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This is a true story about a photojournalist from Malaysia National News Agency (BERNAMA) who crashed his D3s and had no choise but to continue using it to complete his assignments during Le Tour Langkawi Malaysia round.
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We’ve seen record temperatures this summer. Sometimes, it’s just too hot to be outside!
But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy scenic views from the comfort of your living room (and air conditioner).
Learn how to turn your photos into glowing photo spheres!
You’ve seen those plain paper lanterns at the store, and now you can convert them to show off your own bright and colorful photographs.
And when the temperature drops, you can take your photo spheres out on the porch. Your neighbors will appreciate the view.
Make Photo Lanterns that Light Up the Night
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It doesn’t take much to transform ordinary paper lanterns into pieces that will make your room shine.
These photo spheres look great in the daylight, and even better at night!
You can bask in the glow of your very own photos. What could be better?
Measure the surface you want to cover and determine how big you need to print your images.
We printed four 11×17′s to wrap around our 12″ diameter lantern.
We found a good price on lanterns at World Market, but you can find them at Target, Michael’s, and a variety of online vendors. The bulb kit is usually sold separately, so make sure to pick that up as well.
After sizing your images in Photoshop or another editing program, print them out.
We printed on regular copy paper. We found it to be easier to wrap around the sphere.
Photo paper will work, too. You might need a little extra glue. Keep in mind the thickness of the paper will affect the translucency of the sphere when lit. Photo paper will give off a more subdued light.
You’ll need to make vertical slits on your photo in order to get it onto the sphere. Here are your two options.
You can use the sphere template to cut an elliptical pattern. Size this template to fit your photos. Use photoshop to crop it to 11″x17″ before you print. This method will keep the overlapping paper parts to a minimum.
TIP: Make sure the length of your template covers the entire sphere before cutting. You also want to make sure not to cut all the way through. You want your center “equator” to stay in tact, and use the strips to be able to bend around the thinner parts of the sphere.
The other option is to cut straight lines vertically along your photo, again leaving the center in tact. This is the easier version, but will have more overlap at the top and bottom.
These overlapping sections are apparent in the final product, but can also produce cool effects.
Start by taping down the “equator” of your first section to hold it in place.
Coat the backside of the image with gel medium and press into place. Gel medium is a glue like paste available at any art supply store. It’s a lot like modge podge, but has a nice clean finish when it dries.
Tuck the corners over the inside edge of the lantern. You may want a little extra gel/glue here to secure them.
Repeat the previous step for each section of the photo.
Overlap each strip slightly to create a continuous image. Tuck the edges, and keep going.
TIP: Work in sections vertically across your lantern, i.e. glue the top of the first strip, then the bottom of that same strip, before moving on to the next section.
This step is optional, but can help give your lantern a nice, finished look.
After each section is in place, brush a thin layer of gel medium over the photo, sealing in any cracks and smoothing out areas on your sphere.
TIP: You can use your hand on the inside of the lantern to press out any parts that may have been crinkled in the process.
Let it dry completely before hanging it.
Depending on how much gel medium was used, this can take from one hour to several hours.
Follow the instructions that came with your lantern for connecting the bulb and socket.
Pick your favorite place and hang up your glowing photo creation.
Enjoy your photos in all of their glory!
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A few nice visual art images I found:
Street Art In Drogheda
Image by infomatique
Visual Arts
October 2006 saw the opening of the town’s first dedicated municipal art gallery and visual arts centre, the Highlanes Gallery, housed in the former Franciscan Friary on St. Laurence Street. The Highlanes Gallery holds Drogheda’s important municipal art collection which dates from the 17th century as well as visiting exhibitions in a venue which meets key international museum and gallery standards.
The original Drogheda bypass bridge over the river Boyne, known locally as the "Bridge of Peace", is well-known regionally for its aerosol graffiti murals. Under the bridge, on each side of the river there are two large concrete supports that measure approximately 8 metres high, and 20 metres long. Starting in the 1980s with the breakdance craze, these supports were painted and sprayed with murals by aerosol artists. This activity at the time was technically illegal and frowned upon by the local authorities. Today the murals are frequently updated and limited sponsorship of the artists is provided by local businesses.
