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Cameras

Experience Eric Curry’s Surreal ‘Light Painting’ Exhibit

Welcome to the world of “light painting“. It begins in darkness, and then over the course of an hour or hours, a photographer illuminates small portions of his or her subject, and combines the images in post to create this.

September 20, 2011
Online

Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else In The Planet

Check out the gigantic volume of photos now stored in Facebook compared to Flickr, the Library of Congress and Instagram. I knew they were big, but I never imagined the difference could be so huge. 140 billion photos! It defies belief.

August 12, 2011
Software

Why Did Apple Obliterate A Galaxy From The Lion Wallpaper?

Now there are two reasons to change Apple’s generic OS X 10.7 wallpaper to a custom one: it’s a fake. A professor of physics spotted Apple’s source, which was astrophotographer Robert Gendler’s image of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Online

LinkedIn Was Using Your Face For Ads

Here’s something every LinkedIn user should disable today, lest you want to see your name and face used in advertising for the social-networking site.

August 3, 2011
Science

Best Microscopic Images Of The Year Defy Belief Once Again

This is not a photograph of the Grand Canyon. Or any other canyon on Earth. But it’s in our planet. It’s the winner of the 2011 edition of FEI’s electronic microscope image contest.

August 1, 2011
Geek Out

Photoshop Makes Great Gifs Of Art Disappear

Question: What’s Mona Lisa without, erm, Mona Lisa? Answer: British artist Michael Guppy’s Selected series of gifs, which use Photoshop’s selection tool as the basis for the designs. [Michael Guppy via It's Nice That via DesignMilk]

July 19, 2011
Cameras

Those Smiling Monkey Pictures Are Likely Public Domain

We can all breathe a sigh of relief as those macaque monkey pictures may belong in the public domain. Neither the photographer nor the news agency that published the images can claim a copyright because they did not create them.

Online

One Year Of The New York Times As Told By 12,000 Screenshots

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira made a mistake, a wonderful mistake. For over a year, he accidentally ran a cron task that captured a screenshot of the New York Times‘ front page twice an hour, 24 hours a day.

June 14, 2011
Online

Google Adds Copy-and-Paste Picture Insertion To Gmail

Gmail added drag-and-drop image insertion last year, but they’ve pumped up their image-sharing features even more today with clipboard support. So if you’ve copied an image from somewhere, you can paste it right into Gmail’s Compose window. [Lifehacker]

June 9, 2011
Online

Tennessee Just Made Offensive Online Pictures Illegal

Goatse. Tub Girl. Lemonparty. They’re in the internet pantheon – and sharing them (or anything else that might shock or offend) will now land you in Tennessean jail, thanks to a dubious new law of theirs. The war on JPEGs begins.

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