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23 Jun 14:52

Prometheus

'I'm here to return what Prometheus stole.' would be a good thing to say if you were a fighter pilot in a Michael Bay movie where for some reason the world's militaries had to team up to defeat every god from human mythology, and you'd just broken through the perimeter and gotten a missile lock on Mount Olympus.
18 May 15:24

hamartía e a feijoada de lata



hamartía e a feijoada de lata

18 May 15:22

Cyanide and Happiness for by Rob DenBleyker 05.17.2013

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18 May 15:18

Maybe hugs are drugs.

by Jessica Hagy

"Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix." —Matt Groening

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07 May 14:44

An Ode To Spargel Season

by Thyme Supperclub
Helenan

<3

Where and how to buy asparagus - plus a selection of related recipes...
11 Apr 08:29

Something valuable.

by Jessica Hagy

there's a lot to be said for making an attempt

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25 Feb 16:43

CCXXXII “Eu tô de um jeito que você, com um pouco só de esforço,...



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“Eu tô de um jeito que você, com um pouco só de esforço, conseguiria me convencer a pular do precipício se quisesse.”

A.L.

photo credit: Olivia Bee

09 Feb 23:02

A Softer World

01 Feb 18:20

It doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder.

by Jessica Hagy

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30 Jan 09:03

Star Trek into Darkness

Helenan

:)

Of course, factions immediately sprang up in favor of '~*~sTaR tReK iNtO dArKnEsS~*~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L').
23 Jan 14:40

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons

by but does it float
Collages by Ernesto Artillo Title: Anaïs Nin Atley
23 Jan 14:39

Interactive, illustrated Moonrise Kingdom Script anyone? Thought so

by Liv Siddall

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Just as word is creeping out about Wes Anderson’s new project (which is expected out in 2014), Focus Features are still celebrating his spectacular 2012 release, Moonrise Kingdom. As award-season approaches, they’ve cleverly released this magnificent annotated script of the entire movie to hopefully spur their chances of getting Best Original Screenplay. Any Wes fans out there will be delighted to see sketched storyboards, hilariously-detailed stage directions and photos of him advising the cast on their characters during filming. If this example of the sheer detail that goes into his productions doesn’t make you want to watch every single one of his films back-to-back tonight, I don’t know what will. God those kids are cute.

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15 Jan 18:08

A Softer World

11 Jan 08:58

Sick Day

Wikipedia path: Virus -> Immune system -> Innate immune system -> Parasites -> List of parasites of humans -> Naegleria fowleri -> Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis -> Deciding I DEFINITELY shouldn't connect an aquarium pump to my sinuses
11 Jan 08:57

A Softer World

17 Dec 09:52

A Softer World

17 Dec 09:51

A Softer World

17 Dec 09:48

Cyanide and Happiness for 12.15.2012 by Dave

Helenan

:)

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17 Dec 09:13

WhatsApp é o “meu novo Facebook”

by Tiago Dória
Helenan

Whatsapp <3

Eu já me interessava pelo aplicativo WhatsApp, mas depois que iniciei meus estudos em Boston, o meu interesse aumentou mais. Tornei-me um usuário assíduo do aplicativo multiplataforma de mensagens.

Há um tempo ele substituiu o meu Facebook.

Não estou sozinho nessa. Colegas meus de Boston também utilizam assiduamente o WhatsApp. O Facebook ficou em segundo ou até terceiro plano.

É lógico que isso não aconteceu do dia para a noite e nem se aplica a todos os usuários da plataforma de rede social. Mas para quem utilizava o Facebook mais como um utilitário de comunicação (conversar e estar em contato com os amigos) do que uma plataforma de mídia (publicar e consumir conteúdo), o WhatsApp tem se saído como uma boa alternativa.

Outro dia nasceu o primeiro filho de um amigo meu. Onde a foto do bebê foi parar? No Whatsapp. Marcar para ir a um pub? Ou comentar sobre algum jogo que está passando na televisão? WhatsApp.

