From December 4 through December 7, Gizmodo took over a small space in NYC and created the Gizmodo Gallery to showcase “the best of Gizmodo come to life”.
If you missed out on attending in person, but still want to see what the Gallery was all about, then be sure to check out the fantastic “ultra-high definition virtual reality panorama” that German photographer Joergen Geerds created for them. You can zoom in and out using only the mouse, and the level of detail is staggering. We’re talking the ability to zoom in and read the titles of DVD type quality here. (For the best experience, make sure to right-click and view in Fullscreen mode too.)
Sneakerfiends, graphic designers, photographers and money grubbers should all check out Format Magazine’s Sneaker Wallpaper Contest 2 for a chance to with the upcoming Puma x Yo! MTV Raps shoes, as well as exposing your art to the world.
Wallpapers can be submitted in any media, but they must relate to sneaker culture.
Hurry though, because you only have until April 31.
Here Comes Another Bubble was a fantastically viral video about the Web 2.0 bubble that was taken down recently by a San Francisco photographer’s DMCA take-down notice over her ’stolen’ image.
Thankfully, that photographer’s photo has been removed, and the video is back as v1.1:
Unfortunately for The Richter Scales, the group behind the video, their 15 minutes hasn’t exactly been profitable:
In the week Version 1.0 was up, we sold only eight CDs of previously recorded music. That’s one CD sold per 125,000 viewers of the video. If this rate holds, the “profits” from CD sales will equal the $355 we spent making the video when Version 1.1 gets its 3.5 millionth view.
I guess DMCA notices don’t necessarily need to be correlated to lost compensation!
Ever wonder how good photographers take great portraits?
There has to be a trick, right?
Well, according to Eric Hamilton, there’s actually a few tricks, and thankfully, he’s nice enough to let you in on some of them in his guide to The Art of Portrait Photography.
Rule number one is proper use of light, though he also mentions subject, focus, background, composition, texture, color, and exposure, with examples of each.
PopSci staff photographer John Carnett may be the greatest inventor of all time. What he’s created, and what you see here is the world’s first All-In-One Beer Making Machine. Called simply ‘The Machine’, it features a stainless-steel two-cart brewing system that starts with wort, or pre-fermented beer, and ends with a perfect, chilled pint.
