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Astronomers have determined the precise location and time that Ansel Adams took a famous photograph of the moon in Yosemite National Park and are going to attempt to recreate the shot in September. The same forensic team has previously determined when Van Gogh painted “White House at Night”.
Barcode tattoos + mobile phones with cameras = business card (or, say, a list of your sexual preferences) on your arm.
A contemporary photo taken with a circa-1914 Kodak. For some reason I always thought old photos looked old because they were old. But really it’s mostly the camera’s doing.
A how-to on getting good B&W photos from a digital camera. Slower has another technique.
Photos of Paris by Eugene Atget, as well as contemporary versions for comparison.
Big exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s photography at the MoMA until the end of August. It’s interesting to see the influence Friedlander’s work has had on some of the photobloggers I follow.
New bookmark: interesting Flickr photos from the last 24 hours, automagically determined. PageRank for photos, sorta.
Flickr reaches the 1,000,000 member threshhold. I wish Flickr publicized everyone’s number so that I could lord my early-adopter status over everyone in a more quantitative manner.
How to make a pinhole camera that looks like a real camera out of paper.
Some iPhoto 5 tips and techniques for managing your digital photos.
Slideshow of historic photography from the archives of ICP and the George Eastman Collection. Lots of photos from both collections are set to be available online in 2006 at photomuse.org.
A slideshow of photos from some photoblogs as part of the BBC’s Digital Citizens series.
Slideshow of Harry Potter fans purchasing the newest Potter doorstop.
FontHunt is a typographic scavenger hunt taking place in NYC the week of July 21. Doesn’t get much geekier (or cooler) than this, folks.
Icelandic band Sigur Ros has a Flickr account that they’re updating while on tour.
Age Maps. “Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together.” Very cool effect.
BBC News has some eyewitness photos of people evacuating the tube.
Turn your favorite photo into a Polaroid with the Polaroid-o-nizer.
Photographer Clayton James Cubitt interviews Tom Carden about their Metropop Denim collaboration. “I don’t think the work ever belongs to the computer, any more than a photograph belongs to a camera. The computer is a tool — there wouldn’t be any artwork if I didn’t tell the computer exactly what to do — it just works a hell of a lot faster than I do!”
Slide show depicting a collection of New York City coffee cups.
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