Super cool! Create amazing geometric illustrations using your photos with the Poly™ iPad app. “…turn your pictures into geometric array of colours. This project is inspired by the Triangulation invented by the mathematician Boris Delaunay in 1934. While the process behind is complicated, the result reduce an image to its essentials, creating the illusions of triangles, prisms and pyramids.”
See how it works in the video below.
LIFE 75 - A collaboration between LIFE and The Wonderfactory. Available for the iPad. $12.99
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, LIFE’s editors have drawn on its extraordinarily rich photo collection to produce the LIFE 75 App, a selection of the very best of LIFE. Offering a unique viewing experience, the LIFE 75 App features more than 200 photos and related magazine covers, along with video and audio clips that tell the story of how LIFE was made.
Features Include:
- A unique interactive layout, presenting LIFE’s greatest photos in landscape view and related covers in portrait mode
- Numerous audio clips featuring LIFE’s past and present editors and photographers, providing exclusive insight on their time at LIFE
- Video clips in which LIFE’s most brilliant photographs tell how they got their shots
- An interactive game, Editor’s Choice: Can you choose the photo that made the cut?
- Galleries of rarely seen photos, available only in LIFE 75
- Multiple navigation points, including a “decades bar” that sorts the photos from the 1930s to the 2000s.
Some of the topics
- Up Close with the Stars: Hollywood’s brightest lights gave unfettered access to their lives. The result: special pictures of the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.
- Memorable Moments: LIFE; was always present to capture the crucial instant, from Gen. Douglas MacArthur landing in the Philippines to Martin Luther King Jr. launching his civil-rights crusade.
- In the Wild: LIFE offers a menagerie of the exotic and domestic, the cute and the terrifying.
- At War: LIFE’s intrepid photographers brought home the horror and the heroism, including images that helped changed how Americans felt about Vietnam.
- Heroes and Villains: LIFE made unforgettable portraits of some of the most admired and reviled people of our time.
- LIFE Classics: The sailor kissing the nurse. The Marlboro Man. LIFE published images that became nothing short of iconic.
- Magical Places: The Taj Mahal by moonlight, Mt. Everest in sharpest daylight. Witness some of the world’s greatest scenic and architectural wonders.
Interview with Jason Koxvold
Jason is a very talented photographer, a gentleman, a scholar, and an acrobat.
He’s also a Creative Director at Strawberry Frog, and has a magic beard.
Pixl - Alter images with geometric patterns, similar to Andy Gilmore’s work on the Africa Hitech album cover.
Via: TNW, prostheticknowledge.
Panasonic unveils the GX-1 - The GF-1*, gets a much-deserved update**, the main differences being:
- Higher resolution sensor (16MP vs 12MP)
- Touchscreen interface
- Top ISO of 12,800 (vs 3200)
- AVCHD 1080/60i video (vs 720p AVCHD Lite format)
- Stereo mic
- Electronic level gauge
- Two additional Fn buttons
*Almost all my shots are on the GF-1 with a 20mm 1.7 lens.
**If any of you just said, “But there was a GF-2 and a GF-3!” This.
Room for another?
Question:
In an already rough economy, how can point and shoot cameras compete with ‘good enough for my needs’ devices like the iPhone 4S?
Answer:
By completely redesigning how a camera captures an image.
Lytro, the camera system built around the groundbreaking ‘light field’ technology I covered back in June, is available for pre-order for $499.
Side by side of Canon 5D MKII vs. iPhone 4s. Impressive.
Storm’s A Comin’ (Taken with Instagram at The wonderfactory)
