Demonstrated here by Equinox’s Briohny Smyth and her husband Dice Iida-Klein.
3 - Phenomenal Lightning Photos
Here are 4 of the amazing 40 lightning shots over on Gencept.
4 - Poets of Protest in the Arab World
Taradol Chitmanchaitham
5 - Thai Lantern Festival
The most elaborate Thai lantern celebration is in Chiang Mai, thousands of hot-air lanterns launched into the night sky every year in November.
Yang Tee Mon
Yang Tee Mon
Komang Neo
Watcharapong Jingkaujai
Ekachai Jirachuphun
2 - Tokyo Timelapse
my Pick - 5 things to Buy the Golfer in Your Life - David Burgess
In his 1500 miles road trip to play 13 rounds of Golf Digest's Top U.S. Public Courses, our friend and golfer, David Burgess, has learned a thing or two. We asked him to pick 5 things that have helped him in his pursuit of ever better scores and more memorable golf experiences.
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3 - Street Art Snarks at Social Media Through Social Media
Parisian artist Above "ironically" is using social media to tell us we are too connected to social media. Very meta.
4 - A Million Unique Bottles of Absolut
"Absolut Unique" requires a total re-design of the Absolut Vodka's production process in Sweden. "Carefully orchestrated randomness," the process involves splash guns and color-generating machines with complex coating, pattern and placement algorithms to ensure that each bottle is absolutly (ha ha) unique.
5 - Pole Dancing Magic - Diplo's Set It Off feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex
Diplo's newest, Set It Off featuring Lazerdisk Party Sex, honors the athleticism, grace, sex appeal and strength of the pole dancer in these fun and astounding visuals.
1 - In Flight
Boston.com's The Big Picture has a great photoset title In Flight.
2 - Hot Lava Poured Over Ice
3 - Moments of Pleasure
Those little, never-spoken-of moments of life that are pleasurable, compiled here in a sweet little video.
4 - Magazine Sculptures
Flowing waves engulf cars, furniture, and airplanes in these sculptural works from Scottish Artist David Mach.
5 Camera Apps You May Not Have Heard Of
Sure there's Instagram and Hipsta-matic. But there are lots of other really great camera apps for your iPhone that will do stuff even the big ones can't, and do them well.
So here are my 5 picks for camera apps to check out.
1. Line CAMERA
This multi-function camera is big in Japan. It is pretty evident from the style of illustration of a lot of the stamps that give Line CAMERA a lot of its power. Take the pics you have and add stamps, text, lines, even embed other images. It is a meme generator in your pocket.
2. Over
Of all of the apps that let you easily put text over an image, Over is probably one of the easiest and most beautiful. It isn't the most flexible, but it is flexible enough to handle most the the needs I've ever had. Its fonts and colors and typography controls are such that it has kept me from messing up an otherwise good photo.
3. Diptic
If you want to make a photo mosaic on your phone, there are hundreds of apps to choose from. Diptic distinguishes itself for me because of how well it performs (not a lot of waiting), and how easy it is to get my images to look just the way I want, including the ability to adjust the cell size of your mosaics.
4. Popsicolor
This one is a frivolous little app that will make your photo seem like a watercolor. There aren't a great many times that I've needed to use Popsicolor, but it sure is pretty.
5. Snapseed
This little app is a powerful image editing tool. There was a photojournalist who decided to cover the Olympics entirely with his iPhone and it was Snapseed that he used to make sure his photos fit in with all of the other photos covering the games.
The set of tools include being able to adjust saturation, focal points, tilt-shift, add frames and a lot more. It represents a first real contender to replace the digital photo paradigm we've come to assume was innate.
Ryan Nance
Ryan Nance
User Experience Designer
In addition to creating and curating 5thingsilearnedtoday.com, I am a user experience designer. I've made lots of mistakes along the way, but am proud to say that my curiosity has helped me make the most of those mistakes. You can find me on Facebook or even like my other facebook page (The User's Experience) or tweet at me @rtsnance.
5 - Indian Point of View
A young medical student from France did a lovely job of documenting his recently travels in southern India.
My Pick - 5 Things to Buy The Hot Yoga Enthusist in Your Life - Kelly Prince
"Yoga is my passion. My purpose in opening up Body Heat Yoga studio was to share yoga with as many people that I could. The benefits of this practice have gone far beyond my expectations. My job is to share that with you! Besides a great studio to practice at there are also so many things to choose from to make your yoga practice enjoyable. Here is the list of my 5 favorite yoga items that I bring with me to every yoga practice!"
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1 - Gorgeous Underwater Photos of Vibrant Jellyfish
We've seen amazing photos of jellyfish before (Jan 18, 2012) and seeing these new shots today makes it perfectly clear how astounding and eery they truly are. Here is just a small sampling of Alexander Semenov's Underwater gallery on flickr.
2 - Kubrick's One-Point Perspective: Supercut
Vimeo user, Kogonada, who also made Tarantino: From Below and Wes Anderson: From Below, raises the supercut to be a visual essay, a way of reasoning and processing using comparison and visual analysis. And such a cool set of shots he's collected here from the oeuvre of Stanley Kubrick.
3 - Sifteo Interactive Cubes
The very cool idea of using physical things as the interface for interactive systems is starting to fulfill its promise. The second generation of the Sifteo Interactive Cubes is more than just a novelty. Now they are a gaming platform.
My Pick - 5 things to buy an aspiring Writing/Director - Jordan Brade
"As an aspiring Writer-Director, I love my camera, lenses, fancy computer programs, etc. for filmmaking in general, but I get the most mileage out of my writing gear. Here are a few tools I couldn’t live without."
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