Link Banana

The Ideas Blog brings up a topic I’ve never considered: who deserves credit for a photo of graffiti (or other street art), the photographer or the creater of the object being photographed?

Though I don’t know how much scientific utiliy this has, it’s cool to see this schlieren photo of a person coughing. Also worthwhile: the story explaining the technique and a slideshow of more such photos.

Another stunner from Mr. Javanrouh.

There’s nothing too complex to it, but I’d never actually heard the story before.

When you took the picture, the camera flash sent a lot of light into the eye in a very short time, the light reflected off the back of the eye and out through the pupil and, because the camera lens is close to the flash and able to capture images very quickly, it caught the light reflecting back out.

So why is that light red? Because the fundus, the interior surface of the eye that includes the retina, is loaded with melanin, a pigment that gives it a brownish-reddish color.

One problem with digital photography is that you’ll never get the awesome (and accidental) exposure of two photos on a single square of flim.

(via Dean Allen)

We live in a beautiful world.

Though I find the effect less interesting than in stills, Keith Loutit’s tilt-shift time-lapse videos from around Sydney are pretty awesome.

• Bathtub III
• Bathtub II
• Beached (via Waxy; has by far the most people)

There’s nothing too remarkable in Gizmodo’s interview with Alton Brown. They breifly discuss his new show — Feasting on Waves — and talk at length about the technology he used while filming it. So, I guess the point is that I’m mostly just linking to this because Alton Brown is cool.

Sam Javanrouh captured a few moments of a great one.

This picture is very cool. That is all.

(via kottke)

I’m pretty sure this is at least the third time this week, but I can’t help myself. The Big Picture’s series on Jupiter is quite awesome.

An intelligent-sounding explanation of Lia Holleran’s Dark Skate photographs:

The works blur the boundaries of photography and become self-portraits and drawings as well as records of performances. Light is used to form the drawing line while HALLORAN skateboards at night through different venues. The resulting images are each a trajectory of the artist’s movements over time. The photographs pair urban environments with lines of light which behave as physical objects or break apart into flurries of abstraction.

A less intelligent-sounding explanation: awesome.

(via The Daily Dish)

Via the Big Contrarian, some excellent and arty photos. (Which seem to me out of place on Flickr.)

I don’t really know how these pictures were made, but I’m pretty sure I like them.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Like Mr. Kottke, I’m fascinated by color photos from an era usually seen in black-and-white. After explaining autochrome, he offers these links:

Here’s a slideshow of some photos taken by this process. Here’s some autochromes of Mark Twain from 1908.

More early color photography (not necessarily autochromes): Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s stunning photographs of Russia circa 1909-1915, photos of WWI, photos of WWII, and photos of America in the late 30s/early 40s (color corrected).

I love this picture. I’m sure there’s a name for the effect, but I don’t have the slightest clue what it is.

Time has some (very) beautiful photos of trees taken by Stuart Franklin. His website has many more photos of many other things.

(via Snarkmarket)

Want to see something a little bit creepy? Witness “Everywhere Girl,” who appears to be book publishers favorite personage in stock photography. Her story about the whole thing is here.

(via Coudal, who shares my concern that this is old news)