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Impossible Gadget Turns Digital Photos Into Analog Prints

03 Nov

[ By Delana in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

People around the world shed a little tear when Polaroid announced that it would stop producing the instant film that had become synonymous with the company’s name. The folks at The Impossible Project took up the torch and began producing instant film for Polaroid instant cameras, but they also realized that the photography world has changed significantly. They set out to produce something that was distinctly Polaroid, but that would also cater to the new generation of photographers who use their iPhones as their primary cameras.

(all images via: The Impossible Project)

The Impossible Instant Lab combines the best qualities of instant film photography and iPhone photography to create something entirely new and kind of magical. The device is more or less an iPhone cradle that turns digital photos into instant analog photo prints that you can actually touch, write on, and hand off to friends.

The portable “lab” makes it simple to turn iPhone photographs into physical instant film photos. Using the Instant Lab iPhone app, you pick the photo you want to print. Place the iPhone on the cradle, open the device’s shutter, and push a button to eject the exposed photo. That’s it – your high-tech digital photo is now a retro, low-tech, completely awesome Polaroid.

There are, of course, plenty of wi-fi and Bluetooth photo printers that can spit out hard copies of digital iPhone photos. The Impossible Instant Lab isn’t for the people who are satisfied with those pictures. This gadget is for the people who have felt like something is missing from their lives ever since Polaroid abandoned their instant photograph fans.


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Holgas, Polaroids & Pinholes: Lush Low-Tech Photography

Film photography is a dying art, but should we so fast to let go of the amazing images created with low-tech cameras like Holgas, pinhole cameras and Polaroids?
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Oh, Snap! 10 Camera Concepts Focused on Innovation

Digital photography has come a long, long way in the relatively short time it has been around. These forward-thinking camera designs want to push it further.
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Cities on Rails: Mobile Master Plan Turns Trains into Towns

01 Nov

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ]

Modular thinking is brilliant and infectious, expanding and spreading from industrial-revolution technologies to three-dimensional printing and beyond. But how big can modularity get? Imagine the same concept applied to cities that move, grow and shrink on demand, gaining or shedding functions and spaces as needed.

Spoiler alert:  science-fiction writer China Mieville (of whom this author is a serious fan) first envisioned a permanent mobile life on rails in Iron Council, where residents deploy tracks in front of (then pull them up behind) an ever-moving rogue locomotive. Then in Railsea, he expanded this idea in a world where every inch of land is covered by iron rails and wooden ties. It sounds like far-fetched fantasy, but could something like this work in reality?

The Swedish architecture firm Jagnefalt Milton asks and answers this question in their daring and award-winning design of A Rolling Master Plan, conceived of as a way to utilize existing rail routes to shift entire towns – or even cities – worth of people and places.

Consider seasonal migrations, for instance: festivals, markets, concerts and other events that move throughout the year. What if they could take their architecture with them as they traveled? Then there are hotels, restaurants and other commercial functions that see demand change over time as well as by season. What if they could deploy rooms or eateries around a country at will? Sure, it is conceptual, but the real-life applications are astonishing once you start thinking about ways buildings could adapt if only they could move more freely.


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Rolling Out a Master Plan: Movable City on Rails

A concept for a Norway city that acts as a gateway to the country’s fjords puts public buildings on rails, creating a portable town that expands in the summer.
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24 Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities

What in the world could cause entire cities to become abandoned? Here are twenty-four haunting real-life ghost villages, towns and cities from around the world.
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Vixels — This Artist Will Turn You into a Pixel Person!

18 Oct

Normally, you don’t want your pixels to be seen.

You like the pristine, fine-grain look. But what if you went to the other extreme and really let your pixels show?

Vic Nguyen is taking commissions for turning your photos into awesome pixel portraits! His vixels, as they are called, are a little reminiscent of 8-bit Twitter avatars, but turned up a few degrees with way more detail.

Mustaches, beards, dimples, even your haircut are turned into exact pixel replicas.

So the next time someone tells you your pixels are showing, it’ll be a compliment!

