Designing a business card doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming. Most business cards are simple enough: they contain, in readable type, a list of information about you, what you do, and how to get in touch. They stay in tune with your branding — the colors, fonts and general message you want to convey to people about your business Continue Reading
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The entire team at DPReview would like to wish all our readers Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, Merry Christmas or whatever you say in your part of the world. It’s been a productive – and at times challenging – year here at DPReview, and we’re really excited about our plans for 2015. Wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing today, enjoy yourselves and thank you for being a part of dpreview.com!
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On the 12th day of Christmas dPS gave to me – $ 10 eBooks!
Over the last 11 days we’ve featured a number of dPS eBooks but there simply are not enough days to feature them all.
We know that some of you have been hoping that dPS eBooks we’ve not yet featured will be featured in a deal so today is that day!
So today you can pick up ANY dPS eBook not featured in the last 11 days for just $ 10!
That’s right – you can pick up any of these 10 dPS eBooks today at 50-66% off:
Grab one or pick up a few here – but only in the next 24 hours.
If you’ve got your eye on a few eBooks we’ve put together two bundles – based upon what people tend to buy.
Photo Nuts Series Bundle – 4 eBooks for $ 25
Our best selling series of Photo Nuts eBooks from Neil Creek bundled together at an amazing price.
Sell for $ 110 if you buy them all separately but today you can pick them up for just $ 25 as a bundle.
They cover everything from understanding your camera and other gear, getting creative control over your camera and transforming your photos with post processing.
This one is perfect for beginner photographers or those who are stuck in auto mode.
Secure this bundle and save 77% here for the next 24 hours.
Posing Guides – Our Kids Posing Guide and 67 Portrait Poses together for $ 15
This year we released two very popular posing products that are available today at 50% off.
These posing guides normally sell for $ 29.98 but are yours today for just $ 15.
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[ By WebUrbanist in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]
Founded by futurists to engage in truly long-term thinking, the Long Now Foundation is best known to many for Long Bets or its recent placement of a Rosetta Disk on a comet, but the organization has an array of amazing projects designed to last hundreds of generations, including a 10,000 Year Clock. Something to consider before we go any further: civilization as we know it is arguably only around 5,000 years old – we are talking here about an technologically sophisticated endeavor aiming to span (and keep track of) twice that period of time.
Designers and builders are used to thinking in terms of decades, perhaps even centuries, but are rarely called upon to consider millennia in their plans and calculations. In the case of the 10,000 Year Clock, environment is critical – in addition to robust materials and geological stability, predictable temperatures and relative isolation are key ingredients in siting the mechanism. Towering 500 feet vertically and with gears weighing up to 1,000 pounds each, the first clock is being built high and dry inside a West Texas mountain on property owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Another is planned for Nevada – both are sited to avoid excessive rain or freeze-and-thaw cycles that could damage it over time.
In the conceptual design stage of the project, polymath inventor Danny Hillis said of his aspirations: “I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years.” Indeed, the experience of the clock has even more unique twists than initially envisioned: each time it chimes the sound is unique – with 3.5 million melodies in store, it will not repeat itself for the next ten thousand years.
Located in a separate space from the clock’s inner workings, the face of the clock “displays the natural cycles of astronomical time, the pace of the stars and the planets, and the galactic time of the Earth’s procession.” Prototype parts of the clock are on display in some places, like the Long Now’s bar and event space in San Francisco known as The Interval, where this author recently saw Kevin Kelly, board member of Long Now and founding editor of Wired, speak about his book and history with the organization.
Perhaps most impressive of all: the clock can keep itself going for the entirety of is planned existence. While it will not display the time unless wound it will continue to keep track, using the sun and stars for guidance and temperature differentials for power. “Thermal power has been used for small mantel clocks before, but it has not been done before at this scale. The differential power is transmitted to the interior of the Clock by long metal rods. As long as the sun shines and night comes, the Clock can keep time itself, without human help. But it can’t ring its chimes for long by itself, or show the time it knows, so it needs human visitors.”
While this kind of working technology over such a long time period has almost no precedent, there are many examples of things surviving for such long periods – human-made ceramics have lasted up to 17,000 years along with other artifacts. The biggest worries? Some moving parts will not shift for generations, so making them able to work after a millennium without motion may be tricky. And then there are human visitors, well known for vandalizing and stealing from historical sites over time – we may, once again, be our own worst enemies.
As shown in the video above, “This system will be suspended 400ft down in the 500ft deep shaft that was carved using a raise bore drill last year. The large structural elements and gears are made from marine grade 316 stainless steel, most smaller pins and rollers are titanium, and the bearings are all made from an industrial ceramic. The entire system uses no lubrication, but the first tests have shown that over 93% of the energy put into the system, comes back out to go to the Clock.”
The future is here! Unfortunately, I have no hovercar, and robots are still lumbering jokes. Here are some entertainingly outdated visions of the future:
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Put 288 clocks on a wall and what do you get? One design group did just that, but in a new and completely mesmerizing way.
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A photography project well over a decade in the making, these images by Joseph Blum show the human side and vast scale of construction behind the …
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If you are like many of us on the dPS team you may be traveling somewhere for either Christmas or New Year’s or both. I am personally heading up north a bit to a small town called Jiquilillo here in Nicaragua. It’s a fishing village and we expect to see lots of fireworks on the beach and drink a few beverages.
Travel safe if you are taking a journey. Or if you’re sitting at home wondering what to do with your time, we’ll be taking a bit of a break or our regular article schedule. It will go like this:
I’ll be digging through the year’s worth of articles and finding the best of the best for you. Starting off tomorrow with the hottest landscape articles of 2014 (which ones you guys liked the most) I’ll have a new topic each day with several articles for you to read or review.
