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RAPatton, Joey Gibson, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 3 other people liked this
Mythbusters FTW!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Love those guys
- Toby Graham
Aline, Jeff P. Henderson, J. McConnell and 11 other people liked this
Quicksilver Deep Blue: Sea Creatures Based on Denim - http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2008...
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Peter, Nathan Howell, Kyle A Koch and 18 other people liked this
I nom sea creatures made of denim.
- Mladen Srdić
jeez, this headline was the hardest to word. like EVER
- Mona Nomura
My pants look like this after 2 straight weeks of continuous use! haha
- Ron
Wash me, Seymour! hahhahahahahahhaha
- Mona Nomura
Stair porn - http://www.stairporn.org/page...
Timothy Griffin, Kol Tregaskes, mr-mojo-risin and 68 other people liked this
I'm gonna have a bad ass stair case in my house one day which turns into a slide at the press of a button when you're going down...
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
These examples map poorly to my drinking habits.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
tell me about it Jay - imagine trying to walk up the middle ones eh...
- Zee.
I once had a loft with a cast iron spiral. I barely survived.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Lol...I had an awesome apartment in the heart of Soho in London - as awesome as it was, it was on the top floor, no lift and about for landing between ground floor and the apartment. The number of times my neighbours woke me up in the morning as they walked down the staircase finding me on the 3rd landing is embarassing.
- Zee.
I've seen the laretto staircase in person, it's really incredible
- anna sauce
That is crazy! I love the second one.. even though.. it would be hard to run up
- Kyle Lacy
One of the best posts I've ever seen.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hanging spiral stairs DO WANT
- Candace
awww, i'm blushing Akiva. Candace - yeah the first one above and the black spiral really float my boat.
- Zee.
Not wheelchair accessible!!!!!!!!!!!
- Rochelle
You've never seen Escher's wheelchair, have you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
akiva, :)
- edythe
OMG! I love it! I have a preoccupation with stairway walks. this is too much for me! *swoon* (and everyone makes fun of me too)
- Anna Lynn M.
I love them! They immediately remind me of a staircase/library featured on one of the home restoration shows on TV. Article in Apartment Therapy here http://twurl.nl/qedgfa
- Allison Kipta
somehow i just can't stop stairing...
- Cecil Sandus
Lol Cecil
- Zee.
no no, i can't take credit - i believe it was the posts name. I gotta say though - I had NO idea there were so many stair junkies on friendfeed!
- Zee.
very cool. My stairs set on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
they are superb pictures Thomas, damn.
- Zee.
Nice, Thomas!
- Yolanda
This is the kind of thing you'd only want to get if you're considering having kids and haven't yet. Having to stick a babygate in front of one of these would just un-cool-ify it a bit methinks.
- Gus Perez
Insta Sunshine :) - http://www.keithhancox.com/s...
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Carmen, Arash, Andrew Trinh and 35 other people liked this
reminds me of the Hypercolor shirts!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
That's awesome
- Kyle Lacy
Ditto the Hypercolor shirts. Having flashbacks to jr. high and girls with handprints in all the wrong places. Doh!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
My hypercolor shirt was pink and purple. :-)
- Marci Maleski
i still have my hypercolor jammies from '86 and it still changes colors!
- Captain Bubbles
Ye gods! Generra still exists... I guess the 80s are still happening, probably in central Asia? http://www.generra.com
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
And they're still making hypercolor shirts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
chuck come to my east-ish LA hood and you'll see the early 80s are alive and well. all the kids look like rejects from fast times at ridgemont high
- Captain Bubbles
@faboo_mama come to think of it, I saw hairdryers on sale at Shoppers Drug Mart. I guess I should buy some plaid pants and get it over with.
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
omigosh! I had 2 hypercolor shirts... been years since I thought about those!
- Lindsay
chuck, your comment reminded of lady in front of us at target the other day. she bought that huge tube of electric blue hair gel and like 5 cans of aquanet. i had a flashback to the cholas of my youth.
