Great Camera Buying Guide
If you’re thinking about buying a new camera, The Verge just recently posted a very comprehensive and detailed guide you might be interested in. They don’t seem to be very fond of the new Nikon 1 series, which i’ve considered buying. Maybe the Sony NEX really is a better choice…
Machine Pareidolia
Greg Borenstein ran the Hello Little Fella Flickr group through Facetracker with fascinating results. (via)
Dave Winer: Hey you did a good job there!:
Almost everyone likes recognition. Hey you did a good job there! Keep it up. It’s easy to type and say, and the results will warm your heart.
Yes. Something to keep in mind.
Unit 01
Unit 01 is our very first Unit, a smart, reliable bag developed for one of your most precious possessions: your computer. Unit 01 is delivered in a package together with the two smaller pouches, Unit 02 and 03, the ultimate stuff pouches designed to carry your phone, wallet or charger. Unit 02 and 03 are attachable on the inside or outside of Unit 01 making it possible to design your bag according to your own needs – that´s the beauty of Unit Portables!
Unit Portables | Unit 01—04. Looks like it’s time for a new bag.
Projection Mapping in a Garden
STEREOSCOPIC 3D MAPPING // STEP 01 from Apparati Effimeri on Vimeo.
Some of the most impressive projection mapping work i’ve ever seen by apparatieffimeri (via).
Movie Visualizations
Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2012-01-01
- Ever upwards and onwards! #
Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2011-12-25
- RT @infosthetics: Comparing Human Development of Countries through Star Plot Shapes http://t.co/Csix9g0W (work by @littleark, post by @d … #
- RT @jamescrabtree: A friend writes: "So Kim Jong Il, Havel & Hitchens are waiting outside Heaven's door…." Sounds like the start of a … #
The Design of Lego Friends
Two interesting bits in this Businessweek article about the new Lego Friends product line targeting girls:
Lego confirmed that girls favor role-play, but they also love to build—just not the same way as boys. Whereas boys tend to be “linear”—building rapidly, even against the clock, to finish a kit so it looks just like what’s on the box—girls prefer “stops along the way,” and to begin storytelling and rearranging. Lego has bagged the pieces in Lego Friends boxes so that girls can begin playing various scenarios without finishing the whole model.
And:
The key difference between girls and the ladyfig and boys and the minifig was that many more girls projected themselves onto the ladyfig—she became an avatar. Boys tend to play with minifigs in the third person. “The girls needed a figure they could identify with, that looks like them,” says Rosario Costa, a Lego design director. The Lego team knew they were on to something when girls told them, “I want to shrink down and be there.”
Once Upon
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied created 1997 versions of Google+, YouTube and Facebook, optimized for Netscape Navigator 4.03. (via)
