To promote its new Xperia phones, Sony hosted a three-day hackathon on a boat to see what creative innovations people could come up with. One of the hackers decided to make a flamethrower-style flash (seen at 2:26), triggering a gas flame to flare whenever a photograph is taken with the phone. Maybe this'll start a fire-lighting trend in professional photo studios...
German satire program Extra 3 conducted a humorous -- albeit disconcerting -- experiment testing photographers' (and videographers) rights in Germany. They had an actor use a camera at different "sensitive" government locations, doing the exact same things (e.g. film the locations of security cameras) but dressed in two different outfits -- first as a European tourist and then as a Middle Eastern man. The result shows that how law enforcement deals with cameras is largely determined by common …
The rise of microstock and the fact that anyone with a camera can sell cheap photos has done a lot to devalue stock photography, but is the same thing happening to the photojournalism industry? Paul Melcher says that the industry is headed in that direction: …
Here's a long exposure light painting tutorial by a couple MIT Media Lab students. In addition to teaching the basics of the technique, they also show off a robot arm that they programmed to do extremely precise light painting photos and animations.
As a tribute to 9/11, Jason Powell revisited locations where photos of the attacks were captured on that fateful day and rephotographed them with the photos overlaid on the background.
Miklós Falvay used 3D camera mapping techniques on some historical photographs, turning them into tiny windows into the past that viewers can step into.
John Sypal is the photographer behind Tokyo Camera Style, the "Sartorialist of the camera world".
Canada's TSN created this "Top 10" compilation of clips showing sports photographers and cameramen getting way too close to balls, pucks, feet, and fists.
