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Mar 24, 2011 Aurora Time-Lapse
There is just something about time-lapse and tilt-shift photography that I just cannot get enough of. Here's another spectacular one to add to the list. Terj Sorgjerd spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, with temperatures around...
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Mar 23, 2011 Lens Takes Pictures From Nine Angles at Once to Make a 3-D Image
Researchers at Ohio State University have a made a lens that simultaneously takes pictures of an object from nine angles, images which are then combined to make a 3-D one. The lens, informs The Engineer, "is claimed to be the first single, stationery lens to create microscopic 3D images by itself." Via Fast Company ...
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Mar 22, 2011 Boozing animals by way of Kubrick
A friend tipped me off to this collection of photos Stanley Kubrick shot for Look magazine in the summer of 1949. The accompanying feature was called "Chicago--city of contrasts" so I guess it's fitting that my friend was drawn to the the body-building baby and I'm stuck on the Pump Room, a post-prohibition star magnet described...
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Mar 21, 2011 In Japan, no TV is safe
After the quake, Japan’s major TV networks stopped running regular programming and instead focused on covering news of the disaster 24/7. Advertisers, meanwhile, withdrew their commercials so as not to give the impression that they’re seeking to hawk their products and make money during the crisis. As a result, viewers have ended up repeatedly watching commercials...
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Mar 17, 2011 The Music Animation Machine
Check out his site here and read about how he developed "the machine." ...
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Mar 17, 2011 Murakami Ryu on Japan in crisis
Murakami Ryu writes from Tokyo about the local crisis response: Ten years ago I wrote a novel in which a middle-school student, delivering a speech before Parliament, says: “This country has everything. You can find whatever you want here. The only thing you can’t find is hope.” One might say the opposite today...
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Mar 16, 2011 Ganbare: Japan’s energy conservation posters
Like a lot of you, I've spent the last several days keeping watch over the situation in Japan and trying to keep it together. With so much happening and so many questions unanswered, it's been hard not to lose focus and despair--or, worse, to get sidelined by frustration and cynicism. While the most effective thing...
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Mar 14, 2011 AT&T, Verizon and Sprint offer free service to Japan
According to engadget, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon have lifted fees to place calls and send texts to Japan in light of the ongoing situation there. As of today, AT&T will extend the service till the end of March, and Sprint and Verizon till April 10. Find more information here....