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This week, watch the birdie. Why waste time fiddling about with shutter speeds and white balance when you can get someone to do your photography assignment for you? That’s what the guy behind CameraMail thought. It’s a genius project where a disposable camera was slung in a letter box with a very clear message: every postal worker who handled the camera must take a picture before passing it on. The camera travelled from Baltimore to Portland, slowly filling up with photos along the way. The results aren’t astounding, but the fact that so many postal workers were game is. There’s even a DIY guide with tips on how to create your own CameraMail project.Even lazier is UNphotographable – a photo blog with a difference, in that it doesn’t feature any pictures. Instead there are detailed descriptions of scenes that the photographer would have recorded if he’d had his camera on him at the time. If you’re the sort of vain person who pays big bucks to have pictures of your face blown up and plastered all over your home, then you can save some serious cash with the Rasterbator. More than just a rude-sounding word, it’s a brilliant online application that lets you upload an image of your choice, then print it out in enlarged segments. You could cover your wall with a giant poster of your loved ones, or print the sky on your bedroom ceiling. How about wallpapering a street with pictures of a meadow? And the best thing is that the crapper your printer, the funkier the end results. Finally, The Visual Dictionary features thousands of photos that represent words in the English language. The only thing that’s missing is a way to search them – and if a picture really is worth a thousand words, that’s a hell of a dictionary to wade through.
Jody Smith
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 useful linkscreate your cameramail www.unphotographable.com homokaasu: rasterbator thevisualdictionary.net
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