Valleywag has a funny story about a Google employee who used Street View to propose to his girlfriend. Basically he knew when the Street car taking the photographs of the street would be coming around to his house and arranged a sign that the car would see. Impressive.
PicLens is an amazing browser addon. It basically takes over the whole screen and provides a very intuitive way of browsing through photographs and videos on sites like Flickr and YouTube. It can run on any site after some modifications and there is also a wordpress plugin to enable a photo blog run through wordpress. It’s been a while since my jaw has opened at something on the web but this is really special. Go on, give it a try!
Photos from Haidhausen last Sunday.
A photographic project that made me think about mortality. Walter Schels took photographs of patients at a cancer ward before and after death. The really nice part of the gallery is the mini-stories about the subjects and how the thought about their situation.
From Vintage Photo
The story of how Erica and her fiance Brian Ascher returned a camera tracking clues from the photos left on the camera itself to an Irish owner living in Australia.
An interesting tale where everyone comes out a winner. A nice piece to read to end the weekend. I just wish someone found me from a camera that I left in a taxi in Amsterdam on Queen’s Day 2004. A lot of memorable photos were lost.
