Smashing magazine have got in early this month with their desktop wallpaper competition.
I’ve gone for this one (bit festive but I like it), which one will you choose?
The text competition on Richard Bacon’s radio show last night – the winner was “Lidle Miss Sumshine”
I like the effect that a tilt-shift lens gives – turning a bustling city into a model railway set. The effect is created using a special lens which gives a very shallow depth of field on objects far away. It’s better explained in this article: What is tilt-shift photography?.
The lenses aren’t cheap (theonlinephotographer.typepad.com) but the effects can be brilliant. In the spirit of web ingenuity and freedom the good people at tiltshiftmaker.com have created a nice little online application which can give the same effect to your own photos. It works best with wide angle shots with a deep sense of distance, and the results are very effective.
Here’s a photo of Beachy Head which I took earlier this year:
And here’s the same picture after I’ve put it through the Tilt-shift Maker, suddenly the photo takes on a whole new feel.
Here’s another photo taken from Christ the Redeamer in Rio, Brasil last year:
And again after it’s been put through the Tilt-shift Maker:
There’s a group on flickr where people publish their results, there’s already almost 4,000 photos there. Have a go and add your own.
The Mapperz blog has highlighted a great interactive map of the activity around the country in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. Street level details shows the latest ariel photos of the site as well as altering the map to show activities over a particular time period.
An excellent example of how mapping and other media can be combined in a very usable way.
The latest site I’ve been working on is for the British Heart Foundation to promote their campaign for a new government strategy for heart and circulatory disease.
The site is flash based and features a crowd of origami people campaigning for BHF, and by signing the petition another person is created on screen who joins the campaign.
The campaign and petition also features in their shops and will be delivered personally to Number 10. Visit the site - www.newheartplan.org.uk - sign the petition and add your origami person to the campaign.
This clock was pointed out to me in a North Yorkshire pub called the Nags Head. It took me a second to work out what was unusual. The pub didn’t have a clock theme, the walls and ledges were filled with a mix of unusual and usual trinkets.
They did serve a very good game pie too. Worth a visit if you’re in the area.
