This amazing timelapse has a bit of a story behind it – Kien Lam quit his job, packed a bag, grabbed his camera and bought a one way ticket to London. He travelled 17 countries taking photographs to put this lapse together, which covers some of the most amazing places he visited.
Take a watch:
Absolutely incredible, good one Kien!
This information has gone viral and I saw these photographs the other day and have only had a chance now to publish them. Because they’re so deep and moving I felt I would publish them for anyone who hasn’t seen them – they’re timeless after all.
Take a look:
Quite an incredible year we’ve had!
There are another 32 on this website.
I love creative ideas that aren’t overly complex but just hold so much potential and that’s exactly what I saw when I came across StickyGram.
StickyGram is a new online service that turns your Instagram photographs into fridge magnets – how brilliant is that? All you do is create your pack online and they’ll send you your magnets, best part, they’ll deliver anywhere in the world.
It’s $14.99 for a pack of 9 magnets and the shipping is free :)
Click here to get started.
What a fantastic weekend! I’ve had some really awesome social events over the past couple months, but this weekend was just the icing on top of the cake! Saturday morning was #braaiday, tons of meat, some good friends and the rugby – it was such a blast – drinking at 10am is odd. After the braai, we chilled for a while and then headed through to Lucky Yacht for sushi buffet, then frozen Jagger Bombs at Home Bar in Harfield Village and finally Tiger Tiger (yes, I went, sigh) for some dancing and good times.
This was honestly one of the best weekend’s I’ve had in a really long time and to have shared it with some of my best mates was just awesome. So, I took some photographs along the way and here they are:
Just an hour ago, Instagram announced the launch of version 2 of their application, this being the largest update since it launched last year.
This update sees huge changes with the actual camera and these changes introduce a lot of lovely new features:
How many corporate diaries have you been given during your working career? Do you still use a physical diary or do you prefer a computer-based calendar? If you’re a fan of the “old school” diary and your place of work does the annual diary hand-out to clients and staff, you may want to stop by the Calendar and Diary Corporation website.
Their 2012 calendars, diaries and desktop planners offer some great wildlife and eco designs, a refreshing change from the standard black/navy/bottle green/maroon diary covers, etc. Continue reading →
I know there are a huge number of iPhone users who live on Instgram. I’ve seen some incredible photographs that have been enhanced by Instgram to really look like little treasures. I came across an awesome application called Simply B&W, which in a sentence is an easy and simple way to turn your great color shots into exciting black and white photo
The application has some good features, such as 6 different coloured lens filters, brightness and contrast filters, border options, simulated film grain, vignetting and a few other more technical ones.
The applications received a lot of praise from users around the world and for only $0.99, it’s hardly a big spend to try something new out.
I know there are a number of Black & White photography apps available on the iTunes store, so if you know of one that’s better, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.
Facebook have just rolled out new privacy settings which make it much easier to share posts, tags and photos and links with exactly who you want. Facebook have simplified the privacy features and made them more straightforward by placing them inline with the content you want to share, as opposed to being on your settings page.
Facebook has also given users more control over their homepage, allowing them to choose how photos and posts get added, along with who is allowed to see them. Instead of your controls being on a distant settings page,all your controls are inline on all the categories on your profile, allowing you to choose who gets to see what.
Another useful tool that Facebook has added is Profile Tag Review, which is a new tool that can be used to accept or reject any photo or post that you’re tagged in before it’s visible to anyone else on your profile. Previously, photos and updates that were tagged would appear right away on your profile and your friends’ news feed.
There is a similar tool called Content Tag Review, which gives you the option to approve or reject any tag that someone tries to add to any photos or posts.
Keen to see how your profile looks to certain groups or lists of friends? Simple. Click on the ‘View Profile As…’ button on the top right of your profile and see how your selected friend sees your profile.
Now you can also change your mind after you post. For instance, if you’ve posted an update that you’d rather only specific people see, change it with the inline control anytime.
You can also tag anyone on Facebook in your updates and photos, instead of being friends with them. This is a great idea if you’re tagging a photograph of work mates and you’re not friends with all of them. If you’re ever tagged by someone that isn’t your friend, you’ll have the chance to reviewand approve the tag before it appears on your profile.
To much of my amusement, Facebook is phasing out their Places feature, which I’d written about in a previous blog post, and I’d mentioned that it really wasn’t a match for Foursquare. Turns out I was right, Places simply couldn’t compete. However, Facebook still allows you to add locations to your updates. It’s optional, so you can choose whether you’d like to share your location or not.
The privacy settings page has also become more streamlined and simplified, letting you control your default privacy settings.
National Geographic is an awesome magazine, well-respected for its excellent journalism and superb photography documenting environmental and socio-economic issues around the globe.
While browsing the Nat Geo website, I found these photos of South Africa.
Photographs over the fold. Continue reading →
Do you remember when Facebook launched the new profile and it was possible to upload photographs in a sequence to create one big photograph out of the several small ones? I’m sure you remember, but if not, Schwepps created an application to assist you in doing it and this article will show you what I’m talking about.
Back to the point at hand, not only can you create a clever collage of photographs on your profile page, you can do the same with an album and someone’s done this and it’s created huge buzz around the Internet.
Take a look:
Pretty awesome ey?
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