Inside the Threadless Photo Department
Get ready for an awesome peek behind the scenes of the photo department at Threadless, the popular community-based, e-commerce t-shirt company based out of Chi-town.
Photography & Video
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Exploded Tattoo
Exploded Tattoo is a collaboration between painter Anna Stump, photographer Ted Meyer, and various models with single-image tattoos. For each model, a 9’x8′ painting was made to correspond to their body art, then the model and painting were staged for the photos. The end result is an original and stunning interpretation.
Lego NXT Pinhole Camera
Love this pinhole camera by Russian maker bshikin; it uses an NXT light sensor to calculate shutter speed, snaps the picture with a servo-operated flap, and tracks remaining film. Complete build notes and LeJOS code at the above link. [Via The NXT Step]
iPhone 4 3D Scanner
Using projected light from four different directions, an app called Trimensional, from Georgia Tech researcher Grant Schindler, will assemble a 3D scan using an iPhone 4’s built-in camera. Once you’ve captured a desirable visage you can optionally memorialize said countenance by outputting a watertight file and sending it to your favorite 3D printer.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw:
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
High-Quality Open Source Body Tracking Sans Kinect
Draw a bounding box around an object in the camera’s field of view and Zdenek Kalal’s open source Predator algorithm will continuously track it in real-time with just a standard webcam. That’s right, get Kinect-like body tracking without the fancy hardware. With all those front-facing cameras out there, just think of the mobile applications! Minority Report-style HCI, face tracking, improved visual search, and video stabilization are a few examples.