Have Your Pixel Portrait Made from Photos [via Uppercase Magazine]

p.s. Hey, Hot Shot! has a photo competition with $ 15,000 in prizes and some pretty amazing exposure up for grabs. Deadline is 11/14, so get those hot shots in!

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Car Ferry Converted into Hulking San Francisco Houseboat

18 Oct

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

It truly is a hulk of a thing to make into a live/work space, but there is an industrial loft-like quality that renders this decommissioned Icelandic car carrier appealingly open yet cozy at the same time.

Its owners, occupants and redesigers Olle Lundberg and Mary Breuer (architects and fabricators by trade of ) looked into everything from tugboats to ships before finding this offbeat beauty and deciding to call it home.

It ‘only’ cost a few hundred thousand to buy, but multiple times that to make fully habitable as an abode and office. Among other expenses, they had to hire the crew to take it on a seven-week trip from Iceland, through the Panama Canal to dock in Mission Bay.

Their secondary residence, much like their primary, is weird and wonderful as well – an oddly-shaped cabin that combines a small original rural structure with their own custom additions and populated with leftover furniture commissioned but then not purchased by clients.

The pool, for instance, is a massive wooden water tank rescued from a farm property, patched up with wood from a local winery, then added to the exterior and filled with liquid (which initially smelt of red wine when swimming). Images via New York Times photographer Peter DaSilva.


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Fire-Inspired: 14 Converted & New Lookout Tower Homes

From 15th century guard towers on the Italian coast to modern timber-framed fire towers in Montana, these 14 homes get their inspiration from high places.
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Manifest Destiny! Parasite Cabin Clings to San Francisco Wall

A rustic 19th-century cabin by artist Mark Reigelman is an unlikely sight clinging to the Hotel des Arts in the middle of urban San Francisco.
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Camouflage Posters Turn 3D Reality into 2D Illusions

16 Oct

[ By Steph in Art & Photography & Video. ]

Blurring the line between reality and fiction, this urban camouflage photo series by French photographer Fred Lebain features posters that blend in almost perfectly with their environments. Lebain visited New York and took photographs of various scenes, went home to France and turned them into posters, and then came back and installed the posters were the photos were taken.

Called ‘A Spring in New York’, the series reads like slight blips in time, where scenes are glimpsed on a day not too long past, when few things were different – perhaps the amount of sunlight, or the number of people in the background.

The posters curling at the edges or blowing slightly in the wind lends a curious effect to the final images. The scene is wrinkling; reality is threatening to peel away like paper.

In some scenes, the posters really do act as camouflage, hiding part of the photographer so that only hands or feet can be seen.

The series is reminiscent of Liu Bolin, ‘The Invisible Man’, a Beijing-based artist who paints himself into his surroundings so convincingly that it’s often hard to spot him. See more examples of urban camouflage, including body painting and bizarre urban camo suits.


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Urban Camouflage: Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man

Chinese artist Liu Bolin painstakingly paints his subjects so that they seem to disappear into their surroundings in amazing urban camouflage photography.
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Invisible Boxes: Camouflaged Art Goes Postal, Hits the Street

Cayetano Ferrer likes putting prints on ordinary objects and capturing everyday scenes in strange ways on videos. This new project expands his approaches.
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Connect: Tips for taking your smartphone into the ocean

16 Oct

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Simple waterproof gear can protect your smartphone while you catch the spray of the surf and actions of the waves for stunning images from the sea. Allan Hoffman offers seven tips for taking your smartphone into the ocean.

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Tinkernut – Weekend Hacker: Turn Photos Into 3D Models

01 Aug

Learn how to take 2D photos and automatically convert them into 3D models and them print them out as 3D objects. Download links used in the video: 123D Catch – www.123dapp.com MeshMixer – www.meshmixer.com 123D Make – www.123dapp.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

