The Wilderness Downtown
An interactive film by Chris Milk Featuring "We Used To Wait" Built in HTML5
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WordPress › Postie « WordPress Plugins
The Postie plugin allows you to blog via e-mail, including many advanced features not found in wordpress's default post by e-mail feature. Postie offers many advanced features for posting to your blog via e-mail, including the ability to assign categories by name, included pictures and videos, and automatically strip off signatures. It also has support for both imap and pop3, with the option for ssl with both.
Mix different inputs in OS X and listen in on the mix
I was looking for a way to mix different internal sound devices in OS X while being able to listen in at the same time. This is useful for example when you want to do a live sound broadcast while interviewing someone over Skype.
Photo WordPress Themes | WordPress Themes for Photographers | Photocrati
Wordpress themes specifically designed for photographer's web sites
IT Conversations | Pop!Tech | Ze Frank
Ze Frank kicks off day two of Pop!Tech with his unique style and in-depth exploration of the mysterious culture surrounding of airline safety cards. By tapping into an underground network of people who collect these cards, he analyzes examples from the early days of air travel to the extremely graphic graphics on Azerbijani Air. Ze makes sure you'll never look at your personal floatation device the same way again! He walks us through the logic and logistics of communicating such a complex and unnerving scenario, giving us a glimpse at the awkward design decisions and harrowing storyboards confronting passengers around the world. One topic not covered in the safety card: What to do after the life raft drifts off to sea, into the sunset, into this mad, mad world we live in.
Stephen Eastwood|Beauty and Fashion Photographer | Tutorials
Lenses and perspective, or distortion on a face for beauty.
Looking Through the Lens (ITC 2011)
a keynote presentation for eLearning 2011 (Instructional Technology Council conference), February 20, 2011, St Petersburg FL. In our media soaked culture, thé cliche exchange rate of 1000 words per picture seems quite low. The mechanics and art of photography unveil an intriguing metaphor for thinking about learning. For a photographer, the operation of cameras-- exploiting apertures, shutter speeds, optics, filters-- coexist with the artistic skills of pre-visualization, framing, composition. We meld with the camera, the boundary between tools and our human capabilities blur. Taking the metaphor farther, creating an engaging learning experience is much more than point and shoot. Few successful photographers are born innately with their skills- it is a craft, as is learning, that often improves in the act of doing, trying, and reflecting.
The Revolution in Keene New Hampshire | The Secret Revolution (Feb 20, 2011)
(Feb 20, 2011) Invited keynote for the Keene State College 2011 Faculty Technology Showcase https://sites.google.com/site/s3cr3tr3v/
Sport Science ESPN
The Emmy Award-winning TV series, hosted by John Brenkus, uncovers sports' biggest myths and mysteries by using cutting-edge technology to measure momentum, friction and the laws of gravity.
The Super Secret Project
The home of the Super Secret Project, aka, The SSP, the sickest tunes and flicks outfit this side of the Mass/NY border.
3d Rotating Image Cube
This script grabs 6 images and creates a 3d cube which rotates according to the mouse position. It accepts the images through GET parameters. With this form, the user can specify the flash applet height and width, as well as the size of the cube itself. If your website receives a substantial amount of hits, please host the swf file on your own server.
Flickr: Explore interesting content around Flickr
Besides being a five syllable word suitable for tongue twisters, it is also an amazing new Flickr Feature. There are lots of elements that make something 'interesting' (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr. We've added some pages (and changed some existing ones) to help you explore Flickr's most interesting content. Before you start though, you might want to take your phone off the hook, send your boss to an executive training session and block off some time on your schedule, because we don't think you're going to be walking away from your screen any time soon. Beautiful, amazing, moving, striking - explore and discover some of Flickr's Finest.
