Vivian Maier Self Portrait
I first heard about Vivian Maier on the This American Life special The Invisible Made Visible. Aside from all the other wonderful stories and performances on the special, was the work of a photographer I had never encountered before. If you haven’t heard the story about Vivian Maier’s photographs, I won’t ruin it here. I would urge you to download the special ($5 digitally) and watch the amazing story unfold.
So Flickr has announced that all users will be getting 1TB of free photo hosting. That is pretty sizable free storage! Add to that, they have also announced that all images will be available at full-size and the deal gets even sweeter!
I used to use flickr way back before Yahoo bought them and for the most part I really enjoyed the service. I even paid for it at one point, before I realized that I don’t like renting where I put my precious images.
This news is a game changer in terms of photo storage and hopefully realigns flickr as the serious photographers web storage option. Even their home page allows you to calculate how many photographs 1TB holds (The answer is, it is always a lot of photographs!). I was so jazzed, I quickly picked up a refurbished Cannon Rebel T3i Body (for $351.99) to replace my ailing Rebel XT now almost 10 years old.
So, my advice is dust off your Yahoo account and get snapping!
Things Come Apart is a fascinating series Todd McLellan of taking things… apart. You really can’t describe it without saying the name.
Pressgram is an Instagram like image sharing app built for WordPress. Best of all, you retain full ownership of your images. Support it on Kickstarter!
An intense presentation style developed in Tokyo of 20 slides, each slide being on screen 20 seconds (hence 20×20). All PechaKucha presentations are over in 6.66 minutes.
These photographs in the Atlantic of October 2012 in Afganistan are beautiful, frightening and incredibly touching.
While I feel 7-eleven’s cup endorsements meaningless, it does make me wonder if voting in the United States will ever be as easy as grabbing a cup of coffee? Can we make the process as seamless as picking a candidate and swiping your credit card?
Surprisingly, it looks as though the 7-11 election cup thingis actually very accurate?! And apparently Obama is is the leadwith 59%. Who knew?
GRIN (Great Images In NASA) is the official depository for all images from NASA, even if its acronym doesn’t make much sense. It is an amazing resource and full of fascinating images.
!(photo)http://photos14.flickr.com/15965227_f4424dc1cd.jpg(Smith and 9th Street during sun showers)!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/funtimeben/15965227/