Year: 2009
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LA Story
Gorgeous tilt-shift time-lapse film via Rubbishcorp who has a knack of finding great stuff. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3537180&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1the east side of Los Angeles on a sunny day (tilt-shift & time-lapse) from clark vogeler on Vimeo. If you fancy turning some of your own photos into tilt shift, try this.
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Post Of The Month – February ’09 – The Winner
Delighted to say that the winner of this month's Post of the Month is Sam's excellent post on The Wrong Questions. We had a strong showing from several of this month's shortlist, but young Sam led from the start and never looked back really. Well done Sam. You get the reflected glory of props from…
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Think Tank – February 2009 – The Vote
Some great writing again in this month's slightly shorter short-list for Post of the Month (sadly though, I wasn't able to include Mrs Belmot's future of branded meat suggestion, excellent (and funny) though it was, as I don't allow people to nominate their own posts – sorry Mrs Belmot). So now time to vote for…
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Fish Story
"There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What…
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Funny how the strangest things make an impression. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian photographer who developed some of the earliest techniques for colour photography that involved taking a series of monochrome pictures, each through a different colored filter, and projecting them using correctly-colored light to reconstruct the original color scene. Between 1909 and 1915, he…
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Think Tank Nominations – February 2009
OK, so nominations for February Post of the Month are now open, so time to think about the best post you've read over the last month and nominate it by leaving a comment below with a link. As usual, this is about recognising good thinking and writing so please help spread the word to encourage…
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Pastiche
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3252798&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Pastiche—A Collective Composition of New York City, by Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo. "The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences—not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York…