Thursday, July 21, 2011

The magic button

It's what we all want — to make everything ok.

iPhone SLR mount

Now, I'm not entirely sure that I get WHY someone would drop a good load of cash to hook up their SLR lens to your iPhone so you can take a 5MP picture. if you're gonna have to cart around the lens anyways, wouldn't it make more sense to just shoot with a proper SLR? Takes all kinds I guess.

iPad and iPhone GUI template resources

Was asked today if I knew of any good resources for iPad video GUI. Found these while I was poking around. Thought I would share the wealth. Teehanlax also has iPhone GUI templates if anyone is looking for those.

Friday, July 15, 2011

10x 10 x 10 ft cube house

Eco friendly home concept. Eco friendly, yes. Practical, yes. Realistic... I dunno.

3D Printer

I've heard about 3D printers before and wanted to try and get something printed once but I was too broke to pay for the cost of it (I mean I was seriously flat broke back then). The potential applictions for this is pretty neat.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Intereactive kids book

I always knew this would be coming and it's nice to see something that's done so incredibly well.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Monkey steals camera

There have been a lot of these animal steals camera stories lately but this one is kinda funny in that this monkey stole a camera and then took pictures of himself. Amazingly, the photos seem to be quite good. I guess even the animals want their 15 minutes of fame...

Bike lock

Sweet bike lock concept

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Kind of Screwed

Original photo © Jay Maisel. Low-resolution images used for critical commentary qualifies as fair use.

Andy Baio produced an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album called Kind of Bloop.. The album cover he created for the project was an 8-bit representation of the original cover. What followed was a nightmarish series of events that resulted in Andy paying over $32,000 in settlement money to Jay Maisel, the original photographer of the album cover. You can read the first hand account by Andy here.
You can also see some of the backlash that Jay is taking on his Facebook page.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Refocusing the photography industry

Found a link to this article on my FB newsfeed today. How many times have you taken a photo and went "Gah!!! It's perfect except it's a little out of focus." Well, with this new technology it may no longer matter. Make sure you have a click around on the photos with the arrows to see how you can refocus an image. It's pretty cool.