Não é à toa que o Facebook andou recentemente interessado em comprar o WhatsApp e chegou a lançar um aplicativo que emula o mesmo. O WhatsApp realiza uma das principais funções das plataformas de redes sociais do ponto de vista de utilitário de comunicação – unir comunicações em grupo.

No Brasil, o aplicativo tem um apelo a mais, pois reduz a zero o custo com o envio de SMS. Nos EUA, SMS é barato e abundante. A maioria das operadoras de telefonia fornece planos com SMS ilimitado. A questão da conveniência que o WhatsApp proporciona tem mais peso nos EUA – o aplicativo trabalha com vários formatos de mídia (fotos, vídeos, sons) e plataformas (iOS, BB, Android, Windows Phone), além de permitir a criação de grupos de conversa com até 30 usuários.

Se a gente parar para pensar, veremos que o WhatsApp está criando uma nova forma de rede social, com base em mobile e mensagens instantâneas, mas, ao mesmo tempo, está realizando um retorno às origens das chamadas mídias sociais.

O serviço de comunicação trabalha ancorado em um dos meios mais sociais – o telefone. Ao instalar o aplicativo, ele se conecta ao seu catálogo de contatos. Ou seja, tudo gira em torno do seu número de telefone e de seu catálogo de contatos, que, cá entre nós, é uma rede social (não no formato tradicional, mas com a mesma função – agregar e permitir comunicação com contatos importantes).

Para entender melhor o que estou falando, vale dar uma olhada em America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. No livro, o pesquisador Claude S. Fisher mostra que a rede de telefones é, na realidade, a “maior plataforma de rede social do mundo”, pois conecta pessoas de forma eficiente e indiscriminada. Tem um telefone? Você já está em rede e conectado a pessoas do mundo inteiro.

O telefone, portanto, seria a “primeira mídia social“.

Quanto ao Facebook, não é de hoje essa desaceleração da plataforma de rede social. Em sua terra natal, o Facebook há um bom tempo perdeu o seu caráter de “novidade” e agora vem perdendo o de “ser essencial” (você pode ficar dias sem acessar o Facebook que não faz muita diferença).

Uma das últimas discussões sobre mídia em Boston envolveu os executivos dos principais restaurantes da cidade. Uma das principais conclusões é que o Facebook perdeu atratividade. É tanta mensagem e propaganda travestida de conteúdo dentro da rede social que fica difícil você ser ouvido ou visto na linha do tempo de um usuário. Tem muito palco e pouca plateia.

É interessante o aparecimento de alternativas e a desaceleração do Facebook, que até outro dia queria ser o “centro da internet”. Parece que há um revezamento. Ou melhor, parece que toda vez que tentam colonizar integralmente a nossa experiência digital, sempre surgem alternativas.

17 Dec 09:12

Inventário de Tipos Humanos – Verônica

by Follow the Colours

Ela desenha. E diz que toda a torcida do Corinthians também. Mas, sabemos que as coisas não são bem assim. Eu mesmo mal sei fazer um homem palito direito. Eis que um dia chego na agência para trabalhar e na minha caixa de mensagens, tinha a indicação de um tumblr: Inventário de Tipos Humanos. Abri. Meu dia ficou melhor, sério. Porque tanto os desenhos, quantos as descrições e textos de Verônica, uma menina talentosa de 17 anos, me fizeram enxergar a observação das pessoas de um jeito novo. E os desenhos postados de quando ela tinha apenas 14 anos (2009) até hoje aos 17, são muito atuais. Verônica acabou de fazer uma página no Facebook e também mantém o Valsa de Erros, outro tumblr que posta quando seus “rabiscos” fluem. Pode desenhar com vontade Verônica, você está apenas começando.

 

17 Dec 09:10

Lukas Kozmus

by Follow the Colours
Helenan

<3

Não existe nada melhor do que viajar. Viajar é a única coisa que você compra e que te faz mais rico. Juntando esse presuposto com as viagens à Índia, Nepal ou Indonésia que o talentoso fotógrafo Lukas Kozmus de Berlim fez, aí é que não temos mais nenhuma dúvida.

