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fairynormal has added a photo to the pool: (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Sheffield Pool fairynormal has added a photo to the pool: : .) Photographer Jane Fulton Alt’s latest series is called Crude Awakening. She writes on her web site: Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous toll the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on all forms of life, especially as our beaches opened to the 2010 swimming season. This environmental, social and economic catastrophe highlights a much larger problem that has inflicted untold suffering as we exploit the earth’s resources worldwide. We are all responsible for leading lives that create demand for unsustainable energy. We [ continue reading Photographer portrays swimmers in the oil spill region ] 10 July 2010
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In the Third Dimension | PDN Photo of the Day.
The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. They’re finding out who rides bicycles, why they ride bicycles, if and why they love their bicycles, and of course why so few South Africans choose bicycles as a transport option. There is no specific range of questions asked, they’d rather just establish a conversation around the [ continue reading Bicycle Portraits – everyday South Africans and their bicycles. A photographic book. ]
The ad agency DDB China came up with this novel campaign for the China Environmental Protection Foundation. They put a canvas on the street in a busy intersection with a picture of a bare tree. Then they put sponges soaked in green paint on the sidewalk on either side of the canvas. As people stepped in the paint and then crossed the street, the tree grew foliage. See? Walking does make for a more verdant world. Via Archinect. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» GOOD Main Walking Makes Trees Grow: [ continue reading Walking Makes Trees Grow ] Baggy Point Devon Spring 02010 I had no idea how many outdoor scenes on TV shows are shot on a green screen. Here’s a reel with several before and after examples. (via that’s how it happened) Tags: TV video (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» kottke.org Green screened: .) image on Flickr by FLEMING2009 Hardknott Pass on the Fred Whitton!!! – 09 May 2010 – hard enough? I think so.
Like a chameleon, architecture can mimic any natural landscape it sits on. From a Swiss alp, to the British cliffs, to a nearby glacier, to Mexican basalt rock, to a volcano – such as the Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed for the periphery of Naples. It’s as real estate agents say: context is everything. Whereas iconography usually means a shrinking or blowing-up of an image to fit the scale of the architecture, this enormous building (a shopping mall) has actually the size of a small volcano. This ‘crater’ has a diameter of [ continue reading Volcano, by Piano ] 9 February 2010
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Sheffield 365 Project.
Panoramic photo by peter ward. Here we are on a winters morning in the Bear Pit of Sheffields Botanical Gardens opened in 1836. The gardens have undergone a major restoration programme in the last few years and are now back to their former grandeur. A new addition (I believe) is a lifesize model of a bear in the pit, which I don’t think was present before the restoration. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> 360 Cities England: Sheffield, The Bear Pit, Botanical Gardens: [ continue reading England: Sheffield, The Bear Pit, Botanical Gardens ] Remember those CNN videos of Haiti that I linked to last week? The ones where you could pan around in the scene as the video played? It’s probable that CNN used the Yellowbird camera to do them. The camera uses six cleverly divided lenses in order to capture every possible viewing direction. The data stream generated by the camera is impressive. Through a double glass-fiber connection, a stream of 1200 Mbit per second is captured and saved in an uncompressed format. Check out the demo. (thx, rakesh) Update: Or perhaps they used Immersive Media’s rig. Their bridge-jumping [ continue reading Panoramic video camera ]
Naoko Ito – today and tomorrow. Yeah you knew that, but we are still chuffed. So with Millie training Porridge for his next job in the Yukon there was time for me to snap a Panorama using the iPhone app that goes by the imaginative name, ‘Panorama, I am trying out lots on the phone and the mac and will post others here soon. I will be endeavouring to include as many people in the shots as possible! Click HERE to see the pic and scroll it.
Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo. 27 December 2009
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“Andrew White, 33, from Brighton, East Sussex, had been taking pictures of the festive lights in nearby Burgess Hill on his way to work when two Police Community Support Officers began following him. The female PCSOs stopped him and asked why he had been taking photos of the lights and whether he was a professional photographer. Mr White, who works for a financial services firm, was forced to submit personal details to the officers under counter-terrorism laws because officers were concerned he was taking too many photos in a busy area.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Amateur [ continue reading Amateur photographer stopped for taking pictures of Christmas lights ] narwhals eh?
“The LSCP is a secretive body. Take a look at its minutes (available at its website). Many of the most important items are deleted, hidden from public view – for example financial performance monitoring (September 2007), poor quality of camera data (November 2007) and strategic planning (March 2008). LSCP meetings are not open to the public – though no official to whom I have spoken can quote any legislative or regulatory backing for this ban, which is not surprising since the LSCP has never had a constitution. During 2008 there was a concerted effort by local councillors in [ continue reading Speed cameras – the bigger picture ] 22 November 2009
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