Getting nostalgic: the Nikon Coolpix 300 was my first digital camera
Getting nostalgic: the Nikon Coolpix 300 was my first digital camera. Eight years later, my phone takes much better photos than this thing does.
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Great ongoing collection of old mall photography
Great ongoing collection of old mall photography. Includes shots of Southdale in Edina, MN, the very first mall ever built.
Tweaked photo album template
My recent design refresh is already bearing fruit around these parts. Behold the new photo album template, which you can see in the Ireland photos, some recent Paris photos, photos from the High Line, etc. The album pages are the first non-white background pages to make it onto kottke.org in quite awhile, which was part of the reason for the design refresh. I tried the photos on white, but I felt they looked better on a darker background, so I went with that. The photos are also larger than they previously were, up from 600 pixels wide to 720 pixels. The file sizes are also quite large (sorry!)…BetterHTMLExport doesn’t do the best job in compressing jpgs while preserving image quality. Photoshop’s “Save for Web” does a much better job, but that would be a lot more time consuming for me. The search for the perfect solution goes on…
But my favorite part of the albums are the navigation. If you mouseover the right half of the photo, you get an arrow overlaid on the photo that suggests that you can click to move to the next photo (which, of course, you can). Then you can click on the left side of the photo to go back. If you’re using Safari or Firefox or anything but IE really, the arrow images are tranparent png files that blend in with the photo in the background. Fun!
Up next: the photo page needs some help.
Eliot’s presentation has some great thoughts about
Eliot’s presentation has some great thoughts about photoblogging and where it’s going. Overproduction, overconsumption, and inappropriate audience participation are some of the pitfalls of photoblogging. This probably goes for regular blogging as well.
Allan Tannenbaum’s photos of NYC nightlife in the 1970s
Allan Tannenbaum’s photos of NYC nightlife in the 1970s. Discos, Studio 54, Andy Warhol, porn stars, etc. NSFW.
Photos of Fidel Castro by Roberto Salas, his personal documentarian
Photos of Fidel Castro by Roberto Salas, his personal documentarian.
Gaia telescope will map the Milky Way with 1.5 gigapixel camera
Gaia telescope will map the Milky Way with 1.5 gigapixel camera.
Google Sightseeing highlights interesting satellite photos taken from Google Maps
Google Sightseeing highlights interesting satellite photos taken from Google Maps.
The innuendo photo pool on Flickr
The innuendo photo pool on Flickr. Including “Bunghole Liquors” and “Huron Drugs”.
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was that weird looking baby?
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus exhibition at the Met is worth checking out. Open through May 30.
Flickr switches from Flash to DHTML/Ajax
Flickr switches from Flash to DHTML/Ajax for displaying photos and notes. You can now also put links in notes, which, damn, my mind just blew.
“Queens” sign on a women’s bathroom in
“Queens” sign on a women’s bathroom in Chelsea might cause some confusion.
How a couple of mathematicians helped the
How a couple of mathematicians helped the Met accurately photograph some priceless tapestries. The difficulty in piecing together the different photographs was because when the tapestries were taken off the wall, they “began to breathe, expanding, contracting, shifting”…that is, they were changing between photos.
Man bitten by a deadly Brazilian Wandering
Man bitten by a deadly Brazilian Wandering Spider is saved by his cameraphone pic he took of the spider. “Experts at Bristol Zoo were able to identify [the spider from the photo] and suggest an antidote.”
Dressed as their favorite characters from a Wes Anderson movie
Dressed as their favorite characters from a Wes Anderson movie.
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