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VICE 2010 Los Angeles Photo Show

by Eugene Kan, August 11, 2010

The platform for some of media’s most provacative editorials and photos, VICE Magazine takes their show to Los Angeles with their 2010 photos how. 20 different photographers will be showcasing their work with curation from Jonnie Craig. The VICE 2010 Los Angeles Photo Show will open on August 14th, between 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm at the Scion Space in Culver City. The show will run until September 4th.

Vice 2010 LA Photo Show
Scion Space, 3521 Helms Ave.
Culver City, CA
United States

I am a big fan of the Eye-Fi card, and have had my 2GB SD version (i.e. photos, no video) for two and a half years. However, I rarely if ever used the old Eye-Fi Manager software, and over the last few months I’ve been without Eye-Fi wireless transfers altogether thanks to a PC migration, and general laziness on my part. Then last week I got a notice from the company that they’re discontinuing the old Eye-Fi Manager, and replacing it with new Eye-Fi Center software. The shift finally prompted me to set up Eye-Fi on the new computer and give the updated management portal a try.

The Eye-Fi Center has a clean, simple interface showing thumbnails of recently uploaded photos at the top, a list of connected devices along with a calendar to the left, a photo tray for sharing pics at the bottom, and a big preview screen taking up most of the display. There’s also a settings menu available with tabs for network selection, photo storage options, notifications, geotagging, and photo transfer preferences.

Stuff I Like:

The online photo sharing options are fabulous, particularly with the Selective Share feature, and easy to use with the Eye-Fi Center. The software supports a huge range of photo services including the basics like Facebook and Flickr, but also store-based services like Costco and Ritzpix, and blogging services like Movable Type and TypePad. (No WordPress, oddly) I was able to upload a test photo to my Snapfish account in seconds flat, and if I want, I can make Snapfish uploads automatic whenever I wirelessly sync my Eye-Fi card.

I also like the preview pane in the Eye-Fi Center, and the ability open a larger view of any photo in a floating window. More importantly, I like the fact that the Eye-Fi Center doesn’t disguise where my photos are actually stored the way the old Flip Video software used to. I can use the Center interface to view photos if I want to, but it’s not required.

Quibbles:

There are a few annoying bits about the new software. For example, the settings window isn’t optimized for my small-screen netbook, making it difficult to access the Save and Cancel buttons at the bottom of the display. But I discovered it is possible to drag the pop-up menu up just high enough to click on those buttons when needed. I also don’t like that there’s no status bar when I’m uploading photos from my Eye-Fi card. It might be less irritating if the card uploaded pics in chronological order, but it doesn’t. So I can see pics coming in, but have no idea how many are left to upload at any given time.

Dave found the interface a bit sluggish on OS X. It moved pretty quickly for me on Windows once all the uploads were complete, but there was lag time during photo transfer.

Bottom Line:

The Eye-Fi Center has potential. The sharing function is easily its best feature today, but you can see how new capabilities might be added in the future. (In fact, there’s a beta mobile version of the Center available, which I’m planning to check out next.) I also give Eye-Fi high marks for not locking users in with its management software. I plan to continue using the Center going forward, but if it’s not your cup of tea, feel free to stick with files-and-folders management, or anything else. Eye-Fi lets you choose.

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Facebook Ad Revenue Grows, More Acquisitions Coming - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg revealed this past week that the company’s largest advertisers increased their spending with the site 10 times over in the past year. She also shared that some advertisers have increased spending by 20 times. As ad revenue increases, the company is set to purchase other companies to recruit talent and improve its ad system, according to Director of Corporate Development Vaughan Smith.

Like Button on 350,000 Sites, Growing on Shopping Sites – The Like button has been installed on 350,000 websites as of July, most of them news, sports and publishing. Recently, shopping sites have also begun to implement the Like button, so far increasing the number of visits from Facebook users.

New Ad Format – Facebook has updated the way some ads appear to users. While ads already feature friends who Liked the ad, new ads now feature friends’ reviews (anywhere from 1 to 5 stars) and a quote/review from them. [Image via].

Facebook Debuts New Album Layout – Facebook has changed the way photo albums appear on the site. More photos, if not all, from an album are not viewable by clicking on an album, as opposed to having to click to see the next page of photos like before.

Facebook’s Osofsky Talks Media – Facebook’s Justin Osofsky, who heads up the company’s media partnership team, gave an interesting interview to PBS this week. He discussed Facebook’s new Media Page, as well as other ways media companies are using the social network.

Bet on Facebook IPO Date – A betting site called Bodog is now taking wagers on when Facebook will reach 1 billion users and when it will go public.  odog, however, places the odds of Facebook hitting a billion users prior to January 1, 2010 at 4/6 and the company’s IPO before then at 11/10.

Facebook Testing Like Box – Facebook is testing a new box on user profiles displaying which Pages the user Likes. This box will apparently appear on the profile’s side bar. [Image via]

Questions Tested by Easter Eggs – An interesting experiment on Facebook’s new in-house Questions app came from Sean Percival this week. See a YouTube video of the experiment at the link.

