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Plugin Boutique has announced a Photo Competition, an opportunity to win prizes from Plugin Boutique and Loopmasters.

Fancy your hand at a bit of photography or simply have any eye for a good snapshot? Here’s a call to all aspiring photographers, Instagram junkies and plain old gear-heads. Plugin Boutique have launched a little photo competition where you can put your snap-shot prowess to work.

Simply upload your photo to our competition page here, and it will be put to the public vote. Keep it clean kids, we’ll be approving them before they go live ;)

The winner will receive a £60 Plugin Boutique voucher and 5 Loopmasters Artist Series DVDs of your choice.

The contest ends May 11th, 2013, 11:59PM (PST).

More information: Plugin Boutique Photo Competition

Some interesting things I found recently:

# Hardsamples.com/samplestation.net Contest – Win some Hardsamples Packs in this music production contest for hardstyle and hardcore producers.

# arduinoboy – Arduinoboy is software for the Arduino hardware platform that allows serial communication (MIDI) to the Nintendo Gameboy for music applications such as LittleSoundDJ, Nanoloop, and mGB.

# Earth From Above comes to NYC – Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States – to New York City for the first time in 2009.

May 1 – June 28, 2009 — World Financial Center Plaza, Battery Park City (free to the public)

Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 – and has produced an exhibit of over 150 4-ft. by 6-ft. prints which will be on display in New York City at the World Financial Center Plaza and along the Battery Park City Esplanade from May 1, 2009 to June 28, 2009. When completed in New York City, the Earth From Above exhibit will also move on to California in 2010.

More info on Earth From Above here.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on February 4th, 2008:

• Pocket Electronic – An universal electronics DIY kit to build your own MIDI control box. Up to 16 controlling elements can be connected to PE transmitting 16 different MIDI messages on different (or even the same) MIDI channels.
• Our daily bread – A film about where your food comes from in this age of globalization.
• gaussmarkov: diy fx » Fuzzy Logic – A unique circuit for guitar effects builders. It uses readily available SIP sockets to allow easy transistor swapping.

Fuzzy Logic by Gaussmarkov

• Remove shake and motion blur from photos – Nathan Willis dissected three applications for removing the effects of camera movement from your photos.
• Mythbusters, airplane on a conveyor belt – Kottke’s liveblogging account of the Airplane on a conveyor belt myth.
• Red Bull Art Of Can – Red Bull Art of Can is a national juried exhibition featuring artwork in a variety of media that have one thing in common?they are all inspired by Red Bull or crafted from the iconic blue and silver cans.
• Star Wars R2-D2 Peppermill – Not that you’ve noticed… but all fine restaurants on Tatooine feature R2-D2 pepper grinders. Usually after you order your salad of Dagobah greens a Wookie will come around and offer you some fresh ground pepper from one of these handy droid-based mills.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 29th, 2008:

• I Eat Beats – Edible music interface – Skittle-based beat sequencer, a tangible and edible music interface. This is a prototype developed over the course of two evenings, with a webcam and Processing
• Web Hot or Not? – Technorati founder David Sifry’s Hot or Not for websites. Great market research!

Is it me or is there actually no way to see what a sites rating is?!

• objects in asphalt – Flickr user STR820 has a beautiful photoset of found objects embedded in Brooklyn asphalt.
• Has Hillary Clinton seen the video for the Golden Earring song she plays? – Woops, who chose that song?!

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 16th, 2008:

• Mark Richards – Core Memory – An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory reveals modern technology’s evolution through the world’s most renowned computer collection, the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley.
• iGoogle Themes – Can’t live with Google’s bare looks? Check the iGoogle Themes directory for more colorful interfaces.
• Um, Whoops. – Dreamhost mistakenly billed their customers $7,500,000 after one of their guys made a little typo. Yikes!
• 7 Technologies that will Save the Earth in 2008 – EcoGeek is here to keep you informed of the latest technologies that are making our lives better while also ensuring that we don’t spoil the Earth at the same time.
• MAKE: Blog: DIY laptop stand from an Ikea paper towel holder – Budget laptop holders, just make one yourself
• Food: Eat Cloned Animals, FDA Says – Hmm, no matter how I look at this I can’t help but feel it’s wrong…

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on January 6th, 2008:

• Sternlab sGlobject Trumpet & Tambourine (sGloTaT) – The sGloTaT sonic environment allows participants to originate sound by moving physical objects. It encourages novice users to play by naturally gesturing with two tangible user interface objects emulating a trumpet and tambourine.

Sternlab sGloTaT, more images here.

• Mark Story Photography | Living in Three Centuries – Wonderful images of people who were born in the 19th century and are still alive in the 21th Century.
• Best Freeware Games of ’07 – 30 Categories – Great resource if you’re looking to waste some time with free games