- Captain Bubbles
so if it's cold it's cloudy perfect like garbage says "i'm only happy when it rains" then again i live in oregon so it behooves me to be that way
- Cecil Sandus
Meh. In Pittsburgh, it's not the kids rockin' the 80s. It's the people of my generation who were in high school during the 80s who have never moved on. There's a woman on my bus in the morning that has crispy, permed and highlighted mall hair like you wouldn't believe.
- Marci Maleski
Where I it's it's both the kids and the classes of 85-89 that are rockin' the 80s look. It's like some weird rift in time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
All right, I need a pink paisley sweatshirt, a pair of soft gray baggy pants that I can cuff demurely above the ankle, and a pair of round tortoiseshell Oliver Peoples eyeglasses. And maybe some suspenders? And a Swatch!
- Chuck LeDuc Díaz
@marci I had the pink and purple one too. hypercolor flashback!
- Carmen
FriendFeed Blog: Embed FriendFeed in your blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
John Prieto, mjc, bangjihyun and 135 other people liked this
"We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want."
- Paul Buchheit
Find your embed widgets here: http://friendfeed.com/embed
- Bret Taylor
YAY yayayay!!! - Edited to add: thx for linking to the CSS too, will make integration easier.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
it was necessary to develope these widgets. but as Mark said, there must be tidy versions. I want to use in my blog with my css.
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Mark: the CSS is completely documented, so it should be easy to customize: http://friendfeed.com/embed...
- Bret Taylor
You can use your own css, the details are here http://friendfeed.com/embed...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Doh, dup post with Bret. Bret wins, obviously ;)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks for more options but still JS only. :( The likelihood of any site I don't maintain allowing me to use JS is slim to non. Please add 1 flash widget? Pretty please? With sugar on top?
- EricaJoy
FWIW, in http://pastebin.ca/1186734 I've put my FriendFeed badge setup. Stolen elsewhere, I forgot where, thanks to the original author. Hope it helps.
- Cesar Cardoso
For those that are using the feed widget, note that you can change num=x in case the defaults of 1,5, or 10 aren't what you want.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It is live on my site now. http://www.louisgray.com/
- Louis Gray
http://benjamingolub.com to see the badge in action :)
- Benjamin Golub
Mark, the white is div class = friendfeed widget and needs to have the background overridden, it's set to white (obviously). The classes in the nested divs below it should inherit the new BG color.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Live on mine http://www.isthisstupid.com but currently unstyled.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Would be a nice option to have one without Javascript
- richrecruiter
Paul, Bret and Team - you guys really rock my day! nice work!! keeeep it up!! woo hoo!
- Susan Beebe
thanks Brett. I added to my blog
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Where is the Flash and Picture version?
- zgjie
Great, we really needed this! Thanks :)
- Sébastien
Enjoying new FF badge http://scabr.com/ :)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Nice work! Can we please have a "all services except blog" option on the Feed Widget to cut down on the echo over at my blog?
- Richard Chen
Thank you, I like the clean Friendfeed look. It's, friendly!
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
Great work Paul and the team, just decorated my Blog with the widgets and it felt like Christmas!
- Joe Dawson
nice work....will add soon to my blog
- Arjun
Nice but as others have said, those of us not self-hosted (e.g. wordpress.com) can't use js widgets
- Neil Saunders
I was thinking about replacing my blog with an api app... this will do the equivalent without any work on my part :D
- Tai
Totally brilliant implementation, many thanks indeed, especially for the room widget
- Chris Nuttall
nice
- bangjihyun
Jeff P. Henderson, eric mortensen, J. McConnell and 27 other people liked this
I really wish the Flickr/Zoomr thumbnails looked as good as the Smugmug ones. Either way I really like what you've been doing with the SM galleries Thomas.
