A Documentary on the Digital Revolution and Creative Industries
PressPausePlay is an award-winning documentary film that poses questions on what the digital revolution has done to various creative industries: …
Life Archive of Photo Enthusiast Being Uploaded to Flickr One Image at a Time
During his lifetime, MIT engineer and businessman Nick DeWolf founded the giant electronic testing company Teradyne and designed more than 300 semiconductor and electronic test systems. In his spare time he was also an avid photography enthusiast, carrying a camera with him at all times. After his death, his son-in-law Steve Lundeen began working to archive and share the enormous body of work. Lundeen is currently publishing the original sets of photographs to Flickr at a rate of 20-50 images …
Google to Shutter Its Photo Editor Picnik
To keep itself lean and focused, Google is planning to do some spring cleaning and shut down a number of non-critical projects and services that don't attract enough attention to keep alive. One of the services marked for termination is Picnik, the online photo editor that Google acquired back in 2010. The service will remain online until April 19, after which the team will be folded into the Google+ team.
Photo of the Costa Concordia Shipwreck Captured from Space
Here's a satellite photograph showing what the Costa Concordia disaster looks like from space. On January 13th the gigantic Italian cruise ship ran aground and partially sank, killing at least 13 people.
Wells Fargo Wire Confirms the Impending Launch of the Olympus OM-D
Wells Fargo Advisors is becoming a pretty reliable source for news regarding cameras before they're actually announced. Just weeks after the Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Nikon D4 were announced early by the service, the soon-to-be-announced Olympus OM-D camera is now semi-official as well. The wire confirms that Olympus will be reviving its old OM brand for SLR cameras through a new line of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras, and that the camera will sell for over ¥100000 (~$1300) in Japan. It …
Turn Your Old Point-and-Shoot Camera Into a Creative Nightlight
Perhaps inspired by the vintage camera nightlights we shared last year, photographer Laura Merz decided to upcycle her old Kodak digital camera by turning it into a nightlight for her house. She writes, …
Eye-Fi Says New SD Association Wireless Standard Violates Its IP
Perhaps lost amidst the excitement over new cameras at CES 2012 earlier this month was the SD Association's unveiling of a new Wi-Fi data transfer standard. This new specification should make it easier for other memory card manufacturers to jump into the Wi-Fi-capable memory card game -- an arena currently dominated by Eye-Fi (and more recently Toshiba).
Sightseeing Heatmap of Popular Photo Spots Around the World
Curious about where people like to take pictures in your part of the world? Sightsmap is a simple Google Map app that takes geo data from the photos uploaded to Panoramio (now a Google service) and uses it to generate a heatmap.
A Girl Searches for Her Invisible Horses
The Girl With 7 Horses is a creative project by photographer Ulrika Kestere that shows a girl traveling to various landscapes in search of her "invisible horses".
Creative Camera Lens Window Design
Chilean artist Diego Castillo Roa used a giant wall decal to turn this circular window into a camera lens looking out into the world. It's a submission in Lipton's inspirARTE contest.