The lens mug craze seems to be cooling down, but now there's another product on the market that can help you stay cool (literally): the Canon lens cooling fan. They're powered by two AAA batteries and somewhat resemble the same Canon 70-200mm lens that the original mugs were based on. You can buy one for $5.60 with free shipping from DealExtreme.
Here's another video tutorial teaching how to give your bokeh custom shapes.
"Tombstoning" is what people in the UK call jumping into water from a cliff upright and feet first, like a tombstone. If you have a friend gutsy enough to do this, try shooting multiple exposures as they're falling and combine them into a single image. Photographer Alastair Sopp captured the beautiful image above of a nameless daredevil jumping from a 100 foot cliff into 20 feet of water (yikes!).
Designer Chris Abbas took a large number of black and white photographs captured on NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn and created this strange and hypnotic video that provides a pretty unique way of looking at space.
In the market for a cheap compact camera? Amazon's Gold Box deal of the day today is a Canon A490 for $50. Be sure to also grab the free Lowepro case if you decide to buy.
Here's a photograph we've all taken... only in our bathroom mirror. NASA astronaut Michael Fincke shot this photograph with what looks like one of the Nikon DSLRs on board using a reflective-portion of the International Space Station. This means he shot a self-portrait roughly 200 miles above the ground while zipping around the planet at 17,000 mph.
Apple recently filed a patent having to do with baking infrared communication capabilities into the iPhone. Although there are certainly useful applications for the technology (e.g. a museum beaming information to the phone at different exhibitions), what's troubling is that the feature may also allow the camera to be remotely disabled by those who wish to prevent photography.
Photographer Matthew Nicholson created this paper Leica M3 that's a working pinhole camera. It's loaded with 35mm film, and even the strap is realistic and made with paper!
