Biggest. Dragonfly. Ever., originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Murmur by Richard Barnes
The series Murmur, by photographer Richard Barnes, explores the collective animal behavior of birds. They all flock together, turn and seem to make singular decisions as a collective – yet there is no leader. His photographs explore the tnesion between the individual and the collective group.
Segways All Over DC
Segways All Over DC, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Panoramio
Has anyone noticed the integration of geo-tagged images when doing a Google Map search? I just did and it turns out that Panoramio is what’s powering it. Go play with it.
Another Great Spring Morning
Another Great Spring Morning, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Spring
Spring, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Photoshop Express (Px)
A lot is being written about this today so I’ll just offer two thoughts…
OK so clearly Adobe can pull off a fantastic RIA with tons of functionality – but not tons more than some competitors like Picnik. And what’s with the limited online-photo-sharing-site integration? Px currently offers integration with Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa… What about me, I use Flickr? (maybe I’ve chosen to align myself with a child of a corporate-parent competitor and I’m being punished)
The logical next thought regarding this lightly-featured (lightly by desktop application standards) RIA is: Why would I use this if its so easy to obtain the real Photoshop? Especially if I’m a Flickr user (as I’d be using Picnik)? I believe the answer is : “start kissing easy access to cracked or educational versions of Adobe products goodbye”. Seriously. This is the first step to further siloing power and casual users. Once casual users gets hooked on Px they have no choice but to purchase the new, future, very difficult to crack, very expensive, Adobe Creative Suite. They already do this to some extent with their Photoshop Elements offering – but the problem is that if people are going to go through the trouble of installing an applicaiton, they’ll jsut install the real thing. Bringing the lite version of their software online allows Adobe to further segemnt/partition/silo their user-base.
Illegal/edjucational software useage crackdown to follow in a big way.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
(via Mindfully.org)
At Taco Bell on Main Street in Ventura, Calif., you can take out the chalupa of your choice—Baja, Nacho Cheese, or Supreme, with ground beef, chicken, or steak. But it will always come in a small plastic shopping bag. The bags arrive preprinted from a factory in Asia—usually. One brilliant summer morning in 2000, the small private research vessel Alguita discovered a 10-mile-wide flotilla of the disposable sacks, an estimated 6 million of them destined for Taco Bells around the country, bobbing more than 1,000 miles west of the Ventura store. “We were out in the middle of the Pacific, where you would think the ocean would be pristine,†recalls the Alguita’s captain, Charles Moore. “And instead, we get the Exxon Valdez of plastic-bag spills.â€
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1990 Running shoes spill
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2002 Garbage strip
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2000 Plastic bag spill
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Shoes found
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Eastern Garbage Patch
At the eye of the gyre, plastic reaches concentrations of a million pieces per square mile.
Researchers have mapped a giant spill of bags and a mile-long strip of wind-driven garbage. -
Caught in a gyre
Some of the plastic drifting in the North Pacific is swept to shore, like the thousands of Nike shoes that washed up in the Pacific Northwest. But much is trapped by calm winds and sluggish water within the North Pacific’s loop of currents.
Source of Inspiration
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