Facebook Knows Your Ethnicity – Facebook has figured out, with remarkable accuracy, what your ethnicity is based on the data you share on the site. A Facebook Data team recently won a team award for best paper at a conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C. Using U.S. Census data and users’ names, Facebook researchers can identify a users’ most likely ethnicity. One example is, if your last name is Mueller, they’ve determined there’s a 97% chance you’re white; if your surname is Washington, there’s an 89.9% chance you’re black.

CA Agency Wants Rules for Candidates on Facebook - California’s Fair Political Practices Commission recommended that political candidates on Facebook stick to the same rules governing mailers, fliers and other advertisements this week. The recommendations don’t equate to laws, but state agencies will consider the rules later this month.

Vonage Releases Facebook App – Vonage released a mobile app for Facebook this week allowing Facebook users to make free mobile calls to Facebook friends who also have the app all over the world.

Facebook Best Company to Work For – Facebook was named the best tech company to work for according to employee reviews at Glassdoor.

The GI Bill that was available to the men returning home from WWII is credited to being the single largest factor toward the unparalleled growth of the middle class post WWII. If I'm not mistaken, that was a government program.

The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) employed 100,000s of men during the Great Depression. The men (and women) who served remembered it very fondly as being one of the best experiences of their lives. Each day the woke to “revele” and had other military-like requirements, thus preparing these young people for serving in WWII. This was also a Gov't program.

Michelle and Sasha are having a grand old time in Spain and they are enjoying every minute of it. The Obama girls were spotted at the beach yesterday and now they are back hitting the streets of Spain.

On today's agenda the First lady, Michelle Obama, walks at the Palace of the Moorish King with her daughter Sasha to the historic center of the southern Spanish town of Ronda.The Alhambra's Moorish palaces were built for the last Muslim Emirs in Spain and its court, of the Nasrid dynasty. After the Reconquista by the Reyes Católicos (“Catholic Monarchs”) in 1492, some portions were used by the Christian rulers.

This trip is nothing but fun learning, with an occasional beach outing. Take a look as the Michelle Obama and Sasha take in the experience.

Two weeks ago we published a showcase of beautiful pinhole photography, and this weekend again we’ve got something unusual and creative to lift up your spirits and challenge your creativity. Illusions can be eye-catching and attractive and when you apply them to computer displays, the results can be quite interesting and deceptive.

Take transparent screen trick photos, for example. The idea is simple: you take a photo of your surroundings and set this photo as your desktop wallpaper. Once the display is positioned precisely, the transparent screen trick is achieved. Simple, but what can you do with this simple idea?

Below we present a short selection of some original transparent screen trick photos. The environments presented in these photos appear to have a completely transparent screen which creates an optical illusion. We also feature step-by-step-tutorials in the end of this post: and here you go — now you have something fun to do over the weekend!

[By the way: The network tab (on the top of the page) is updated several times a day. It features selected articles from the best web design blogs!]

Transparent Screen Trick Photos

Strobist Lighting

6/365 Clear Screen

Untitled

Peon.master

First Attempt

I WIN!!!! alternative 10/365

Transparent screen 3

Transparent screen.

Experiments

Transparent Screen 6

Transparent Screen 1

Transparent Screen Experiment

Transparent Screen 5

My Transparent Screen!

Transparent screen 3

Transparent Screen

transparent screen

Transparent Screen

Transparent Screen – Tristan

transparent screen

Beethoven

Transparent screen

Transparent iBook

My transparent screen

Transparent Laptop Screen

TS-pc2

Transparent Screen First Try

Transparent Tablet

See-thru laptops!

Caffè a computer

Grayscale

Transparent Screen

iPod touch

Transparent Screen 2

Added a laptop

Transparent Screen Laptop

Transparent laptop

Standing on Chair

Transparent screen

Keithconroy

Play Desktop With Me?

My transparent macbook

Peon.master

Transparent Screen Tutorials and Resources

Just for Fun – Transparent Laptop Tutorial
This project involves taking three different pictures. The first two will be taken at the same time, and the last will be taken after some editing. It is very important that you do not move your computer or tripod during the whole process.

Transparent TFT Screen Tutorial
Learn how to create a transparent looking tft screen by combine smart photographing with some easy photoshop tricks. You will need a camera tripod and of course a digital camera to do this.

Transparent Screens Flickr Group
A huge and growing gallery of photos with the transparent screen trick effect.