100 Strangers
Step out of your comfort zone to a new level of portrait photography: take 100 portraits of people you don't know. The One Hundred Strangers project is a learning group for people who want to improve the social and technical skills needed for taking portraits of strangers and telling their stories. The method is learning by doing. The project is lots of fun and improves photojournalistic skills. During the process you might expand your every day living experience - and who knows, maybe you will even get a couple of new friends during the process. We welcome both beginner and advanced photographers. You may be new to photographing strangers or already have experience of this type of photography.
Two Waterfalls (Aperture & Shutter Speed)
Actually, it's two photos of the same waterfall, taken a few seconds apart using my Nikon D50 digital SLR and a 50 mm lens, showing how you can change an image by controlling the aperture and shutter speed.
Penmachine: Camera Works: what are f-stops and why do they matter to the pictures you take? - words music comment from Derek K. Miller - Vancouver, B.C., Canada (since 2000)
Camera lens designers take many cues from eyes, and one of the main ones is having an iris (the lens diaphragm) inside the lens that can open or close to let more or less light through. Instead of using muscles and tissues, camera lens diaphragms have a set of thin, overlapping pieces of metal known as aperture blades, and instead of the pupil, the opening in the middle is the aperture: As in the human eye, the aperture lets the photographer (or the camera's exposure computer) increase or reduce the amount of the light that gets through to the film or sensor at the back of the camera body. But why would you want to do that? Why not let in as much light as possible all the time?
Kris Krug
I'm a photographer, web strategist and author based in Vancouver. This is the hub for my digital life.
Story of portrait from Flickr homepage with 1,230,000 views... interview with KRIS KRUG. | Mad about Portraits
Today we have a really special guest- famous photographer Kris Krug from Vancouver. He shared a story of portrait, which is one of the pictures featured on the flickr homepage. Till today it has over 1,230,000 viewers. I asked him, how this awesome portrait changed his life…
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - NYTimes.com
Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words. But a picture unaccompanied by words may not mean anything at all. Do pictures provide evidence? And if so, evidence of what? And, of course, the underlying question: do they tell the truth? I have beliefs about the photographs I see. Often – when they appear in books or newspapers – there are captions below them, or they are embedded in explanatory text. And even where there are no explicit captions on the page, there are captions in my mind. What I think I’m looking at. What I think the photograph is about. I have often wondered: would it be possible to look at a photograph shorn of all its context, caption-less, unconnected to current thought and ideas? It would be like stumbling on a collection of photographs in a curiosity shop – pictures of people and places that we do not recognize and know nothing about. I might imagine things about the people and places in the photographs but know nothing about them. Nothing.
A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning | Beth’s Blog
Many years ago before digital cameras and children, my husband and I used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, we picked out some of the best to scan. Looking at these photos reminds me of how much focused attention we gave to setting up the shot, shooting during the best time for light, debating the rule of thirds, taking photos at different angles, f-stops, and timings, etc. There was a slowness to it that we don’t have with digital photography (perhaps because the slide film was expensive and we didn’t want to waste money). Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media.
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words; Importance of Images Within a Blog | The Blog Herald
When you write online, there is more to think about than just the words on the page. Whether you like it or not, people get bored, and they get bored quickly. With the instant-gratification world we now live in, people (especially internet users) don’t have the patience to give anything a chance without some visual stimulation. With the rise of the finger-fast technology that supports all super-dooper games, images and other visually appealing programs, it is easy to see why people need flashing images and pretty fonts to grab their attention; anything less than this is not worth their time. The success of many blogs lies in how they present themselves. First impressions are everything (another cliché I know) and it is worthwhile thinking about how people perceive your blog before they add another notch on your bounce rate statistic. How colorful is it? What is the navigation like? And most importantly, what images can they look at?