- Eric P
"She wore lemon, To colour in the cold grey night, She had heaven, And she held on so tight"
- Chris Rivait
One of the reasons why I started publishing to SmugMug is because the thumbnails looks so awesome here on FF.
- Thomas Hawk
I needed some happy yellow pictures today!! =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
+1 Tina
- Chris Rivait
I find it refreshing that you have a vested interest in Zooomr, but still are willing to talk up the benefits to competing services like Flickr and SmugMug.
- cjmart
Black and White Dollar Portraits (BW$P) | Justin Korn's Blog - http://blog.justinkorn.com/index...
Mladen Srdić, Charlie Anzman, Johnny Worthington and 11 other people liked this
"Thomas Hawk has been doing his $2 Portrait Project and when I first read about it, I thought it was a great idea. I’ve been trying to think of a way to alter his project in my own unique way. I know $2 is not a lot of money, but while walking down Haight Street the other day, I knew I would be asked for money quite a few times. If I stuck with the $2 project, I would have to stop at the ATM before lunch. So, I decided I would still be doing a good service while still keeping the the project alive if I only offered $1. It sounds cheap, I know, but this is not my intention. To take it one step further, every single one picture that is part of this project will be black and white. So, my project will be: Black and White Dollar Portraits (BW$P)."
- Justin Korn
Very cool, Justin :-). I'll enjoy watching your project unfold.
- asiriusgeek
Thanks asiriusgeek!
- Justin Korn
It's cool to see someone spin off of Thomas' idea. Will be watching this as well.
- Aaron B. Hockley
Thanks Aaron!
- Justin Korn
This is the first time I've heard of this, and it's an amazing idea. I peeked over at Thomas' blog as well. Both of you took such great photos. Very awesome. More people should do this!
- Candace
Justin... Epic, I love this type of photography. Look forward to it.
- Johnny Worthington
Thanks Candace and John. I'm really glad people are enjoying this project, from both Thomas and I. It is not only fun, but rewarding as well.
- Justin Korn
Black and White Dollar Portraits (BW$P) - http://blog.justinkorn.com/index...
Kyle A Koch and Kyle Lacy liked this
A 1TB Western Digital drive died this morning. Held all my Parallels virtual disks. Time to buy a Drobo.
Kyle A Koch liked this
Drobos are great.
- Thomas Hawk
Chap on the UK Ubuntu podcast was saying that he had some problems with the drobo not starting up and because the disks are in a Drobo's own format there is nothing he can do to recover his data. I still think that you can't go wrong with plain old disk and a copy of rsync.
- John Cooper
WHS is treating me well, cheaper and just as expandable.
- Brian Blankenship
have you tried http://www.grc.com/sr... ? perhaps recover your data, then get the Drobo
- No FB
Thumb drives are like...all those other things that are around only when you don't need them.
mat honan, Adam Kazwell, Vinay | विनय and Kyle A Koch liked this
Thumb drives are like similes?
- Kevin Fox
Keep one on your keychain. http://www.amazon.com/dp...
- Seth
Streaming video comes to iPhone… - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Eric Geller, Dave Martin, Aaron Draczynski and 21 other people liked this
To bad about the jail breaking part. If they can get around that, I'd be all over it.
- Justin Korn
Unfort. you have to jailbreak it. Hope real video comes soon!
- michael sean wright
Yup. Jailbroke mine post 2.0.1 upgrade. Qik is nice, though a bit slow even over WiFi. Guess that's par for the course. Just broadcast my first live stream from my iPhone 3G. Not I have to figure out how to delete it.
- Greg
Nice Fish Films - I don't think it will ever happen...
- Justin Korn
Anybody know why it can't be sold in the AppStore?
- Brandon Titus
anyone got any clips up we can see?
- Zee.
