Technology opinions and digital photography
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Google Earth: breaking the image size record
When you look into the largest images accessible from the Internet, you MUST check Google maps and Google Earth (the application that allows you to navigate on the surface of the Earth globe from your desktop with the satellite images collected by Digital Globe and Google). From its inception, Google Earth provided images of the…
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April 4th, 1968: Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., great freedom fighter in favor of Human Rights and against institutionalized racism in the USA. It was nearly 30 years ago that he fell under the bullets of a killer in Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s not forget that only a few years ago,…
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Big with Nikon, small with Nikon
From the universe to the smallest elementary particles, Nikon presents a guided interactive tour of the size scales we find around us in the universe.
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South Africa: Contents of the photo safari bag
Ready to go to South Africa to find leopards during a safari photo trip, I am preparing my photo bag. For those of you interested in its contents and the reasons why I have filled it like that, I invite you to check this list together.
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25.6 giga-pixel contemporary art masterpiece
This is an art project using the collaborative Internet to create one of the largest images in the world. MillionMasterPiece.com wants to create an historic art master piece by collating one million small 160×160 images, leading to more than 25 giga-pixels of contemporary art. You can join for free or, even better, you can donate…
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FireFox tweak guide
You are using Firefox, you want to use it at its best, you should go to the FireFox tweak guide.
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Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!
Thanks to Neatorama
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Fabrice Hénon, photographer
Fabrice is an amateur photographer I have been wanting to present to you for months already. You should visit his gallery (please, take not that it is “not safe for work” and may be classified as slightly erotic).
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All (known) bodies in the Solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter
Alan Taylor created a nice representation of the largest bodies of the Solar System (it takes into account the new classification used since last Summer). A really good job of Photoshopping many images together in order to produce what could easily become a landscape poster if somebody decided to print it.
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