Crowdsourcing Alternatives To Delicious » open thinking
Twitter was abuzz with the news that Yahoo! will be shutting down Delicious, the popular social bookmarking site. Delicious has been a very valuable tool to me for several years now, and I, like others, will be sad to see it go. However, rather than dwell on the news, it’s better to move on, and find a viable alternative, especially one that will allow the migration of data from a Delicious account to a new host. Rather than trying to find a solution on my own, I thought I would crowdsource an alternative through the sharing of a collaborative Google Document. This crowdsourced approach was very successful back in April when Ning announced their service would no longer be free, so I thought it would be worthwhile to try it again. I set up the shared Google Doc, shared it, sent out a tweet, and the magic began!
Pummelvision
Pummelvision flashes your life before your eyes using photos from around the web.
Knowledge Sharing Tools and Methods Toolkit - home
Join the ICT-KM Program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the KM4Dev Community and the United Nations Children's Fund in creating and growing this resource of knowledge sharing tools and methods. While these are applicable in a wide range of contexts, we hope that together we can help frame them in the context of international development with a focus on agriculture, fisheries, food and nutrition, forestry and sustainable development.
Knowledge Sharing Tools and Methods Toolkit - Speed geeking
Speed Geeking (also known as Speed Dating) is a large group method to quickly expose participants to a new information about any topic: programs, theory, technology, etc.. It can be adapted to other types of content as well, but the focus is on short exposure to something new as presented by someone with deep, practical experience in the topic area, tool or method. Speed geeking comes out of a long-known group process known as the "Gallery Walk" where outputs from small group sessions were viewed by the rest of a larger group, split into small, roving groups, visiting the results of the work done earlier.
UnCollege | self-directed higher education
UnCollege offers a project-based curriculum for independent learners and supports a community of like-minded peers and mentors.
Mythogeography
This is a website for walkers, artists who use walking in their art, students who are discovering and studying a world of resistant and aesthetic walking, urbanists, geographers, site-specific performers, town planners and un-planners, urban explorers, entrepreneurs and activists who don’t want to drive to the revolution.
Serendipitor Gives City Navigation A Gaming Layer | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Self-described artist/architect/post-disciplinary researcher Mark Shepard built his alternative navigation iPhone app Serendipitor (currently in public beta) to inject Google Maps with the ethos of postmodern participatory art movements like Fluxus or Situationism. But when you mash-up movement with art, you get something very much like an alternate reality game. Enter an origin and a destination, and the app maps a route between the two. You can increase or decrease the complexity of this route, depending how much time you have to play with. As you navigate your route, suggestions for possible actions to take at a given location appear within step-by-step directions designed to introduce small slippages and minor displacements within an otherwise optimized and efficient route. You can take photos along the way and, upon reaching your destination, send an email sharing with friends your route and the steps you took
Melbourne Free University
The Melbourne Free University provides a platform for learning, discussion and debate which is open to everyone. The MFU was established in 2010 in response to Australia’s increasingly outcome oriented education system, and aims to offer space for independent engagement with important contemporary ideas and issues. The MFU runs six-week courses on a range of subjects and themes, with classes taking place on weekday evenings from 6.30-8pm in Melbourne’s inner north. Each session starts with a 45 minute presentation by an expert on the issue at hand, followed by a 45 minute participant-driven discussion. This is not a Q&A session – we believe that everyone has something important to bring to the discussion, regardless of their education, job, or experience, and hope to create a space where the community can come together to learn off one another and debate salient current issues.
Copenhagen Free University
The Copenhagen Free University opened in May 2001 in our flat. The Free University is an artist run institution dedicated to the production of critical consciousness and poetic language. We do not accept the so-called new knowledge economy as the framing understanding of knowledge. We work with forms of knowledge that are fleeting, fluid, schizophrenic, uncompromising, subjective, uneconomic, acapitalist, produced in the kitchen, produced when asleep or arisen on a social excursion - collectively.
The Public School
The public school is a school without a program. For now, she works as follows: first, classes are offered by the public ("I want to learn this" or "I want to teach it), then it is possible to register for classes (" I also want to learn it "). Finally, a committee (discussion group) decided to organize some courses along the lines he wishes to give to the Public School.