The Human Living Camera - Steven Willshire

ShaolinTiger posted this at 12:06 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 —

This is amazing, I remember this guy on blue peter years ago drawing a perfect version of the houses of parliament in a few minutes. Every window was perfect, all the ratios were correct it was immaculate.

He was about 10 years old then I guess, now check this out from more recently:

This is one camera money can’t buy.

In just 45 minutes he absorbs enough information to draw a 10 feet long panoramic view of Rome.

Simply amazing.

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Asahi Pentax Gold LX SLR to Celebrate 60 Years

ShaolinTiger posted this at 4:20 pm on Monday, June 18, 2007 —

Check this out for some Bling.

Asahi Pentax Gold LX SLR

Donwon Systems, Korean distributor of Pentax, presented ‘ASAHI PENTAX LX Gold’, world’s first water-proof and dust-resistant SLR camera which was specifically made to celebrate 60th anniversary of the company. The ASAHI PENTAX LX Gold was displayed together with ‘K10D’, Pentax’s newly launched 10-megapixels premium DSLR camera ‘K10D’ at a press event in Korea market.In 1980, shortly after Nikon introduced the third generation of the Nikon F3-series system camera, Asahi Optical Co. Ltd. Japan introduced a professional class system camera on their own; the Pentax LX .The year also coincided with 60th anniversary of the most respectful trade name and camera manufacturing business in the business-Pentax.

The Pentax LX gold was launched on August 25th, 1981 to celebrate the production of ten-millionth Pentax SLR camera. It was 18 carat gold plated with brown leather (also-called lizard skin or snake skin) and was equipped with an SMC Pentax f/1.2 50mm lens also with brown leather and gold finish.

The Pentax LX Gold package included a wooden box with red lining and white silk gloves to handle the camera without leaving fingerprints on the sensitive gold plating. Both the camera and the case were provided with golden carton boxes sporting 10million logo and 1981 lettering. Only 300 pieces of the LX Gold were manufactured, 200pcs for the Japanese home market and 100pcs for the international market. Serial numbers for the LX Gold ranged from XM001 to XM300 (XM meaning ten million).

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Little People - A Tiny Street Art Project

ShaolinTiger posted this at 7:07 pm on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 —

Little People - a tiny street art project is an awesome photographic project of little people in realistic scenes.

It always includes the perspective shot too, so you can see how it was taken.

Urban Camping

Urban Camping

Small Gods

Small Gods

Most were shot with a compact cam, so once again it shows it’s the photographer and the ideas not the gear that makes the picture.

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

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pixer.us - Online Imagine Editing Tool

ShaolinTiger posted this at 4:51 pm on Thursday, May 24, 2007 —

Pixer.us is a pretty cool AJAX based online image editor, perhaps you’re using a cafe computer or at a friends place or the work PC has no image editing software.

Pixer.us

Now you can use pixer.us, an online image editing tool, it has quite a number of features.

http://pixer.us/

Need a quick fix for that photo? With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.!

You just have to upload your photo using the “load image” form. In a few seconds, the image will be displayed on screen and you can start to play with it.

After you’re done fixing your photo click on the “Save” button to download it using your preferred file format.

All modifications are done in a non-destructive way. Your image will always keep it’s original quality!

You can resize, crop, flip, rotate and play with settings for brightness/contrast, saturation, blur/sharpness and some other special effects.

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Amazing Painting with Photoshop - John Locke from Lost

ShaolinTiger posted this at 12:52 pm on Monday, May 14, 2007 —

Pretty amazing stuff, done with Photoshop 7 and a tablet of course, this kind of stuff is virtually impossible with a mouse.

You can find the artists site here (Nico Di Mattia):

http://www.speed-painting.com/

And grab the wallpaper version of John Locke here.

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