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Asteroid 1998 QE2 is coming!

Westringia F. — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:05:21 -0800

Watch Near Earth Asteroid 1998 QE2 live as it makes its closest approach to Earth. Basically NOW. Also, it has its own moon!

Tags: nightmarefuel

Room 641-A — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:40:02 -0800

Face Stealer App Will Steal Your Ability to Sleep Yahoo! Japan’s FaceStealer app lets you load up images of other people, animals or cartoon characters, and then map them over your face.

"what kind of surveillance society we should be fighting for"

the man of twists and turns — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:33:04 -0800

Practical Ethics: Enlightened Surveillance?

Surrendering on surveillance might be the least bad option – of all likely civil liberty encroachments, this seemed the less damaging and hardest to resist. But that’s an overly defensive way of phrasing it – if ubiquitous surveillance and lack of privacy are the trends of the future, we shouldn’t just begrudgingly accept them, but demand that society gets the most possible out of them.

The Dangers Of Surveillance (via Schneier On Security)

Surveillance is harmful because it can chill the exercise of our civil liberties, especially our intellectual privacy. It also gives the watcher power over the watched, creating the the risk of a variety of other harms, such as discrimination, coercion, and the threat of selective enforcement, where critics of the government can be prosecuted or blackmailed for wrongdoing unrelated to the purpose of the surveillance.

David Brin: Accelerating Dangers And Opportunities From Transparency Bruce Schneier: The Internet Is A Surveillance State The Generalized Sousveillance Society, with a definition of "sousveillance." How Wearable Sousveillance Cameras Will Transform Our Society. Sousveillance: When The Watched Become The Watchers. Hi Haters!

Britney’s conundrum, however, is less an exception than an extreme depiction of what social media and surveillance bring everyone. And our response to this has been equally contradictory. Though the pressure falls unevenly on people according to gender and other factors, we are all now under similar forms of surveillance, which technological innovation seems geared toward intensifying.

Tiny eagles eating fish

IvoShandor — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:02:59 -0800

At Alcoa's Davenport, Iowa facility two eaglets (of the bald variety) have hatched; the whole internets can watch live on Alcoa's eaglecam.

Amazing Water and Sound Experiment #2

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:55:14 -0800

Amazing Water & Sound Experiment #2 - brusspup synchronizes his video camera to a water stream run in front of a speaker outputting a 24 Hz sine wave

I believe I can fly

Room 641-A — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:25:02 -0800

R/C cameraman Robert Mcintosh takes you soaring high above Santa Monica, Venice, and San Francisco. Float through the air as you glide along the beach and up through the spokes of the Ferris wheel over the Santa Monica Pier. Then head a mile or two south and get a bird's eye view of Venice's Muscle Beach. When your head has stopped spinning you can take in San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge or get away from it all (including the ground) out at at Vasquez Rocks. Note: You may want to keep the Dramamine handy.

Please turn off all electronic devices during take-off and landing.

bayani — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:34:31 -0800

Filmmaker Tim Sessler shot the short film Drift during a flight from San Francisco to Salt Lake City with his Canon 5D Mark III.

And whereas the original model took about 8 seconds to save a photo to a disk, this version averaged a more tolerable 4 seconds.

256 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:27:50 -0800

"Sony has added some nifty new features. These include the ability to make copies of floppies using just the camera--very handy if you want to hand out extra disks on the spot. A new quarter-resolution (320 by 240) option also makes it faster to e-mail photographs. (The camera's full resolution is 640 by 480.) A built-in menu on the MVC-FD71's LCD screen permits you to easily take advantage of useful new options such as these."

Unsurprisingly, the camera which arguably first popularized consumer digital photography still has a following.

Bride Of Slenderman

The Whelk — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:55:28 -0800

While slit-scan photography is most well known for the "stargate" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, advances in technology now allow it to be applied to moving objects in 3D. (via)

Just taking a video.

ignignokt — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:06:16 -0800

Surveillance Camera Man (SL Vimeo) is a man who acts like a surveillance camera. However, he is not ceiling-mounted like most surveillance cameras. He takes video of people in public and private places. Most people have a problem with him, creating conflict. One person actually likes him.

We're all like, worms, man! Everything that's ever existed on earth, just one big connected worm!

kaibutsu — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:13 -0800

Jay Mark Johnson takes two dimensional photographs, like just about everyone else. But he's chosen an unusual pair of dimensions: One in space, and one in time. Slate article, artist's webpage.

"I am not perfect to look at and I am not perfect to love, but I am perfectly their mother."

flex — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:16:27 -0800

The Mom Stays in the Picture - When Allison Tate wrote about how "Too much of a mama's life goes undocumented and unseen... I'm everywhere in their young lives, and yet I have very few pictures of me with them", it resonated with many other women. "To read through the notes that came with the thousand-plus photos (and yes, we have read every single one) was to read the minds of today's mothers. Over and over you told us that you don't look the way you want to look, don't look the way you once did. Even when joining a movement created around the motto 'I am not perfect to look at and I am not perfect to love, but I am perfectly their mother,' you felt the need to apologize." (via middleclasstool's other half)

Photography in Afghanistan

jontyjago — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:47:24 -0800

Alex Jansen is a lieutenant in the US Army currently deployed in Afghanistan. He is embedded as a liaison officer working with and training the Afghan National Army. He's been taking photos of his experiences and posting them on the Pentax forums, offering a different view of the life of soldiers in Afghanistan. Forum posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 As a bonus Jansen has posted a video showing why he uses Pentax cameras in Afghan conditions: the dust and water sealing

The SLR Camera Simulator

Foci for Analysis — Tue, 29 May 2012 07:33:02 -0800

Do SLR cameras confuse you? Then try the SLR Camera Simulator.

