Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.”
If only I had a Canon 5D Mark II, I could really get into making these type of videos. I love the cloud formations and balloons in this first video. The 2nd video just plain rocks and I can appreciate how long this must have taken to produce from start to finish.
A very cool use of a tilt-shift lens to make everything look all model-like.
And still one of my all time personal favorites.
Liquid Image is releasing a High Definition Scuba Series Camera / Video Mask at the 2009 CES show in Las Vegas January 8th – 11th. The Liquid Image SCUBA SERIES HD320 Camera / Video Mask allows scuba divers to capture underwater photos and High Definition digital video hands free. The HD video is 720P (1280 x 720) and records at a rate up to 30 frames per second with audio. The camera mode features a 5 MP (2560 x 1920) still image.
How cool is this and remarkably priced as well. Too bad there’s not much use for this in Arizona, or it’d be on my next Christmas birthday wish list. Read more here.
Drobo storage robot is a very cool USB connected RAID/drive array used to store backups, photos, movies, or 
whatever you want to use it for. Best of all, since all the drives are in an array, nothing is lost if a hard drive goes bad. As you’ll see in the video from the linked picture, replacing drives is very simple and makes it a snap for those with little or no technical expertise. It’s so simple, a caveman can…oh wait, that’s for Geico.
Say goodbye to modifying your computer with extra drives and bringing them into a RAID configuration (or whatever your setup may be). Just purchase a new hard drive that’s on sale and slap it in.
I could store a lot of photos and my backups on this one with ease. I want one!
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The folks over at Think Tank Photo are having a contest from November 16th through December 15th where they will be giving away a free photo bag, every day during the contest. You only need to enter once and you could be selected during the contest time frame.
You can enter the contest here.
After entering the contest, be sure to check out their article on Fear for Your Gear While Running Through the Airport, Part 1. I found it to be an informative and interesting read. It’s filled with all sorts of insight from many photographers who have travelled all over the world.
I received this in an e-mail message a month or so ago. For those that don’t have the time to get out and take some photos, I guess you can resort to filming Superman.
If you have a few minutes, you should check out what’s in store for linking photos together. Note that this isn’t just limited to photos. Newspapers, books, and probably just about anything you can think of in the future may be linked together, on a world wide scale.
It does make me wonder though, how copyrighted/digital rights material will be protected from being linked with this. With stories like the lady who’s upset with Google Streets with having a picture of her cat on the internet and wants it removed. I imagine we’ll eventually be hearing about how people thought their personal photos weren’t available to anyone surfing the internet when they used sites like Flickr, Smugmug, etc. 
You can read up more on Photosynth at Microsoft Labs
I thought this was another interesting project. Similar to the alarm clock photo project I posted a couple of years ago in the news. If you have 5 minutes, it’s worth watching. 2,356 photos. Now that’s some dedication.
If the video doesn’t show up for you above, you can visit it here on YouTube
