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More photos from our 2012 trip to Africa are available on flickr.

Some photos from a trip to the Wisentgehege near Hanover. More photos on flickr.

This video is definitely a must-see. For ‘The Lion City’, the idea behind the extension of the tilt shift technique is for focus and distance to be something the viewer can experience. From the shoot info: […] the film is hard hitting, and full of effects… more so than if I were releasing a story […]

A collection of photos of our trip to Tokyo, Japan three weeks ago. See the whole set on flickr.

While reading thinking about how photography started, pinhole cameras came to my mind and I thought how easy it would be to make one using a DSLR and some cardboard from a shipping box. Exhibit A: After a few shots I started wondering why we pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for lenses, cameras or […]

Recently I’ve started shooting with a DSLR (Canon EOS 60D). This post is a random collection of links I’ve found interesting and that got me started. I might update this list in the future. General Information LensRentals.com Blog Technical Discussions — fantastic in-depth photography info Canon Professional Network — Technical Canon Digital Learning Center Canon […]

Fantastic video of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) created by Rob Whitworth from over 10000 RAW images. Watch in fullscreen with your speakers on!

60 one second video clips in one beautiful compilation.

Son Doong Cave, Vietnam Tianmen “Heaven Gate” Mountain, China Wulong Chongqing, China

ePic is a simple slideshow application for Mac that lets you view your photos like you did ten years ago: physical photos laying on a table. The app has familiar Mac-media-app-like control elements and displays events from your iPhoto library, a directory or flickr tags. Scrolling with your mouse or trackpad changes the viewing angle […]

An interesting article by Businessweek about Foxconn’s founder Terry Gou. Foxconn is a Chinese company with more than 800,000 employees that produces hardware for Apple, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Sony, HP and others. The one page version of this article.

The architecture and design firm Choi+Shine proposed human-shaped pylons for electricity cables: The enormous figures would only require slight alterations to existing pylon designs, says the firm, which was awarded an honorable mention for its design by the competition’s judging board. — Wired Read more on Wired

The Two Leg Table is a very creative approach to hold a tabletop.

Some photos from our second Honeymoon in New York City, San Francisco and the beautiful Hawaiian islands Oahu, Big Island and Maui.

Pictures (and an article in Russian) of a huge ground effect plane. The ground effect and similar planes on Google image search. (via Boing Boing)

It was nice and quiet in Iceland back in 2007. Now — in addition to water spewing geysers (picture) — the volcano Eyjafjallajökull is shooting large amounts of ash, smoke and steam into the atmosphere forcing many European airports to cancel flights. It first erupted in March and boston.com has several stunning photos of the […]

Go directly to the web app: http://gpscoords.cinnamonthoughts.org/ Do what your iPhone’s Maps and Compass apps can’t and copy your current coordinates to your device’s clipboard and use them anywhere. Your device will use GPS, wireless LAN and cell towers to get the most accurate coordinates, just as Maps and Compass on the iPhone do. After […]

Sir Patrick Stewart talking euphoric about the internet, Twitter, iPhone and games. This man is awesome.