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This afternoon in Bend, Oregon, an ominous and foreboding hail...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:00:00 -0700

admiring the storm...

This afternoon in Bend, Oregon, an ominous and foreboding hail storm swept through. Here is an account of it from Faceout Studio…

John Waters’ Role Models designed by Eric Hanson is now at...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:32:00 -0700

John Waters’ Role Models designed by Eric Hanson is now at Faceout Books. I love the illustration.

Clemens Wirth, from Austria does some amazing work with his...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:20:00 -0700

Clemens Wirth, from Austria does some amazing work with his macro 65mm lense and 5DmarkII camera… It leaves me perplexed how he captured some of this.

Paul Nielsen recently took a trip to the Yucatan Penninsula. One...

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:40:59 -0700

Paul Nielsen recently took a trip to the Yucatan Penninsula. One of his passions is HDR photography (see here) and these images are the latest iterations. You can view them bigger here.

Recent graduate Jim Tierney (whom we’ve featured on...

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:18:15 -0700

Recent graduate Jim Tierney (whom we’ve featured on Faceout Books) has had a busy first month at Penguin, it seems. Check out his blog for a rundown.

Don’t let this escape the...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:16:00 -0700

Don’t let this escape the “daily-dose-of-inspiration-right-before-you-get-coffee-but-after-you’ve-checked-your-email” part of your day. Simply incredible. Those students and faculty at BYU have a lot to be proud of.

You can read more about it at The Font Feed.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? June was a crazy...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:10:32 -0700

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? June was a crazy month. However, we’re all back. Updates will continue. You can let out your breath. :)

The Hoverboard is real! Someone call Marty McFly, and tell him...

Fri, 28 May 2010 11:56:25 -0700

The Hoverboard is real! Someone call Marty McFly, and tell him we’ve found his board.

Thanks to @pieratt for the heads up.

This is my favorite music video, ever. Jónsi’s (formerly...

Thu, 27 May 2010 08:22:32 -0700

This is my favorite music video, ever. Jónsi’s (formerly of Sigur Rós) music, already cinematic in scope, is paired perfectly with this kind of artistic film. arni & kinski directed this video, along with Sigur Ros’ Glosoli.

It’s Tim Green’s Birthday today! The big 3-0....

Wed, 26 May 2010 09:31:03 -0700

It’s Tim Green’s Birthday today! The big 3-0. Normally this means we all go out to his favorite restaurant of choice and give him an inappropriate card. However, this year came with a BONUS: Kimberly Brock’s Velvet Cake Balls! Look how happy Tim is!

This is by far the coolest typographic sequence I’ve ever...

Wed, 19 May 2010 09:22:59 -0700

This is by far the coolest typographic sequence I’ve ever seen in motion, from German motion artist Sebastian Lange. I’m inspired/shamed/excited/awed/humbled all at once. It also proves that Helvetica still kicks ass.

Enjoy more of his work here.

South Asian Book Covers

Wed, 19 May 2010 08:41:00 -0700

These are definitely worth a look. From ephemera assemblymen:

This is a dual post with Will, from the great A Journey Around My Skull. All of these magnificent covers come courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski’s impressive South Asian books project, in which she photographs book covers from the “PK” section (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) of the University of Chicago’s Regenstein library. See more covers at her blog, Women, Snakes and Stalkers, and at her flickr. And be sure to view Will’s picks here.

Thank you to @weetstraw, @Coudal, @posteroffensive who first linked me to Women, Snakes and Stalkers.

Check out more after pics below

Thanks for the headsup from eye contact.

HDR Crash Course

Tue, 18 May 2010 13:46:00 -0700

By now, if you haven’t yet heard of HDR, or High Dynamic Resolution, you probably have at least run across images that seem like they couldn’t have been taken with a normal camera. It’s a process that has opened up huge artistic possibilities in the realm of digital photography and really has me excited.

So is it complicated? Nah, it’s just a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.

Okay, so maybe you didn’t want to know that, did you? Seeing the result is much more fun than trying to understand how it works. Below is a very short, compact visual of the process of creating an HDR shot of my office space today.

Start with multiple images shot on a tripod at varying exposures (+ –2EV, to be exact):

The images are then processed together in a program called Photomatix:

The initial image is then tone mapped:

35 steps and we’re almost there! Actually, we can skip those. Here is the final result:

Some detail areas:

If you would like to see more cool HDR images (mostly HDR, anyway) go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulnielsenphotography

Redesigning the IRS website. Looks like fun!

Mon, 17 May 2010 08:17:23 -0700

Redesigning the IRS website. Looks like fun!

Jason has started posting screenshots of his personal cover...

Wed, 12 May 2010 09:48:54 -0700

Jason has started posting screenshots of his personal cover inspirations folder. He’ll be updating periodically.

If you’re a twitter user, you can check out more: http://bit.ly/9VaRwk

Quimby the Mouse animation by Chris Ware for This American Life...

Tue, 11 May 2010 09:19:00 -0700

Quimby the Mouse animation by Chris Ware for This American Life - Live!

Hear the episode here thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=379

These guys be walking on water. No. Seriously. You can read more...

Tue, 11 May 2010 08:17:46 -0700

These guys be walking on water. No. Seriously. You can read more here.

Some recent photographicals from Lindsey Brunsman, taken while...

Thu, 06 May 2010 08:39:00 -0700

Some recent photographicals from Lindsey Brunsman, taken while she was at the Oregon coast (Florence) last weekend. Check out her Flickr.

Advertising used to be sooo much cooler.

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Advertising used to be sooo much cooler.

Move over jetpack guy. We have square watermelons now.

Tue, 04 May 2010 09:08:11 -0700

Move over jetpack guy. We have square watermelons now.