Friday Flickr Feature - Abby Hutchison
Abby spent a week this past February exploring the prairies and small towns of Southern Alberta documenting the beauty she found in its emptiness.
Are Shutterbugs Getting Flocked?
The other day I was browsing the web when I saw this banner ad for the social web browser Flock
In the ad Flock is advertising its close integration with Flickr, a great tool for pro, amateur and cell phone photographers alike. No argument there. What got me a little peeved was:
…the browser designed for photographers.
In my mind any browser designed for photographers would surely include some form of colour management. Flock sadly, does not.
Friday Flickr Feature - Lee Summers
The first Friday Flickr Feature is a Polaroid series by Lee Summers.
I’m drawn to taking polaroids (and have been over the past couple years since being exposed to the way Mike Brodie captures people as so many others have) because of its one-of-a-kindness, it’s instant physicality, and the vibrant uniqueness of its colors. I love trying to frame something interesting within such a small square space. Usually, the Polaroid snapshot is synonymous with the pocket digital camera in that the bulk of its use is to capture fleeting moments; parties, gatherings, etc (though much more sentimental and valuable in my opinion because of its one time use). But with my series, I wanted to slow that time frame down. The majority of the photos were taken in the sundown hours, either in areas around my neighborhood, or the subjects neighborhood of friends, or friends of friends over the course of a month. I chose the side by side triptych instead of a vertical display because I wanted each piece to unfold into a different story beginning with the anonymity of the shoes.
- Lee Summers
Pimp My Muxtape (SSB)
Lately I’ve turned a deaf ear to iTunes in favour of discovering new music on Muxtape. In a recent post I demonstrated the benefits of wrangling Muxtape into a site specific browser using Fluid. While running Muxtape in a SSB is a step beyond loading the site in a browser tab It still lacks some of the functionality that I enjoy in iTunes:
- Growl Notifications
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Streaming music to Airport Express
- Ability to control away from the computer
After some tinkering and exploring I have come up with four solutions that work for me.
Earth Day Links
Earth day Is coming to an end and so I thought I would share a few links of environmental interest.
Use Aeroplan Miles to offset your carbon missions
Zero Footprint One Minute Calculator
Free software to turn one computer into two
Web app for planning and estimating solar savings on your house
Community Natural Foods goes bagless
Foam City (rub-a-dub) Dub
Sony has been on a roll with some great TV ads. The latest “Foam City” is due out May 1st and features a tidal wave of bubble bath foam flooding the streets of Miami. 200 locals were given cameras to shoot with during the whole foam escapade and I assume we will be seeing more of these images/videos after the first.
Muxtape With Coverflow Using Fluid
I am making this post for three reasons:
- I have bee meaning to make a post about fluid for quite some time now
- I wanted to write something about the increasingly cool muxtape.com
- I needed an excuse to play with ScreenFlow
Naturally I have combined these three “to-dos” into one. Below is a quick tutorial on harnessing the power of Fluid’s new thumbnail plugin to create a simple Muxtape application with sweet coverflow previews of the featured mixes. Video after the jump.
Instapaper Adds New Features and Ups Mobile Compatibility
Today my favourite temporary bookmarking website Instapaper made some updates to their service.
If you haven’t sipped the Instapaper Koolaid yet the site allows you to create an account where you can temporarily store websites to “read later”. Simply clicking a bookmarklet saves your current to your user page for later consumption.
Due to it’s simplicity Instapaper has always been a great way to shuttle links from your computer to a mobile device. The site is designed to load quickly and clearly in mobile browsers. Mobile compatibility has taken an even greater step forward in instapaper as you can now click (or tap) a simple “text” button and have any of your saved webpages displayed in a mobile-optimized, text-only page. This is great for viewing on phones or basic devices that choke on content heavy sites.
The rest of the new changes can be found on instapaper’s site here