This brought some mild amusement this morning, the Flickr communities reaction to the recent interest from Microsoft to acquire Yahoo
Also, a question that popped into my head, will Flickr lose its Flashyness and been done in Silverlight!?
Graffiti artists in Berlin are replacing spray cans with torches, glow sticks and digital cameras. The results are stunning as proved by Flickr user, lichtfaktor. The technique loosely involves setting the cameras to over expose and painting with various lights in the shot. Essentially a form of stop motion animation, light writing employs a phenomenon known as persistence of vision which creates the optical illusion to the viewer.
Some companies are even employing the technique to form the part of their visual identity, Joost for example.
This might be the Mac-geekiest thing I've ever seen. Sharp-eyed reader Morgan W has a flickr pool of signs around the Apple campus in Cupertino, and notes that three of their newest building signs (at Bandley Five, Six, and Eight) have an updated logo with no 3D effect, and use Myriad for the font instead of Garamond, which the old signs used.
I've been a fan of the Opacity website for a couple of years. It started as a portfolio site for an american photographer who visited old, abandoned buildings. It has since grown to be more about the exploration of the buildings themselves, and often includes the building's history, and any plans for the site in the future.
Most of the sites are american, but there are a few from a recent visit to Britain, and some recently uploaded Belgian ones.
The photographer has a great eye for capturing the eerie atmosphere of these places, and finds humour and beauty in a lot of the little details.
I'm generally jealous of what he gets away with, but I'm too much of a scaredy cat to try this kind of stuff myself. There are many more abandoned buildings of this nature in America, due to the fact that land isn't at a premium over there. In Leeds at least, anything vacant for more than five minutes is converted into 'luxury apartments'. Hmph.
by the same chap who took the bustops
This brought some mild amusement this morning, the Flickr communities reaction to the recent interest from Microsoft to acquire Yahoo
Also, a question that popped into my head, will Flickr lose its Flashyness and been done in Silverlight!?
Graffiti artists in Berlin are replacing spray cans with torches, glow sticks and digital cameras. The results are stunning as proved by Flickr user, lichtfaktor. The technique loosely involves setting the cameras to over expose and painting with various lights in the shot. Essentially a form of stop motion animation, light writing employs a phenomenon known as persistence of vision which creates the optical illusion to the viewer.
Some companies are even employing the technique to form the part of their visual identity, Joost for example.
This might be the Mac-geekiest thing I've ever seen. Sharp-eyed reader Morgan W has a flickr pool of signs around the Apple campus in Cupertino, and notes that three of their newest building signs (at Bandley Five, Six, and Eight) have an updated logo with no 3D effect, and use Myriad for the font instead of Garamond, which the old signs used.
I've been a fan of the Opacity website for a couple of years. It started as a portfolio site for an american photographer who visited old, abandoned buildings. It has since grown to be more about the exploration of the buildings themselves, and often includes the building's history, and any plans for the site in the future.
Most of the sites are american, but there are a few from a recent visit to Britain, and some recently uploaded Belgian ones.
The photographer has a great eye for capturing the eerie atmosphere of these places, and finds humour and beauty in a lot of the little details.
I'm generally jealous of what he gets away with, but I'm too much of a scaredy cat to try this kind of stuff myself. There are many more abandoned buildings of this nature in America, due to the fact that land isn't at a premium over there. In Leeds at least, anything vacant for more than five minutes is converted into 'luxury apartments'. Hmph.
by the same chap who took the bustops
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