Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Doc Pop’s “Daily App Experiment” created with iPhone image apps

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Doc Pop wears many digital hats: iPad musician,  visual experimenter of mobile apps, blogger, yo-yo madman, game developer/designer, painter, illustrator, etc. etc. He's was also my first follower on the (primarily) iPhone (only) social photo app http://instagr.am. The good doctor does a Daily App Experiment where he takes an images and applies ...

Makeshift macro camera lens from a CD drive laser lens

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

A CD laser lens scrapped from a CD drive of an aged laptop + Quick and nastily taped onto a iPhone 3GS = iPhone macro lens Close up of an Arduino board Close up of the back side of a one hundred dollar bill After the jump, a write up about this hacked-up/modded iPhone camera rig and ...

9eyes Tumblr: WTF images from Google Street View

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Jon Rafman is behind the 9 Eyes Tumblr, blogging strange, often exquisite images captured from Google Street View. [gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="ID"]

Super high-res photos of famous paintings

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

A digital zoom into the hand-covered breasticles portion of Sandro Botticelli's, "The Birth of Venus," from haltadefinizione.com Full zoom into the high res photo of Sandro Botticelli's, "The Birth of Venus," at haltadefinizione.com Boing Boing offers this quote about the famous photo-goings-ons-of-famous-paintings at haltadefinizione.com: Their more recent image of Botticelli’s La Primivera consists of 28 billion ...

Take a photo, any photo, on October 10, 2010

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

To commemorate October 10, 2010, Heather Champ is encouraging people to take a photograph. There's no direction. Just snap the photo and submit it to the Flickr group dedicated to this 10/10/10 photography. Heather sez: On October 10, 2010, take a photo (analogue, digital -- whatever your pleasure) at a ...

Contrail morning in mid-Missouri

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Yesterday Columbia, Missouri, saw contrails woven into the morning sky.  I took a couple pics and tweeted: The mid-Missouri sky is filled with contrails this morning. Good morning conspiracy buffs. http://twitpic.com/2ulj99 The tweet got these three responses: @imshelledin: @dipps You noticed that too? I found it rather odd, something I usually only see when ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 2: Media

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Part 1 of "The dreaded 'Idea'" spouts freely new notions concerning Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas. Media Monetizing great content stuck on crusty websites An opportunity exsists for acquiring old, but authoritative content that ranks good.  This written treasure is often buried on neglected websites.  There's plenty ...

Brief trip to Sonar Fest, Chicago, IL

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Panoramic of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, Chicago,IL. The Sonar Festival's first year in Chicago ran from September 9-11, 2010.  I took off from St Louis Thursday, September 9th, via Amtrak, in hopes to catch a few acts that evening and head back early the next morning.  But the Amtrak broke ...

Missouri State Fair 2010

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Star Trek ride at the 2010 Missouri State Fair I'd never in 31 year attended a state fair.  We arrived too late to see any livestock, but State Fair livestock is for city folk.  I only got a chance to stumble around the carnival rides section. So go grab a ...

NYC underground: 80s vs 00s

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

I'm a country fella from Missouri and have only been to NYC once.  Even so the appearance of The City's underground has changed quite a bunch from the 80s, especially if movies like The Warriors and these pictures from 24Flinching -- "detailing life on and in the New York City subway in ...