I heard about the death of poloroid when it was announced on February 8th, since then I've been trying to work out whether I should be stocking up on film or shouting at Polaroid Corporation.
Luckily, SavePolaroid have come to the rescue with some tips on how we can go about trying to save Polaroid in a constructive way and until then we can just stock up on film.
Goto SavePolaroid and join the revolution. There's still life in it yet!
Via PhotoJojo. Picture courtesy speechlessson.
Those little cake mixes you could get with the edible print Beano characters are terrible compared to these Mario inspired cupcakes.
See more cupcake creations on the hello naomi flickr
I've always had a place in my heart for Lego, I used to love tipping boxes of it out onto the floor and building random little cars which I would smash up with my brothers.
Some people prefer to do more serious things with it, like BrickMasterpieces demonstrates. Whole streets in Lego and a massive aircraft carrier among other things. Check it out.
Before the photon boards were invented, skating in the dark was only possible by floodlights or multiple torches attached with duct tape.
Enter PhotonLightBoards – Rechargeable midnight skating for the masses, ziiing.
The possibilities for long exposure shots is endless and exciting.
Keyboards are a bit of a forgotten peripheral, usually something we tend to ignore. A while back I was thinking it would be cool to know how to type DVORAK instead of QWERTY because apparently it's faster and it's always nice to know new things. Anyway, what about a keyboard without any symbols? The keys can mean anything you want or need them to mean. It makes learning to touch type super fast (you remember placement rather than symbols) and it's not even that expensive — but it is kind of ugly. I think all the purists prefer an old IBM Model M anyway.
Via DasKeyboard
It's inevitable that living in any town or city you're going to have to pump up the volume on your headphones to drown out the sound of traffic and stabbings. Until now the alternative has been noise cancelling headphones.
Outi – these headphones work by vibrating part of your ear bone, completely bypassing your ear drums and heading straight to the party in your head. Entirely removing any worries about going deaf in your old age you can listen to your music seriously loud, throw in some earplugs and you're well and truly ignoring everything around you in a sea of sound inaudible to the surrounding elderly. Amazing!
Via Engadget
"Cinematic Particles draws abstract
visualizations of a movie's succession of subtitles as smokey
watercolor drawings emerge from each movies individual frequency of
spoken words and letters."
Try playing with the speed that it draws to acheive some inspirational visuals. It seems the faster you play the subtitles back the more dense the "particles" become.
From "Visual Complexity"
I've always liked reading the 'Toothpaste for Dinner' website. Some of Drews cartoons are aimed squarely at an American audience but others (like this little number) seem to appeal to us as well. Enjoy Toothpaste for Dinner.
I came across an interesting art project from Tishkov and Bendikov, nice photography for quite an interesting idea: "your personal moon".
Some great pictures at artjob.ru