Polaroid Photo of a Polaroid Tattoo
Flickr user Rachel Carrier captured this photo of her awesome Polaroid tattoo on Polaroid 690 film. It's one of the coolest photo tattoos I've seen.
Flickr user Rachel Carrier captured this photo of her awesome Polaroid tattoo on Polaroid 690 film. It's one of the coolest photo tattoos I've seen.
Freelance news photographer Phil Datz was recording the conclusion of a police chase from the opposite sidewalk last Friday when he was confronted by a police officer and commanded to "go away". Though he politely obeyed and moved a block further from the scene, the officer decided to arrest him for "obstruction of governmental administration". The latest news is that the department is planning to drop the charges and put its officers through "media relations training".
Ever wonder how George Eastman chose the name "Kodak" for the company he founded? …
Not satisfied with creating a stop-motion animation of microscopic proportions, Nokia has gone in the opposite direction, this time turning a beach into what Guinness deemed the "world's largest stop motion animation set." The 12-megapixel stills were shot over five days using a Nokia N8 cell phone strapped to a 40 meter high cherry picker, and the largest scene spans a whopping 11,000 square feet!
We reported yesterday that Kodak has taken defensive measures to prevent a hostile takeover for its extensive collection of digital imaging patents. One of these patents is an image previewing invention that has earned Kodak nearly $1 billion from Samsung and LG, and that's at the center of an ongoing legal battle with Apple. With the income generated by patent lawsuits dwindling, the company is now considering the sale of 1,100 patents (about 10% of its portfolio), including the valuable image …
With the rise of sites like YouTube, the Internet is teeming with digital videos (two days worth are uploaded to YouTube every minute), but when was the last time you stopped to think about how video works? Here's a fascinating video in which Michael from vsauce explains everything from beta movement to frame rates.
What does it look like when every inch of a room's walls and ceiling are covered with photographs? German art students Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay decided to find out through their project titled "fbFaces". Using a crawler that traverses the Facebook social graph, they harvested 100,000 profile pictures and used them to print out an intense wallpaper for the entire room.
Here's yet another example of the crazy visual effects found on today's TV shows -- this time it's from HBO's series "Game of Thrones". Just making composites this realistic using still images would be difficult enough, but for video? Wow.