Call me when it doesn't require a jailbreak... same situation as before
- Bwana ☠
It most likely won't be coming to an unjailbroken iPhone. AT&T definitely doesn't want this eating their bandwidth. Same reason for netspace I'm sure. I don't even know if that tethering app is called that. I'm using it on my phone and love it.
- Dennis Jackson
I just downloaded last night. My first one is up at qik (teejayhanton). Not sure why Apple wouldn't let them sell through app store, but glad they developed it anyway!
- tj hanton
Does this work in Sweden or is it US only?
- Svartling
The very fact that you have to jailbreak the phone to get this to work suggests to me that the iPhone Video is just round the corner. A phone with video now that's innovation.
- John Cooper
There was a demo of a jailbreak version of Slingplayer for the iPhone but I haven't heard much since a few months ago.
- Andrew Leyden
is it impossible to create a native app for locked phone that would allow video?
- Bob Blunk
I thought the problem was the iPhone only handle a few video codec, none of which were very popular for streaming (but I'm not sure on that).
- Andrew Leyden
I think the problem is AT&T's block on data transfer such as streaming over the cell network. So you could theoretically get your account terminated. (Hope that doesn't happen to me :P). It's in the ars technica article: http://bit.ly/1XzxCz
- Brandon Titus
i'm really likin it :) started streaming right away: http://qik.com/videopixil
- videopixil
Yeah Yeah. But what about a Twitter app? Where are those? :D
- Nate Pilling
from twhirl
Clipped on socialmedian: Qik Enables Live Video Streaming From 3G iPhone - http://www.socialmedian.com/story...
Charlie Anzman and Kyle A Koch liked this
Antares the Siberian Tiger Cub [Cute Overload] - http://www.inquisitr.com/2351...
Corie, Andrew Trinh, Dan Liebke and 82 other people liked this
Want! At least, want until it's big enough to rip my arm off.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
YES PLEASE!
- Mona Nomura
Christian the Lion's cousin?
- Morgan
it's like an iPhone for animal lovers?
- Pascal
Mona, you think he is cute now? Wait till he grows up! He will have you for breakfast! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Awww. Too cute.
- Roberto Bonini
cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- saeedeh
Look at that there... THAT is a prince. Wow. The great cats have SO much poise! They LOOK like the kings of the jungle.
- Parth Awasthi
Once over the cute overdose, I must say, I understand how animals this powerful need to be this adorable when they are young. It's the only way to survive. What a gorgeous picture.
- Juan Carlo Rodríguez
Super cute! :D
- BeeLing
These two are gorgeous!! Reminds of that film "Two Brothers" (at least I think that was the name) :)
- Melanie Reed
Ooops! I now see that it is just 2 shots of one cub...still cuteness. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Pregnancy Tips Gallery - http://www.chrudat.com/pregnan...
Andrew Trinh, Josue Salazar, Brian Bufalo and 100 other people liked this
HAHAHAHA! Mark Wilson, you rock my FF world! Funny FTW!
- Anna Haro
Love "visualization in labor." So true.
- Michelle Martinez
if you plan to do the DON'T, wear a bra or do it before the pregnancy. Oh Sally...
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HAHA
- Mona Nomura
lol @ the breakdancing
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"Sharing old clothes" is the best!
- Justin Korn
Absolutely hilarious -- great link.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Hmmm, mildly NSFW, definitely inappropriate if pregnant ladies are in the workplace, clearly too true to life, and absolutely LOL; oh yes, I will continue to LOL
- Pete Delucchi
"Recording the Birth" was my favorite, should have been captioned with a Qik video url.
- jcunwired
LOVE THIS
- sean percival
superb.
- Zach Underwood
Awww what friends would freak about a little show of the boobies?
- Angie
Oh man - that was totally hilarious.
- Internet's Tad
I am tearing up!
- George Smith
ahhh NSFW ads!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
hahaha, I like the sharing old clothes :)
- TheSleepyGeek
Laughing so hard just a little pee came out. Awesome.
