December 27, 2010

The winter hasn't been friendly this year to certain areas of the US, with flash floods hitting Southern California and blizzards tormenting the East Coast. Vimeo user Michael Black decided to document a blizzard by setting up a Canon DSLR with a remote timer, snapping a photograph every five minutes. He combined the resulting photographs into a time-lapse video that shows 20 hours of intense snowfall in 40 seconds. Boy does that snow get high.

If you love the fact that IKEA furniture is cheap and easy to put together, but hate the fact that it's always so plain and minimalistic, then Mykea might be the solution for you. Aside from selling pre-made decals, they also allow you to create your own custom decals from your photographs, turning your furniture into a mini-space to display your work. Price depends on the furniture, with a single panel coffee table decal starting at €12.5 (~$16.5).

The size and video quality of GoPro cameras opens the door to all kinds of unique experimental footage that would be extremely difficult (or impossible) with large and bulky HD-capable cameras, whether it's documenting the everyday life of a cat or capturing video from the edges of space with a balloon. Here's an even wackier idea -- attaching a GoPro Hero camera to the end of a broadsword with duct tape and capturing video as the sword is being swung around. The resulting footage is strange, …

For Christmas, Kyle's girlfriend Sarah wanted to give him something photography related, so she gutted a broken Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash camera and turned it into a one-of-a-kind clock! …

When photographers Larissa and Trevor over at Ambient Studios needed to come up with invitations for their wedding, they came up with the brilliant idea of sending the information rolled up in film canisters and delivered in brown paper and ribbon. It took an assembly line of 5 people to put together 40 of these awesomely creative invitations. Check out more photos on this blog post.