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Tristan Breeuwer, photographe montréalais, présente sa première exposition de photographie en solo intitulée « Places and Spaces ». L’exposition présente différents espaces et lieux, qu’il s’agisse d’architecture montréalaise ou de paysages urbains passés inaperçus ou oubliés, et tente de les dévoiler sous une « nouvelle lumière ». Certaines des images sont plus représentatives de la façon dont un espace est imaginé ou remémoré plutôt que de la façon dont il est réellement vu, alors que d’autres sont simplement marquées par la lumière unique et insolite qui tombe sur la scène. Dans les deux cas, la lumière joue un rôle crucial dans chaque photographie. « Comme la lumière est l’élément fondamental de la photographie, le défi que je veux relever, c’est de donner à la lumière une ‘présence’ dans la photo. La plupart des images de l’exposition ont réussi à capturer cette ‘présence’, ce qui fait de la lumière-même leur sujet principal … »

Tristan possède une vaste expérience dans la réalisation de films, ayant étudié la production cinématographique et travaillé comme directeur de la photographie pour de nombreuses productions indépendantes. Dans son travail en photographie, un support plus ‘immobile’, il a voulu capturer en une seule photo l’ambiance, les personnages, ou le récit qu’un film peut offrir – mais non par des récits mis en scène, ni par des représentations métaphoriques trop pensées. Grâce à la découverte et au développement de son propre style, Tristan a réussi à créer, dans ses photographies souvent sombres et mystérieuses, parfois vives et joyeuses, de petits mondes en soi…

Places and Spaces – A photography exhibition by Tristan Breeuwer

Fellow Montreal photographer Tristan Breeuwer presents his first solo photography exhibition “Places and Spaces”. The show presents various spaces and places, whether iconic Montreal architecture or unnoticed or forgotten urban landscapes, and attempts to present them in a “new light”. Some of the images are more representative of how a space is imagined or remembered, rather than how it is actually seen, while others are simply marked by the unique and unusual light falling on the scene. In either case, light plays a crucial role in each photograph. “Since light is the fundamental element in photography, the challenge I enjoy is to give light “presence” within a photograph. Most of the images in the show have succeeded in capturing this “presence”, making light itself their main subject…”

Tristan has a strong background in film making, having studied film production and working as director of photography on numerous independent film productions. Merging into still photography, he wanted to attempt to capture in one photograph, the mood, the characters, or the narrative that a film can offer. Yet not through typical staged narratives, nor through over-thought metaphorical representations. Eventually, through discovering and developing his own direction, he has found that his photographs, usually dark and mysterious, sometimes bright and joyful, often represent little worlds of their own…

the show runs until the end of August
opening night and vernissage : Thursday August 5th 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm

galerie + boutique Headquarters
1649 rue Amherst Montreal, QC

Tristan Breeuwer, photographe montréalais, présente sa première exposition de photographie en solo intitulée « Places and Spaces ». L’exposition présente différents espaces et lieux, qu’il s’agisse d’architecture montréalaise ou de paysages urbains passés inaperçus ou oubliés, et tente de les dévoiler sous une « nouvelle lumière ». Certaines des images sont plus représentatives de la façon dont un espace est imaginé ou remémoré plutôt que de la façon dont il est réellement vu, alors que d’autres sont simplement marquées par la lumière unique et insolite qui tombe sur la scène. Dans les deux cas, la lumière joue un rôle crucial dans chaque photographie. « Comme la lumière est l’élément fondamental de la photographie, le défi que je veux relever, c’est de donner à la lumière une ‘présence’ dans la photo. La plupart des images de l’exposition ont réussi à capturer cette ‘présence’, ce qui fait de la lumière-même leur sujet principal … »

Tristan possède une vaste expérience dans la réalisation de films, ayant étudié la production cinématographique et travaillé comme directeur de la photographie pour de nombreuses productions indépendantes. Dans son travail en photographie, un support plus ‘immobile’, il a voulu capturer en une seule photo l’ambiance, les personnages, ou le récit qu’un film peut offrir – mais non par des récits mis en scène, ni par des représentations métaphoriques trop pensées. Grâce à la découverte et au développement de son propre style, Tristan a réussi à créer, dans ses photographies souvent sombres et mystérieuses, parfois vives et joyeuses, de petits mondes en soi…

Places and Spaces – A photography exhibition by Tristan Breeuwer

Fellow Montreal photographer Tristan Breeuwer presents his first solo photography exhibition “Places and Spaces”. The show presents various spaces and places, whether iconic Montreal architecture or unnoticed or forgotten urban landscapes, and attempts to present them in a “new light”. Some of the images are more representative of how a space is imagined or remembered, rather than how it is actually seen, while others are simply marked by the unique and unusual light falling on the scene. In either case, light plays a crucial role in each photograph. “Since light is the fundamental element in photography, the challenge I enjoy is to give light “presence” within a photograph. Most of the images in the show have succeeded in capturing this “presence”, making light itself their main subject…”

Tristan has a strong background in film making, having studied film production and working as director of photography on numerous independent film productions. Merging into still photography, he wanted to attempt to capture in one photograph, the mood, the characters, or the narrative that a film can offer. Yet not through typical staged narratives, nor through over-thought metaphorical representations. Eventually, through discovering and developing his own direction, he has found that his photographs, usually dark and mysterious, sometimes bright and joyful, often represent little worlds of their own…

the show runs until the end of August
opening night and vernissage : Thursday August 5th 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm

galerie + boutique Headquarters
1649 rue Amherst Montreal, QC

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