A year in review

Time lapses are some of the most beautiful photography/videography out there. As with my other things in life, there’s a distinct beauty that comes from seeing what time can do to help evolve and change the world around us. An annual project by Eirik Solheim brings that concept to centre stage.

This isn’t the first year time lapse project from Eirik but it is the first true time lapse. He set up a camera system that took a photo every half an hour for an entire year outside of one of window frames. Not counting some technical glitches, he was left with roughly 16 000 photos at the year end to combine together and transform into art.

His first project was stitching the photos together to create an image of a year. Information on that endeavour alone is found here: A year in one image. It is a beautiful shot of Norway scenery where Eirik lives. Creating this photo included some technical script in order to take one line from each image to combine altogether. The photo makes a clear distinction between the seasons. It depicts fairly short spring and fall seasons, a relatively decent summer and a not too surprising long winter.

His second task was to create a true time lapse video, combining all of the photos together. The specific on its creation can be found on his website.

I’m sure Eirik has moved on to his 2011 project and I’ll be more than interested to see how that one turns out.

For the full story on the process for this project please visit: eirikso.com

Facebouffe

“To date, the Facebook phenomenon has more than 400 million users of which 50% are active on the network. More than 160 million companies are present too. Do not look for me, I’m not there, but most of my students are and the network has become, it seems, a must for them and many others. This phenomenon is not without changing human relationships and substantially modifies the border of privacy and what is public domain.
In some ways, the phenomenon is linked to mass consumption in proposing disposable and exchangeable relationships. To respond to this phenomenon, Audrey Wells has imagined those little chocolate squares packed randomly with Facebook’s portraits and their personal profile. Like the famous social network, when you buy this chocolate “Facebouffe” you do not know who it will matter but you can fill this obsessive curiosity to meet all the characters more virtual than real.” – credit

I found this interesting idea via one of my favourite food blogs. From there I got redirected to what I presume to be the main site and creator of these unique little chocolate tidbits. Feeding off of the irony and popularity of Facebook, these little chocolates are wrapped with miniature photos of your friends, profile picture and all. Inside their profile info can be found to your delight. A total random sampling of your friends in chocolate form for your enjoyment.  This idea was brought to the world by Audrey Wells stating it the Facebouffe project. Would you be willing to buy some?

I found your camera! + orphaned photos

Have you ever had the unfortunate event of losing your camera? As sad as it is to lose the camera itself, especially if it’s one of the higher end kinds, the most heartbreaking thing about the situation is the lost photos that were on it. Photos like the time that they were captured are irreplaceable tangible memories of life. Well there’s this great site, I found your camera.net that’s looking to reunite these lost and orphaned photos to their rightful owners.

“Do you recognize any of these people?
Every photo on this website comes from a lost camera or memory stick or roll of film somewhere around the world. The pictures come from as far as Japan, Ireland, Australia, Iceland, Dubai, and many, probably from your hometown.Based in Canada, ifoundyourcamera.net has helped return dozens of these found cameras and orphan pictures to their owners.Check back frequently for more pictures.
Tell your friends about this site and let’s all try to return some of these lost pictures home.” – About

The site was created in Canada, through an inspiration from another great site that I’ve mentioned before, Post Secret. Matt Prepost came up with the idea to try to reunite people with their lost photos via his website. People who have found lost cameras are urged to send in 4 photos from the recovered camera and any details regarding the camera, the story how it was found and anything remarkable on the camera. The site then gets updated 3 times a week with these messages and then begins the waiting game of finding the owners. The site relies on the kindness of strangers, word of mouth from users and a keen eye to look out for any recognizable faces. I’ve never had the misfortune of a camera lost. That said, if my camera were ever to become lost (God forbid) I would be devastated as photos are incredibly important to me.

Here’s one of his interview’s on CBC, talking about the concept behind his endeavour.

Prepost’s site has had success in reuniting people with their photos and such stories can be read here. I navigated through the site myself to see if there were any familiar faces. I may have saw one and will be doing my own tracking to find out. It may seem like a lot of photos to go through but you never know what or who you may find through the exploration. So take the time when you can to look through it carefully.

Once again, the site relies heavily on people recognizing the faces and spreading the word about the site if more success stories are to happen. Please share this site with whomever you can and who knows, maybe you may be in need of the site one day. If you do find someone or even yourself on there, I’d be interested in knowing your story :)

Fridge Watcher

I’m sure you’ve seen the MTV show, cribs in its many forms or have seen some kind of celebrity tour through their homes. One of the highlighted moments in the show, besides the showcasing of their vehicles is often their fridge and contents inside. More often than not, its the only glimpse we have into the fact they are indeed humans (and not Gods as some people tend to think) that need to eat just like the rest of us. Some are filled with higher end stuff, champagne and caviar, while other are stocked a little more normally, juice and bread.

Jon Huck Photography

I came across his photography though a food blog and was intrigued by his creative work. One of his projects involved the depiction of people  and their most important meal of the day; breakfast. It’s a snapshot look at the differences in how we all start our day, an image into their world and personality. I believe his website features 100 of these images.