Street Art In Drogheda
Image by infomatique
Visual Arts
October 2006 saw the opening of the town’s first dedicated municipal art gallery and visual arts centre, the Highlanes Gallery, housed in the former Franciscan Friary on St. Laurence Street. The Highlanes Gallery holds Drogheda’s important municipal art collection which dates from the 17th century as well as visiting exhibitions in a venue which meets key international museum and gallery standards.
The original Drogheda bypass bridge over the river Boyne, known locally as the "Bridge of Peace", is well-known regionally for its aerosol graffiti murals. Under the bridge, on each side of the river there are two large concrete supports that measure approximately 8 metres high, and 20 metres long. Starting in the 1980s with the breakdance craze, these supports were painted and sprayed with murals by aerosol artists. This activity at the time was technically illegal and frowned upon by the local authorities. Today the murals are frequently updated and limited sponsorship of the artists is provided by local businesses.
The night has always fascinated photographers. Night-time urban photography presents its own challenges. But with a bit of work, and some easy-to-master technique, combining landscape and astrophotography opens up a new world of possabilities.
Find out more in Landscape Astrophotography, by Manel Soria.
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Three Summer Olympic Games and two Winter Olympic Games have been canceled since Athens hosted the inaugural games of the modern Olympiad in 1896. Few visual records of these âlost Olympicsâ exist besides prototypical promotional and/or postal artwork. The nostalgic glimpses of alternative Olympic history presented here were designed to glorify Mankind’s competitive spirit in a utopian world untainted by war.
(image via: Maison)
The International Olympic Committee‘s official records system is based on the concept of an âOlympiadâ – an Olympic Year, as it were. Once that year has passed and regardless if any Games were held, the next Olympiad is denoted by applying the next consecutive Roman numeral. Thus the 1912 Games of the V Olympiad held in Stockholm, Sweden, were followed by the 1920 Games of the VII Olympiad held in Antwerp, Belgium. The Games of the VI Olympiad, scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, never took place after being officially canceled shortly after World War I began in the summer of 1914.
(images via: British Library)
Planning began on the 1916 Olympic Games almost immediately after Berlin was selected as the host city during the 14th IOC Session in Stockholm. Among other cities that applied to host the Games were Alexandria, Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest and Cleveland.
(images via: Olympic-Museum.de)
The 64,000-seat Deutsches Stadion, or âGerman Stadiumâ, was built over the course of one year and was officially dedicated on June 8th of 1913 â it was closed in 1934 and the Berlin Olympiastadion was built on the site. Posters, travel brochures and postage stamps were designed with very little material seeing the light of day due to the Games being canceled two years before they were to begin.
(images via: Bryan Pinkall’s World of Opera, Stamp Circuit and Newmexico51)
It may seem odd that the Summer and Winter Olympic Games were awarded to both Germany and Japan amidst the obvious increase of militaristic policies espoused by these nations’ governments in the 1930s. Then again, the Olympic Movement has always striven to keep athletics and politics separate. The 1940 Summer Games were scheduled to be held in Tokyo from July 20th to August 4th of 1940, with the Olympic flame to be flown non-stop from Germany via a never-before-flown Messerschmitt Me 261 airplane.
(images via: The Ephemera Network, Olympic-Museum.de and Carter’s)
The government of Imperial Japan never really got behind the 1940 Tokyo Olympics as Japan’s leaders fundamentally disagreed with the Games’ peaceful precepts and concepts… not to mention they had other, more pressing concerns.
(images via: Olympic-Museum.de)
By 1938 the Second Sino-Japanese War was raging and both Japan and the IOC seemed eager to find some excuse to abandon the 1940 Games. Things came to a head in July of 1938 when the government of Japan officially withdrew their support.