Via.

10 Dec 19:18

Weekend Photo Focus: Me, Myself and I

by Ameena Rojee

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This weekend, after having had a very busy few months, we take time to look at ourselves. What is it about ourselves that we dislike? And what do we love? What concepts about ourselves do we want to express? Take a risk this weekend, or indulge, in taking a self-portrait. Often, they reveal things about ourselves to others, and it can be an interesting learning experience.

"Disease" by Kalliope Amorphous

"Disease" by Kalliope Amorphous

"Self Portrait" by Gabriela Alatorre

"Self Portrait" by Gabriela Alatorre

"Self04" by Emmanuel Correia

"Self Portraits: 1998 - 2001" by Michael Lewis

"Self Portraits: 1998 - 2001" by Michael Lewis

"Self-Portraits" by Yulia Gorodinski

"Self-Portraits" by Yulia Gorodinski

"Resurrecting Ophelia" by Kalliope Amorphous

"Resurrecting Ophelia" by Kalliope Amorphous

"Self Portraits 1973 - 1982" by Doug Van de Zande

"Self Portraits 1973 - 1982" by Doug Van de Zande

"MEZIG" by Nadia Wicker

"MEZIG" by Nadia Wicker

"365 Journey" by Martha Ortiz

"365 Journey" by Martha Ortiz

"Blue" by Cindy Romero

"Blue" by Cindy Romero

Each Friday we will post a Weekend Photo Focus (also hash tagged on Twitter as #weekendphotofocus) on a certain subject; something to spark your creativity. An empty weekend for a photographer is like an empty canvas – we could always use something to do when we have nothing planned, right?

The premise is simple; snap some photographs over the weekend dealing with the weekends focus, and if you send/tweet/facebook them to us we will post them up in the follow-up article. Having a focus will help us as artists and photographers to see things that we might not always see, and make us take a shot at something we might otherwise have not.

At the weekend’s close, we will follow up  with what we found on the Web, and your submissions. We hope you join in the fun and help us spread the creativity.

example of a tweet to us:

@fuelphotography Here’s my submission for this weekend’s focus#weekendphotofocus, xxxxxxxx: http://bit.ly/aY1oC7

09 Dec 12:01

fairytalefashion: A really nice example of German Renaissance...

Helenan

sensacional



fairytalefashion:

A really nice example of German Renaissance style.

unseelieallure:

(via Black cat by ~ekukanova on deviantART)

04 Dec 16:18

Weekend Samplr

by Thea Lamkin
Helenan

wow

sauvie island fog

Soldiers.

60/365

Beach Grass

Photos from lassen davis, Eliada Toska, janies., and JimbobEdsel, all uploaded this weekend.


04 Dec 16:17

Indie Spotlight: Ross Pickford

by Hafez Kamal

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Each Monday, we’ll highlight one indie photographer whose body of work deserves special recognition. Please enjoy their photography here, and make it a point to enjoy the rest of their work on their website.

Everywhere in the world, you can see people taking photos with their smartphones and sharing them to everyone via the world wide web. So much so, that it has merit it’s own photography category (mobile photography AKA phoneography). That being said, our indie spotlightee for this month is another talented amateur photographer who shoots mostly with his trusted Apple iPhone 4S.

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Residing in Cape Town, South Africa, Ross Pickford almost always shoot any random subject that captures his attention while focusing mainly on streets, landscape, light and shadow. Like every other passionate amateur photographer, he experiments with new ways of shooting, his recent experiment was to take driving shots and this was possible with the help of a certain great little Belkin-branded iPhone grip that allows him to shoot without being distracted (too much) from driving.

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Kit:

Ross owns a Canon 350D kitted together with a 18-55mm lens which suits his style of photography, but the lens is not so great for capturing more distant images. For this, he got himself an EF 80-200 telephoto lens even though this lens has not seen the light of day for quite a while now. Despite having what some people would consider, ‘a proper photography equipment’, Ross still prefers to shoot most of his subjects with his iPhone 4S. So much so, the ratio of him shooting with the 4S versus the 350D is 9:1.