The dying arts of kamra-e-faoree "instant" photographs and hand tinting photos in Afghanistan

filthy light thief — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:51:34 -0800

"From photography’s earliest days, enterprising practitioners realized they could take their services directly to the people. This lead to the horse-drawn wagons called “Daguerreotype Salons” and then to portable, darkroom tents that allowed wet-plate photographers to make pictures outside. As technology advanced, the tents morphed into a single apparatus that combined both camera and darkroom, which allowed photographers to work anywhere. Afghanistan is one of the last places where street vendor photographers still use such a hand-made, wooden camera called kamra-e-faoree or “instant camera.” Observing this practice lead photographer Lukas Birk & anthropologist Sean Foley to undertake the Afghan Box Camera Project." - Photo Technique Magazine introduction to an interview with Lukas Birk Birk and Foley came across kamra-e-faorees on research trips in Afghanistan, and they realized they were seeing the end of a long tradition. Operators of the "Afghan Box Cameras" were either unable to afford to continue the traditional practice, or were simply replacing the old, complex cameras with modern, digital systems. Birk and Foley began documenting what they found, setting up the Afghan Box Camera website, with information on the last practitioners of the art. The duo also filmed the kamra-e-faoree in action, as well as documenting one of the last hand-tinting artists. They plan to travel to Peshawar in Pakistan to document refugee Afghan photographers, thanks to a successful Kickstarter project. Given the relative simplicity of the system, Birk and Foley provide a guide to making your own "box camera" in 15 pages (PDF). Fading Afghanistan is a related project, put together by Kris Lizak (Polish) and Khalil Ahmad Arab (Afghan) to collect photos from former Afghan street photographers. Their website currently has 143 portraits (Flash-based image viewer).

7 Days in Tokyo

reenum — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:44:08 -0800

Pascal Ken, after taking several trips to Japan between 2007 and 2011, took some beautiful, dreamlike infrared photos of Tokyo.

Descriptive Camera

delmoi — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:00:50 -0800

Descriptive Camera, 2012 "The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene." Rather then using advanced AI, it simply passes the description task to Amazon's Mechanical Turk system, which in turn distributes the job to humans. It takes between 3-6 minutes to get a description.

Focus on the potential.

jeffamaphone — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:53:25 -0800

Lytro, the 6-year-old[1] consumer plenoptic camera start-up started shipping their first light field camera to end users last week. Reviews have been mostly positive with regards to the technology and industrial design, but also warn users of specialized hardware and software that is difficult to use, the "poor quality"[2] display, and low resulting image quality. However everyone seems to agree that light field technology is the way of the future and is here to stay. Previously. Is this what the future looks like?

San Diego Penguin Cam

a womble is an active kind of sloth — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:17:13 -0800

Featuring nearly 300 penguins, San Diego's PenguinCam provides hours of entertainment during March and April.

Seeing in Circles

dunkadunc — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:49:26 -0800

Oscar Lhermitte has been doing some wonderful things with video cameras and power drills.

Manarchy's 35 Foot Long Camera

The Deej — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:51:31 -0800

A one-of-a-kind, 35-foot-long camera that exposes 6-foot-tall negatives. The detail in a portrait subjects’ eyeball alone is a thousand times greater than what you get with the average negative. Resulting portraits will be featured on prints 2 stories tall. Photographer Dennis Manarchy is traveling around the country documenting various cultures.

Pirate Driving

juiceCake — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:58:41 -0800

"I had to drive with only one eye open as the camera was blocking my other eye, quite tricky," he said. Luca DiGrassi tests an eye-level camera in an old Toyota F1 car.

"Someone, somewhere in the world is now holding the last film camera ever to roll off the line.”

Fizz — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:17:14 -0800

Cinema is dead.

I did put a keycam on my rotorhead

swift — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:20:27 -0800

I did put a keycam on my rotorhead (Three dee MP-EXL) vertically to optimize. (slyt)

Sea Eagle Cam.

Ahab — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:18:27 -0800

Chat Room Rules : 1. Be respectful, polite, and focused on eagles. Despite the collapse of the nesting tree earlier in the year this remarkable couple have built a new nest in double-quick time and recently laid two eggs. Through EagleCAM, you have a unique and amazing opportunity to follow their progress as we count down to the hatching of the first egg [S1] on or around the 14th of August [and the second, S2, the next day]. The (wild, resident) White-Bellied Sea Eagles at Birds Australia's Sydney Olympic Park Discovery Centre have hatched two chicks. The live feed under the "EagleCAM" link will be black and white IR night vision for a few hours yet, but the brooding parent can be surprisingly active at night. Viewers are requested to email Birds Australia if they see any shift changes or feeding during the night (email address is down the page under the live video). Video of last years chicks being fed by both parents at three days old. More photos, questions and discussion at EagleCAM's facebook page (no login required). Eagle cams previously.