- noticings
"Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.
Noticings is a game you play by going a bit slower, and having a look around you. It doesn't require you change your behaviour significantly, or interrupt your routine: you just take photographs of things that you think are interesting, or things you see. "
I intend to start playing at some point in the near future, when I have time to organise myself a little. Join me.
Tag: photography
Bookmarks for August 26, 2009
- A Virtual Tripod with Photoshop CS4 Extended « Imaging Professional
Shit, I may have to investiagte getting a copy of this. I've managed to avoid potatoshop for a couple of years now, and just work in Lightroom, but this could be really useful.
- but does it float
Just go and look. A blog of total beauty. Keep scrolling down for more visual gems. Haven't seen anything this visually exciting in ages.
Bookmarks for August 13, 2009
- YouTube – The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
This is where you live. Go and look.
- The Trouble with the Segway
Interesting piece on the design of objects, and the effect it can have on perceptions of their use.
- New consumers and new business opportunities
My brain is a bit fried right now, and even though I'm mainlining coffee, I'm not in a state to really retain serious information. So I'm marking this as one to come back to, as it looks interesting.
- Local newspapers in peril: The town without news | The Economist
I cut my teeth building systems for a local newspaper company – one, in fact, that I had delivered as a teenager, for pocket money. It's very easy to dismiss local papers as lacking in real news content, and full instead of trivial local rubbish, but the reality is that they provide local-community level news that really is important to the daily lives of many people. There is a very real need to find alternative infrastructure to distribute this information, ideally in a non-digital form.
- Introduction To LED Lighting | DIYPhotography.net
I think I could have fun with some of this shit. Need to go LED shopping soon.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2009
- 1938_Phantom_Corsair.jpg (JPEG Image, 801×481 pixels)
Why do I not own one of these? Someone see to it at once!
- Sator Square – Wikipedia
I vaguely recall this from GCSE Latin. It is a rather more ace thing now that I'm not looking at it in a stuffy classroom.
- LOVE ME (work in progress) | Maisie Crow Photojournalist
Go. Look at this. Stunning, bleak, depressing photojournalism on poverty in America.
Bookmarks for July 31, 2009
- Money – a Shunt event
I am unsure exactly what this is, other than "interesting". Who's in?
- Lightning – The Big Picture – Boston.com
It's another Big Picture link. You know it means there are pretty things, so why are you still here reading this text? Get on with the clicking!
- inessential.com: Anatomy of a feature
I think I may send this one to my boss, all our clients, and really, anyone who thinks that a simple feature that can be summed up in a sentence of English must therefore be easy to add to any program. "It's just a single field to do X" is almost never "just" anything.
Bookmarks for July 16, 2009
- Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com
By the time this is posted, I am sure you'll all have seen this link everywhere on the internet today. Don't care. Go look at these photos again. They're a record of the single grandest achievement in the history of our species. I take the piss out of people who keep asking "where's my flying car?", but secretly, I won't consider it the future until I go on holiday to a moon base.
Bookmarks for July 14, 2009
- YQL: INSERT INTO internet (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
OK, I need to read this in more depth when I get home tonight. I'd missed this before, and it looking like it could do some seriously interesting stuff.
- 50 states — Kickstarter
A photographer friend of mine is most of the way through a project to take photos in all 50 states of the US, and is trying to raise the cash to finish the job. If you've got a few quid to spare, please consider pitching it her way – she's bloody good, and I want to see the results of the complete project.
Bookmarks for July 10, 2009
- Top 10 comic book cities | The Critics | Architects Journal
Some really interesting picks here. I think I'm going to have to make efforts to acquire a few of the works mentioned in here that I've never read.
- Metropolitan Police Service – About the Met – Photography advice
Advice about dealing with Photographers given to officers by the Met. Sensible, clear, know your rights stuff. If an officer talking to you does *not* know your rights, then you might try giving them this, because after all, it's their boss telling them what they're allowed to do.
Bookmarks for June 30, 2009
- potlatch: what's going on with the music formerly known as 'indie'?
"I can tell you which Suede record accompanied my GCSEs and A-Levels; today's teenagers would tell you which band."
- Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair
Never mind kicking myself – I am scourging myself with rusty barbed wire, and rubbing salt in the wounds for missing this. Couple of key quotes from this write up: "Is the current be-scaffolded state of London perpetual remythologising?" Iain Sinclair says “Before we can move forward, we have to absorb everything that has come before, and rip it off.”
- SoFoBoMo – The Solo Photo Book Month
Dammit, why was I not told about this? Next year, gadget, next year!
- Glastonbury 2009 – The Big Picture
It *almost* makes me want to got there next year, and take a camera. Obviously, I'm not mad, and won't be going, but there are some absolutely gorgeous shots in here.
Bookmarks for May 18, 2009
- The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
Maybe this is where I should go on holiday next. (No, I'm not seriously considering it – it's hot, and y'know, not a city. But it is amazing looking.)