- Lisa L. Seifert
@Lisa, wetting yourself as an adult FTW! ;-)
- Anna Haro
any favorite/reputable online t-shirt vendors that offer single quantity digital printing? I need to make a text-only t-shirt for a friend adn would rather use a recommended site than the one's google returns on a search
Roney Smith, Wade Dorrell, Mike Fruchter and 2 other people liked this
looking for an answer too. could be fun to use
- Kyle A Koch
You could try CafePress.com
- Lindsay
i did a google search last night and looked at a couple of the top results - they all use the exact same design interface - price isn't too bad (around $26 for an American Apparel t with printing on the front and back) but I would rather not punch in my CC info until I hear from someone else that they have used them and were satisfied.
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I've used VistaPrint and was very pleased. About $9.25/shirt for two shirts with my own graphic. Pretty quick too, if I recall correctly.
- Dave Roth
Take a look at Zazzle, they are pretty great as far as quality is concerned.
- Steve Spalding
u all rule!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I have a friend that owns a screen printing business... http://dudsbydudes.com/ They have good prices, I believe. You can name-drop me if you want :)
- Frankie Warren
Majorly Cool Things -this site is awesome - http://majorlycool.com/
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Alan Root, jerobins, Amber and 61 other people liked this
Cool. Added to Google Reader.
- Jonathon
Definitely recommended if you're into images :)
- Mona Nomura
Very Cool
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
I really like the concept of that second image
- Mo Kargas
i know.. it's like creepy.. but not. almost haunting
- Mona Nomura
nice find Mona, subscribing to the feed as well.
- Alan Le
Mona FTW!
- Kevin D. White
FTW!! ;)
- Mona Nomura
Average environments beget average work - http://www.37signals.com/svn...
Elliott Ng, Franklin Pettit, Jon Price and 33 other people liked this
I'm sadly living this :(
- Jason Carreira
totally agree
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
So sad.
- Mitchell Tsai
i need to clean the house. :(
- Scott Lockhart
What a great article. This is absolute truth.
- Meryn Stol
"No one can be a rock star without a great scene" -- and who really wants or needs a rock star anyway? If you want longevity and success hire craftsmen and leave the rock stars to their sex and drugs.
- Brian Sullivan
37signls remains the coolest company in the Valley.
- Duncan Riley
I agree with the premise, but it's not what I expected from the title.
- Steve Lowe
There's truth in this. I've seen it and been there. But there's also some truth in the old adage 'a poor workman blames his tools'
- Mo Kargas
Very interesting piece. I think overall from all I've seen in different organizations is that leadership sets the tone, sets expectations, and sets the environment.
- Eric Berlin
the Chicago valley :)
- Adam Kazwell
Lost in all this is the fact that a lot of performance is context-related. The same person who's done really well in one company can do poorly at the next. The same programmer paid $50k a year in India might be worth $250k in the US. The American attribution of performance to the individual is an analomy that many cultures in other parts of the world do not subscribe to (the Japanese are much more interested in setting up systems that perform, for instance, rather than being focused on hiring superstars).
- Piaw Na
Kyle A Koch, Jeff P. Henderson, tintin and Dan Kaplan liked this
Usability Challenge 2008 - http://usabilitychallenge.webnode.com/
Charlie Anzman, Cameron Neylon, Kyle A Koch and 5 other people liked this
On 1 August 2008, we are asking anyone with a passion for usability to solve a usability problem...any usability problem at all...and help make the world a better/safer/less annoying place.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from Bookmarklet
THANKS! :)
- directeur
Thomas Hawks kids waiting on the orange shirt genius to figure out how to upgrade account.
Steve Holden, Nicholas Kreidberg, JA Castillo and 12 other people liked this
You are a saint MRSTH. Good looking kids too.
- Russellreno
It's like our own little FF news channel! Now we get the picture behind the story (http://friendfeed.com/e...)