(image via: Wikipedia)
Though the 1940 Tokyo Olympics were still two years away, much preparatory work had been done in anticipation of the first Olympic Games held in Asia. The images shown here include both official and unofficial efforts to paint a positive picture of the host country though the stylized, helmet-wearing soldier in one poster may have undermined efforts somewhat.
(images via: Harvey Abrams Books, Rlanvin and RigaStamps)
With little time to spare, the IOC scrambled to find a new host city and settled on Helsinki, Finland, which was the runner-up to Tokyo in the original bidding process. Helsinki was reasonably prepared to shoulder the burden of hosting a Summer Olympics having completed the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in 1938.
(image via: International Poster Center)
The 1940 Olympics were to see the debut of a new Olympic sport: gliding. War clouds were gathering over Helsinki as well, however, and the outbreak of World War II in September of 1939 prompted the IOC to cancel the 1940 Helsinki Olympics. Just as well… on November 30th, 1939, the USSR declared war on Finland and Soviet bombers appeared over Helsinki.
(images via: Olympic-Museum.de)
Finland would manage to hold off the Red Army in several wars outside World War II’s main theaters and Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium survived relatively unscathed. It was to be the centerpiece of the 1952 Summer Olympic Games which had the character of a postponement – even some of the promotional material from the lost 1940 Helsinki Olympics was revised and reused 12 years later.
(images via: ABC RadioNational and Telegraph UK)
Sharp-eyes are required to note one salient difference between the two Ilmari Sysimetsä-designed posters above: the outline of Finland in the 1952 poster is slightly smaller than on the original poster as the country lost territory to the USSR with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty in 1940.
(images via: German Postal History and Olympic Source)
A similar situation occurred regarding the 1940 Winter Olympics originally scheduled to be held in Sapporo, on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. The IOC first offered the Games to St. Moritz, Switzerland, but conflicts with the Swiss town’s organizing committee over the eligibility of professional ski instructors saw the IOC offer the games to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where they had been held in 1936.
(image via: USHMM)
A limited amount of promotional artwork was created in the very short time frame between June 1939 when the Games were awarded to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and November 1939 when Germany (and not the IOC) withdrew their official invitation.
(images via: Bryan Pinkall’s World of Opera and Olympic Games Marathon)
“Lucky 13″ strikes again? Never have an Olympic Games been as DOA as the 1944 London Olympics and their cold-season counterpart, the VI Olympic Winter Games awarded to Cortina-D’Ampezzo, Italy. The official IOC election for the 1944 Summer Olympic Games’ host city took place in June of 1939, in London, England. The defeated applicants (in order of votes) were Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal.
(images via: Covers of the World and Stamp Circuit)
The year 1944 happened to mark the 50th anniversary of the IOC’s founding, however, and Switzerland issued a series of stamps commemorating the event. The stamps are display the name of Lausanne, the Swiss town where the IOC’s headquarters is located. Other stamps marking the never-held 1944 Olympics were handmade by Polish prisoners at the Woldenberg POW camp after being granted permission by their German captors.
(image via: MWB)
Surprisingly enough, modern-day designers haven’t completely forgotten the so-called “forgotten Games of 1944″. Topman has released a new line of A.D shirts displaying graphics influenced by the stillborn 1944 London Olympics. The graphics offer an intriguing look at what might have been though it’s much more likely the ’44 Games would have been much like the post-war Summer Olympics hosted by London four years later.
(images via: IWM and Uncle Eddie’s Theory Corner)
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had already placed his bets on Rome winning the 1944 Summer Games, and had commissioned several pieces of statuary (above) to be placed in the “The Mussolini Forum”. As for Cortina-D’Ampezzo, the IOC continued its practice of postponing instead of canceling: the Italian alpine town graciously and successfully hosted the VII Olympic Winter Games in 1956.
(image via: Healey & Wise)
Lost in any discussion of the Lost Olympic Games are the crushed hopes of the athletes, many of whom trained for years leading up to a promised moment of glory. Four years is a long time in the life of an athlete; eight years can be a lifetime. Five canceled Olympic Games (and several boycotts) are more than enough – and that goes for the catastrophic global events which led to their cancellation.
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