Stephen Sasson with his digital camera prototype © James Rajotte / New York Times For her New York Times article, At Kodak, Some Old Things Are New Again, Claudia H. Deutsch spoke with Steven Sasson, an electrical engineer who invented the “first digital camera.” When Sasson created his prototype at Eastman Kodak in the ’70s, [...]
Charles Leadbeater, a researcher at the London think tank Demos, is raising a lot of interesting questions about sharing ideas and the role of the internet. (Along with the above video, also see his TED talk on collaborative innovation and the “rise of the amateur professional” and, if you have the time, read the first [...]
Photographer and programmer Justin Ouellette (one of the forces behind the excellent video sharing site Vimeo) just announced his latest programming project: Muxtape, a simple and elegant way to share mixtapes online. Justin reports that over 1,000 members have joined in just 4.5 hours! It looks like the photoblogosphere has taken a liking to it; [...]
© DSS Consortium, SDSS, NASA/ESA Google Sky is every astronomy nerd’s new best friend.
Linked on Things Magazine, Polaroid’s ZINK technology takes us one step closer to a modern day Land Camera, complete with a digital sensor and built-in printer. This is what it’s looking like. Here’s a little science from the Polaroid website: The patented ZINK Paper is an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta and cyan [...]
Box Props (from “Illuminations”) © Tim Davis Over on Words Without Pictures there’s an article by Jason Evans titled Online Photographic Thinking. This essay addresses the context of the web for photography. It’s a new frontier that, from the standpoint of an independent practitioner, doesn’t seem to have fulfilled its potential, given photography’s phenomenal recent [...]
screenshot of the image mosaic from The Whale Hunt © Jonathan Harris / thewhalehunt.org With his project The Whale Hunt, Jonathan Harris seems to have redefined the role that images can play in telling stories but, furthermore, what a complex web interface can do for the presentation of these images. Harris writes about the project, [...]
Earth-rise, November 3, 2007 © JAXA/NHK Earth-set, November 3, 2007 © JAXA/NHK The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announces 3D HD images of the Earth both “rising” and “setting” as seen from the moon explorer Kaguya. (via TEDBlog)
screenshot of my iConcert Cal, October 2, 2007 One of the most beautiful things about blogging is that naturally, I end up reading a lot of other blogs. The wealth of knowledge that is delivered free of cost right to my RSS-doorstep never ceases to amaze me. I’ve discovered a few really nice blogs lately, [...]
I ran across this great post on Ironic Sans that explains the process of making color photographs with the Game Boy Camera (old school, circa 1998): All colors of the visible spectrum can be broken down into combinations of just three colors: Red, Green, and Blue. In fact, if you look at your computer screen [...]
