A Polaroid a day project

Here's an extraordinary polaroid project from way before Noah Kalina created his Photo-a-Day youtube video.

Jamie Livingston made a polaroid photo everyday for 18 years, from 1979 to 1997!

It's many things, impressive, daunting, funny but ultimately it's shocking and sad.



Read and follow the links through Photoshelter's SHOOT! The blog with Rachel Hulin.

More on royalty free stock images, 'Everywhere Girl'.

Jennifer Anderson is a young actress who did a little modeling a few years back, her image eventually ended up on a royalty free photo CD, and it seems that she been featured in so many places that she has been dubbed "The Everywhere Girl", she even chose that name for her own blog.

Her image has been used to simultaneously sell Dell, Gateway and Samsung computers, she has been a college dropout yet attends Brown and UNSW in Australia, all the while popping pills from Vivarin!

Anyway, you get the picture... more examples below,

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The Inquirer

Why using royalty free stock images is a stupid idea!

Here's a perfect example of why using royalty free stock images can come back and bite you in the butt! PC computer manufacturers ASUS & MSI both used the same RF image of a young boy in class with his laptop and photoshopped in their own product. Ironically the original undoctored photo featured an Apple MacBook!

The story on engadget.com.

Surely these two companies are big enough and smart enough to know better?! Not to mention, can afford original photography or, at the very least, exclusive RM stock.

Super high resolution photos with the Gigapan...

This is an interesting new device designed to shoot super high resolution photos with a regular camera. Basically it's a combo of a robot tripod head and some photo stitching software. The robot tripod head moves and aligns the camera across the scene, taking as many as 350 different photographs all of which are combined by the software into one hugely detailed photograph.

As you can see from the examples on their website, the Gigapan does have some shortcomings if there are any moving objects in the scene, but it's still pretty impressive!

It's still in beta development and is expected to cost around $300, If the quality proves to be good enough for commercial applications, I'd say that was a bargain!

You can also read an article and view a video here at The Times.

Video on flickr...

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Originally uploaded by werewegian

So now they have video on flickr.

I was pretty much against the idea when I first heard about it, fortunately they have limited it to just 90 seconds. Hopefully, because of that, it won't turn into youtube with TV clips but people being creative with their 90 secs just for the hell of it, like the fridgets pool...

OK, so this one's for Garrison!

So, Garrison has recently been telling me that, instead of emailing him (and others) links to the odd and quirky photography related things I find, I should post them here for all to see. (BTW, I'm pretty sure Garrison is currently my only reader!)

So here goes! I found this through the Photoshelter blog.

Nate Smith has customized a google map with links to polaroids of places in the neighborhood he grew up and he's memories relating to that place... Here's the twist, all the places recall moments in his emerging sexuality. He chose polaroid because of the connotation that polaroids are used to create dirty pictures!

Definately an interesting project, he calls it the Nascent Sexuality Map