Deborah Oropallo - Guise Emerging more than twenty years ago from the San Francisco Bay Area, Deborah Oropallo (b. Hackensack, New Jersey, 1954) has moved from traditional painting and printmaking to incorporating digital media and imagery into her work, creating printed canvas paintings and related editions of pigment prints. Oropallo has always regarded her artwork as based in photography. In her early work she painted imagery from found photographs. Later, she placed objects on a stat camera, capturing a shadow or silhouette from which she made silkscreens and stencils that transformed images of mundane objects into visual abstractions. "I use the computer as the tool, but painting is the language of deliberation that is running through my head. The images in her current body of work were initially borrowed from internet sites for sexy costume. In GUISE, Oropallo further explores the concept by layering the images of men from 17th and 18th century portrait paintings.
33 Perfectly Timed Photos You may be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes all it takes to take the best shot is being in the right place at the right moment. It doesn’t even matter if you take it with your cell or high-end DSLR. Often, you won’t even notice you made an incredible picture until you come home and transfer your photos to a computer. Show Full Text However, that doesn’t mean you should stop improving your photography skills and just wait for that one and only moment. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” So be prepared for it and be lucky! Update: Perfectly Timed Photos (PART III) is out! Thanks for sharing! 3x per week 30,000,000+ monthly readers Error sending email Photo Credits: bukagambar.com Photo Credits: taringa.net Photo Credits: engine.co.ua Photo Credits: underwatercompetition.com Photo by Simon Dawson Photo Credits: iq-1.livejournal.com Photo Credits: nature-wallpapers Photo Credits: dailymail.co.uk Photo Credits: kolyan.net Photo Credits: unknown Photo Credits: Jibby
10 Most Beautiful Social Networks If you asked most MySpace-haters what's their problem with the service, they'd probably say: it's ugly. Meanwhile, people tell us they are switching from Twitter to Pownce because it's prettier and easier to use. For those who prize beauty above all else, we brought together 10 of the prettiest social networks. Virb - generally known as the designer's MySpace, Virb lives up to the hype by offering sleek and easy-to-customize profile design. Trig - Trig is a sweet sight for the sore eyes of a web designer/hipster who spent too many days wailing about horrid MySpace profiles. Purevolume - neat and tidy are the words that first come to mind when you first look at Purevolume. my.9rules - 9rules is a blogging community which always put a lot of emphasis on quality design, so it's no wonder that their social network, my.9rules, looks very neat, too. Flickr - yes, we like the Flickr look. Beautiful Society - ok, this one was a no-brainer. Humble Voice - we've saved the best for last.
Marseille: Outsider - Photographs and text by Pierre Belhassen Pierre Belhassen is one of the 31 winners and finalists of the LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2015! LensCulture is proud to present the work of these photographers who show us, each in their own way, why street photography today remains as fresh and vibrant as ever! At first glance, I recognized you. I had to come all the way here for my eyes to open to you. Embracing the city. Brand-new land where all is contrast; undecipherable and deep city, colors are guiding me into your maze. I always preferred ordinary musing to the run-ups of the mind. Phocaean energy, endless matter made of light and scents, accents and colours, sensual, sometimes distant, absorbs and consumes me. The sea blinds me, the heat crushes me, I crawl back into your sinuous streets, where shadow wraps our secrets, where your mysteries blow. In this world in movement, I impose my silence: A still dance, a silent song, a photograph. The heat of day slowly fades and I come back to the sea. —Pierre Belhassen
Main NGINX is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. NGINX is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. NGINX is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Unlike traditional servers, NGINX doesn’t rely on threads to handle requests. NGINX powers several high-visibility sites, such as Netflix, Hulu, Pinterest, CloudFlare, Airbnb, WordPress.com, GitHub, SoundCloud, Zynga, Eventbrite, Zappos, Media Temple, Heroku, RightScale, Engine Yard, MaxCDN and many others.
Astronaut Suicides By Photographer Neil Dacosta – iGNANT.de After the space shuttle Atlantis completed its final expedition in 2011, the US shuttle program was terminated. Inspired by this event, American advertising and editorial photographer Neil Dacosta produced a photo series titled ‘Astronaut Suicides‘. The images, which were created in collaboration with art director Sara Phillips, reflect on the iconic profession of the astronaut and how the perception of the job has evolved in the past decade. In an interview about the project, Phillips said, “The incongruity of the astronaut in these situations is, we hope, compelling and humorous, and we hope that we’re encouraging a younger audience to pay attention to what’s going on.” All images © Neil Dacosta
Twine Susan Swihart - About Face Project info Sometimes two people start as one. They split apart, but continue to grow in parallel day by day, inch by inch. They develop separately and distinctly. They have different dreams and fears. Yet, to many, they will always look the same. As the mother of twin daughters, I have been observing the phenomenon of their connectedness since birth. It is a complex, but pure love for the person that was created at the same time. 10SSwihart_two.jpg Two 397 from the series, About Face © Susan Swihart 25 Get your FREE guide How to Get the Most Out of Photography Competitions full of valuable tips and advice from photo industry professionals Entangled from the series, About Face © Susan Swihart Clean Support Cold Grow Joy Shelter Undone Listen Two
Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolut Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture, is about a bit a year. "By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution. But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred. "I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said.
Marinka Masséus - Silent Voices In the Netherlands, the Dutch old Masters and their paintings play an important role in our cultural history. Names like Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Mondriaan are ingrained in our collective minds at a very young age. They are part of our cultural identity and they inspired me to create photographs with the feel of an old painting as a way of honoring their contribution to our culture. In the photo series 'Silent Voices' I symbolically draw attention to gender inequality around the world. Nowadays, feminism is trivialized even by women. Especially by women. Whether it is the gender pay gap, inequality in job performance reviews, domestic violence, honor killings or the stoning of rape victims, there is still a lot of work to be done. Or in the words of former US president Jimmy Carter : "There is a pervasive denial of equal rights to women, more than half of all human beings, and this discrimination results in tangible harm to all of us. There are still a lot of silent voices.
Optimizing Your Landing Pages Topic: Optimizing Your Landing Pages – Part One How do you know what to change, what to keep, and what really works when it comes to optimizing a Landing Page? Online businesses searching for answers to that question submitted their Landing Pages for a critical analysis by MarketingExperiments Director, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin; Director Of Optimization Research, Jimmy Ellis; and Director of Channels Research, Aaron Rosenthal during the February 6, 2008, MarketingExperiments Webinar. Those who submitted Landing Pages were asked for their Value Proposition as well as the primary traffic source for the page and what optimization steps they had already taken, if any. The reviews identified areas where applying key concepts of Landing Page Optimization to both B2B and B2C product, service, and subscription Web sites could result in significant improvements in conversion for those businesses. Editor's Note2: We recently released the audio recording of our clinic on this topic. Background Summary
Everything We Touch - Photographs and text by Paula Zuccotti This conceptual photo documentary series was one of the Finalists in the LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards 2015. Discover more inspiring work from all of the winners and finalists! Can we make sense of someone's life by only viewing the objects they touch throughout a day? From the items found in our homes, to the tools we use at work, we surround ourselves with objects necessary for our existence in today's world. But these needs are huge and diverse: they range from survival and performance to compensation and caring, emotional attachment and self-expression. Imagine what your day would look like if you recorded everything you touched in 24 hours...and if everything was brought together in one place and a single photograph was taken of it all. I felt the urge to document our current interaction with these objects. Driven by this idea, I travelled around the world to find people from an incredible array of ages, cultures, professions and backgrounds. —Paula Zuccotti