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traveling, and occasionally uploading things
to & . Check out my novice
photographer skills on & or
my presentations on Slideshare.
I'm also on & , though I only accept people I know IRL. (Sorry!)
I don't like voicemails, chocolate or mean people. 25 other facts about me
here.
click through for the whole collection - amazeballs! (via Reversing Logos with Different Brands Is So Confusing | Gizmodo UK)
Street Art of the Day: A new Banksy has surfaced on the wall of a Poundland shop in London, and it depicts a child of Asian origin hard at work sewing Union Jack bunting. (Embiggen)
Chances are, the location of the work is significant: In 2010, Poundland launched an investigation after it was discovered that a 7-year-old boy was working 100 hours a week in an Indian sweatshop, producing items for the store. A spokeswoman said at the time: “Poundland does not tolerate child labor under any circumstances and will not work with companies that employ children.”
“The Descriptive Camera “takes” pictures like a normal camera, but it doesn’t output pictures, itoutputs written descriptions. How is that possible? There must be a little guy in there or something, right? Actually yes. Kind of.
Component-wise, the Descriptive Camera is relatively unremarkable. The camera is a usb camera and the output is done via a simple thermal printer. Also, there are some buttons and some LEDs to provide you a recognizable taking-a-picture-with-a-camera-experience.
The real meat of the device, though, is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk API. This framework basically allows people to submit Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) they need real meatbags to complete. The HITs include guidelines and some sort of submission interface for the finished product, along with the price the requester is willing to pay for the completed service. So basically, what the camera does is take a picture, ship it off to the Mechanical Turk API requesting someone to write a description of the picture for $1.25, and then prints that description out. It generally takes around 3-6 minutes for the “film” to “develop,” and there you have it.”
(via Camera Prints Text Descriptions Of The Pictures It Takes | Geekosystem)
WHEN I SEE SOMEONE USE THE WRONG FORM OF “YOU’RE” IN A TWEET.
yes, please! now where’s the tutorial? ;)
This sleek chignon is sure to keep summer fly-aways in check.
This music video for ‘Get By’ by Delta Heavy has to be the most creative piece of content I’ve seen all year. I’m now officially a huge fan.
A flashback from the 1950s with Art Linkletter and little kids saying some pretty darn hilarious things. Thanks, Meranne :)
Photos from space show ‘squashed’ supermoon.
I meant to go moon watching on Saturday night, but I forgot. Thankfully, a Dutch astronaut (Andre Kuipers) photographed the supermoon of 2012 from a window within the International Space Station. And let’s be honest, his pictures are much cooler than what I would have seen anyway.
How two designers turn inspiration into unique picture fonts.
Who says fonts have to be about numbers and letters? Sisters Nicole and Petra Kapitza are creating picture fonts ”that lie somewhere between image resource and art project.” I’m a big fan of the orbit font, above!
Disney tech presents Touché.
I, for one, had no idea Disney was doing so much with technology. The video of Disney researchers explaining their new touch sensor is interesting, but the implications are even more so. For example, “everyday objects, once connected to a sensor controller, become multi-responsive touch devices: Sit on a sofa and the TV turns on, recline in the sofa and the lights dim. Close a door with one finger on the doorknob and a message displays on the door, ‘back in 5 minuts,’ close a door with two fingers on a doorknob, and a message displays on the door, ‘gone for the day,’ while the door locks.” I’m so ready to pimp out my apartment with this stuff ;)
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