11 Inspirational Image Collections selected by the Digital Photography School
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The results of the 2009 Nikon Small World competition were the occasion for Wired to celebrate 35 years of fantastic microscope imagery.
Some of these shots would pass easily as modern art or computer generated fractals if we didn’t know any better.
TED| Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
Spectrum and the Met
I just spent an afternoon of pouring rain and Art in New York City.
First stop was the 2nd Spectrum Exhibit hosted by the Society of Illustrators.
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Wyeth exhibit at the Brandywine Museum
Updates to Annotated Load Order
I am still maintaining it when I get a chance. I spent up to 250 hours of game play so far without touching the Main Quest other than to get the amulet of kings. All thanks to the many mods I have been enjoying so far. With recent updates (especially the latest MMM), the list reached the maximum number of…
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CNN’s The Moment is probably the first official use of Microsoft’s Photosynth technology for a major event. It was appropriate that its first use would be for the inauguration speech one of the most tech savvy administration to date.
Since the collection of images is spread over time, the experiment is more than just ‘a moment’. It allows exploration of the scene from both multiple points of view and multiple points in time.
The result is a fascinating experience straight out of a scene from Blade Runner.
Keep an eye on this site – it will only get better as more images are submitted.
Update: As a bonus, here is a satellite view of the crowd assembled in front of the Capitol.
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Artist Chris Jordan shows a powerful way to give back meaning to often desensitizing numbers that are thrown in our faces on a daily basis. His goal is to make these issues matter more once we can feel an emotional attachment to them – like distorted images in a huge mirror.
More examples of his work are available at Running the numbers , An American Self-Portrait.
Moving on
A little more than a year since my last major update in the Vue forum at Renderosity, I just posted a note that I am no longer Moderator of the forum. It was a difficult decision – one that I postponed for nearly a year. A busy offline schedule, new interest in digital painting and general forum moderation fatigue made…
Unexplicable crash ? reboot !
This is the fourth time I have had this happen to me in game – enough to think it is a trend. If your game suddenly crashes in an area that you believe should be working (either because you visited it before or because it doesn’t have anything new that you have not already encountered), try this simple step before…