Month: August 2011

The Ken Burns effect is a special effect used in documentaries when you only have a static photograph of an interesting item. To add some movement and life to the photograph, you zoom into the photo and pan towards a point of interest. It's named the Ken Burns effect because it was used a lot by a documentary film maker named Ken Burns. 
Anyhow. 
You can achieve the Ken Burns effect using CSS animations. It's not even particularly difficult. Just create a div with overflow:hidden to hold the image, then change the image's CSS transform property. Or if you want to be totally retro and backwards-compatible, you could also achieve the effect by changing the image's top, left, width and height using a JS setInterval. 

Are you a print designer, photographer, fine-artist, or general creative person? Do you have a shitty website that you slapped together yourself in Dreamweaver in that ONE web design class that you took in college? Do you not have a site at all because you’ve been waiting two years for your cousin to put it together for you? Well, we’re here to help. We know that you have little to no desire to do web design professionally, but that doesn’t mean that you want an ugly cookie-cutter site or to settle for one that hasn't been updated since Hackers was in theaters. Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic wordpress blog and manipulate the css, html (and even some php!) to match your aesthetic. You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet and worst case scenario you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

The Eldritch Dark is a site to facilitate both scholars and fans in their appreciation and study of Clark Ashton Smith and his works.

Awesome photos and videos of every Apple product ever.

My second eBook about Street Photography.While the first book was about the basics,this book is more advanced and contains alot of personal thoughts and ideas. I triedto explain what Street Photography meansto me and how I see it. It contains morethan 30 short chapters about the differentareas and topics of street photography. Itshould help beginners to understand theprocess of making story telling photos andto improve your personal style as a streetphotographer. Together with the first bookit will be a good reference for anyone whowants to become a street photographer. 

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Jobs: I contribute ideas, sure. Why would I be there if I didn't? 

The Urban Quiver is made for use as a day excursion pack. When designing this bag, we opted to create something different, that didn't look like a typical, bulky (nerdy) camera bag. For starters, the tubular shape holds camera gear more efficiently, taking into consideration the fact that camera gear is long and shaped like our design. Second, the chance of theft is lowered because we didn't design this to look like a camera bag, and the main compartment is unable to be accessed while you're wearing the bag. This is a great feature to have when standing in large crowds, riding public transportation or for those times when you don't want to look like a tourist.

Creative motorcycle helmet inspired by the R2-D2 droid from Star Wars.

I just felt a tremor in the Force. No wait, that was an earthquake.

I am really appreciative that so many of you love my HDR Texture brush that I shared out in Part III of the HDR Best Practices Guide. In order to make it easier to grab a copy, I am placing a link to it right here, along with some instructions on how to get it loaded in Lightroom.  Enjoy and use it well!

Although my current approach in street photography is more like Bruce Gilden and less of Henri Cartier-Bresson, HCB influenced much of my earlier work and I still deeply respect his photography and philosophies. I hope you are able to enjoy these things I believe you can learn from Henri Cartier-Bresson about street photography. Keep reading to become inspired and learn more.

So, you have decided to take the plunge and buy a classic camera, well hold on to your horses, this is something that you shouldn’t run headlong into with wild abandon.Obviously if you are buying a $20 camera most of this will be completely irrelevant to you, but if you are thinking of getting something a bit nicer, then there are a few things you should consider.
First up, and perhaps most importantly, know what you are looking for. Don’t have a vague idea that you want a film camera and just buy the first one you see; you will just be disappointed.
Here is a little list of things that you should be looking for when you are buying a classic camera.

Pugpig is the HTML5 publishing platform that allows you to create beautiful newspapers, magazines and books for the iPad, iPhone, Android and more.
Pugpig is a hybrid that mixes the best bits of native code with the juiciest cuts of HTML, producing a lovely reading experience across all platform

Developing for the mobile web is a hot topic these days. This year, for the first time ever, smart phones out sold PCs. More and more users are using a mobile device to traverse the web, which means it's becoming critical for developers to optimize their sites for the mobile browsers.
The "mobile" battlefield is still uncharted waters for a large number of developers. Many folks have existing legacy sites that neglect mobile users altogether. Instead, the site was designed primarily for desktop browsing and degrades poorly in mobile browsers. This site (html5rocks.com) is no exception. At launch, we put little effort into a mobile version of the site.

Anchor-linked footnotes always disrupt your page position and consequently your flow when reading. Footnotify is a Browser Extension to display footnotes as a pop-over. All that without upsetting your point of reference.