| How to Take Levitating Self-Portraits ★ | yowayowacamera.com |
© Natsumi/Yowayowa Camera Woman
Natsumi describes it nicely:
When I take my levitation farther away from the camera than 10 second distance, I ask someone (mostly my friend) to press the shutter release button. First, I ask my friend to be a stand-in in a proper position to get a composition and a focus.
I like the human way, but jump to her page to see the non-human options. (via kottke)
| Back of a Webpage: Flickr Edition ★ | backofawebpage.tumblr.com |
I don’t want to spoil this. (via PetaPixel)
| ‘You love the country so much you believe you can build something good’ ★ | charlierose.com |
Going a little political this morning, here’s an interesting conversation between Sri Mulyani and Charlie Rose, of which the fun part begins in the 23:00 minute mark:
Rose: “What intestinal strength that you have to rely on to make the decisions you did?”
SMI: “You love the country so much, and you believe that you can build something good.”
Independent voters, academics, creative folks; people who are the outcasts of the Indonesian political system, is rounding up support for the former Finance Minister of Indonesia, Sri Mulyani — currently one of the Managing Directors for the World Bank — to run for Presidency in 2014.
In a thirty minute interview with Charlie Rose, she revealed why she’s more than just a symbol of hope for Indonesia, but Indonesia’s gift for the emerging nations of the world.
| From Ideas to the Yellow-bordered Magazine ★ | stanmeyer.com |
Courtesy of John Stanmeyer
In what will become a multi-month series, I’ll try to demystify the experience, sharing insight and nuances on how such long-term projects originate until the magazine arrives in your mail slot, starting now with a latest story I’m about to begin for National Geographic.
I’ve met and befriended John during his visits to Indonesia in recent years, and he has, on many occasions, shared some tidbits and interesting anecdotes of his daily passings, intrigued by the nature of the stories, I made a little suggestion that he should publish a weblog and write about it.
So he did.
He opens his doors to an otherwise insiders-only details on the often-asked question of “What is it like shooting for the National Geographic Magazine?“. While dreams can be big and impressions, bigger, like many real things in life, it “is not always what we might think.”, he said.
Go grab a cup of coffee. Your day is going to be exciting.
| Enter the Light Field ★ | blog.lytro.com |
This shoot-first-focus-later thing is the topic of the moment, but my bigger concern is “how does the light field sensor capture motion?”
| 6 Hours in Jakarta ★ | vimeo.com |
© Mark Toia
The mission was to see if you could make a beautiful TV commercial in 24 hours. Think of and idea that night, shoot in a 6 hour window, edit it, grade it, master it out to HD the next day.
A little long for a Leica Commercial, but the whole cut is a nice ‘Visit Jakarta‘ clip, for it features Jakarta’s must-see spots: The ‘Bunderan HI’, Sunda Kelapa Harbour, Kafé Batavia, Jalan Surabaya Antique Market.
I would add Chinatown (old town area), early breakfast at the marketplace is To. Die. For.
| Irina got ‘Burned’ ★ | burnmagazine.org |
Remember Irina Werning? Let’s try again, remember the “Back to the Future” series where an old photo is recreated meticulously with the same person, twenty years apart?
This is she:
Its funny how what you do can show you who you are. I always thought of myself to be the opposite of perfectionist as I live in complete chaos most of the time. However, when I now look at these pictures and see the attention to detail in them, I have to question my self image…
I first linked her project back in February, now thanks to the Internet, Irina received the 2011 Emerging Photographer Fund from David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine.
With the $15,000, she could really use the fund to seriously turn back time and fast forward to her future.
| Putin’s Personal Shooter ★ | blogs.forbes.com |
“…the position is actually a terrible one. The work is “drudgery” and poorly compensated to boot. Monetarily.”
She was Miss Moscow.
You might wanna check out the new iPad imaging app from Nik Software, proprietor of the U-Point technology, creator of great plug-ins with funny interfaces for your Aperture, Lightroom and Photoshop.
But Snapseed means business, it combines Nik’s popular & extremely effective zone-style selective processing engine (think: darkening the sky without turning the foreground dark, or lightening the face of your favorite subject without blowing the sky), with Hipstamatic- or Instagram-like imaging effects, and the basics, like auto correction, cropping, framing and sharing like the iPhoto would do, but without the quirky interfaces like its plug-in siblings.
With the rave reviews out there, you might easily find five bucks’ a steal, with one caveat, though, unlike the desktop counterpart, this one doesn’t allow you to zoom-in to your photos to refine your U-point-powered selection, if history is any indication, trust that the Nik guys will eventually offer this feature with future updates, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.