Digital Schweinshaxe

This aren’t computer generated pictures. Real light! Awesome photographs by Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza.

Halo is a handy light specially dedicated to light-writting by Aïssa Logerot. Graffiti artists can conserve their own gesture they have with an aerosol spray.

July 20, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11. The book "Apollo" is an amazing photographic commemoration of the Apollo lunar missions as seen through the eyes of its astronauts …

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Jan Kempenaers, lives and works in Antwerp, is an artist & documentary photographer. The amazing series "Spomenik: The End of History" depicts monuments erected by the communist regime in former Yugoslavia.

After the Chanel N°5 "Train de Nuit" with Audrey Tautou, Dior presents the new six-minute film "The Lady Noir Affaire" with French actress Marion Cotillard & film director Olivier Dahan ("La vie en rose") …

Discover or re-discover this now rare edition of the amazing architectural vision of Serge lutens, carefully scanned here, a french photographer, film maker, perfume art director, hair stylist and fashion designer.

The main titles for the OFFF Conference 2009 in Oeiras from Prologue and by Ben Lukas Boysen (Audio) are stunning beauty …

Takayuki Fukatsu has released a new application for creating TiltShift effects on the desktop. TiltShift Generator is an Adobe Air app for Mac, Windows and Linux. Using a simple set of controls you can quickly apply wonderful TiltShift effects to your photograph. Radius and strength included, a number of different effects like saturation, contrast, brightness and vignetting have also been added.

A competition for Google's streetview got launched by Microsoft. 3-D-Web-Foto-Software Photosynth. It got integrated into Virtual Earth to rebuild the earth - of course in 3D - with the help of users, tourists and spaceviews of NASA. Walks and moves can be built by the help of all kiind of material which makes the illusion of seemless environments perfect. Somehow that reminds me of Star Trek's Holodeck which works the same way: "The feel of a large environment is simulated by suspending the participants on force fields which move with their feet, keeping them from reaching the walls of the room" (Wikipedias definition of an Holodeck). Fascinating...