MetaFilter posts tagged with imagery

Drag it over to the wastepaper basket

infini — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:56:02 -0800

The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore

What the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:33:01 -0800

What the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?

Every Hollywood Movie Is A Children's Film

The Whelk — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:54:37 -0800

Essayist and cartoonist Tim Kreider is no stranger to film criticism ( previously) but his thoughtful, surprising, detailed analysis of Lynch's The Straight Story and Spielberg/Kubrick's AI deserve special attention.

Earth From Above / Pale Blue Dot

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:55:46 -0800

Earth in perspective:

Stratocam takes the most beautiful landscape satellite photographs from Google Maps, as voted on by visitors, and switches them every few seconds, with a fullscreen mode.
ChronoZoom is an interactive, zoomable HTML5 timeline of the entire history of the universe, from the Big Bang to Homo Sapiens, with embedded video and lectures.

Look Out Below

netbros — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:54:44 -0800

Google Earth is a program where you can look at the Earth through aerial photos. At Google Earth Cool Places (GECplaces) you can find and share weird, cool, and beautiful places. You will need Google Earth to get the most out of this website.

V.I.L.E. henchmen are still nowhere to be seen

theodolite — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:45:14 -0800

MeFi's own Alan Taylor brings us another crop of stunning aerial imagery from Google Earth, inviting you to guess what you're looking at. Now with multiple choice! (previously)

Dorothea Lange on historical impact of images

Ideefixe — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:58:56 -0800

2-part KQED documentary about Dorothea Lange, from 1965. Lange meditates on the historical impact of images and how they can be used to examine/change society Towards the end of Part II she declares: "The visual mind has a very great contribution to make ... This is a peculiar and a powerful instrument for this purpose of saying to you or saying to the world in general. This is the way it is. Look at it. Look at it!" SF Bay Archive found the prints at the Oakland Museum, who loaned them and copyright holder WNET granted permission to stream them online.

Earth Art, with Google Maps

aberrant — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:09:24 -0800

Andy Grauland scours Google Maps for stunning natural imagery. The 19-year old Dane has close to two dozen extracts on his site. Take a look at places where no street view exists, and feel free to zoom/pan. (via, see also (previously))

Ames Research Center Image Library

shoesfullofdust — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:19:43 -0800

Ames Research Center Image Library Highlights from Ames - images from the Ames Research Center image library, which includes lots of great photography from the past and present. Such as:

Also available at the Internet Archive

Google Earth Typography

parudox — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:26:25 -0800

The alphabet in satellite imagery of Slavonia. [via]

Weather World 2010

Upton O'Good — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:26:36 -0800

The Weather World 2010 project at UIUC began as a comprehensive meteorology tutorial designed for a high school/undergraduate level. It has since expanded to include guides to remote sensing and reading weather maps. (Some highlights include optical effects, severe storms, and the basics of weather forecasting.) For folks in the US, it also has current surface and satellite imagery for a number of different atmospheric properties.

Eeek!

Artw — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:36:45 -0800

Tips for getting ahead in the increasingly competitive low cost small laptop market: When you go to Getty Images, grab some stock photography of smiling kids in a classroom and photoshop in your product, you better make sure your competitor hasn't used the exact same image.

tastespotting

jonson — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:19:58 -0800

Tastespotting is a wonderful visual blog for food enthusiasts, by the makers of notcot.

The Mercy Seat. Mapping out a Multifaceted Iconography.

jann — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:32:26 -0800

The Mercy Seat. Described in the book of Exodus, the throne of mercy has quite a variety of meanings. Some contemporary Christians are interested in "reconstructing" an image based on Egyptian and Phoenician culture. In Judaism, the kisei rachamim is part of the narrative of Yom Kippur, as God moves from the seat of justice to the seat of compassion. In medieval Europe, and especially in Germany, the Gnadenstuhl was a perfect representation of the trinity, combining the cruxification, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit (usually a bird), into one image of mournful compassion. Nick Cave used the idea of the mercy seat as the frame for a song about murder, sin, capital punishment, and atonement/redemption, which was later covered by Johnny Cash (mp3 clip). The chair of mercy is even visually alluded to Jodorowsky's Montana Sacra, aka Holy Mountain. (Which have been inspired in part by the Ascended Masters of Mount Shasta, but that's technically another story - the bizarro California cultists story.)

Lights, camera, empathy!

insomnia_lj — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:11:06 -0800

Lights, camera, empathy! The Bush adminstration has gone to great lengths and great expense to create just the right image... from the "magic hour light" Mission Accomplished speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to hiring a small floatilla of barges with floodlights to illuminate the Statue of Liberty, to sticking his head on Mount Rushmore. It seems a bit absurd, however, to spend a huge amount of money to bring in lighting crews and massive theatrical floodlights to bathe a building blue in the middle of a humanitarian crisis. They even took the time to reset the clocktower back to the correct time. Why didn't they just use the building's existing white lights instead? Did they need the lights to match the president's shirt? Note that his sleeves are rolled up and his collar is unbuttoned. It sure is hard work rebuilding New Orleans, isn't it?

The eye in the sky

OpinioNate — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:13:54 -0800

Before, during and after. DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite imaged the coast of Sri Lanka at precisely the time the tidal wave hit the beaches. It was pure coincidence.

newsfilter!!! ; >

amberglow — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:53:42 -0800

Hourly Cruft -- created triptychs from images found on the NYTimes home page. At 15 minutes after each hour, a new one is generated. From Robert Spahr, who also makes premise cruft, which takes images and headlines from CNN once every 8 hours. see here for more

Big Blue Marble

crunchland — Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:20:45 -0800

The Blue Marble ... true color global imagery at 1km resolution.

A Novel idea.

wantwit — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:20:02 -0800

A Novel idea. "Remote Sensing...provide service on remote sensing and its application to the satellite imagery map, as a core service system of remote sensing in Korea." This is just .01% viewing area of most countries' spying capabilities.

lagado — Sat, 02 Jun 2001 07:13:46 -0800

Ever wondered why the Buddha wears a toga?
Understanding the origins and symbolism behind images of the Buddha.

jkottke — Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:21:24 -0800

I feel bad about posting an Elian Gonzalez link, just because the poor kid has been through enough, but this religious imagery that CNN used in conjuntion with a story is just plain odd.