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TED Talk: Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

Aaron — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:35:16 +0000

Saw this posted over at PvPOnline.com. A wonderful and inspiring TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, on nurturing creativity. Emphasis on keeping a positive outlook rather then languishing in self hatred when the creative magic isn’t consistent. If creativity is part of your job description, like it is for me, [...]

How to make a fish eye lens for a…[DSLR]

Aaron — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:40:27 +0000

Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster, has created a cool HOWTO for creating a $16 fish eye lens using some particle board, duct-tap, a lens hood, and a security peephole for doors. The tutorial is branded as being for the Nikon D90, but looking at how he made it I can’t imagine it wouldn’t work [...]

Duke Nukem’s Disease

Aaron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:36:04 +0000

Saw this over on Laughing Squid, terrible really, the unknown, and sadly incurable, phenomenon known as Duke Nukem Disease.

MAKE: Kite Photography

Aaron — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:20:26 +0000

Saw this over on BoingBoing, really cool project regarding kite photography. The below video is the Maker Profile from MAKE: Television, Episode 2.

Kite Aerial Photography on MAKE: television from make magazine on Vimeo.

YouTube Contest: Produce something watchable

Aaron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:30:00 +0000

Seems YouTube has put forth a contest for users to submit videos that are actually watchable.

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

Robots And Monsters! Charitable goodness

Aaron — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:44:36 +0000

Joe Alterio created a charitable effort of drawing Robots and Monsters for $50 with most of the fee going to a charitable organization. $50 gets you the original work of art created by either Joe Alterio or one of the other talented artists he’s enlisted who help out in their spare time.

The charity [...]

ILoveSketch – 3D sketching software

Aaron — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:24:49 +0000

Here’s something which falls into the category of “Rad!”, software that’s being developed at the University of Toronto, called “ILoveSketch”, allows you to sketch on a touch screen in 3D. If you can follow along and understand the linguistic cavalcade of terms then more power to you. I just want to try it out [...]

Photojournalist James Nachtwey’s TED Prize

Aaron — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:47:19 +0000

“The TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference granting recipients one world changing wish – is asking bloggers around the world to help in making photojournalist and 2007 Prize winner James Nachtwey’s wish come true this Friday, October 3.

Nachtwey wished for help in breaking a news story in a [...]

Castle Fest 2008

Aaron — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:40:32 +0000

Last Saturday I went with a friend down to Castle Fest, which was held on the grounds of an old castle, located in Lisse, which is just out side of Leiden…in Holland…right, click [here] for a map.

Castle Fest is an annual, weekend event celebrating Lughnassadh (the first harvest festival of the year) as [...]

Reverse Graffiti

Aaron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:02:48 +0000

Just saw this over on Laughing Squid. A artist by the name Paul “Moose” Curtis utilizes a technique called “reverse graffiti” where he creates cut outs, holds them up on dirty walls and uses jets of water to create a contrasting clean picture against a dirty canvas.

In the below video he creates a [...]