Darkness/Palm January 29, 2006
Shallow DOF. B&G.
Hello Moto January 27, 2006
Motorola has some great photos of phones with complementing models (or is it the other way around?). Some obviously 80s inspired (I here fischerspooner playing in the background) they definitely have a impact - specially when filling the browser on a stark white background like they do here.
Getty Images also has a similar style for their main page. Just another way for creative, striking photography to leave a first and lasting impression.
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El Capitanito January 26, 2006
Think a tiny El Capitan viewed from the opposite side. Zen Garden. B&W.
Subway Entrance January 22, 2006
B&W. One third of a desktop.
Unthrottled/GoLight January 19, 2006
Headlight.
Joe Rogan - Messiah
He just blew my mind!!!
Anthropologie = Great Photography January 17, 2006
I’m always impressed with the Anthropologie catalog. Sure the stores are a designers dream and if they had men’s clothing I would shop no place else (until my bank account would quickly dry up) - but whoever is shooting and art directing the catalogs is doing a wonderful job.
The photos set a mood - the saturation, angles and models all work together to create some gorgeous photos.
You can browse through the catalogs “virtually” online, but if you can get one at a store it’s sure to find a spot on your design reference shelf at home.
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BBC Radio 4 program about Philip K Dick
David Pescovitz:
Today, BBC Radio 4 aired an excellent “factual” about surrealist science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The half-hour program, Confessions Of A Crap Artist, is archived online for your listening pleasure. From the program description:
Philip K Dick is now world famous, thanks to films like Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. But in the last years of his life he encountered something so strange and troubling he couldn’t stop writing about it. Writer Ken Hollings asks: was it Phil’s fault God talked to him or was it God’s?
Link (Thanks, Dave Gill!)
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Faster elevator system based on group dynamics
David Pescovitz:
Elevator company Fujitec America has installed a new elevator system in Seattle’s Metropolitan Park West Tower that groups riders together based on their shared destination. According to the company, you may wait a bit longer for the elevator but your overall time spent getting to your desired floor will be reduced. From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Self-standing and wall-mounted kiosks with touch screens are installed in common areas where elevator passengers wait. Passengers enter their destination floor on the touch screen.
The requests are processed, and a message is displayed informing users to ride a specific car.
“In a conventional system, waiting passengers crowd into the first available elevator, which often results in the car stopping at numerous floors, increasing travel time,” said Joe Rennekamp, vice president of engineering at Fujitec’s corporate offices in Lebanon.
In time, the new Fujitec system becomes even more efficient at grouping passengers by learning elevator-use patterns, said Rennekamp…
Link (Thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)
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There is no such thing as a blogger January 16, 2006
Xeni Jardin:
Snip from Simon Dumenco’s column in Ad Age:
I’ve been thinking of what I am — about what any media person in the digital age is — since having coffee last week with a 30-something newspaper editor who bemoaned the fact that newspapers keep on setting up blogs as these separate, exotic add-ons to their Web sites, instead of integrating blogging into their usual newsgathering operations. There’s simply no good reason to segregate the functions, he insisted.And it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger. Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. Even though I tend to first use Microsoft Word on the way to being published, I am not, say, a Worder or Wordder. It’s just software, people! The underlying creative/media function remains exactly the same.
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