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A Film about Film

Posted in Film, History, Photography, tagged 1958, kodak, movie, vintage on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A Kodak factory documentary on the film-making process from back in 1958. It’s in German, but subtitled in English. Pretty neat, even if you’re not a photographer.
Kodak film – High band width

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Eyes In the Skies

Posted in Photography, Science on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Bizarre face formed in sky through cloud formation | The Sun |News
Uh oh. I think we’ve seen that guy before. And it wasn’t even a very good episode.

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Playmates by the Numbers

Posted in Photography on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Tired of dry financial analysis? Statistics can be good for other things, too!
Infoporn: Today’s Playmates Are More Like Anime Figures Than Real Humans
Sounds about right to me. Playboy has always featured idealized and extensively airbrushed women. In recent decades they’ve steadily gotten more extreme and less realistic. I suspect it’s one of the reasons why [...]

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Technology marches on

Posted in History, Photography, Retrocomputing, Science on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A nifty series of photos from the Chicago Tribune featuring cutting-edge futuristic technology that had to wait a while before it made the impact the inventors hoped.
High-tech once upon a time — chicagotribune.com

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Subway

Posted in Books, Photography, tagged 1970's, city, newyork, Photography, photos, subway on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A photo essay by Bruce Davidson
1970’s New York, at it’s grittiest and most dangerous.
via RFF
More of Davidson’s work here. Some great street and urban photography.
The original Subway book is available used. It’s not cheap. Very not cheap:
Bruce Davidson: Subway

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3D Jitter

Posted in History, Photography, tagged 3d vintage antique stereoscope on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Some examples of a clever technique adapting antique stereoscopes for onscreen view:
cursivebuildings

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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Posted in Photography, Science, tagged images, Science, space, sun on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a collection of some amazing solar images from various sources. Flares, flux lines of magnetic activity on the sun, and a neat animation of a comet having it’s tail torn off by a coronal mass ejection.
The Sun – The Big Picture – Boston.com

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One Photo Per Day

Posted in Neat Stuff, Photography, tagged boxcamera hack photography on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

But they’re really big photos. Made with the largest box camera I’ve ever seen.

YouTube – John Chiara

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A Tri-X Message In A Bottle

Posted in Neat Stuff, Photography, tagged cool China on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, this is a really great little story. Someone going out of their way – from all the way on the other side of the world, in fact – just to do something nice for someone they’d never even met. Be sure and read the scanned letter, too.
The Online Photographer: The Amazing Gift of Woo [...]

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