Category Archives: Images

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Amazing Photo Transformation – [VIDEO]

Yesterday, Redditor JesusJones207 made the following appeal:

Hi Reddit Photoshop magicians. Well, my grandmother is very ill with alzheimer’s. At her brother’s house, we found this amazing photo. I took a picture with my phone, hoping that someone here would want to retouch it, and maybe add color? Thank you so much for your consideration!

A Redditor called IColoredItForYou responded, posting not the repaired, colourised photo, along with a video showing how he fixed it. He says it took him just about an hour total to complete the photo transformation!

Before
Original Photo

After

After Photo

(h/t broadsheet and buzzfeed)

Images Travel

NYC Skyline Evolution – [IMAGE]

The evolution of NYC’s skyline, 1876-2013.
NYC Skyline

(h/t sunlightfoundation)

Earth Graphs and Charts Images

Planet Earth: The other 70% – [CHART]

Randall Munroe’s “Lakes and Oceans” is another in his beautiful series of charts visualizing large complex things and putting them in proportion to objects we can understand (BTW that tower is the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world).
Lakes and Oceans

(via BoingBoing)

SXSWi: Creating Visual Stories – [GRAPHIC]

This year’s South by South West (SXSW) festival saw Ogilvy Notes partner with ImageThink and others to create visual notes for a number of the conference sessions. Artists sketched notes from hour long sessions in real time, and the results of these were made available for free to conference attendees on the OgilvyNotes website.

Sean Parker Presentation

Today’s Observer has an interview with Nora Herting – one of the founding members of ImageThink – in which they explain how they can take complex theories on technology and turn them into dynamic visual stories:

Compressing knotty discussions into easy-to-digest visual stories is hard work. Before they started Image Think in 2009, Herting and her co-founder, Heather Willems, spent four years at a consulting company in New York where part of the job involved what they call “graphic facilitation”. They would turn up at private business meetings and engage the participants by sketching the discussion as it unfolded. Backgrounds in fine art helped, but getting their drawing up to speed took practice.

“We had to very quickly develop a visual language,” says Willems. “Now, if somebody talks about innovation and change, there are immediate icons that pop into my head. We’re constantly trying to develop our skills: listening and synthesising as well as the more graphic components of the work.”

Now, the little start-up is working with some of the biggest organisations in the US, including Google, Disney, Microsoft and Nasa. The advertising and PR giant Ogilvy commissioned ImageThink – Herting, Willems and a small team of freelance illustrators – to sketch the talks at SXSW.

ImageThink in action.

(via Observer)

Images Video Visualizations

Evolution of Google Image Search – [VIDEO]

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 from kingcosmonaut3000 on Vimeo.

Sebastian Schmieg’s created the video above by feeding a transparent image into Google Image search, finding similar images, clicking on the first result and then feeding this back into the algorithm.

You’ll be amazed at image number 2951 (remember it all started with a transparent png).

(via boingboing)

Images Time-lapse Video

Around the World in 5 Minutes – [TIME-LAPSE]

Last year, Kien Lam quit his job, packed a bag with his camera and bought a one-way ticket to London. Crossing through 17 countries he captured a series of beautiful time lapse vistas.  The journey takes him through USA, England, France, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru.

Original Music: “Places and Faces” by William Lam.
For more of Lam’s photographs and commentary, check kienlam.net.

(via thenextweb)

Images

2011 in Lego

Some of the major 2011 news stories as recreated in Lego.

Lego Royal Wedding (allyhook on flickr)

Lego Royal wedding

Lego Situation Room (hoyvinmayvin on flickr)

Lego Situation Room

Lego Merkel & Obama (purpleplanetcom on flickr)

Lego Merkel & Obama

Rupert Murdoch giving evidence to UK Culture Media & Sport Select Committee (Jim Walshe on flickr)

Lego ego Rupert Murdoch giving evident to UK Culture Media & Sport Select Committee

Lego Unrest (Graeme_Smith on flickr)

Lego town unrest

Lego Unrest ([clint] on flickr)

Occupy Wall Street

Lego Libya (yappene on flickr)

Lego Libya

Lego Occupy (nolnet on flickr)

Lego Occupy

(via The Guardian)

Images

The Story of 2011 in Pictures

Buzzfeed.com has a diverse collection of the 45 most powerful images of 2011. Here’s my five most powerful images out of the collection.

1) This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan.

2)  An aerial shot of the damage immediately following the Japanese tsunami.

3) A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an “Occupy UCD” demonstration in Davis, California. (Jasna Hodzic)

Occupy UCD

4) Firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead.

5) Facebook played an extremely important role in the Arab spring uprisings throughout 2011.

(via buzzfeed.com)