This is Week #6 of the new series where you submit your exposures and I get to review them live on video. This time i am not alone to review your exposures. My guest is Eric Rossi (aka the guy with the eye). Note, the submissions are open from Mondays to Sundays and between Sundays to Wednesdays I publish the episode. Here I have received another 13 photographs and Eric and I have provided a huge amount of tips to help you improve your photography. You can check Eric’s channel: www.youtube.com Send your exposure via Tom Migot Photography Forum: TomMigotPhotographyForum.com Send me your questions, comments and topic suggestion at ask@TomMigotPhotography.com My Blog TomMigotPhotographyBlog.com Social Media www.youtube.com twitter.com facebook.com www.facebook.com Galleries: TomMigotPhotography.com http www.redbubble.com
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Into The Basements

01 Aug

Eigentlich ganz und gar ohne einen Plan geboren, ein schneller Kameratest, aus dem eine fortlaufenden Serie entstanden ist. Ende 2011 legte ich mir eine Holga WPC zu. Beflügelt vom Wunsch ja schon immer mal „pinhole“ zu machen und interessiert am extremen Weitwinkel der WPC.

Und wie das so ist wenn man eine neue Kamera bekommt, man muss sofort raus und ausprobieren. Ohne mir irgendwie bewusst zu sein was ich denn eigentlich fotografieren will, zog ich einfach durch die Nachbarschaft.

Vielleicht hat meine Intuition und Spontanität schon ein wenig mitgeholfen. Ich setze mir gern ein Thema und versuche es mit verschiedenen Kameramodellen und Formaten umzusetzen. In den letzten Jahren hat dies immer wieder mein Auge geschult. Man gewinnt einen anderen Blick für Objekte / Subjekte. Man sieht irgendwann „fotografischer“, abstrakter und vor allem spontaner… und so entstand das Foto oben als erstes Bild der Serie.

Mit dem Betrachten der ersten Negative kam die Idee zur Serie. Ich war fasziniert vom Minimalismus im Einklang mit Perspektive und Subjekt. War fasziniert vom Sog den die Fenster ausüben. Mein Faible für Dinge an denen andere vorübergehen tat den Rest dazu. Kellerfenster sind ein doch sehr verblockter Zugang in eine intime Welt der Hausbewohner. Sei es Lager, Hobbyraum, Gerümpelkammer oder Hort von Dingen von denen man sich nicht trennen kann oder will.

Keller erzählen Geschichten über ihre Besitzer. Kellerfenster, schotten diese ab, mit dichten Lochblechen, Eisenstäben, lassen keinen Blick zu. Auch deswegen gehen die meisten wohl einfach an ihnen vorbei und schenken kaum Beachtung. Wie so vielen alltäglichen Dingen, die allein betrachtet jedoch komplett anders wirken. Mittlerweile entdecke ich eine gewisse Schönheit in ihnen, egal wie abgerockt oder abweisend sie wirken.

Into the basements“ führe ich nun ständig fort, ohne Zwang, ohne Muss. Wann immer ich das Bedürfnis habe einfach mal die Gedanken schweifen zu lassen, ziehe ich mit der Holga los und fotografiere Kellerfenster. Es mag komisch klingen aber sich auf diese Art Minimalismus zu fokussieren erdet und entspannt ungemein. Mittlerweile ist „into the basements“ sechs Rollen Film stark, nicht alles gefällt mir, nicht alles eignet sich im Ergebnis. Und so halte ich die Serie eher kleiner.


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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Inserting a Screenshot Into Your Presentation

17 Aug

Illustrate how to use a software program or web service by adding a screenshot into your PowerPoint 2010 presentation.

Perhaps you need to give a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation that instructs participants how to use a particular piece of software or web service. Just describing the features isn’t enough; screenshots may prove quite useful.

In previous versions of PowerPoint you would need an external screen capture software package. However, PowerPoint 2010 lets you capture screenshots with just a couple of clicks:…

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Samsung gives insight into NX development

07 May

Samsung has published the second in a series of articles explaining the development of lenses for its NX mirrorless camera system. The article features video and interviews with a range of the people involved in the planning, design and development of lenses (and various aspects of the NX system). Also included in the article is an image of what appear to be design studies for the NX system – including some retro/futurist, seemingly Hasselblad-inspired mockups. If you have any interest in the NX system, the piece gives an interesting insight into the possibilities the company is considering. (from PetaPixel)
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