Results for photography

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 10th, 2007:

• Mona Lisa from recycled train tickets – Employees at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka have created four reproductions of world-famous paintings using 320,000 old train tickets obtained from the nearby Nankai Namba station.

• Graffiti Archaeology – a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years.
• Dragonfly or Insect Spy? – Robobugs on the loose!
• Smashing Magazine Best of September 2007 – Some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites, references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 9th, 2007:

• Recycle a mouse into a camera shutter release – Using an old mouse and a 3/32″ stereo jack, Dave Schlier hacked together a nice little shutter release for many Pentax and Canon cameras.
• Floating ‘bridge’ of water – When water in two beakers is exposed to a high voltage, a floating water bridge forms between the beakers.
• World’s Largest Swimming Pool – This artificial lagoon and swimming pool in San Alfonso del Mar, Chile, is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water.
• Pultius TV remote control – Need more buttons on your remote? Pultius remote is half a meter (almost 20 inches) long.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 7th, 2007:

• reCAPTCHA – Stop Spam, Read Books. This new captcha stops spam while digitizing books.
• Mouthpiece – Pinhole photography with a twist by Justin Quinnell.
• Wire & Twine – A group of designers, coders, screenprinters, photographers, artists, moms, dads, and down-to-earth people… Some excellent t-shirts available here.
• Best Of Screensavers – Smashing Magazine lists some of the greatest screensavers
• The Chronulator – The Chronulator starts life as a clock, showing the hours and minutes on two old-school analog panel meters. Dress it up to look like old test equipment, audio VU meters, or motorcycle gauges.
• The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie – It doesn’t get much geekier than this, does it?

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 29th, 2007:

• Day of the Daleks – A bid to break the world record of the most Daleks in one place.
• Time lapse lunar image – Done in Photoshop.
• Free Spirit Spheres – Suspended Spherical Tree Houses.
• Felt Underwood Typewriter – It took several weeks of non stop sewing to finish. The felt is hand dyed and the details are embroidered.
• Endangered Machinery – Industrial and industrial heritage photography by Haiko Hebig.
• Front Mission 4 Paper Model – Paper model of a character from the Front Mission game series.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 26th, 2007:

• Full hardware unlock of iPhone done – Yes thats right, we have an unlocked iPhone. The hardware is only used to unlock the iPhone, and can be removed after it’s unlocked.
• August 2007 Space Shuttle Photos – from NASA’s Space Shuttle mission last week
• thumbalizr – a website thumbnail creator – Take screenshots of any webpage you want and use it for your presentations, documentations, visualisations or your webpage.
• Matt’s awesome chip desk – What does one do 434 discarded Itanium CPUs? Matt Tovey used them to make this awesome computer desk.
• 10 Recording Bloopers That Made the Album – A list of recording and mixing bloopers that made it past the mixing room onto the final release.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 20th, 2007:

• How to Use Chopsticks in Seven Easy Steps – I usually give up after three bites and grab a fork instead.
• Free Air Conditioning – Technically it should be called a heat exchanger, we lovingly call it the water cooler, but it has been providing us with free cold air for more than 20 years now so it definitely does work.
• Arcade Game Manuals – A collection of 1,700 arcade manuals, schematics, and general information in PDF format
• Magazine Illusions – Are you on the cover of that magazine?