Here’s a cheap and easy way to deal with getting rid of pesky reflections, shadows and backgrounds in your small object photography: use a lampshade for a light tent.
This $6 lampshade from IKEA is white, nearly cylindrical, and has an adjustable (removable) mounting bracket, all of which make it easily adaptable to this purpose.
[Via Make]
Don’t laugh, this is serious business. Just last week we were totally there when Richard Dean Anderson had to use a MacGyver multitool to rewire the ignition of the single-prop plane that delivered us all safely out of a Bolivian hostage situation. We’re not even kidding, go ask him.
[Via Engadget]
I have been looking at mods and hacks for a while now, and I always save them when I see something cool. I have done several DIY projects using a disposable camera, and so they have always peaked my interest. I decided to take all of the mods that I have seen over the last few years and make a top ten list of what I think are the coolest mods for a disposable camera. These hacks are in no particular order.
[Via Make]
PictoBrowser is an indispensable freeware web application written by New York interactive designers Diego Bauducco and Carlos Gomez. It allows users to browse and display images from Flickr on any web page in a stylish, crisp flash-based interface. The plug-in enhances the functionality of Web 2.0 media sites like Flickr by providing a simple means to display photo sets on their own blog or homepage. To get started just click on the “Info” button on the bottom right corner of any Pictobrowser.
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[Via Cool Hunting]
Timmy on Time é um sistema de registro de tempo com uma abordagem absurdamente criativa, do tipo porque ninguém pensou nisso antes?, exatamente do tipo que eu gosto.
[Via Marco Gomes]
Como de costume a Microsoft, em todo novo sistema operacional que e lançado por eles, demora um tempo até que outros softwares se adaptem e rodem sem problemas, e não foi diferente esta vez.
[Via Belfiglio.net]
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture
http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/
“Acidente”, segundo o dicionário Houaiss, possui a seguinte acepção: “acontecimento casual, fortuito, inesperado”. A tragédia ocorrida ontem à noite, portanto, não pode ser chamada de “acidente”. Não faltaram indícios prévios de que alguma nova desgraça envolvendo aviões poderia acontecer a qualquer momento.
[Via Pensar Enlouquece]
Julien new Bathroom Suite by Troy Adams Design is far from ordinary contemporary bathroom.
[Via Funforever]
Getting inked is a big commitment. Whether you carefully choose a meaningful design or get one on a drunken whim, tattoos are meant to be permanent. Successfully removing one involves thousands of dollars in laser surgery, often with multiple procedures. In light of these costs, many people resign themselves to living with a tattoo they’ve outgrown, or they choose not to get one in the first place.
[Via Technology Review]
