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Alex Tipple took the stunning shots of swimmers and surfers emerging underwater engulfed in clouds of whitewater while being frequently rocked by the waves himself.VISIT LINK: Amazing underwater images of waves breaking
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Features: 9 unique transition effects, Simple clean & valid markup, Loads of settings to tweak, Built in directional and control navigation, Packed version only weighs 6kb, Supports linking images, Free to use and abuse under the GPL license
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures
01-Mar-10
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To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong.VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures
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In 2008, Noah Everett wanted to share photos on Twitter. Since there was no way to do it, he grabbed an old server and created Twitpic as a side project. This program will show you how he did it, but before you listen to it, I want to give you some numbers:
- In terms of traffic, Alexa says Twitpic is a top 100 site
- In 2009, the site did over $1.5 million in ad sales
- For every million in sales, the company keeps $700,000
- The site has about 6.5 million registered users
- Noah was recently offered 8 figures for the business
- There are only 4 people working on the site (including Noah's parents)
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
24-Oct-09
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October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
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"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month."
Nigiri Te – The Hands of Sushi Gods
05-Sep-09
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"I asked each of the chefs to show me their "nigiri te" — the hand motion they use to form their nigiri sushi."
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Photos from Google Street View by artist Jon Rafman
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A series of photographs from Marc Da Cunha Lopes ("aisakie") shows us the factory work behind the most iconic games of the past few decades: the smelting of Sonic's rings, the chiseling of the 1-Up mushroom, and the rubber-pressed rebounding blocks of Arkanoid.
Ten of the Burgers
13-Jul-09
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One Monday a month, the Burger of the Month Club convenes at a New York restaurant to eat and rate the restaurant's burger. Below, two of the club's members, Brett Weiss and Jason Beckerman, discuss 10 of the 47 burgers the group has tried. The number that precedes each restaurant's name is its current ranking.
Chihuahua on Cheeseburgers
12-Jul-09
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Perhaps the best photo ever made.
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The filebrowser is a lightweight PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images and view them in a web browser. That's it. Short and sweet. 100% open-source. You can take it and alter it and use it free of charge.
Yokohama 360 degrees panorama in QTVR
18-May-09
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Many beautiful QuickTime VR panorama photos of beautiful places on this site.
Type Nesting
01-May-09
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Do birds have a favorite font?
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For over twenty five years Phil Borges has lived with and documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his work, he strives to create a heightened understanding of the issues faced by people in the developing world. Through his exhibits and award-winning books, Phil attempts to create a relationship between the audience and his photographic subjects. “I want the viewer to see these people as individuals, to know their names and a bit of their history, not just to view them as an anonymous part of some remote ethnic or tribal group.”
