It breaks my heart that a project I did for fun, on the side, and out of pure love and dedication to the source material ended up costing me so much — emotionally and financially. For me, the chilling effect is palpably real. I’ve felt irrationally skittish about publishing almost anything since this happened. Link: [...]
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 (tags: art image images photo photography pics surf water waves wave Tipple AlexTipple telegraph …)
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 VISIT LINK: Nivo Slider – Arguably The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider (tags: ajax animation cool css [...]
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 (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
Twitpic: How A Spare Computer Became A $1.5M+ A Year Success [video] 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 [...]
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China 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.” [...]
Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait "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 [...]
Nigiri Te – The Hands of Sushi Gods "I asked each of the chefs to show me their "nigiri te" — the hand motion they use to form their nigiri sushi." (tags: photography japan sushi …)
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View – An image-based essay Photos from Google Street View by artist Jon Rafman (tags: art internet photo google photography images culture photos image maps documentary privacy googlemaps streetview essay street googlestreetview jonrafman view netart …)
The games factory – How Mario, Tetris, Sonic, Pong were made 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. (tags: [...]
Ten of the Burgers 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 [...]
Chihuahua on Cheeseburgers Perhaps the best photo ever made. (tags: photography humor chihuahua cheeseburgers dog food hamburger doggy williamhundley hundley photo picture …)
Filebrowser – Thumbnail images and view them in a browser 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. (tags: software tools web design [...]
Yokohama 360 degrees panorama in QTVR Many beautiful QuickTime VR panorama photos of beautiful places on this site. (tags: fun photo photography photos image japan pictures world visualization 3d panorama architecture quicktime 360 yokohama qtvr panoramas city panoramic beautiful pics …)
Type Nesting Do birds have a favorite font? (tags: blog design fun images inspiration photography photos typography fonts tumblr urban nature type birds signs nest bird nesting typenesting …)