- Justin Korn
Uh oh... I always thought the "black shirted Genius's" had a higher tech IQ than the "orange-shirted" ones. Good luck! ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
Geniuses have different-colored shirts? Is there a hierarchy? Do red shirts not come back from field missions?
- Morton Fox
Cute!
- Mitchell Tsai
@Morton Fox - love the Trek reference! Come to think of it...have never seen a red-shirted Apple employee...
- JA Castillo
NASA Images Gallery Goes Live... YES PLEASE - http://nasaimages.org/
beth rhinelander, Jules, l0ckergn0me and 44 other people liked this
Those are... Real?
- Yuvi
I love astonomy pics.
- Alan Le
our earth :)
- saeedeh
Yes, Yuvi. They're from the official NASA site.
- Mona Nomura
"The Heavens are declaring your works" These are so awe-inspiring and then there is also a sense of delight about them at the same time, really, when you think about it. If Joy were to burst from an intelligent heart into the universe, this is what it would look like. There is no art to compare. Thanks @Mona N for sharing.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, absolutely my pleasure :)
- Mona Nomura
Glad to see you are on this Mona, we were talking about this on Friday - http://friendfeed.com/search... Love that this is now up!
- michael sean wright
Your post must've slipped me by... If I had known, I would've re-shared :) Btw, aren't the archives absolutely fascinating? I'm glad NASA is opening up their library to Google and this site. And that we, have the tools to share this information with everyone :)
- Mona Nomura
Hubble Fellow, Steven Beckwith, looks back to the first 2 billion years... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- david beckwith
Now all i need from them is an api so I can build a rotating wallpaper app.
- Shawn McCollum
Bob Gannon, RAPatton, Kyle A Koch and 3 other people liked this
£250,000 Ferrari goes up in smoke | 599 GTB Fiorano | The Sun |News - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...
Johan, Mitchell Tsai, TDavid and 23 other people liked this
"Hello boss... er, it's about your Ferrari"
- LiquidLag
at more than U$500k it better be covered under warranty!
- Carlos Ayala
Yikes!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Was Stefan Eriksson near the scene? http://www.latimes.com/news...
- Jeff Beckham
Oooh, not good.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
T_T
- Lindsey is Fierce!
"SHOCKED showroom driver Martin Bullen faced a tricky phone call to his boss after this £250,000 Ferrari went up in smoke. "
- LiquidLag
A half million dollar car. People should be able to do with their money what they wish, but you could house two or three families quite nicely for that.
- Chris Baskind
Chris Not to make a straw man out of you...or 25 + families in many countries where people don't have computer or time to comment on FriendFreed but that's how the capitalism cookie crumbles. Just sayin.
- Mark Forman
Yeah, I was thinking in terms of suburban Americans or Europeans. A half million could build a village. Or about a thousand safe water wells in Africa.
- Chris Baskind
Oh my god. This makes me cry. What a beautiful car... or used to be.
- Johan
Scott Weaver made a model of San Francisco using 100,000 toothpicks which he build over 35 year period http://laughingsquid.com/model-o...
Sparky, Kyle A Koch and Christopher Sacca liked this
Unreal.
- Christopher Sacca
Either he needs a hobby or this was his hobby. I wonder how much the city changed during that 35 year time period?
- Bob Gannon
And All they found was the camera... - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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gregory, Kyle A Koch, Benedikt Koehler and 13 other people liked this
HIDE
- Mona Nomura
LOL
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
O_O
- Bwana ☠
It's so wrong to say that I "like" this -- but it's oddly compelling. I had to go back and watch it a couple times. Re-affirms my fear of snakes. Ugg.
- Wayne Schulz
I just can't believe the camera-person was that close to that big snake and wasn't paying attention to the head. What a maroon
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Hell to the no.
- Yolanda
Glad my reaction was not recorded LOL
- Vox
Color + Design Blog / As Seen By The Color Blind by COLOURlovers - http://www.colourlovers.com/blog...
