The Sexperience 1000

Photo Inspiration Who doesn’t love baby photography, One of the most challenging and time consuming type of photography. It is easily one of the hardest kinds just because of the sheer amount of unexpected drama with the kids. It is also one of the most popular kind of photography too. You see baby photography all around. This gives you an idea... read more Don’t you just love it when a couple of people commit to be together for the rest of their natural lives? Ramadan is the most popular month amongst the whole Muslim calender. Long exposure photography is a very peculiar type of photography. Mist Photography is a very peculiar type of photography. Analog photography, it is a term used for that type of photography in which a progressively changing recording medium, which may be based either on a chemical process (e.g., photographic film or plate) or electronic means (e.g., using a video camera tube or CCD sensor) is used. Sometimes you just have to do something out of the ordinary.

FACEBOOK Social Map How British do you feel? Visualised Visualising data online and in a newspaper is like the difference between speaking Spanish and conversing in French; there have the same roots and are ostensibly similar - but in practice are completely different. So it's proven with the results of our online Britishness survey, where we asked readers to rate how they felt about their nationality. The results provide a fascinating insight into how different parts of the UK really feel about the nation as a whole. Online, it works just like a Google map - where you can zoom in and see how people feel in each place, ranked by the maps of each country. It works using the Google Maps API, feeding from a spreadsheet form that readers are essentially filling in. Britishness interactive Photograph: Guardian But the demands of showing the same data in the paper produce a different approach - the results of which you can see above. What do you think? More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data

How to Use Twitter Plus Needlebase to Discover Fabulous Things My PR buddy Julie Wohlberg asked me tonight if I knew any good journalists she should invite to a social media conference in Florida called SheCon. ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez in Tampa was apparently inaccessible, so I took a few minutes to explore some possibilities…with web applications! I used the DIY data extraction and normalization service Needlebase, along with Twitter list search engine Tlists and of course Twitter itself to discover a list of journalists in the South of the US who have more than 2000 Twitter followers. (Mapped above) It wasn’t hard to do at all! Here they are in one Twitter list you can follow: Top South East Journalists What I did was use Tlists to find 3 Twitter lists of 500 journalists (this one, this one and this one), curated by people I was familiar with. This method isn’t complete until you say: hey everyone reading this post, if I missed anyone – let me know and we’ll add you to the list! How does one do such things at all though? Video 1Video 2Video 3

THE URANIUM CAFE 97 Seconds | Refreshing sounds & visual initiatives» Press Pause Play Everybody is an artist. “La révolution digitale de ces dix dernières années a donné un coup de fouet sans précédent à la créativité et au talent , avec des opportunités illimités. Mais la démocratisation de la culture est elle positive pour l’art ou au contraire une menace ? Voici la question que pose PressPausePlay, un documentaire regroupant des interviews des créateurs les plus influents de ce monde au coeur de l’ère digitale.” Cet article ne parle pas vraiment de refreshing sounds, ni de visual initiatives. Et en même temps, il en est à la source, au commencement. A ce lien. Ce qu’on en pense et ce qu’on pense : “c’est quoi, un artiste, en 2011-12?” Et ce sont précisement ces nouveaux venus qui changent pas mal la donne. Cette révolution est celle de la démocratisation de l’art. Le talent ne s’apprend pas, le talent ne s’achète pas, et le talent ne se partage pas. 2011 et sa révolution artistique, la démocratisation de la création artistique, sont merveilleuses .

Bio Mapping / Emotion Mapping by Christian Nold Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org