(via Klett & Wolfe: Grand Canyon)

(via Klett & Wolfe: Grand Canyon)

Doug Rickard hasn’t yet played GeoGuessr, but he’s fairly certain he would do really well identifying American city scenes. Rickard spent four years combing through Google Street View exploring images of cities either forgotten or symbolic of economic collapse to produce the series “A New American Picture,” one of the most talked about projects of 2012. (via Doug Rickard: In “A New American Picture,” a photographer examines American life without leaving his home (PHOTOS).)

Doug Rickard hasn’t yet played GeoGuessr, but he’s fairly certain he would do really well identifying American city scenes. Rickard spent four years combing through Google Street View exploring images of cities either forgotten or symbolic of economic collapse to produce the series “A New American Picture,” one of the most talked about projects of 2012. (via Doug Rickard: In “A New American Picture,” a photographer examines American life without leaving his home (PHOTOS).)

At a recent birthday party, the photography fan asked his smartphone-equipped friends (more than 20 of them) to arrange themselves into a circle. And then he asked them to aim their cameras at the phones of the people in front of them — creating, basically, a screen-based daisy chain. Kolomietz collected the resulting photos and, with the help of a bit of image processing, turned them all into a video. One that is dizzying and just a tiny bit frightening and either way a fitting tribute to a world that is, increasingly, mediated by screens. (via The Artist in the Mirror, as Seen Through a Smartphone - Megan Garber - The Atlantic)

In some respects, the brain-wave GKT is an improvement over the polygraph, but its major problem is that it relies on memory. But memory is not like a video-recorder, nor is it a repository for static recollections: It is often a spectacularly fallible instrument. At each stage of memory—encoding the event, storing it, creating a permanent record, or retrieving it—something can go awry. As a consequence, the GKT is subject to the opposite problem that bedevils the polygraph—false negatives, or liars whom the test deems innocent, People who commit crimes might “pass” a brain-wave interrogation simply because, in the heat of passion or rage, they did not note crucial details of the crime. And if something goes unnoticed, the brain cannot encode a memory. Even when details are encoded, they are not always stored permanently. They can undergo normal decay or become contaminated by both earlier and later memories. (via Polygraphs and other lie-detection technologies may never really work in the real world. - Slate Magazine)

In some respects, the brain-wave GKT is an improvement over the polygraph, but its major problem is that it relies on memory. But memory is not like a video-recorder, nor is it a repository for static recollections: It is often a spectacularly fallible instrument. At each stage of memory—encoding the event, storing it, creating a permanent record, or retrieving it—something can go awry. As a consequence, the GKT is subject to the opposite problem that bedevils the polygraph—false negatives, or liars whom the test deems innocent, People who commit crimes might “pass” a brain-wave interrogation simply because, in the heat of passion or rage, they did not note crucial details of the crime. And if something goes unnoticed, the brain cannot encode a memory. Even when details are encoded, they are not always stored permanently. They can undergo normal decay or become contaminated by both earlier and later memories. (via Polygraphs and other lie-detection technologies may never really work in the real world. - Slate Magazine)

Rogers said she doesn’t have any formal training in photography. She doesn’t use a light meter or alter her images in Photoshop. All of the technical aspects of her photos are determined by eye. But that, Rogers said, is what makes them work. (via Christy Lee Rogers: Creating original Baroque-style underwater imagery (PHOTOS).)

Rogers said she doesn’t have any formal training in photography. She doesn’t use a light meter or alter her images in Photoshop. All of the technical aspects of her photos are determined by eye. But that, Rogers said, is what makes them work. (via Christy Lee Rogers: Creating original Baroque-style underwater imagery (PHOTOS).)

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For his In the Round series, Pep Ventosa walked in a circle around trees while furiously snapping photos. Afterwards, be stitched together the images to form a 360° view of the tree and its surroundings.

Trees Photographed in a 360° Orbit

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Reading has many facets, one of which might be the rather indescribable, and naturally fleeting, mix of thought and emotion and sensory manipulations that happen in the moment and then fade. How much of reading, then, is just a kind of narcissism—a marker of who you were and what you were thinking when you encountered a text? Perhaps thinking of that book later, a trace of whatever admixture moved you while reading it will spark out of the brain’s dark places. (via The Curse of Reading and Forgetting : The New Yorker)

Reading has many facets, one of which might be the rather indescribable, and naturally fleeting, mix of thought and emotion and sensory manipulations that happen in the moment and then fade. How much of reading, then, is just a kind of narcissism—a marker of who you were and what you were thinking when you encountered a text? Perhaps thinking of that book later, a trace of whatever admixture moved you while reading it will spark out of the brain’s dark places. (via The Curse of Reading and Forgetting : The New Yorker)

This @ap photo from a #manhattanhenge past pretty much sums up the modern human condition: twitter.com/samcmlaird/sta… — Sam Laird (@samcmlaird) May 29, 2013 (via Twitter / samcmlaird: This @AP photo from a …)

(via Twitter / samcmlaird: This @AP photo from a …)

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The Internet, a plain whose grasses hide so many digital predators, can activate that same response in contemporary humans. It offers “fight” and “flight” in one tidy package. Reading emails or hunching over a screen, Stone says, can cause people to go into a kind of resting state. Some 80 percent of people, she has shown, stop breathing (temporarily) or start breathing shallowly (continuously) when they check their email or look at a screen. Stone calls this condition “email apnea.” And she attributes it to our anticipation that the stuff we’re scanning will eventually require a response from us. Our drone-like surveys of our screens will eventually reveal an email from our boss or a note from a friend. And, when that happens, we’ll need to spring to action to respond. (via You Didn’t Have Any Lions to Run From, So You Clicked on This - Megan Garber - The Atlantic)

The Internet, a plain whose grasses hide so many digital predators, can activate that same response in contemporary humans. It offers “fight” and “flight” in one tidy package. Reading emails or hunching over a screen, Stone says, can cause people to go into a kind of resting state. Some 80 percent of people, she has shown, stop breathing (temporarily) or start breathing shallowly (continuously) when they check their email or look at a screen. Stone calls this condition “email apnea.” And she attributes it to our anticipation that the stuff we’re scanning will eventually require a response from us. Our drone-like surveys of our screens will eventually reveal an email from our boss or a note from a friend. And, when that happens, we’ll need to spring to action to respond. (via You Didn’t Have Any Lions to Run From, So You Clicked on This - Megan Garber - The Atlantic)