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Workflow:

Despite shooting with an iPhone 4S, Ross makes sure his shots are not those without quality nor meaning. They would go through similar editing process one would expect from shots taken with any SLR camera. Getting the perfect shot is next to impossible so one can only try to shoot as much as one could, in the hope of getting that one (or two if you’re lucky) particular near-perfect shots to start working with. Ross would spend some time to get the right set-up of focal points and exposures, he makes a concious choice to take more photos than he would probably require just in-case a gremlin appears that he did not see when shooting the original capture.

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Ross does all of his editing on the iPhone 4S itself, utilizing a number of great photo editing app to likes of Snapseed, Filterstorm, VSCOCAM and Camera+. He starts  by applying some tone until the right tone curve is achieved before adding in filters to give them the appropriate mood.

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When he shoots with his 350D, his shooting style that he inherited from his phoneography applies with the exception of the software he uses to process his captures; Adobe Photoshop CS5 & Lightroom.

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Tips, Tricks and Techniques:

To take up photography is to learn how to enjoy the craft and have some fun while taking photographss. Ross believes that one shouldn’t over think on any particular subject but instead, pay attention to the basics and image detail. Understand the concept of composing a shot by utilizing your viewfinder’s grid lines (framing) – Ross used to center-frame his subjects until one fine day when someone taught him how to frame properly using grid lines. He always leaves some buffer area in his shots to make room for editing while getting as close as possible to the subject when composing shots and don’t be lazy to move around so you can find that unusual, yet perfect, angle.

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Lessons Learned:

There’s always this one time accidental thing that happened to all of us during a photoshoot which turns out to be a good thing. The same goes to Ross when his lens was in direct sunlight.  In this circumstance the photographer generally has two choices; either you can move your lens away from facing the sun and choose another angle, or you change your lens angle a bit and utilize the sunlight to produce a natural lens flare. Since his accidentally discovered technique Ross now often chooses the latter.

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Inspiration:

As with every upcoming photographer, Ross admires  these established photographers the most:

Jill Furmanovsky – The one who made Ross fall in love with portraiture and live concert shots; pure genius in the Ross’ eyes.

Richard Weber – One of the first people Ross discovered on Instagram. Richard covers so many different styles that he manages to inspire Ross on practically every level.

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What’s Next:

Given the chance, Ross would certainly love to try shoot concerts, learn to take good and interesting portraiture and street photography. He has had a few chances before in taking a couple of shots during Switchfoot’s show via his iPhone 4S. It is the emotion that emanates from musicians while playing a show that made it interesting and worthwhile for him.

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Links:

Ross Pickford can be found online at:

04 Dec 16:15

A Softer World

Helenan

;)

04 Dec 07:53

16 months and glamorous 

Helenan

<3 <3



16 months and glamorous 

29 Nov 22:01

A cor da carne

by Valerie Scavone
Helenan

Sensacional

O artista japonês Shinichi Maruyama apresenta a série Nude onde ele fotografa, em longa exposição, corpos nus em movimento. As silhuetas da carne exibem um senso de movimento hipnotizante sem gênero nem erotismo da beleza individual da pele crua dançante.


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Tweet Tags: carne, corpo, Corpos Nus, movimento, nude, pele, Shinichi Maruyama
29 Nov 21:57

Missing by The xx – Spatializing Sound with Sonos

by Filip Visnjic
Helenan

:)

Missing by The xx - Spatializing Sound with Sonos
Created along with the english indie band The xx, Matt Mets, Aramique Krauthamer and Kyle McDonald created an exhibit that incorporates the band’s music into a room full of stepper motor controlled speakers that pivot to follow listeners as they move through the space. Missing is part of Coexist, an exhibition cycle at the Sonos [...]
27 Nov 12:32

Atamagaitai

Helenan

heh




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