Yes, I love smoke bombs, tis true
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Road Trip ‘09: Just Getting Started… Carhenge
Posted on June 30, 2009 by 3rdesign
**(The Road Trip has come to a end… but the story is just starting. Make sure to check up on the progress of these posts.)
I have updating my Twitter account with all the amazing and a few of the mundane details of our trip.
Everyone should take the time to exit the bubble of their everyday life and find the natural and unnatural oddities that surround our country. Have you ever seen a dedicated Tootsie Roll truck…
Our first major stop was in the historic (sort of) Carhenge… Its alot like Stonehenge, but with cars. Nebraska is not exactly the most exciting place on earth. Carhenge attempts to completely compensate for this lack of pizazz. Im by no means knocking the “cornhuskers” … its just that I think Nebraska was meant to be driven through, not lived in..
Check back for the next post… Road Trip ‘09: CrazyHorse…Rushing to Devils Tower
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Cheap Creative Night Photography
Posted on May 21, 2009 by 3rdesign
Do you pack up your camera at night? Do you fall into a Youtube trance when the sun goes down? Night Photography is one of the most rewarding and exciting of the creative image arts. Got a flashlight nearby?.. a LED? Then get outside and start experimenting…
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What you’ll need…
Tripod
Nikon dSLR (I’m sure a Canon would do…
A “Torch” this could be a flashlight or a sparkle, a LED, any kind of bright and exact light source
A “LightPainter” (or go it yourself)
A slow shutter speed (BULB it)
Imagination and a idea of your frame boundaries
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Here are a few examples of what we’ve pulled off at night..
“Light Battle of sorts”
“Photography is like Jazz?” (for this one I moved the camera around the subject, a street light)
“Another Day surrounded by Light”
“A Bright Self Portrait” (sparklers produce stunning effects)
“Several Seans” (the external flash did all the work on this one)
For me Light Painting is all about fun, and creativity. Depress the shutter, run around with the “torch”, and finally …bask in the result of your insanity.
Browse through Flickr and you will come upon amazing uses of this fun technique (Try this Group.. super stuff)
Jamie Kivisto (www.jamiekivisto.com) appears as one of the artists in this Sprint commercial with flashlight (lightpainting) animation.
For a more exact look at the technique check out LightDoodles.com
Also check the creations collected on Abduzeedo.com
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I love HDR… again
Posted on April 11, 2009 by 3rdesign
Hey,
Recently I’ve delved back into the world of HDR… Its hard to look at Trey Ratcliffs work and not be inspired. So I find myself seeing the world in a High Dynamic Range sort of way. The best way to achieve this (at least what I’ve found) is the RAW bracketed exposures, combined and tone mapped in Photomatix with a few tweaks in Photoshop CS3. I’m not a super technical guy so I will spare you much more voluble verbiage. (If you are interested in the process check this tutorial out)
Here’s some of the HDR photographs I’ve put together.. ENJOY!
![[73/365] Bleak](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/3067021782_6596761aeb.jpg)
Looking for some talented HDR photographic artists to chew on??… (visually!!)
- Stephen Kiernan - projectvisual.net
- Ryan Yapp - boiworx
- Roman Sołowiej - shexbeer | passion.design
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thirdDiscovery #2 “Almost nothing has been invented yet…”
Posted on March 24, 2009 by 3rdesign
This weeks post will focus on interesting things I’ve found through the TED conference….
“TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted”
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The software can be downloaded at http://johnnylee.net
Woody Norris: Inventing the next amazing thing
Aiming sound the way we aim light??
Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: “Almost nothing has been invented yet.” So — what’s next?
Check back soon for more interesting and innovative discoveries…
If you want to see the things I run into daily.. click below
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