Posts tagged digital

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Posted 1 month ago

Steven Sasson, with his invention: the digital camera.

This video provides great context for the amazing new digital film cameras coming out at the moment.

(Source: vimeo.com)

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Posted 4 months ago
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Posted 4 months ago
garfieldminusgarfield: With SOPA, Garfield minus Garfield would probably have never happened. Protest SOPA.

garfieldminusgarfield:

With SOPA, Garfield minus Garfield would probably have never happened. Protest SOPA.

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Posted 4 months ago

This is the feature length documentary PressPlayPause.

Watch it on Vimeo. Watch the trailer. Visit the web site to download. It’s pretty good.

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Posted 4 months ago
iPhone 4 most popular camera on Flickr. How Mobile Photography Helped Kill Kodak Zoom

iPhone 4 most popular camera on Flickr. How Mobile Photography Helped Kill Kodak

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Posted 10 months ago

(Source: antiadvertisingagency.com)

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Posted 11 months ago
mrgan: I can’t comment with any credibility on the legal issues involved in Andy Baio’s problems with the Kind of Bloop album cover, but I must address one assumption I’m seeing in comments on the story: That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic. To illustrate, here’s an object from The Incident. (No, I don’t know how Daimler-Benz feels about the inclusion of their iconic SMART car in our game.) I didn’t scale down the photo to start - that wouldn’t have even been helpful. I looked and I drew from scratch. That’s pixel art.

mrgan:

I can’t comment with any credibility on the legal issues involved in Andy Baio’s problems with the Kind of Bloop album cover, but I must address one assumption I’m seeing in comments on the story:

That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic.

To illustrate, here’s an object from The Incident. (No, I don’t know how Daimler-Benz feels about the inclusion of their iconic SMART car in our game.) I didn’t scale down the photo to start - that wouldn’t have even been helpful. I looked and I drew from scratch. That’s pixel art.

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Video
Posted 11 months ago

Important work by by Kirby Ferguson. Part 3 in the series.

SEE:
Everything is a Remix Part 1
Everything is a Remix Part 2

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Posted 11 months ago

Sodom and Gomorrah by chris caliman

Agbogbloshie is a suburb of Accra, Ghana known as a destination for legal and illegal exportation and environmental dumping of electronic waste (e-waste) from industrialized nations. Often referred to as a “digital dumping ground”, millions of tons of e-waste are processed each year in Agbogbloshie.
Processing electronic waste presents a serious health threat to workers at Agbogbloshie. The fumes released from the burning of the plastics and metals used in electronics are composed of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Workers often inhale lead, cadmium,dioxins, furans, phthalates and brominated flame retardants.
Exposure to these fumes is especially hazardous to children, as these toxins are known to inhibit the development of the reproductive system, the nervous system and the brain.
Video
Posted 1 year ago

Teaser for hotly anticipated doc PressPausePlay. What’s more fun than letting someone inspire you?

(Source: youtube.com)

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Posted 1 year ago
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