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Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now
Charlie Styr published Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now
using pictures from the Flickr Teenage Photography group. It’s aimed at the beginner or wanna-be-a-little-bit-cooler-by-by-taking-cool-pictures photographers. It’s balanced covering all the essential photography topics-exposure, aperture, shutter speed, light, composition, etc. It goes a little further with the example photos and includes camera settings. This comes in handy when wanting to figure out techniques specific to certain situations, such as macro, low-light, creating light trails or portraits.
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Flipboard
Flipboard is a damn, clever iPad app. It takes streams of content such as Twitter, Facebook, various RSS news feeds and transforms the assortment of text, hypertext and pictures into an enjoyable experience. Flipboard uses a newspaper-like metaphor for pulling content together and users swipe to flip pages. Tweets are artfully rendered, and those that link to articles elsewhere, the articles are expanded. Logging into Facebook makes browsing the Newsfeed like you’re catching up on your friends with a digital late edition newspaper–minus the spam of quizzes and Farmville clones. Further, if logged in to Twitter or Facebook, you can comment and interact with the content. What’s interesting is that the web page fades away and content becomes forefront to the experience–which is how it should be.
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1000 Fences and Gates
1000 Fences And Gates
by Jo Cryder should contain the subtitle Wrought Iron of the American Southeast. The majority of the pictures are snapshots and hardly vary. I’m not sure if it meant to be a coffee table book or a sampling for Southern belles to fence in their magnolia trees.
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Art Space Tokyo, a Kickstarter postmortem
After a project, it’s a good thing to capture your thoughts on how you did. This includes everything from the initial idea, the the steps you took to get everything together and complete it, for better or worse. Craig Mod did a writeup about the whole process of creating Art Space Tokyo using Kickstarter as a means to raise funds for his project.
Kickstarter.com is a fund raising website. You create an account, describe your project and set a money goal to be obtained within a specific time period. Anyone in the world with an Amazon account can pledge money to help fund your project. Pledges are tiered, with each tier offering different incentives. If your project doesn’t reach your pre-set (unchangeable) monetary goal in the (unchangeable) time limit, nobody pays. If you reach your goal before the time limit, you continue to raise money until the time limit is up. This system has several interesting implications.
Backers simply can’t lose — if you can’t complete the project, they don’t pay. And if you can, they get both their tier award and the satisfaction of knowing they were instrumental in seeing your project through to completion.
I really wish I had heard about this as money was being raised. The book looks amazing.
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Inception deconstructed
The Awl deconstructs Inception as a movie about making movies, or the act of creation.
Like 8½, Inception is a movie about making movies; it’s not that the whole movie “is a dream,” though, but rather that the whole movie is an allegory of creation.
Upon second viewing, the metaphor for creation makes sense across the entire 2.5 hours–seeking a muse, finding inspiration beyond that muse and persevering to bring your vision to reality.
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Sleigh Bells – Treats
Sleigh Bells, creators of my summer album pick, consists of rip roaring guitars and bass heavy beats intertwined with cooing vocals. Treats
spans for a few minutes over a half hour, and on first listen, can be overwhelming. It’s loud. Bone rattling loud. Indie kids in their Prius can go head to head with the dude blasting Eminem in their Impala. After the third listen, you can begin to tell the songs about and discover that they’re catchy. I suppose they could be best described as indie-electronic-noise-pop.
Tell ‘Em sets the tone for what to expect, and Rachel, Rill Rill and Crown on the Ground provide the most accessible and pleasing stretch to play for your friends.
