National Geographic

NEW YORK (Feb. 28, 200 ? National Geographic Magazine has announced their latest innovation, ‘My Shot.’ ‘My Shot’ allows photographers of all skills to create their own web page at www.ngm.com to display their best photographs.’My Shot’ members are able to upload and save up to 100 photographs on their own ‘My Shot’ page. Members will also be able to use a drag-and-drop version of NGM.com’s cutting-edge jigsaw puzzle generator on their pages. Any photo saved to ‘My Shot’ can be turned instantly into a jigsaw puzzle. There is also a custom version of a popular memory-sorting game that users can create from their own photos.

‘My Shot’ members can also submit their photos to National Geographic’s popular ‘Your Shot’ feature, where a dozen photos are selected each day by editors to appear on-line, with those photos being rated by readers. At the end of the month, the winning photo will be published in National Geographic Magazine itself, which reaches 40 million readers worldwide.

For more information, log onto http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot

bron : Casey Sanders

Retro vision - Forget about today

Everything old is new again, especially when it comes to these very retro inspired sunglasses. Where normally tinted UV blocking lenses would cut the glare of the sun, these “Reed Screen Sunglasses” by Sang Jang Lee use the ancient eastern practice of reed screens to block the sun’s blinding glare. In case you are in the dark about reed screens, they are those roll up window blinds made of peeled reed stems. With pop out screens in various shades of shade and vibrant frames to match, these spectacles are quite the spectacle.

Designer: Sang Jang Lee

Via Yankodesign

Notification of Polaroid Instant Film Availability

Due to marketplace conditions, Polaroid has discontinued almost all of its instant analog hardware products. Polaroid has also made the difficult decision to cease manufacturing of instant film products in 2008

Polaroid ‘Instant’ Killed after 60 Years

Today is the anniversary of Edwin Land’s introduction of the Land Camera. Inventor and scientist, Land developed the first process that could make a finished print in 60 seconds. This year’s anniversary, though, is bittersweet; Polaroid Corporation announced this month that all instant films will no longer be produced after 2008.

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The Whale Hunt

 

The Whale Hunt website was developed as an experimental interface for storytelling. Given an epic real world story, with lots of content and lots of metadata, how can the narrative be faithfully retold? The project presented a number of interesting design problems, including: how to present a large set of photographs (3,214) online while keeping download times relatively brief; how to express both the topography of the entire narrative and the ways in which any single moment fits into that narrative; how to extract and reveal the many substories occuring within the context of the larger story; how to convey the many feelings experienced on the hunt (boredom, fatigue, curiosity, excitement, exhaustion, sublime beauty); and more generally how to restage an epic real world experience on the Internet.

Read more about this project here.
See the photo’s here.
See Johnathon talk at the TED conference here.
Look at accompanying photgrapher’s webiste of Andrew Moore here.

Punctum / One year of taking pictures

© Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll spent a year rescuing snapshots from one-hour-photo dumpsters and then drilling 35mm holes in them. There’s some pretty interesting self-reflection on the medium going on in this work (hence the title punctum from barthes’ camera lucida).

See more of this work here.