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Give 'Em DBizness, Alan Le, Bartek Ciszkowski and 3 other people liked this
"The Color Blind Web Page Filter, which was used in this post to demonstrate the different types of colorblindness, allows you to view what a site looks like to people with each type of color blindness. Here are a few examples from some popular websites."
- Jason Toney
from Bookmarklet
this could certainly be useful for designers as they create pages that are usable for everyone, including those who are color blind. even just for those who arer curious, this is kind of interesting
- Kyle A Koch
I'm part of the color-blind population so those logos look extra strange to me.
- Kyle Hebert
I didn't know that, Kyle. Are you saying the logos in this post look weirder than normal for you?
- Jason Toney
Yeah, Jason. That Google logo up there looks really off compared to how I normally see it.
- Kyle Hebert
Seek the Sky - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Dave Martin, Jeff P. Henderson, Kyle A Koch and 9 other people liked this
Ok, after spending time with Photoshop CS3's HDR functions which only sporadically work on some images and downloading a trial version of Photomatix's HDR software, I can officially say that HDR is a huge pain in the ass and definitely not worth my time or energy anymore.
ha3rvey (needs soup), Kol Tregaskes, Russellreno and 19 other people liked this
it's not worth your time. definitely not worth it. just another tool that isn't really necessary
- sam b-r
Adobe really needs to work on HDR. With a lot of tweaking you can get good results. The secret is in the conversion to 8 bit. It will never do the overly-stylized effect of Photomatix.
- Andrew Smith
Even though I've seen some other people do some interesting things with HDR, all of the images that I played around with look like crap. Photomatix makes your images look like syrupy sweet and sickening cotton candy and Photoshop is just too frustrating to use when it's HDR processing only works on about 20% of my RAW files for no explainable reason. I'd expect more from software that I paid $700 for.
- Thomas Hawk
Photomatix made me want to throw up. I did create a few images with Photoshop converting them back down to 8bit but CS3 would choke and crap out on about 80% of my RAW files that I tried to use so I couldn't really merge to HDR with the files that I really wanted to use. At least I can now say I've officially given HDR a run and it's not for me. Regular old processing in Adobe Camera RAW beats HDR hands down.
- Thomas Hawk
Are you going to upload the HDR images somewhere? I'm actually experimenting with HDR, and would like to see some other HDR images. Edit: I know how to find HDR images on Flickr, but I am still interested.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
possible248, they look like puke. definitely not going to upload them anywhere.
- Thomas Hawk
Try doing merge to HDR > move the slider farther right than you think, making the shadows too dark. Then convert to 8bit keeping the gamma and offset too dark still. Then bring it back with Image > adjustments > Exposure
- Andrew Smith
Thomas, I know what you mean. I have only done 16 HDRs in the couple of years that the fad has been out. I probably have another 20 that I have the images for I just cant get myself over the effort. I use photmatix. If only my HDRs weren't so "interesting" on flickr or I'd never do it again. I like Lucis art better but the programmer has gone dark and the new Lucis tool is going to cost $500. http://flickr.com/photos...
- Mark Interrante
I think a Photoshop familiar person will likely have better results with simply manually blending multiple exposures. The HDR blend tries to "automate" something that people have been doing manually in darkrooms for ages. Multiple exposures are great for getting nice ground and sky in the same image when there is a lot of dynamic range in between.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I'm tired of HDR photos. They look a little too good.
- Sean Davis
On a related topic, does anyone know of an iphone app that would use the camera to take HDR?
- Mark Interrante
HDR became hackneyed before I really ever started to play around with it. It does seem like a lot of work.
- Matt
I tried HDR on a few photos - decided that I'd rather go back and reshoot in better light than do anymore HDRs if at all possible. :)
- Patty Hankins
It is possible to make HDRs that do not have that HDR "look". I prefer to use HDR as a way of getting just a bit more dynamic range. See the first two on the link http://bit.ly/38IpH2 (made with Photomatix). Photomatix (actually HDR in general) requires quite a bit of tweaking so I am not too fond of the extra time needed to process things.
