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Have you ever searched for a new home and despaired at the uninspiring photos you found on property websites? It can be enough to put you off house shopping. We all need a bit of help imagining what a space could be, rather than than what we see on first glance. Enter Fantastic Frank.

Fantastic Frank is a Swedish estate agency. This is how they approach selling the homes on their books.

We are changing the world of real estate brokerage by taking a novel approach to the game. Besides recruiting the most competent and ambitious real estate agents we can find in Stockholm – our skilled marketing team beat the competition by having a 50% higher viewing rate* of the properties than other brokers in Stockholm. One key to this is that our photographers and interior stylists treat each and every home like a sleeping beauty…

We hire photographers and stylists from the high-gloss industries, like interior design, fashion and architecture, to make every home look stylish and inviting. The result are photographs that don’t seem out of place in the pages of the best interior design magazines – as a matter of fact our images finds its way there pretty much all the time.

Our philosophy is based on a simple axiom: we’re not interested in creating something that the majority of buyers are going to like. We’re interested in creating something that at least one person is going to positively LOVE because at the end of the day, a house or apartment can only have one owner. Our job therefore, is to find that one person and seduce them!

What a novel idea. Business opportunity, anyone?

Information via Fantastic Frank’s website and images via their blog.

This week marks the launch of Lunchbox, an online photography school offering “bite-sized photography lessons” through a variety of courses. Each course is made up of a number of short video lessons along with assignments and feedback. If you’ve ever wanted to learn about photography basics, wedding photography or iPhoneography in your spare time, here’s your chance.

This is the website’s landing page intro:

The lady behind Lunchbox is highly successful local wedding photographer, Christine Meintjes.

Courses

So far, Lunchbox has six courses, with more on the way.

• The Wedding Day
• Understanding ISO
• Camera 101
• The Exposure Triangle
• Understanding Shutter Speed
• Starting with iPhoneography

Cost

For more info, visit the website here.

The product development team at Oakley may well be Iron Man fans. Why? Because they produced the Oakley Airwave Snow Goggle.

This pair of goggles could’ve been a Tony Stark invention. They don’t pack firepower, but they’re essentially what could be called “smart goggles”, complete with GPS, preloaded ski resort maps and a view of incoming calls and messages. They’ll even serenade you with your favourite playlist (via a compatible smartphone) and monitor your skiing performance with jump analytics. Here’s a perspective-giving quote from a post on the Oakley website:

Patrick Mallory of Freshness Magazine wrote, “You may not be cruising at 20,000 feet with rockets attached to your wings, but Oakley’s Airwave Goggles are the first step to giving you the futuristic heads-up display enjoyed by fighter pilot’s and Halo’s Master Chief.”

This is how Oakley describes the Airwave:

Welcome to innovation beyond the limits of possibility. Oakley Airwave™ goggles combine world-class performance, protection and comfort with a display that integrates GPS, Bluetooth® and more with a host of onboard sensors to give you instant access to a world of information.

The revolutionary design allows you to view jump analytics that show distance, height and airtime. With preloaded maps available for many resorts, you can find your location and even track others in your group. Additional sensor information includes altitude, speed and vertical descent data. Bluetooth connectivity allows pairing with a compatible smartphone for immediate viewing of incoming calls and text messages, and if your Bluetooth-enabled smartphone has music, your playlists can be accessed and controlled.

The first time you use Airwave will be an eye-opening experience that will leave you in awe, and innovative prism technology makes it possible. When you are active on the mountain, you will have clear and open vision without obstruction or distraction. When it is time to stop and review your performance or get vital information, you simply move your eye toward the miniature prism lens. The displayed information will appear as though you are looking at a 14-inch display from a distance of five feet, so refocusing your eye is not necessary.

Check out the promo video to see it in action.

For more info, visit Oakley.

Haha, this is one of the best tee’s I’ve seen in a long time, check it out:

They’re $24 a go from Kneadle.