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Android co-founder says mobile OS was originally designed for cameras

17 Apr

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Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, claims that the popular mobile operating system was originally designed for digital cameras, not phones. In an interview published by PC World, Rubin said that the original concept, as pitched to investors back in 2004, was for ‘a camera platform with a cloud portion for storing images online’. By the time Google acquired Android in 2005, however, the plan had changed and Android was developed for mobile handsets. Click through for more details and a link to the full story at PCWorld.com.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Benro introduces Cool Walker line of camera bags in the UK

17 Apr

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Benro has announced a new ‘Cool Walker’ line of camera bags through its UK distributor, Kenro. According to the press release, the Cool Walker line is aimed at travel and sports photographers, and includes thirteen variants of backpacks, shoulder and zoom bags. The smallest bag in the line can carry one SLR and a lens, while the largest is designed to carry two SLRs, eight lenses, two flashguns and a 15″ laptop. Click through for the press release from Kenro.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Google shares Glass tech specs ahead of launch

16 Apr

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As Google Glass beta testers – so-called ‘Explorers’ – prepare to receive the first round of the wearable augmented reality tech, Google is also bracing the rest of us for what’s to come. The company is pushing the Glass announcements this week with the release of the MyGlass app in the Google Play store and the developer preview of the Mirror API, along with the most revealing tech specs we’ve seen yet. Click through to check out the detailed specs and more at connect.dpreview.com.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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16. April 2013

16 Apr

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dubai - at the top - 452 Meter/1,483 ft © *Niceshoot*


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Static Flip Books: 360-Degree Scenes in Panoramic Pages

16 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

3d book art

Like a flip book, there is no text, and each page of these volumes contains a slightly different scene. Except instead of paging through them rapidly to reveal the story, the ‘reader’ unfolds the entire book at once into a dynamic panorama.

3d panorama story books

Artist Yusuke Oono has a whole series of these 360-degree books telling stories of daily home life, remote jungle adventures, and everything in between.

3d flip book diagrams

Each one unfolds into a three-dimensional scene, created using CAD-derived designs and laser-cutting programs, completed with a splash of color.

3d static flip book

The resulting negative space allows viewers to see through pages and visualize scenes, assembling them from the two-dimensional information on each layer – like rotational cut-outs of some miniature reality (or slices of life, if you like).

3d silent story boks

Ground, trees, walls and roofs provide the context – small figures of women, men and children tell silent stories that change with perspective and light. Each page is both a moment in space and in time. Brilliant, beautiful, simple.

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Nice Visual Art photos

16 Apr

Some cool visual art images:

VSP Visual Street Performance 2007 @ Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
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Image by Graffiti Land

 
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VSP Visual Street Performance 2007 @ Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal

16 Apr

Some cool visual art images:

VSP Visual Street Performance 2007 @ Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
visual art
Image by Graffiti Land

 
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The Delight of Photography: An Instructional Book Series for the Aspiring Photographer

16 Apr

At last, here is the photo course that you have always wanted to do but never had the time! The majority of new camera owners just want to know some of the key basics so that they can take good images and enjoy them. I have not yet met a book that caters for this – they all (even the Continue Reading

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12th Annual South Platte River All Club Paddle

16 Apr

The annual spring kickoff paddling trip on the South Platte River took place this year with two weeks delay on April 6, 2013, due to a winter weather. Typically, this trip is organized on the third Saturday of March. It starts in Evans Riverside Park and goes 9 miles downriver to Kersey or 14 miles to Kuner wuth a lunch break at the second dam portage. Several Colorado paddling clubs participate (Rocky Mountain Canoe Club, Poudre Paddlers Club, Rocky Mountain Sea Kayak Club, High Country River Rafters, and Colorado White Water Association), but no membership is required to paddle.

Kayaks and canoes on South Platte River portaging kayaks and canoes over diversion dam on South Platte River
Kayaks and canoes on South Platte River Kayaks and canoes on South Platte River
lunch break on South Platte River portaging kayaks and canoes on South Platte River

We had a good weather this year with some signs of spring, but pretty low water, ~550 cfs at Kersey. I took the pictures above with my Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera. They can be licensed for editorial use from my stock photography portfolio

This year I paddled Badfish inflatable SUP in a longer version of this trip to Kuner. It was not a first time of this paddleboard on the South Platte since I started my SUP season in early February this year with upstream and downstream paddling at Kersey.

I had a nice paddling with some problems on several shallow spots. I paddled a couple of miles without the center 10″ fin, but tracking of Badfish was pretty bad. I will try a shorter fin in my next paddling.

Badfish SUP on South Platte River

Related posts:
Opening 2013 Paddling Season with Badfish SUP on the South Platte River
SUP on the South Platte River – Opening Winter Paddling Season
South Platte River below Denver, Colorado – GPS/photo river guide. Links to flow data.


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Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home

16 Apr

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

Billboard Artist Residency 1

Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations instead of advertisements. But the Scribe Billboard takes the concept of billboard art even further: hidden behind its face is a tiny living space for the artists to stay in as they work. Located in Mexico City, this ongoing urban art project is a collaboration between paper company Scribe and architect Julio Gomez Trevilla.

Billboard Artist Residency 2

An elevated house made of steel and chipboard measuring about 170 square feet provides a sheltered space and meets the basic needs of the artist. It includes a kitchen, bathroom, closet, shower, dressing room and work desk. A barrel mounted into a rooftop tower provides gravity-fed water for plumbing. The only way to get in and out is through a door in the face of the billboard. The house even has a rooftop deck.

Billboard Artist Residency 3

The first resident was Mexican artist Cecilia Beaven, who spent ten days living inside it while working on the hand-painted campaign for Scribe. The interactive project called for ideas from the brand’s fans on Twitter, which Beaven incorporated into the work.

Billboard Artist Residency 4

Another billboard house concept by design firm Apostrophy’s is more spacious, with an open, multi-level design. See more photos of the Scribe Billboard at Scribe’s Facebook page.

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