I Wonder What This Might Sound Like
January 11, 2008From seanbonner, via Sabrina, the CD Cover Meme.
Image credit: CarloCh
Probably should have spent more than 10 minutes on it, since it was a pretty good random combination …
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Shake it like a …
Polaroid picture.
So, who wants to start a ukulele orchestra? Looks like a hell of a lot of fun, and inexpensive.
Magnum 60 Year Anniversary
June 18, 2007"60 years after George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David Seymour founded Magnum it’s still going strong, and continues to function today in very much the way that its creators envisaged."
A gallery of fantastic Magnum images and some background information are here.
Digichromatography
December 8, 2006The colour photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Born in St. Petersburg and educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii devoted his career to the advancement of photography. In the early 1900s, he developed an ingenious technique of taking colour photographs. The same object was captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in colour in slide lectures using a light-projection system involving the same three filters.
Some early Kodachrome images of the US during the depression are here.
