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The 21st century appears to be all about speed: order a pizza from your phone with a tap of your finger, dispense your favorite coffee with a push of a button, and now with a simple text message, you can order a customized photo book with all your favorite moments.

Photo Magic is a new service provided by publishing company SimplePrints. Simply send a text message to a special number and you can begin building your own personalized 8” x 8” softcover or hardcover masterpiece.

Cinematographer Andy Newman has put together a series called Why We Create in an effort to gain a glimpse behind why we, as artist, make what we do.

One of his latest installments in the series features photographer Nick Fancher -- known for his work for ESPN, The Ohio State University, and Jackthreads -- going about his day as he explains via voiceover what it is that draws him to create the images he does.

Hyperlapse photography involves shooting a series of photographs over large distances and then stringing the photos together into a time-lapse video that zooms the viewer through the locations. Creating a real hyperlapse involves quite a bit of work, so the folks over at Teehan+Lax Labs decided to go virtual by turning to Google Street View to source the necessary photos.

The gorgeous hyperlapse video above was created entirely using Google Street View photos, and shows the locations visited by the Street View camera van in a way that's very different from what you see through your browser.

This camera is a poor man's large format camera. It is made with a simple shoebox acting as a dark room.

Design Lovefest has a tutorial on how you can make a custom-designed …

If you have some unwanted 35mm negatives lying around and need a simple gift idea, you can …

Kodak’s website has a “Create” section stocked with all kinds of different photo …

Thought the grain-of-salt-sized camera announced in Germany earlier this year was small? Well, researchers at Cornell have …

Last week Alexandre Oudin's creative Facebook portrait idea spread like wildfire on the Interwebs, and was even featured by CNN. If you'd like to do the same thing with a portrait or photograph of yours but don't have the time or technical know-how to do so, there's a new website called Pic Scatter that does all the work for you. All you need to do is upload and resize and reposition the image to your liking, and the website will allow you to download all the individual photos for the "hacked" profile pic. The only downside is that a "Made with picScatter.com" bar is added to your image.

Pummelvision is a neat little website that aims to help you see your …

Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr) has a fun printable template for creating your own nifty-looking 35mm pinhole camera.

Fashion label LeSportsac will be joining with Canon in its release of a case designed exclusively for the PowerShot …