Swiss artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs — also known as Tonk, have revealed their latest piece: a camera made from old photography books. It is crafted with care from a stack of hollowed out tomes with a clever design that also finds a creative use for vintage texts. In experimenting with the body of the camera, the artists have literally framed a new angle in the building of the object.

 (via Vintage Camera Made Out Of Recycled Photography Books - PSFK)

The image above is one-hundred percent fake. It has no connection whatsoever to the world of things. I created the bolts, lights, textures, and everything else in a free, open-source, relatively easy-to-use software package called Blender.

It’s easy enough that even a novice user like me is able to make a pretty convincing image. If you are a photographer that makes a living shooting still-life photos, this should scare you.

(via Photographers: You’re Being Replaced by Software)

Interesting.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster are a London-based artist duo that creates amazing shadow art installations using carefully arranged objects. They use everything from trash to metal cans shot with BB pellets, arranged to cast shadows of people and skylines on the wall when a light is shined from a certain direction.

Impressive. More here: Amazing Shadow Photos Created Using Carefully Arranged Objects

Sebastian Thrun, who heads Google’s secretive X lab, has been testing out Google Glasses and sharing his photos through the company’s social network Google+. 

(via How The World Looks Through Google Glasses - Forbes)

Goooooooogle.

Ari Marcopoulos presents richly degraded photography, photocopies and film in a new solo show

(via Wherever You Go)

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Microsoft’s Kinect excels at registering depth in 3D space, but filmmakers still want high definition video for creating detailed visceral artwork. An open source initiative known as RGB D has created a workflow for laying HD video on top of depth maps from the Kinect’s 3D sensor to create shimmering, dream-like videos with their RGBDToolkit.

(via DSLR and Kinect combine to produce dream-like visuals | The Verge)

To show off its collection of eyewear for kids, Very French Gangsters shot cute mugshot-style portraits of gangster children who were obviously booked for being too hip for their own good.

Yeah, some mixed feelings here?

(via Adorable Mugshot Portraits of Children)

Aerial photographer Stephan Zirwes shoots amazing images of patterns and repetitionseen in landscapes while looking straight down from a helicopter. From his perspective, things like cars, shipping containers, and people blend together into abstract designs.

(via Beautiful Photographs of Patterns Seen from a Helicopter)

You might only notice your local sanitation workers if your trash doesn’t get hauled away on time. But a photography project by garbage collectors in Hamburg, Germany will have you seeing the people who empty your dumpster every week in a different light.

The aptly named Trashcam Project started in March after a group of workers-cum-amateur photographers teamed up with a local creative agency and got some pointers from a professional. Now they’re documenting the city they help keep clean by turning dumpsters into gigantic pinhole cameras.

 Dumpster Pinhole Cameras Capture a City’s Hidden Side - Design - GOOD

Mentioned also on Every Day Trash.

Photos of different vegatable moulds (beet, potato, swede, pumkin, corn)

(via AFTERLIFE on the Behance Network)

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new-aesthetic:

“Scotland Yard is launching a free “wanted” app called Facewatch ID, which will allow people to see CCTV images of suspects in their area by inputting their postcode on their smartphone or iPad.”

Facewatch ID (web app) via 2,000 suspects just a click from arrest on Scotland Yard’s new ‘wanted’ iPad app - Technology - News - Evening Standard)

unconsumption:

Nobody likes to see good food go bad. But Klaus Pichler’s photography series One Third, which portrays food in advanced stages of decay, is a feast for the eyes — even if it turns the stomach.

The project was inspired by the fact that much of the world’s food goes to waste — one-third, according to a 2011 United Nations estimate.

To highlight the overlooked value in everyday foods, Pichler approached his project as if it was an advertising photo shoot for a high-end brand. He started with common items from the supermarket, like cheese, strawberries and cauliflower.

After letting each food fester for a few weeks, he arranged it in his studio for a luxurious portrait.

This particular image doesn’t strike me as “revolting” (in fact, it’s sort of appealing), but this project does make a memorable point about waste…

(via Revealing The Revolting Beauty Of Food Waste : The Salt : NPR)