Image from the Library of Congress Check out the great photos from the 1930s-40s in Color set at the Library of Congress on Flickr. These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and […]
Todd Vanderlin is working on using AR markers with OpenFrameworks to use a real record to scratch virtually. Check out the video or his Flickr set.
Image from Iri5 on Flickr Via WebUrbanist In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels. The idea comes from a philosopher’s (Ryle) description of how your spirit lives in your body. I imagine […]
Photo from Mauricio Acial on Flickr The camera obscura was the forerunner of the camera. Essentially, it is a darkened room with a hole in its wall. The image that comes through the hole or lens is projected onto the opposite wall, upside down and backwards. Photo from Sgrah On Flickr, you can find some […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Aimino is conducting some very interesting experiments accessing the the real world via conventional computing interfaces. Arduino is employed for physical device control while an additional machine runs PTAM image processing software determines camera position. The above demo alone is entertaining/intriguing the concept seems to have much potential. Unfortunately Edit->Undo […]
Day #4: Mo’ Pupils Mo’ Problems from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Folks in the Graffiti Research Lab/ FATlab/ whatever-it’s-called-these-days are working on a project that is truly awesome on so many levels. TEMPT ONE, a famous Los Angeles graffiti writer, has ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease), which means at this point that he has little […]
Udi Tirosh writes in with this neat trick: use a tubular light like those found in car accessory shots as a sweeping swath light painting tool for long exposure photography. Looks way trippier than just using LEDs.
