a very amazing lecture and demo video from TED talks by software architect blaise aguera y arcas showing the incredible new photo technology called photosynth. from the what is photosynth page on the microsoft live labs website, photosynth “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” please watch the video (also on the clip-a-day website) to see what that entails - it’s pretty incredible.
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great photography and interview with artist/photographer daniela edburg on her work titled drop dead gorgeous. death by over-indulgence. wonderful cinematic images of scenes depicting death by cotton candy, death by oreos, death by stinky tupperware, death by plastic wrap, and other great deaths.
some very intense, imaginative, disturbing, beautiful, and provocative photos can be seen in a project titled starlight meadows by jason king. briliant imagery and composition the images. starlight meadows was “designed as a story and a puzzle both for me and for anyone that interacts with it” (quoting jason king). the design of the site is really well done too. i also like the closing statement on the website: “Sometimes I wonder if I created the characters or if the characters were already here and I just gave them masks.” thanks tony for the link. via daily monkey and via neatorama.
do you like arthropods? then you will enjoy this insect photography website by richard seaman that is buggy for bugs. great for reference or just checking out cool images of insects. like beetles, caterpillars, spiders, and such. links of note are his sections such as the spiders of vietnam (yikes!), the lovely dragonflies of fiji, and back to vietnam & some butterflies.
nikon has posted winners for it’s contest in recognizing excellence in photography through the microscope. titled nikon’s small world, the winners for 2005 included a muscoid fly, a quantum dot fluorescence image of mouse kidney section, and crystallized vitamin A. you can view previous years winners here.
wow! lovely! check out solarviews.com for some beautiful images of Saturn’s moon Hyperion. good hi-res images available. this shot was taken by the Cassini Orbiter back in september 2005. so awesome! most intergalatic giant orbital loofah sponges are quite awesome.
really amazing photographs by Poul Beckmann of some even more amazing beetles and bugs! check out Living Jewels when you get a chance. the beetles are quite beautiful. you can buy books and prints as well. nice stuff. the beetle photos are Copyright 2004 Poul Beckmann.