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Review: Flip Ultra

The Flip video cameras had been making some waves last year and now that it’s available in Canada we were able to take one for a test drive. The Flip seems to create its own genre – a kind of point and shoot video camera. In a market where almost everything has a built in camera and half of those are capable of video capture it’s interesting to see how the Flip line carves out a niche and...

Disassembled household appliances

Brittny Badger completed her Thesis project from the Hartford Art School this May and it’s pretty nice. With a BFA in photography and a minor in visual communication design, this comes together nicely. She has taken some household appliances and disassembled them. Most of us have done that at one point, but Brittny has done us the favor of shematicly laying out out the resulting components and photographing...

Photosynth rising

This just in: Microsoft Photosynth is finally out of beta and has gone public. It’s something which has loads of potential and is pretty exciting. It’s also something which words can’t do justice for. Just try it out for yourself if you have a lot of images to organize or navigate...

When graffiti and glaciers meet.

Jan Philip Scharbert, international jerk supreme has been busted tagging on to the Franz Josef Glacier by some camera-carrying English tourists. He wasn’t craftily carving the ice or anything like that – he was actually spray-painting it (and some surrounding rock walls). The man made him spend a day and a half cleaning up the mess he made while eco-tourists and eco-tour-guides heckled him mercilessly....

Is facebook the new yearbook?

Lets keep talking about facebook, shall we? It would appear that the people creating the yearbook for some high school in the USA procrastinated and needed some photos for the yearbook in a pinch. They ended up snagging photos off of facebook to fill out their layouts and once they saw it in print, the students in said photos ended up somehow surprised that photos they post up on a social networking site could be...
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