5 month ago
philgyford : CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Disappearing World of Soho’s Independent Record Shops - I was on Berwick St the other day, but didn't go down far enough to see the demolition opposite Somerfield. I so hope they hang on, but then I buy MP3s over CDs whenever I can, so... (via Alan Connor)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme - People submit a photo of themselves as a child, alongside a photo of themself today in the same pose. Some of these are awesome. Whole lives in two photos. Time travel. Hope.
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9 month ago
adamrg : 1930s-40s in Color - a photoset on Flickr - Uploaded by the Library of Congress
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9 month ago
philgyford : Bristol Then and Now Photographs - Page One - Lots of animated images with photos of past and (nearly) present Bristol. A shame more of them don't line up better, but still interesting.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Beautiful pictures of Jodrell Bank - Talking a bunch about Jodrell Bank at the moment, and looking at the lovely, lovely pictures.
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14 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Maps Streetview, circa 1907 - see also: MIT's Aspen Moviemap from 1979
43folders : Photo-Auto Maps (1907) - with arrows pointing you to the correct path leading toward your destination
nelson : 1907 Street View maps - Early road atlases included photographs
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19 month ago
WillPate : Foundphotos - Photograhps found by searching P2P networks for common digital camera file names. An amazing peek into people's lives.
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27 month ago
jkottke : How to fix photos that are too dark or too light with Photoshop - How to fix photos that are too dark or too light with Photoshop. Color range + levels is your friend.
plasticbag : Find Detail in Your Photos That You Thought Was Lost using Photoshop's levels tools - A good basic introduction to some of the tricks in correcting bad exposures using Photoshop, selections and levels. The trick to using Photoshop successfully is that it's all about selections, hence useful article...
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30 month ago
philgyford : Enid Crow Disasters - Nice Cindy Sherman-esque self portrait photography of characters witnessing disasters.
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Carson Workshops have a whole bunch of photos from the recent Future of Web Apps event up on their Flickr account - And looking at them, I'm terrified by how exhausted and fried I look in every single photo of me. It's like I've been replaced by some freakish semi-dead lych...
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34 month ago
jkottke : Retrievr is a simple, amazing use of the Flickr API - Retrievr is a simple, amazing use of the Flickr API. You draw a little drawing and Retrievr fetches similar photos from Flickr. Photodisc, the stock photo site, used to have a feature like this back in 1997-98, but then they discontinued it (I have no ide [via]
Andy Baio : Retrievr - search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi [via]
Rod Begbie : retrievr - search by sketch - Crudely sketch something, and find photos on Flickr that resemble it. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : retrievr - search Flickr photos by sketching! [via]
Philippe Janvier : retrievr - "Searching Flickr by sketch" : une façon assez inattendue de se rendre encore compte combien Flickr regorge de photos extraordinairement belles. [via] #
plasticbag : Retrievr allows you to draw sketches in an MS Paint style and then find similar Flickr photos... - It looks like they've gone and done some analysis on some of Flickr's most interesting pictures to try and match them up. If you play with blocks of colour you get some really nice and occasionally startling results...
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37 month ago
philgyford : Old Walton Pictures Index - Loads and loads of old photos of Walton-on-Naze, where I often go on holiday.
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37 month ago
plasticbag : You hate yourself & you must die (on Flickr) - Notes in offices got less and less subtle as the years passed...
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plasticbag : A photo of a crop circle from Telegraph Hill in Hampshire, 2005 - Now come on - I mean it's obviously aliens, but now they're taking the piss...
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45 month ago
plasticbag : Four million pictures have been uploaded to Flickr - And this is the four millionth - it's a picture of cups!
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plasticbag : On the iPod micro? - Apparently, "Life is Random". The iPod in question can apparently take around 240 songs (1 Gb), has no screen and can only be played on random...
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plasticbag : G-Cans photos of Tokyo's massive underground flood and water systems - I was sure I'd posted this before, but I can't find it anywhere on delicious or on the main weblog, so I guess I didn't. Stunning pictures - like something from Quake...
cameron : Tokyo G-Cans project photos - Cavernous pipes for draining water during the typhoon season
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46 month ago
jkottke : New Apple thingie to be announced at MacWorld is the "iHome Media Center"?
plasticbag : Clearly faked 'iHome' purports to be the new Apple product (but Media Centre - rather than Center? I think not...) - I've already linked to it in the main weblog, but I want to keep it for later, cos it's a neat fake...
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plasticbag : Flickr Sucks! - Highly entertaining riposte to Canadian photo-sharing site
Rod Begbie : Flickr Sucks! - Because every .com needs its own *sucks.com [via] #
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plasticbag : The Tiny Random Hat Project - Concept in a nutshell: buy drinks with hats, give money to charity, wear tiny hat, get someone to take a photo, look dumb, get dumped by your partner, embrace the fundamental pain of existence. You know, for kids!
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47 month ago
plasticbag : My post on Camera Phones and privacy from June 2003 - "If I were a private nervous person who didn't want photos taken of me at all, then I could set my camera to a 'leave me alone' mode. If someone tried to take a picture of me on a 'normal' setting, then they'd find that their camera simply wouldn't work.
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plasticbag : Mr Webb, Mr Patterson and Terry Wogan at the BBC Radio and Music Awards last night - How awesome is this photo? Various colleagues of mine won an award last night at the BBC's Radio and Music Awards for their work on mobile phones and photography.
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48 month ago
Erik Benson : I love this new flickr client (automatically pops up newly posted photos in a little window) - The best part is how you can set it up to choose a random photo from your flickr photostream. This is the coolest app I've installed in a while.
plasticbag : 1001: a desktop Flickr client - "1001 allows you to step into the stream of photos passing through Flickr and to quickly see what's new at the moment. Just run the app in the background and if triggered, 1001 pops up a small unobtrusive window to notify you of new photos."
Phil Gyford : Kula: 1001 - "A desktop Flickr client" for Mac OS X, shows you new photos from your contacts, everyone, etc, and can be a screensaver.
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