- Jauder Ho
the HDR feature in Photoshop really isn't worth a dime. Photomatix and a bit of understanding of why you're doing what you're doing with the tonal mapping or light recovery and you're in and out very quickly.
- Frank Jonen
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Thomas, Your images have to be tone mapped after they are merged, otherwise they WILL look like crap. Photoshop CS3 is not the greatest tool for HDR. Photomatix is a very good tool if you learn how to use it. Here is a link to an article by Uwe Steinmueller who is an expert at HDR on how to shoot and process images in Photomatix. http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc...
- Jeff P. Henderson
"they look like puke. definitely not going to upload them anywhere." - HA! I played with HDR in photoshop also and was completely turned off. Haven't tried photomatix yet.
- Justin Korn
Here are a couple HDR images made from a single RAW file shot on a Canon 5D. http://www.flickr.com/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Trebor, I was kind of playing around and made them have that HDR look, because I thought it looked interesting. You can do HDR images that don't look like the typical HDR. Check out Uwe Steinmueller's article above. He does many HDR images that you would be hard pressed to tell that they were HDR. It does take a lot of practice to do HDR correctly. I've seen HDR images that span the spectrum from cartoonish to completely undetectable.
- Jeff P. Henderson
A comment on the intent of HDR. The original intent of HDR photography, where several images of the same scene are taken at different exposure levels and then merged, is to produce a photographic image that has the apparent dynamic range of human sight. A single image taken with today's state of the art DSLR has the capability to capture somewhere in the vicinity of 10 to 14 stops of...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
(CONT) When several images are merged, they often appear quite dark or just plain don't look correct. This is because no display or output device has the dynamic range to properly display it. To correct this, programs like Photomatix do a tone mapping which basically moves everything in the image into the dynamic range capability of your monitor or printer. The end result is that you...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
I disagree. I think HDR sometimes can add something to an image if applied correctly and with cause. I'm not sure what platform you are on, but Photomatix Pro on the Mac works like a charm.
- Rutger Blom
This photo, while not the awesomest, would not be possible without HDR - handheld, no flash, 3 frames bracketed +1.33 0 -1.22 and 0 = f/22 1/30 iso800 http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Andrew Smith
Photoshop CS3 HDR frames side-by-side http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Andrew Smith
Agree Trebor. Edited the order of frames now. It's not the best photo but it's an example.
- Andrew Smith
HDR is certainly very time consuming and for that reason alone I can understand everyone who does not want to bother with it. But the results can look as realistic as you want. In Photomatix, a realistic look is achieved by setting all "Smoothing" controls (Light Smoothing, Highlights Smoothing, Shadows Smoothing) to high/very high values and be careful with introducing too much microcontrast.
- Ole Begemann
Bert Monroy over at Rev3 has a recent episode talking about exactly this: CS3 + Photomatix - http://revision3.com/pixelpe...
- Holger Eilhard
There's a group on Flickr that specializes in "Realistic HDR": http://flickr.com/groups.... Not all photos in the pool qualify but it might be a good starting point for examples.
- Ole Begemann
Have to disagree with you there, yeah there's some awful HDR imagery on the net but used well you can produce some very interesting pictures. I like it though it is just another way to get creative with your photography
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's Erik Reinhard with his take on "What's wrong with 'Flickr HDR'?": http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~reinha.... "HDR is a good thing --- if done right. Unfortunately, the Flickr HDR community does it wrong on a massive scale. ... If you want to deliberately produce an artificial looking image, then by all means do so. However, please do not abuse tone reproduction to get there. And please do not then go and call it 'HDR'."
- Ole Begemann
Short circuit @ Bangalore skyline - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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