I love photography. For me, it’s like painting, but better. And more accurate. And unlike painting, I can actually participate. I am not a big success or great master by any means. But I enjoy taking pictures. I also enjoy looking at other people work and sometimes sharing it. When I do, this is the category that I use.
I came across something absolutely stunningly awesome today – pictures from a photo book of Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli “The Art of Clean Up”. As far as I am concerned, this is the best take ever on the confrontation of the humans’ will to order and organize everything versus the chaos of nature.
See more examples here.
I have these headphones for less than a year. But somehow they feel ancient. They are all bent and twisted. The left earplug does not work no more. The rubber on the plug pops out every time I unplug them. And they make me think I hear aliens sometimes. Why I don’t get myself another pair is beyond me.
Once in a while among all the noise on the Web, I find something special, a jewel. Â Today is just such a day. Â I came across a photography blog – From Me To You. Â It is a very well presented, inspirational collection of images from a New York based photographer. Â Nice webdesign, plenty of content – that was good enough already. Â But when I saw some really awesome photographs brought alive as animated GIFs, I was stunned. Â I mean, I saw plenty of animated GIFs in my life. But most of the time, they are used for illustrative purposes, more accessible short video clips, or funny comics. Â Here, it’s a totally other story. Â I think this is genius.
There are more and you absolutely have to check them out. Â This is like … like … like bullet-time photography in the Matrix movie.
Update: Apparently, this is something called a cinemagraph. Â You can see more of these at cinemagraph.com.
Flickr blog post yesterday celebrated 200,000,000 images published under Creative Commons license.  According to the same blog post, this makes Flickr the largest Creative Commons image repository in the world.  This is indeed a huge and important milestone and I congratulate Flickr and everyone involved in achieving it.  I’ve always said that there are many photo sharing websites that serve different audiences, tastes, and preferences.  But Flickr goes beyond that by providing an excellent Creative Commons platform.  I hope that this will grow and flourish.
