I squealed like a girl in pigtails watching Hannah Montana in 3D when I learned Derek Powazek’s newest creation, Pixish, has launched in beta. I’ve been wondering since last summer what the site would be . . .
Here’s the short version: Pixish is a new site where you can create image contests.
But the short version doesn’t give the new site nearly enough credit for how cool the idea is, you should definitely read the long version.
The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs of this year’s primaries, caucuses and general election. By documenting local voting experiences, participants can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America.
You gotta love a guy who makes his own holiday cards year after year. Thomas Hoehn, over at Kodak’s A Thousand Words blog, does exactly that – and it never ceases to inspire us just how awesome his cards get. (Last year he made stained glass look-a-likes as cards!)
This year’s card is all about pull-tabs and other interactive fun, with some of Thomas’s awesome photos from the past year to boot. Pulling a tab on the finished card reveals a great hidden message – well, instead of us telling you about it, head on over and watch the video to see for yourself!
It’s like a whole bucket of festive yuletide, delivered right to your mailbox. Woo hoo! (Thomas, if you want our address to mail one of these…)
If there’s one thing we like almost, almost, almost as much as photography – it’s coffee!
Our pal Doug just pointed us to the DIY Coffee Can Ring Flash, over at the Strobist blog. It miraculously combines our two favorite things, and makes it ridiculously easy to start putting our SLR camera’s pop-up flash to better use!
No more “deer in the headlights” look with our flash photography – no sir. We have our coffee can to thank for that!
(p.s. If you come up with a way to adapt this to use with a point-and-shoot camera, get in touch, would you?)
We’ve always really loved scrapbookers, even if we personally haven’t a single clue about scrapbooking.
Luckily, others do, and they usually share neat ideas with us – stuff that we might just be catching up on but they’ve known about for ages. Case in point:
Apparently we put a loyal fan, Susan White (whose blog, Scrappin’ without Scraps, is a veritable treasure trove of Scrapbooking Awesomeness, btw), into stitches with our recent newsletter about the Circle Cutter – seems circle-izing photos is something scrapbookers have been doing for ages!
Alright, so we might be a little behind the times. But we want to thank Susan for helping us get up to speed (and giving us a fresh dose of inspiration, with her scrapbooking blog!)
And, we wanna say, if there’s any other scrapbookers out there who want to fill us in on other cool photo-y/scrapbook-y things, then let us know!
Seems like everybody is, these days. Luckily, we’ve found two websites to help. While they won’t exactly save you time (quite the opposite), they might help you keep track of it – in a pretty unique way, too.
The World Clock Project bills itself as a community-powered timepiece, and we can see how that’d be true. They’re collecting photographs of clocks big-and-small from around the world, and hope to have a clock photograph showing the exact time for each minute of the day. We’re particularly lovin’ the global aspect of it – seeing the different clocks from all around the world is a bit of a cultural experience in and of itself.
The Human Clock, meanwhile, takes the same idea – but in place of the clocks uses photographs of humans, all of whom are holding up some recognition of the time (usually scribbled in permanent marker on some cardboard or something basic like that.) With a photo for every 1,440 minute of the day, The Human Clock takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’ – and it’s fun to watch, to boot. (There’s also the Human Calendar, fyi.)
So there you have it – the next time you reach for your watch to check the time, make a detour and check out these two fun photo websites. You’ll get the down-low on the current time-of-day, and you might just get a smile staring back at you, too.
Here at Photojojo, we don’t just snap photographs all day and think of awesome things to do with them. Sometimes, we get distracted by irresistibly wonderful and genius commercials on YouTube.
Take this one, for instance – an ad from Sony for its Bravia TV. Featuring 200 plasticine bunnies hopping around Manhattan (shot in claymation style), what’s not to love?
Apparently it took a team of 40 animators – from the ad agency Fallon London – three weeks to choreograph their bunny models and shoot over 100,000 still images for the 90 second spot. We’d just like to say that that’s some diligent photography (and a whole lot of clay) right there, folks.
The argument against giftcards in my house is they are too impersonal. But with Cardways we don’t need to worry about that anymore. Customize your giftcard with your favorite picture and you’re ready to go. The whole thing takes a few minutes and you can have your gift card sent, along with a greeting card, directly to your giftee’s mailbox.
Thanks to reader Todd McClamroch who sent this our way. Todd recently put together a photo promotion for Cardways.
I loved Raul’s photo booth time capsule. Do you know how to find out where photo booths are located in the U.S.?
Thanks,
Joy
Good question, Joy! It just so happens a friend of ours, Brian Meacham, is something of an expert on the subject. Check out his Worldwide photobooth locator (and contribute your own) and his photobooth blog at Photobooth.net!
For Mother’s Day I plan on transforming my mom’s computer from the most expensive solitaire game I’ve ever seen into OurFamily Channel by installing Tubes for her.
Tubes beta is free, but the software is Windows only right now (unless you run Parallels on your Mac). You get 2 GB of disk space and can invite as many people as you’d like to share your tubes. Invite the entire family and then everyone can share their photos by dropping pictures on the Tube.
The best part is I can fix the pictures on my end and everyone else’s pictures are fixed too!
If you use a Mac, you probably know and love iPhoto, but if you’re on a PC, we hope you’ve discovered Picasa, the free and easy-to-use iPhoto competitor from Google. This slick program lets you manage and download photos, view slideshows, burn images to CD, basically do everything you’d want to do with your photos on your computer… except share them on the web.
The wizards at Google haven’t stood still, we recently found out (via Michelle Jones) that they’ve been working on an easy way for you to share your Picasa photos for free via the web. Their efforts are almost ready for primetime, and they’ve coded up some pretty cool features for their free online photo sharing site:
The photos are Big — Check out this example and click on the “slideshow” link to marvel at how big it can get.
It’s easy to flip through an album using your left and right arrow keys. Images are cached so the experience is extra-smooth. — Try it here.
You can download a friend’s entire album into your copy of Picasa with just a click
It’s free for the first 250MB of storage, $25/yr for 6GB more room.
We’ve always really loved scrapbookers, even if we personally haven’t a single clue about scrapbooking.
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