Most photographers can only dream of having their works seen by countless numbers of patrons ‘de arts who mill through the galleries munching on crackers and brie while making casual remarks on the expressionistic realization of the artists as if they have a clue. Well, tough. Chances are that you won’t be seeing your photos on any ones walls other than your own and maybe the Post Office. But you can have some imaginative play time fun and make like the big time cam a knockin.
Upload your photo (or send it a URL) and choose the setting and the Museumr will do the heavy lifting for you. All you have to do is to sit back and have a sip of vino and bask in the radiance of pseudo artistic achievement.
Tag: Artistic
Holga FAQ
This is proving to be Holga week here at the lab. Joe Harris left me a comment on my Holga fish eye lens find telling me that he maintains an FAQ on the creative camera. I had a read and I’ll agree, it’s just the thing some one would need when either deciding on what version to buy or how to do things that may not be covered in the book. I like the part on how to tell the different models apart and "How do I get those famous “dreamy” Holga colors?" What more can you ask for in a FAQ?
Beauty and Magnets – The Art of David Durlach
A number of years ago I video taped an amazing demonstration of iron filing manipulation choreographed to pop music at a local science museum. I was fascinated by the undulating tree like figures and the dry liquid waves that played across the surface of the tank. I posted the clips I had of the display on to YouTube so others could share in my wonderment. Turns out that this is not a one off display but the work of an artist named David Durlach. One of the comments on the clip pointed to an article on this amazing artist. I had thought the devices were an analog spectrum display but the happens that they are under elaborate computer control. This is an excerpt from the article on Discovermagazine:
This five-minute display is the result of hundreds of hours of programming, not to mention the computer language Durlach had to create to specify the details of choreography. In this language, Durlach not only shifts dust through the three spatial dimensions, he also plays with time, changing the rate at which it appears to flow, moving it forward and backward, to achieve especially fluid motion. One of the interesting things is that you can make time go forward and backward like a sine wave, he says. It’s as if you took the reels of a movie, and instead of rotating them continuously forward you moved them back and forth, woonk-woonk, woonk-woonk. That’s a very cool effect. Durlach goes on to enumerate the different ways you can play with time, and the effects they generate.
Beauty and Magnets
(Thank you Bill Beaty for this lead)
DIY – Glowing Crystal Lamp From a Light Bulb
I’m touched, it’s like seeing your child graduate. I have inspired others to follow and improve upon my works. After seeing my photo of the "neo-Victorian New Age Flemming like valve" on Flickr, Donald decided to hollow out a light bulb and build one of his own. Hats off for using a UV LED to excite the dye out of a highlighter marker! He also incorporated a Basic Stamp microcontroller in it so it has some nice flickering when it’s started. Watch the video to see what I mean.
Amazing Micro Bug Pie Attack!
Quite the amazing video, even if it is a viral ad for a new Samsung cell phone (the Ultra Edition II to be exact). I want to learn some more about the making of the video, bugs are notorious for not taking direction.
Millimeters mater (may ridirect to the Samsung page in 15 seconds)
[via notcot, vaicomit]
All Hail Our Tiki Masters!
A brilliant parody of the famious ‘Chick Tracks‘ talking about the evils of tiki statue worship. All hail the tiki gods!