Alway read about this but this is the first time I actually see it.
(via the guardian)

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Parisian artist Nacho Ormaechea’s digital collages are beautiful views on our inner worlds.
[via beautiful decay]
 

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Fake Holidays is a photography project by Reiner Riedler:
“When wishes are out of reach, simulation is taking over our leisure time and our holidays. Imaginary worlds are created, often under massive technological exertion, in order to offer us experience as reproducible merchandise. Although the quality of these adventures on demand sometimes proves to be rather dubious, the boom does shed light on one thing: the yearnings and dreams underlying people’s daily lives.”

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The Sad and Useless blog has a hilarious collection of ridiculously cliched images of computer hackers in stock photos.
(via Dangerous Minds)

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Twisted, an incredible series of photographs by Nicholas Kennedy Sitton…
(via but does it float)

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Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing a software system that lets users easily insert objects into photographs, complete with convincing lighting and perspective:
We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable ...

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The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, designed by Jonas Pfeil as part of his thesis project at the Technical University of Berlin, creates spherical panoramas after being thrown into the air:
Our camera uses 36 fixed-focus 2 megapixel mobile phone camera modules. The camera modules are mounted in a robust, 3D-printed, ball-shaped enclosure that is padded with foam and handles just like a ball. Our camera contains an accelerometer which we use to measure launch acceleration. Integration ...

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Gorgeous 3D rotoscoping into archival photos from the documentary Motalko about the first Hungarian petrol station…
(via likecool)

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23 September – 23 October 2011 FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (X edizione) – Motherland Opening: 22 september 2011, 8.00 p.m. MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, Rome, Italy tuesday-sunday 16.00-24.00 tickets: full price € 5,00; reduction € 3,00 tel: 060608 (everyday 9.00-21.00) www.fotografiafestival.it

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Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Demographic Development Sweden 1970-2050
As you may know, since 2010 I’m in charge of the “Photography and New Media” section of FotoGrafia. Rome International Photography Festival, this year at its tenth edition. The show opens at Macro Testaccio, in Rome, on the 22th of September… come and take a look of you’re around!
 
23 September – 23 October 2011 FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma (X edizione) – Motherland Opening: 22 september 2011, 8.00 p.m. MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio ...

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(via How to be a Retronaut)

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