After the fireworks have long since subsided we’ll get back to our regular schedule of two articles a day on January 3rd (Australia time). For the first couple days you’ll see the wrap-up of the best of series and just one post per day.
Take some time off to do the three R’s: relax, reflect on the past year, and recharge your batteries ready to the next one. It’s going to be a good one so let’s make sure we’re ready for it and firing on all cylinders. See you on the flip side (dare I date myself)!
By Paul Mullett
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Over the last 12 days we’ve presented you with some amazing daily deals on photography training resources in our 5th annual 12 days of Christmas.
The savings this year were our biggest yet and we had a lot of really positive feedback from readers who picked up some fantastic deals.
As in previous years we did get a few sad messages from readers who missed deals along the way asking if there was any way to get them.
As a result – today we’re opening all 12 deals back up again for one last chance.
So if there’s a deal you regret missing or you might have missed one of our emails – you’re in luck. Here they are!
All these will be available until midnight US Eastern time on 31st of December, after that they will be gone for ever – so get to it and grab yours today!
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[ By Steph in Drawing & Digital. ]
No worries about anyone invading your personal space when you’re wearing this intricate 3D-printed dress, which extends animatronic spider-inspired arms when it senses another person’s presence nearby. ‘Spider Dress 2.0′ by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht responds with defensive gestures if anyone approaches too quickly, or come-hither motions to friendlier, slower-moving people.
Equipped with proximity and respiration monitors and an Intel Edison processor, the dress acts as a shield between the wearer and the outside world, interpreting the intentions of people who come near. The 3D-printed white components have a skeletal appearance, while LED lights add a bit more sci-fi appeal.
As seen in the video, the movements of the spider arms are creepily realistic. The design is an improvement upon Wipprecht’s ‘Spider Dress 1.0,’ which had a more mechanical appearance with arrow-like legs. The artist sees fashion as lacking in ‘microcontrollers,’ and seeks to combine fashion design with engineering, science and interaction.
The mechanisms that create the movement in Wipprecht’s wearable tech designs are left visible on the outside so viewers can “witness the designs creating their own unique forms of interaction, movement and meaning.”
Strong as steel, half the weight and running on very little gas, the plastic Urbee 2 hybrid vehicle is manufactured with a near-automated 3D printing process.
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Artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz creates playful and thoughtful dresses, coats and accessories that make a big (and sometimes funny) statement.
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Fashion photography typically involves some kind of clothing. But in this series, consumer products such as Coke cans and M&Ms stand in for high fashion.
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Well it is that time of year again and it is Christmas Day in Melbourne, Australia where most of the dPS team is based.
Image by Stefan Insam
This year I’m celebrating the holidays a little differently than usual. I’m miles away from my family, here in Granada, Nicaragua. My family here (house mates and husband) are having dinner and a small cocktail party for others like us who are away from their loves ones back home.
If you take photos at your family events or other things over the holidays and want a little reading here are a few dPS articles that might help you out:
And don’t forget to check out the deals at our 12 Days of Christmas sale!
When You Wish Upon a Star by Magdalena Ginalska on 500px
Have a great holiday, however you celebrate!
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Ahhh, the Holidays. Millions of normally civilized people overextending their budgets and sometimes their left hooks in the pursuit of the perfect gift, stretching their culinary skills (and their smoke alarms) to their furthest heights, and begging and cajoling their extended families into family pictures, lots of them, so that they can forget the stressful, over-emotional, exhausting, sleep deprived knock Continue Reading
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[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]
Churches are scrawled with ephemeral graffiti, public squares transmit profound messages and trees come to life with the moving heads of Cambodian deities when artists use digital projectors to transmit imagery onto urban surfaces. These 10 artists project words, classical art, geometric shapes, mirage-like fields of color or their own photography onto everything from Capitol buildings to screens made of water.
American artist Jenny Holzer uses words on an unprecedented scale, especially with her outdoor light projections, introducing commentary to public spaces. While the words were her own from the time she started in 1977 until roughly 2001, she has begun working with texts written by others, including the works of great literary figures and sources like declassified US Army documents from the war in Iraq.
Trees come to life in the sculptural images of deities and spirits from Cambodian culture in the series Cambodian Trees by French artist Clement Briend. Highlighting the nature that can be found within urban contexts, the series transformed the streets of Paris. Says brined, “Such nocturnal visions allow us to grasp the way magic profoundly influences how Cambodian people perceive the world.”
Artist duo Luftwerk, made up of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, integrated Chicago’s iconic Cloud Gate into a light art installation called Luminous Field. The work used the reflective qualities of the sculpture to enhance and magnify imagery that was projected onto the ground around it.
Commissioned by the City of Santa Monica for Glow 08, ‘Primal Source’ by Usman Haque was projected onto a large-scale waterscreen/mist projection system at a beach location near the city’s pier to create a mirage-like effect. The light changes in response to the sounds emanating from the crowd. “Some modes created ‘captures’ whose colour, shape and movement followed the frequency and amplitude dynamics of individual syllables and sentences picked up; other modes responded to wider collective phenomena, e.g. distorting a grid in response to the crowd volume, or creating a rush of wind through a wheat-field landscape.”
Classic art comes to the streets for all to see when Italian multimedia artist Paolo Buroni projects images onto architecture in public squares. “I like to create change – to change reality with imagination,” says the artist. His works have been commissioned for events like the Venice Biennale and has appeared in Nuremburg,, Budapest, Istanbul, Paris and Seoul.
Light graffiti, also known as light painting, is a kind of leave-no-trace, sustainable and incredibly awesome temporary graffiti if captured right by clever …
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With tons of energy, some fresh ideas and a willingness to play around and be goofy, the photography duo MRI creates graceful portraits of light in motion.
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