr, though, and I see exactly what she means. Personally I never had quite so much luck with the early Impossible Project films, but I can entirely see the desire to go back to that.
(I’ve recently dug my 680 back out after a year of it sitting unused. Time to get back in the instant habit.)
2013-03-18
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glitchnews (via slavin):
Pedestrians cast shadows on the pavement near the headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo.
