Saturday, July 02, 2011
Winner of Miss Pole Dance Australia 2006 Felix Cane
Ray found this non-nude pole dance contest winner. Good work.
Restoring a Photograph from the 1870s
Restoring a Photograph from the 1870s, article, photos. Pretty impressive.
Olympus Debuts Dazzling New Micro 4/3 Gear
Olympus Debuts Dazzling New Micro 4/3 Gear, article.
I must admit I didn't have high hopes for Olympus introducing anything exciting in the Micro-Four-Thirds arena, since they've been so... middle-of-the-road for so long now. But these new releases really peak my interest. A few highlights:
- Markedly faster focusing
- A new super-compact model
- A real, fast, portrait lens
... all things I have been verbal about the want of, in these pages.
Maybe I'll finally get to take advantage of one of the purported advantages of the 4/3 (and Micro Four Thirds) system: cross-vendor compatibility. Olympus lenses should work on my Panasonic cameras. Well, except sadly without image stabilization since Olympus has it in the body and Pana has it in the lenses (when they do). Ah well, there are many combination possibilities.
Friday, July 01, 2011
TAG Heuer Introduces $6,750 Android Smartphone
TAG Heuer Introduces $6,750 Android Smartphone, article.Gotta say it, I don't think it's pretty.
And while I can almost get the idea of an investment in a luxury watch, doing it with a smartphone... well, what about it two years when it's outdated? You'll buy a new one for another six thousand bucks?
Internet Archive movies
Did you know that the Internet Archive has a big movies section? Lotsa free movies, much of it not crap at all. Man, can they really pay for all that work and bandwidth just with donations?
Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social
Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social, article. "Google+" is a new social net working site Google is starting, and it's a huge betting, "orders of magnitude more investment, in terms of people, than any previous project".
It almost beggars belief that the king of the search — the most successful internet business ever, with $30 billion in yearly revenue — would be running scared by the social networking trend led by Facebook, a company that barely rakes in a few billion. Nonetheless, people at Google feel that retooling to integrate the social element isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. As early as last August, I asked Gundotra whether he felt Emerald Sea was a bet-the-company project.
“I think so,” he replied. “I don’t know how you can look at it any other way.”
Personally, I think it's a mistake, a typical fear-driven mistake.
Say you make shoes. And there's a big fad for jackets. And you say: "oh no! We have to change the company to make jackets, or we're doomed!"
People will always need shoes, and if you keep making good shoes that people like, you'll continue doing fine. You may have to up- and down-scale a bit along the way as the waves go, but if you just run things by sound and conservative economic sense, you're a winner in the long run for sure.
It almost beggars belief that the king of the search — the most successful internet business ever, with $30 billion in yearly revenue — would be running scared by the social networking trend led by Facebook, a company that barely rakes in a few billion. Nonetheless, people at Google feel that retooling to integrate the social element isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. As early as last August, I asked Gundotra whether he felt Emerald Sea was a bet-the-company project.
“I think so,” he replied. “I don’t know how you can look at it any other way.”
Personally, I think it's a mistake, a typical fear-driven mistake.
Say you make shoes. And there's a big fad for jackets. And you say: "oh no! We have to change the company to make jackets, or we're doomed!"
People will always need shoes, and if you keep making good shoes that people like, you'll continue doing fine. You may have to up- and down-scale a bit along the way as the waves go, but if you just run things by sound and conservative economic sense, you're a winner in the long run for sure.
The Laughing Gnome
1967, two years before Bowie's first real hit, this came out. It's not well known, and I think Bowie is not unhappy about that, but I think it's a fun little thing.
LetterMpress
This wood-type-press app seems kewl.It would be even kewler though to play around with a real, big wood-letter press, make big art posters.
There must be a way of making art digitally, then getting it etched into wood or other material to make print shapes like these letters...
... But then I'm thinking, can you really make anything with screen printing that you can't make directly with digital print? Results-wise I mean, I'm sure the physical process is inspiring to many.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Rango
Personally I like flat art, but I also enjoy a good 3D movie (the term used as it was before actual 3D illusions appeared). Here's an interview with the guys who made Rango, which I look forward to seeing.
(Yipee, via the "Secrets" plugin, I could now set screenshots to be JPEG instead of PNG, which are often ten times larger and waste bandwidth.)
(Yipee, via the "Secrets" plugin, I could now set screenshots to be JPEG instead of PNG, which are often ten times larger and waste bandwidth.)
computer art june 2011
(Click for big pic)
(1600x2650px high-distance version)
The second one reminds me of a big, lively, alien apartment complex. And the last one of a map or arial photo, obviously. I quite like the last version, linked-to (since Blogger has a max rez of 1600x1200). But it's my creed that there's no need to interpret art, and no interpretation is the "right" one. Then it wouldn't be art, but journalism.
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