Tell Cris Benton to go fly a kite. He’ll return with breathtaking photographs taken from seemingly impossible vantage points. As a young architect, Cris wanted sharp images of his buildings’ upper reaches, so he pioneered the art/science of of aerial kite photography. Now a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, Cris is still a leader […]
In order to present a high resolution map of the entire globe inside an ordinary web browser, programs like Google Maps employ the use of tiles. When the map is prepared, it’s rendered out at each available zoom level, and each zoom level is divided up into a number of small 256×256 pixel squares. When […]
Pocket-Sized sent in a link to this article about the photography of Justin Quinnell. Using a pinhole camera made from an aluminum can, Justin was able to take super-long exposure, 160 degree angle photos over a 6 month period. The photo above was exposed from the 2007 winter solstice to the following summer solstice. In […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool HOW TO – Breadboard memory game Behold … the Rusty Growler! One tasty motherboard … DIY gadget makeover Light to sound converter circuit Handmade lens cap
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Instead of tracking down and buying a lens cap for that unprotected cam, consider the incredibly affordable DIY alternative – and enjoy the simple pleasure using what you’ve made. Flickr member safoocat did so, following instructions she found here
P^2 captured this very awesome video of a DSLR’s exposure process – First attempt at capturing high-speed motion. This is a Pentax K200D shutter, as seen by a K100D and a high-speed strobe. Timing is provided by a few lines of C bitbanging a PC parallel port (in DOS, with interrupts disabled, natch). Stop action […]
USGenWeb, a genealogy site, has a really cool collection of penny postcards, organized by state. I love looking at the old structures – can you imagine driving on this bridge?
