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"There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:18:40 +0100

““There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore,” Mayer said”

- Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office — Tech News and Analysis (via iamdanw)

Maurizio Galimberti, Polaroid Mosaic (via eerriinnffrroosstt)

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:16:11 +0100

Maurizio Galimberti, Polaroid Mosaic (via eerriinnffrroosstt)

Pixel Is Data: What if pixels weren’t necessarily...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:57:00 +0100

Pixel Is Data:

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.

Berlin at night from space, with the old west and east still...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:26:05 +0100

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.

"Instagram has perfected the single unit / social object / photo experience."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:47:35 +0100

“Instagram has perfected the single unit / social object / photo experience.”

- 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.

Remember the ISS photography maps from Nathan Bergey? The ones...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:24:00 +0000

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.

Visualisations of all the (geotagged) photos taken from the...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:46:36 +0000

Visualisations of all the (geotagged) photos taken from the International Space Station, by Nathan Bergey.

The full article is well worth looking at.

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