Brilliant Multi-Exposure Photography

By superimposing several digital camera images taken at different exposure settings, Chris Relander creates this interesting arrangement of multiple exposure photography.
LINK, Via: thisiscolossal.com

Surreally Scribbled Digital Portraits

Image credit: Ayaka Ito and Randy Church [Spotted Via: Design Boom]

Designer/illustrator Ayaka Ito and programmer Randy Church collaborated on a digital project integrating 3D line work and traditional photography. The designers used various applications, including 3D flash drawing and 4D modeling programs. The results are surreal and give the model a shredded, wiry appearance. It’s almost like frantically drawing with an unspooled cassette tape. Check out Ito and Church’s works in detail past the break. LINK

Segmentus Clock Concept is Half Digital, Half Analog

First, man made the analog clock. Then he made the digital clock. Then, just because he could, he made the funky cross between the two that looks like a digital clock but has moving mechanical parts like an analog one.

Art Lebedev, the patron saint of cool concepts that will never be manufactured as real products, has applied his unique genius to the world of timekeeping. The result is Segmentus, a clock that uses swinging plastic segments to replicate LCD-style numbers.



OK, the numbers aren't always the easiest to read—this is particularly annoying for those of us who thought that digital clocks would always be a safe harbor in the confusing and often embarrassing world of analog timekeeping—but, hey, it's art. Er, Art. [Art Lebedev, Via: SlashGear], Via: Gizmodo, Via: Youtube

1930s-40s in Color

These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.

We invite your tags and comments! Also, more identification information. (The current titles come from the agency's original documentation, which was sometimes incomplete.)

The FSA/OWI pictures depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with a focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same
period.

The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division preserves
the original photographs and offers the digital copies to ensure their wide availability.

For more information about the collection and to see the approximately 171,000 black-and-white photos, visit: lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsacabt.html Via: Flickr

Single Digit Nixie Clock

Beautiful single-nixie clock made by Flickr user Blue_Metal. LINK

Misa Digital Guitar

Misa digital guitar running linux kernel 2.6.31. Product page.

Sydney, Australia. LINK, Via: Youtube

Creative Photography by Vienna Paint

Vienna paint was founded as a two-man mission in 1988 by Andreas Fitzner and Albert Winkler, a time when digital post production and image manipulation were terms only used by a few visionary insiders.

Link - Via: viennapaint, Via: Neatorama

Digital Clock Made of 24 Analogue Clocks

Swedish designers "Human Since 1982" created this digital clock made of 24 analogue clocks. It's like they merged two opposite worlds together. Make sure to check out the video below to see the clock in action! LINK, Via: Youtube

Digital Magazine

The concept aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which
people have been enjoying for decades: an engaging and unique reading
experience in which high-quality writing and stunning imagery build up
immersive stories.

The concept uses the power of digital media to create a rich and
meaningful experience, while maintaining the relaxed and curated
features of printed magazines. It has been designed for a world in
which interactivity, abundant information and unlimited options could
be perceived as intrusive and overwhelming. LINK: Vimeo

Prepare to Have Your Brain Exploded by This Known Universe Video

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

[Kottke], Via: Youtube

CSI Image Enhancer

Anyone who takes digital pictures gets a real kick out of how crime investigators on the CSI TV shows use their computers to zoom in and enhance photographs, as if you could really zoom in to just a few pixels and see a legible image. Now you can! The CSI Image Enhancer lets you zoom in on a photograph just by typing furiously and saying “enhance!” Well, really, all you have to do is type furiously. Try this one as an example. Upload your own photos to make a personal enhancement of your own. Link, Via: b3ta, Via: Neatorama

(image found at Arbroath)

The Living Light Sculpture

The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It's actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea.



The design is a rough map of the city's neighborhood as distinguished by "air boundaries".
The data is collected from 27 air monitoring stations; every 15 minutes the map lights up in order of highest to lowest air quality. [Living Light Via: bldgblog, Via: Vimeo, Via: Gizmodop]

Artist Michael Oswald (Some NSFW)

Michael Oswald is a great digital artist from California. His skills brought him on the cover of Advanced Photoshop Magazine. LINK

Watt Time Alarm Clock

Here is a funky alarm clock that looks like a light bulb and would look great in any geeks apartment, the Watt Time Alarm Clock designed by Brain Kerr.

Watt Time is constructed out of high gloss, hard plastic allowing the digital time display to shine through the bulb’s outer wall. A bright blue LED display illuminates the time and date and an easily accessible snooze button located on top of the bulb’s socket end, makes it possible for you to get those “5 more minutes” you always need. If the sound is not enough to wake you, you have the option of setting the bulb to illuminate when your alarm goes off as well. LINK

The Watt Time Alarm Clock is available to pre-order for $24.99 from Quirky.

Digital BBQ Tongs

Whether you’re really unskilled at BBQ’ing, or have just always wanted a pair of tongs with a built-in LCD display, these digital BBQ tongs look like a half-decent accessory for what little there is left of Summer. Sensors in the tip measure the meat’s internal temperature and sound an alarm when it’s ‘done’ according to one of the seven meat-type presets you’ve selected. It of course also includes a built-in LED flashlight for grilling in the dark or during a solar eclipse, and runs off 2xAAA batteries which are actually included. $39.98 from Taylor Gifts.

LINK [ Digital BBQ Tongs ] VIA: [ 7Gadgets ]

Japan Digital Landscape Wallpapers

17 Amazing Japan Digital Landscape Wallpapers. LINK

Tenori-On

Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, Tenori-On. A 16x16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a 'visible music' interface.

By operating and interacting with the LED buttons and the light they produce you gain access to the numerous performance capabilities. The Tenori-On provides six different performance and sound/light modes and these can be combined and used simultaneously for rich, complex musical expression. LINK, Via: Youtube

Mario Sanchez Nevado’s Digital Art

Mario Sanchez Nevado (pseudonym of Aegis) is an digital artist born in Murcia (Spain), who creates some impressive photo-manipulated artwork. His art is a lush combination of traditional and digital drawing, vectorial art and photographs. This is dark and surreal imagery, combined with conceptual themes as Mario works within many diverse styles and genres. Equally integrated is his use of digital softwares: Photoshop, Corel Painter, Marinates Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Dreamweaver - all contribute to the completed designs. LINK