Cooper Griggs

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If you think that some TV shows are so grandiose that they deserve a full-fledged theatrical release, you're not alone. HBO is drumming up attention for the fifth season of Game of Thrones by screening the last two episodes of season four (plus a spe...

Mercedes-Benz is far from the first automaker to experiment with self-driving cars, but it's making up for that in style at CES. Meet the F015 Luxury in Motion, a concept car designed from the ground up for robotic transportation. Passengers normally...

Smart locks are starting to become big business, with even Sony (Sony!) muscling in on the action. If, however, you'd like to buy a model from a company with any sort of reputation for security, then Schlage Sense might be the door furniture for you....

Google may be bending over backwards to eliminate piracy in its search results, but it's clearer than ever that the internet giant is fighting an uphill battle. TorrentFreak has sifted through Google's weekly data to discover that the company fielded...

The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People cleverly organizes the daily schedules of famous artists, philosophers, writers, and composers as recorded in their own diaries and letters. Not only does it show how they switched gears between creating, sleeping, and leisure time, but the chart is fully interactive including quotes from each individual. I would love to see a version of this with modern creatives (and more women) as well. (via Coudal)

Update: The information used to create the infographic comes from the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey.

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Casio makes a lot of keyboards. That's the company's primary contribution to music, and while it's a pretty big one, it's also looking to adopt to, well, what the youth have been listening to (and making) in recent years. To that end, it's launching ...

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Do you think that the walls at your school or office just aren't sprightly enough? E Ink may have a way to liven things up. Its new Prism material lets buildings subtly change colors and patterns on the spot, without having to rely on banks of expens...

More office fun.

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It’s hard to find a more dedicated member of the Flickr community than our very own Bhautik Joshi, aka captin_nod. Bhautik is a data scientist and a Flickr engineer whose work includes great explorations of data to help us better understand how Flickr members use the site to interact and engage each other.

Before joining the Flickr team in our San Francisco office, he was a well-known and highly active member of the community, organizing dozens of Flickr meetups in the Bay Area and wowing us with his beautiful street photography. He’s also a DIY enthusiast, regularly creating his own lenses and hacking equipment for experiments in composition, light, and tone.

His penchant for education benefits us all, whether he is teaching staff how to get the most out of their craft or writing series on camera buying guides for the Flickr Blog. If you haven’t explored his photostream, head over to his account and check his skills.

We’re thrilled Bhautik made the time to highlight 7 of his favorite photos from 7 photographers as part of this week’s Flickr Faves.

I love natural light portraits and this image is a striking example. Right off the bat, the model has an intense connection with the camera; the soft diffuse light punctuated by the harsh bright bands only serve to define the shape and texture of her face. Most of all, though the side light illuminates her eyes, the difference between left and right showing the range of color under different illumination and – most strikingly – revealing the complex texture and pigmentation of the iris.

This image is so very, very confusing, which is why I love it. The number of times you have to flip this one over to work out what is going on, along with the repition of the ducks and the reflections, make this a standout surrealist image for me. It helps that I’m also a big fan of Florentjin Hofman’s giant floating rubber duck.

I’ve been out shooting with Troy Holden for a few years now and it’s always an education. Troy’s dedication is remarkable: every day he heads out and shoots an entire roll of film. Through his work he’s built one of the most comprehensive collections of photos cataloging the recent physical and social changes in mid-Market San Francisco. This shot is of one of San Francisco’s many characters – Gabriel Angelo. Downtown San Francisco has seen Gabriel around for years, watching him grow up from a boy into a talented young man. Here Troy has captured his flair for the theatrical nestled in amongst his stomping ground on Market Street. The angles and lines in this shot are wild and that’s why I count it amongst my absolute faves.

It’s unlikely that that there is anything more punk rock than this. Nagano Toyokazu (of Bad Panda fame), who takes fantastic, playful portraits of his family. Quite aside from the tones (Kodak Portra 160! So great!), the makeshift props and obvious enjoyment that Miu is having, the photo speaks to me personally – I’m a father to a sassy two-year-old, and I’m not-so-secretly hoping that she grows up to have this much punk-rock spirit.

I’m quite fond of Can Dagarslani’s oddly surreal compositions. I love that fact that what we see here is plausible – the lines add up so that it looks physically reasonable. This is what causes the viewer to do a double-take, and that’s what’s fun about it. A shot like this looks like it should be easy, but composing it all in-camera so that it does all line up pleasingly and plausibly takes a considerable amount of skill and patience.

I’ve been trekking out to the waterfront to watch the Fleet Week airshow for many years. As more and more photographers head out to capture it, finding a new angle on the show becomes increasingly difficult. However, here Norman has absolutely nailed it – a combination of a steady hand and remarkable timing. On the first Thursday of practice flights, San Francisco’s famous fog looked like it was going to stop the show in its tracks. After hanging out in the windy cold, most photographers had headed home, but a few patient folks who stuck around after everything appeared to be done were rewarded richly when one of the aircraft made a low pass between the pylons of the Golden Gate Bridge. The side-on view of the plane (so it looks like its cartwheeling through), the framing, the fog, the bridge, the colours – all these come together to make an extraordinary shot.

The indefatigable Florian is one of the most talented photographers I know, combining extraordinary experimental and technical talents with an eye for exceptional moments. For depth-of-field, Florian lives at the other end of the spectrum to me – his shots often are of huge landscapes and objects, razor-sharp corner-to-corner. This is a classic shot of his and one of my all-time faves. After a sunny week, the fog returned just in time to provide an atmospheric backdrop for the USS Carl Vinson leaving San Francisco Bay. It’s worth zooming into this image as the details really make it. Shrouded in fog in the background is Alcatraz, and when you zoom into the deck you can see sailors taking photos. Also note that the image isn’t black-and-white; the only color in the image comes from a few tiny maritime signal flags near the bridge.

Toyota's apparently hedging it's bet in the hybrid world by also gambling on a hydrogen-powered future. In an apparent attempt to drum up some development support, all 5,680 or so of Toyota's FCV (Fuel Cell Vehicle) patents developed for and in suppo...

You don't exactly have a ton of options when it comes to portable solid-state drives. You can get fast performance or high capacity at a halfway affordable price, but rarely both. Samsung thinks it can strike that tricky balance with its first-ever e...

D-Link has just jumped the router shark with its latest AC5300, AC3200 and AC3100 Ultra Performance models. On top of speeds up to 5.3Gbps for the AC5300 model, the 802.11ac devices feature, um, striking looks that hopefully won't frighten small chil...

"Our Chi is thinner than Air." That was how ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih opened his CES keynote today. If you're not following, what he meant was the super-slim ASUS Transformer Book T300 Chi that was teased at Computex. Well, the time has come. This 1...

Soft hues, partially lit orbs, a thin trace of the ring, and slight shadows highlight this understated view of the majestic surroundings of the giant planet Saturn.

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Audi is confident that its self-driving car technology is ready for prime time -- so confident, in fact, that it's about to give the platform a very public long-distance test. An A7 Sportback with the mostly autonomous hardware is traveling 550 miles...

Rumor: For several years, Webster's New International Dictionary mistakenly included an entry for a word that did not exist.

Picture the scene: you're doing your laundry, separating silken "intimates" from your jeans, but you don't have enough time to wash both before you go out. You fall to the floor and beat the ground with your fists, cursing your inability to plan ahea...

We lamented the iPhone 6's battery in our review, but the folks at ibattz have a solution for when Apple's handset loses juice when you need it most. The company says its ASAP Charger's 20-volt, 2 amp power pack can fully charge an iPhone 6 within 15...