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What God saw: Times Timelapse
A mesmerising mirror of human activity, or, what God has looked at for the past decennia. Based on images from Nasa’s Landsat program, Times Timelapses show probably one of the most earth transforming 40 years in history. With the help of Google, Times created a website dedicated to watching the world change. You can see that we are rather [...]
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50 top secret images
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the US government had properly classified as top secret more than 50 images of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden that were taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the US court of [...]
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Photography’s lucid meaning
The Guardian asked a number of writers, photographers, artists and critics what role photography still plays in their lives. We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? From the Guardian: 1. Jemima Kiss Technology writer Combined with human incompetence and the chaos of child-rearing, the inaccessibility of our visual memory bank [...]
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pictures of chairs you can sit in
YOY is a Tokyo based design studio composed by Naoki Ono, a spatial designer, and Yuki Yamamoto, a product designer. Started in 2011, their design theme is to create a new story between space and objects. This particular collection, ‘Canvas’ is made up of drawings of different types of chairs that if placed against a [...]
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pupils dilate when viewing sunset photos
A Dutch neuroscientist has made a remarkable discovery. Looking at a image of the sun has the same effect on the eye pupils as if looking at the real sun. The pupils contract to prevent eye damage. The researcher, Marnix Naber, made public his findings that our brains were fooled by the illusion of the [...]
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The World Has Changed Since 2005
Google is hosting a conference for its developers. Thousands of people from all over the world are in the building. A million are watching a live stream. Google Android boss Sundar Pichai just put two images from the Vatican on the screen, and said it’s all you need to see to know how much the [...]
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How to Look – a short course
“Our eyes are far too good for us. They show us so much that we can’t take it all in, so we shut out most of the world, and try to look at things as briskly and efficiently as possible. What happens if we stop, and take the time to look more carefully? Then the [...]
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World Press Photoshopping Contest
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, World Press winner 2013, has been accused of photoshopping his winning image (extremetech.com). This is not allowed. At least not when it goes beyond mere enhancement. And according to Neal Krawetz, who analysed the image data, Hansen went way beyond. Hansen’s defence ”I have never had a photograph more thoroughly examined, by four experts and [...]
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What God saw: Times Timelapse
A mesmerising mirror of human activity, or, what God has looked at for the past decennia. Based on images from Nasa’s Landsat program, Times Timelapses show probably one of the most earth transforming 40 years in history. With the help of Google, Times created a website dedicated to watching the world change. You can see that we are rather [...]
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What God saw: Times Timelapse
A mesmerising mirror of human activity, or, what God has looked at for the past decennia. Based on images from Nasa’s Landsat program, Times Timelapses show probably one of the most earth transforming 40 years in history. With the help of Google, Times created a website dedicated to watching the world change. You can see that we are rather [...]
50 top secret images
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the US government had properly classified as top secret more than 50 images of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden that were taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the US court of [...]
Photography’s lucid meaning
The Guardian asked a number of writers, photographers, artists and critics what role photography still plays in their lives. We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? From the Guardian: 1. Jemima Kiss Technology writer Combined with human incompetence and the chaos of child-rearing, the inaccessibility of our visual memory bank [...]
pictures of chairs you can sit in
YOY is a Tokyo based design studio composed by Naoki Ono, a spatial designer, and Yuki Yamamoto, a product designer. Started in 2011, their design theme is to create a new story between space and objects. This particular collection, ‘Canvas’ is made up of drawings of different types of chairs that if placed against a [...]
pupils dilate when viewing sunset photos
A Dutch neuroscientist has made a remarkable discovery. Looking at a image of the sun has the same effect on the eye pupils as if looking at the real sun. The pupils contract to prevent eye damage. The researcher, Marnix Naber, made public his findings that our brains were fooled by the illusion of the [...]
The World Has Changed Since 2005
Google is hosting a conference for its developers. Thousands of people from all over the world are in the building. A million are watching a live stream. Google Android boss Sundar Pichai just put two images from the Vatican on the screen, and said it’s all you need to see to know how much the [...]
How to Look – a short course
“Our eyes are far too good for us. They show us so much that we can’t take it all in, so we shut out most of the world, and try to look at things as briskly and efficiently as possible. What happens if we stop, and take the time to look more carefully? Then the [...]
